4th Annual Steve Irwin Memorial Lecture

Event Details

Date:

Monday, 13 August 2012

Time:

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Room:

Auditorium 1

Location:

State Library of Queensland, Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane

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Full Description:: The quest for the ‘missing’ frog

We are delighted to invite you to join The Brisbane Institute and The University of Queensland as UQ Science alumnus and biologist, Dr Conrad Hoskin presents the 4th annual Steve Irwin Memorial Lecture.

In this presentation Dr Hoskin will reveal the spectacular diversity of reptiles and frogs in Queensland, the amazing discoveries still being made, and the efforts to conserve this diversity.

Credited with having discovered of co-discovered 13 new frog and reptile species, join Dr Hoskin as he reveals the stories behind these amazing discoveries and why we need to conserve their habitats.

How much frog and reptile diversity is out there? How does this diversity form? How do we discover and describe this diversity? How can we conserve Queensland’s diversity? Dr Conrad Hoskin takes you on an adventurous journey to discover and re-discover some of Queensland’s most fascinating frog and reptile species.

An ecologist and conservation biologist, Dr Hoskin has discovered spectacular new species, rediscovered a frog species long thought to be extinct and defined how new species can form.