Ecology in Brisbane

I slowly start to forget how good it is to live in Australia. It is because good things happen here literally every day. This time my University sponsored a weekly trip for me to Brisbane International Conference on Ecology. So far, the first lecture I’ve seen here - presented by Ian was the one which impressed me most. He dig out the books which were well-covered with dust. And as it turned out within the field of ecology we still keep on asking the same questions. We still want to understand the mechanism which drives the matrix full of numbers and we are hardly getting there : ) Although we use better computing technologies than 100 years ago, better experimental techniques we are still left with some kind of frustration, dumb-standing. All we can see are numbers: 145.8365g. 6423.97 cm2, 33.333 m/s. There is many of numbers.

And lecture is followed by lecture. There are many of lectures. One can see many figures and graphs. They are usually very complex and they show something. Most of them show years spent in the labs, years of data collecting, years of frustration (not to say wasted years). It is so hard to be simple after all of it. But they are most enjoyable.