Find out what our GIRG PhD researchers are busy working on, by watching speed talks presented in our School of Forestry and Ecosystem Science (SEFS) seminar series https://t.co/gBm2UmCPlU

NEW: 3 continuing (research-contingent) roles at @The_WERG 💠Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Water Management 💠Research Fellow–Optimisation & Control of Smart Rainwater Grids 💠Research Fellow–Economic Instruments for Market-Driven Smart Rainwater Grids https://t.co/sHLAGYWBAV

The guide is one of the outputs of our green roof Hort Innovation Green Cities Project, also supported by City of Melbourne and DEECA.

We hope it will be a useful resource for all those working with plants and green roofs. It was great to hear from our guest speakers on the day, Cr Dr Olivia Ball (City of Melbourne) and Gail Hall (President and Co-founder of the Australasian Green Infrastructure Network).

This evidence-based guide provides comprehensive plant lists for a range of different green roof types specifically for Australian conditions. The free guide is based on 15 years’ of green infrastructure research at the University of Melbourne’s Burnley campus

Very happy to have launched the new Burnley Green Roof Plant Guide with our valued research partners at Victoria’s Parliament House last week. https://t.co/JEEpaevs75

with @CaraghThrelfall @UniMelb @GIRG_Unimelb @dieterhochuli @cityofmelbourne @MerribekCouncil @cityofballarat

Awesome to see the Native Wildflowers in urban 🏙️ settings like this one at gatehouse street royal park attracting #nativebees 🐝 Great work @cityofmelbourne @GIRG_Unimelb @curt4future & Katherine Horsfall

We did an #experiment to measure the #social and #ecological effects of #urban #trees. After removal, #birds #biodiversity and #mammals abundance were reduced. Also, #people assigned less importance to #nature #trees. @PaN_BES https://t.co/Is9S2WG3hy

#ESAus23 Katherine Horsfall from @GIRG_Unimelb is testing novel methods to establish native wildflower meadows in cities #urbanEcology 🌼🏵️🌱🪷🪻💮 Adding a good depth of sand alone reduced weeding effort and still had good growth and species richness... With fewer slugs!!

My first paper from my PhD is out and it's open access! We measure how trees in biofilters recover from multiple droughts and how helpful an internal water storage can be for maintaining transpiration and growth and reducing drought stress. https://t.co/VYXOYDDyHZ

So happy to see this work finally being launched: #Guidelines for #Biodiversity #GreenRoofs. You wanna know how do design and manage your green roof in hot and dry climates such as Melbourne to enhance biodiversity benefit? https://t.co/PgbSCB0DIe

Australia's public spaces are planted with beautiful, practical, native Woody Meadows 🌾 In the face of rapid urban growth and climate change, there's a critical need for new landscape approaches in our cities → https://t.co/AQso2DMzJw #UniMelbPursuit @SciMelb @GIRG_Unimelb

The gov wants to create a national nature repair market to enable biodiversity restoration that's "beyond" them. It's riddled w faulty premises & forseeable pitfalls. Biodiversity mgt is a complex public good better delivered by direct public investment https://t.co/5Y4siP2eFt

✨Special Session 15: "The cooling benefits of blue and green infrastructure in cities" led by Professor Stephen Livesley @GIRG_Unimelb and Paul Cheung @paulpkcheung

Urban areas cover a far wider ranges of climatic niches than expected based on realised niches represented in historic species ranges - but does that make it more vulnerable to loss under future climates? Really interesting work by Patricia Rettondini Torquado @BioSci_UniMelb

What can you plant in the city to help biodiversity? Plants that provide good resources (ofc)! Does planting for biodiversity work? Yes! Monitoring biodiversity plantings by Nick Williams @GIRG_Unimelb shows increases in richness and abundance of native 🐝, and abundance of 🦋

Sometimes hard to believe that I get to work at the wonderland that is the #SEFS #Burnley @UniMelb campus

Check out our talented PhD researchers discuss some of their work at @cityofmelbourne's event - Greening Our Future: the next generation of green roof researchers. https://t.co/7c54bSh9nG

With over 2,700 native and exotic plant species or cultivars and 7,930 high quality images, the Burnley Plant Guide from @GIRG_Unimelb is a comprehensive guide to landscape plants grown in south-eastern Australia. Tap to subscribe to the guide ▶️ https://t.co/ETDGrYnqxj

Join us on Wed 20th & Thu 21st April 2022 - to learn and discuss how the GIRG and leading industry professionals are striving to transform our cities into greener, healthier places. Program and Registration: https://t.co/WSvn2NlUwD