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24 November 2015
An exploration of the most popular, and most enigmatic, invertebrates in the TMAG collection. Speaker: Dr Simon Grove, TMAG’s Senior Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
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23 November 2015
Presented by Emeritus Professor Hans Bachor and Mr Patrick Helean. Where did lasers come from? How have lasers gone from being “losers” to being a multi-billion dollar industry? Today, lasers are everywhere: in factories and hospitals,…
North
22 November 2015
The Royal Society of Tasmania 2015 Launceston Lecture Series. Presented by Professor Jocelyn McPhie, Adjunct Professor, University of Tasmania and Principal Consultant, McPhie Volcanology. Active volcanoes are locations where the Earth’s internal heat energy is…
North
21 November 2015 - 3 April 2016
In 2014, artists Richard Wastell and Matthew Newton accompanied a team of scientists to remote Albatross Island, Bass Strait, home to over 5 000 breeding pairs of Tasmania’s endemic Shy Albatross. The exhibition On Albatross…
South
20 November 2015
Presented by Dr Brandon Menzies from School of BioSciences The University of Melbourne Marsupials have dominated the Australian landscape for the past 50 million years and still account for about 58% of its terrestrial mammals. However, the well-known…
North West
19 November 2015 - 22 November 2015
The Bob Brown Foundation would like to invite you to participate in a Tarkine BioBlitz, A BioBlitz is a festival of science in nature. In one of the world’s last wild places, the Tarkine, our…
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16 November 2015
Presented by Dr Steve Rintoul. In early 2015, the Aurora Australis was the first ship to ever reach the edge East Antarctica’s fastest thinning glacier – the Totten. Thanks to a lucky break in the sea…
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15 November 2015
The City of Hobart would like to find out more about community connections with Knocklofty Reserve, including its special features or places and any stories or memories that are associated with it. All members of…
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11 November 2015
Presented by the Royal Society of Tasmania and the Tasmanian division of ATSE. Professor James Vickers, Wicking Dementia Centre: Disease modification and risk reduction: new approaches to tackling dementia Professor Alison Venn, Deputy Director of the…
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8 November 2015
Come and celebrate, explore and protect our wetland environment… WORKSHOPS: Weaving with local fibre artist Gwen Egg Paint your own Mini water beast with local artist Anne Piesse Mosaics with Kerry Howlett * Wetland Mini…
South
6 November 2015
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…
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4 November 2015
The Royal Society of Tasmania invites you to attend this special lecture by Dr Rachel Popelka-Filcoff, AINSE Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University. Natural mineral pigments are significant in Aboriginal Australian culture, and applied to…