Past Events

The Geography and Spatial Sciences Annual Conference is a celebration of the internationally-leading research within and across the fields of Geography and Spatial Sciences, School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania. We are tackling…

Public Lecture in celebration of World Environment Day 2015 Climate change is not a far-off problem. It is happening now and is having very real consequences on people’s lives. Climate change is disrupting national economies, regulatory mechanisms…

The Royal Society of Tasmania invites you to attend a lecture by Dr Nicki Tarulevicz. Find out about Singapore and its reliance on importing the vast majority of its food and water supplies since settlement in 1819.…

Join Agricultural Scientist, Christina Giadici, in a workshop that looks at soil structure and how the physical properties of soil influence plant growth. Soil problems and how to look after your soil will be discussed.…

Chemistry—what does that mean? Join Agricultural Scientist, Christina Giadici, to look at the nutrients your soil needs to grow healthy plants. Bring a soil sample for pH testing and come prepared to mix up some…

It’s time to get your hands dirty and learn all about soil! Join Letetia Ware, Soil Microbiologist, in the workshop covering live soil theory, microscopic exploration, and how to make microbes and compost.   This…

Join the Tasman Landcare Group for opening night of the Dunalley & Tasman Dirty Weekend at the Port Arthur Lavender Farm. Listen to our guest speakers present on factors affected by soils and celebrate with…

What does your future look like? What are the jobs going to look like in the future? What’s this Bitcoin thing that people are talking about? Technology is moving so quickly but what does this…

A lecture presented by Associate Professor Stewart Nicol. Assoc. Prof. Nicol will discuss the controversies provoked by the arrival of the first specimens of echidnas and platypuses in Europe at the end of the 18th century,…

QV Museum staff are gearing up for the first Bug Day Out! session of the year and the theme is BIG. Come along and see some of the Museum’s biggest objects. There will be giant…

The Northeast Bioregional Network invites you to this community symposium that aims to promote ecological restoration as a key conservation strategy in Tasmania, to articulate the enormous scope for landscape scale ecological restoration in Tasmania and…

From pen to plate will feature salmon producer Huon Aquaculture (David Whyte, Technical Manager), fish nutrition business Skretting (Rhys Hauler, Marketing Manager) and CSIRO’s Food and Nutrition Bioproducts, Oceans and Atmosphere Flagships (Dr Peter Nichols,…