Episode 6: Their Stories - Professor Ross Thompson

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‘Their Stories’ is a mini-series of conversations, exploring the complex and messy ways in which humanity interacts with ecology. In this episode, Siwan talks to Professor Ross Thompson, Director and Chair of Water Science in the Institute for Applied Ecology at the University of Canberra. Their talk focuses on work currently underway in environmental flows, with both involved in the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office’s Flow-MER project, exploring how to deliver water for the environment in order to gain the greatest environmental benefit in areas of the Murray-Darling Basin. The discussion covers Ross’s transition from a medical career to an ecological one, the value of systems thinking, and how science can be used effectively within the interdependent political, social, economic and environmental context that is our society, interspersed with lots of laughs and a few 'accidental' accent jibes about Ross's New Zealand heritage.

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