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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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24 March 2016
Comedian, physicist, and general troublemaker Josh Richards knows his days are numbered: short-listed for a one-way mission to Mars in 2026, he’s probably going to die there… So if you had 10 years left on…