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Stuart Smith Invited to speak at the Water in the Bush Conference in Darwin in 2016. Invited to present to the Alice Springs Regional Economic Development Committee. Invited to speak at the Territory NRM (Southern) Forum. Hosted farm tours for the North Australia Beef Research Advisory Committee, the Remote and Isolated Parents Association, the Alice Springs Green Army, the Alice Springs Steiner School, the Alice Springs Rotary Club, the Mayor of Rhizao, China, the Administrator of the Northern Territory Mr John Hardy and Mrs Hardy, Minister for Primary Industry Hon. Ken Vowles and former Minister for Primary Industry Hon. Gary Higgins. Member of the Western Davenport Water Allocation Advisory Committee and an observer at the Ti Tree Water Advisory Committee. Thistleton Member of the Sub-Committee for Health Diagnostics and its Diagnostic Standards Working Group. Attended the enhancing surveillance diagnostics workshop in Adelaide in December, 2016. Attended the Annual Diagnostics Workshop of the National Plant Diagnostic Network, Cairns with Haidee Brown in April, 2017. Member of the Modern Diagnostics Working Group (one entomologist from each of WA, Queensland, the NT and NAQS). Presented a on fruit flies at the 11th Australian Mango Conference in Bowen in May. Callen Thompson Panel member at the Katherine Food Futures Roadshow. member at the Farm and Garden Day cropping debate. Lucy Tran-Nguyen Chief Ministers Medal for excellence. Panama Wilt TR4 workshops. Vegetable CGMMV growers meetings (Katherine and Darwin). CGMMV growers meeting – Bundaberg. Plant Biosecurity CRC small project – Fusarium workshop. Dionne Walsh Australian Agribusiness Leadership Program – 2017 Executive’s nominee.
Timor-Leste Steven Davis Provide laboratory training to at the Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dili. June 2017 Indonesia Sharl Mintoff and Vu Tuan Nguyen Training on diagnostics of bacterial wilt of banana and to work in the laboratory of Prof. Siti Subandiya, at the University of Mada USA Lucy Tran-Nguyen Attend the Fusarium Laboratory workshop, Kansas State University to partake training on characterising the new NT Fusarium species associated with mango malformation disease. China Alister Trier and Lorraine Corowa Promote opportunities for international trade and investment in the NT. Lorna Melville and Neville Hunt To establish a sentinel cattle herd in Timor-Leste and commence blood collections and associated vector trapping. Italy Stuart Smith Represented the NT at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Conference in Rome. Publications Scientific Papers, Peer reviewed and other Publications. Asis, C. A. (2016). Ionomics and compositional data analysis. Top Paddock 58:16. Asis, C. A. and Hartley, N. (2016). Plant growth regulators evaluated in promising aromatic rice cultivars. Top Paddock 58: Asis, C. A. and Wallace, H. (2017). Charles Darwin University horticulture students learn beyond classroom walls. Top Paddock 60. Biggs, I. M. and Thompson, C. (2016). Agricultural diversification in the NT. Regional Development Australia - Irrigated Cropping Field Day, Douglas Daly Research Farm, 27 July, 2016. Bristow, M. (2017). Nitrogen fertiliser management strategies for emerging plant industries in northern Australia. Submitted to Department of Agriculture and Water Resources. Final Report AOTGR2-0046. Bristow, M. (2017). Growers can actively lead new research into optimising nutrient management for the mango industry. Mango Matters, Vol 28, winter edition.