Seminar – Dr. Michael Walsh – University of Western Australia

We welcome Dr. Michael Walsh from the University of Western Australia to present on the “Impact of Harvest Weed Seed Control on Australian Cropping Systems”

Please join us for seminars in Clark Hall 149, with snacks and coffee, at 2:10 pm or via zoom.

Dr. Michael J. Walsh Bio:

Michael Walsh completed his B.Sc. at the University of Western Australia, M.Sc. from La Trobe

University, Melbourne and PhD from the University of Wyoming. He joined the Australian Herbicide

Resistance Initiative in 1999 where he focused on the development and introduction of harvest weed

seed control systems. In 2016 he was appointed as the Director of Weed Research at the University

of Sydney where he established and coordinated a research program for Australia’s northern grains

region of New South Wales and Queensland. Michael has spent 30 years working on the development

of alternative weed control techniques and believes that recent technological advances are creating

exciting opportunities for the future use of new weed control systems. He was awarded Fulbright

Fellowship to visit KSU and other institutes in the US to collaborate on harvest weed seed control

systems.