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Ocean Acidification Education Share-a-Thon

South

4 May 2016

Tasmanian educators and science communicators are invited to participate in this special outreach session as part of the Ocean Acidification Conference being held in Hobart for the very first time. Target audience: science educators and communicators…

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Ag Careers Evening: Your invitation to a future full of opportunities- Launceston

North

4 May 2016

Did you know that agriculture might just tick all the boxes on your must-have career list? The University of Tasmania, New Zealand’s Lincoln University, and the Tasmanian Government are running an evening for Tasmanian Year…

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The Geology of Tasmanian riverbeds

South

3 May 2016

Dr Dan Gregory, winner of the Society’s Doctoral Award for his research into pyrite geochemistry at the University of Tasmania, will speak on the accumulation of trace elements in diagenetic pyrite with examples from the…

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Ag Careers Evening: Your invitation to a future full of opportunities-Hobart

South

3 May 2016

Did you know that agriculture might just tick all the boxes on your must-have career list? The University of Tasmania, New Zealand’s Lincoln University, and the Tasmanian Government are running an evening for Tasmanian Year…

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On Albatross Island

South

28 April 2016 - 21 May 2016

In 2014 Richard Wastell and Matthew Newton, two of Tasmania’s leading young artists, accompanied a team of scientists lead by Dr Rachael Alderman on expeditions to remote Albatross Island, Bass Strait, home to over 5000…

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Mt Field Fagus Festival

South

23 April 2016 - 24 April 2016

Join this special weekend celebration at one of Tasmania’s oldest and most popular national parks. Entertainment: Aboriginal dancing (pakana kanaplila), folk and blues (Dave Steel and Tiffany Eckhardt), country (Devils Own Bush Band), concert band,…

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Sixteen Legs: Enter the Cave Exhibition

North

8 April 2016 - 19 June 2016

Australia’s deepest caves hide animals surviving from the first age of the dinosaurs and the splitting of the continents. Enter a world full of weird animals and unusual rock formations, overseen by still-living, giant prehistoric…

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The Power of Parks – Hobart

South

7 April 2016

One hundred years of national parks in Tasmania will be celebrated in 2016. This year marks the centenary of the state’s first national parks, Mount Field and Freycinet, reserved for the first time on 29…

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ELTs: The Next Generation of Extremely Large Optical/Infrared Telescopes

South

7 April 2016

Presented by Prof Warrick Couch, Director of the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) represent the next quantum leap forward in optical/infrared telescope design and light-gathering capability. Their enormous primary mirrors, which will be…

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The Upstream Petroleum Industry; Tasmania’s Position

South

5 April 2016

The Royal Society of Tasmania invites you to this presentation by John K Davidson. The global petroleum industry is divided into the ‘upstream’ and ‘downstream’ components. Tasmania has a small intermittent upstream exploration and ‘invisible’…

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Science in the Pub: Multiple sclerosis

South

1 April 2016

Science in the Pub brings together a panel of experts (with a knack for communicating their knowledge in a fun and engaging way) with us- folks interested in learning and thinking critically about hot topics…

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IQ Lecture Series: Science

South

24 March 2016

You are invited by Richard Mulvaney, Director of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery to the inaugural IQ Lecture: Science with Dr Jennifer Lavers, Marine Biologist Natural and unnatural history of Henderson Island, Pitcairn…

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