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Cutting Edge Symposium – Saving Our Seas

South

8 January 2020

This Symposium is focused on global efforts to understand ecological changes in the world’s oceans that are associated with climate impacts. The Symposium is aimed at researchers, policy makers and managers using phytoplankton time-series to…

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Fermented As Anything

South

18 December 2019

A delicious hands-on workshop on the science and art of making your own fermented foods and drinks. Presented by Dr Margo Adler and Nanna Bayer: a marriage of two enthusiastic fermenters from very different worlds,…

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OktoLab19

South

14 December 2019 - 25 January 2020

OktoLab19 brings together artists, writers and scientists to investigate octopuses in all their extraordinary glory. The exhibition aims is to contribute new ways of understanding and conceptualizing octopuses, in respect to their being-in-the-world and our perception…

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Possum and Glider Citizen Science Workshop

South

11 December 2019

The workshop will look at research on possums and gliders in Tasmania well as a new citizen science app for monitoring these interesting animals.

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#SciPubWild: Wild diseases – the answers are out there

South

5 December 2019

Featuring speakers from the Wild and Comparative Immunology (WACI) 2019 workshop in Hobart, 5-6 December Panellists Travis Beddoe, La Trobe University Chrissie Ong, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania Liana Wait, Princeton University

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How Cheap Food Costs Us …and the Earth

South

5 December 2019

A comforting fish finger dinner with a refreshing can of beer: What’s not to like?  In the face of ocean pollution, the loss of biological diversity, and climate change impacts on agriculture, how should we…

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BOOK LAUNCH: Child of Gondwana

South

4 December 2019

It is a good time to write about Tasmanian geology. Many previous uncertainties have been clarified by research and field studies. The age and origin of our Precambrian rocks is now reasonably well known, and…

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Summer Orchard Walk: Improve your orchard planning and outputs with science!

South

2 December 2019

Specialist David Williams looks in detail at what’s involved in creating Tasmanian IPMD (Integrated Pest and Disease Management ) Orchard Plans including an orchard walk, hands on monitoring session and planning workshop. Lunch is included.…

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Sunday Sip of Science with CSIRO

South

1 December 2019

Join the CSIRO on a Sunday afternoon in the pub for some drinks, food and science. Climate change affects us all – but what role does science play? World-renowned scientist Professor Benny Freeman will talk…

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2019 Australian-International Model Solar Challenge

South

30 November 2019 - 1 December 2019

Teams from all over Australia and overseas race cars and boats that run on solar power. The public is welcome to view the races.

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Creative (Climate) Communications

South

28 November 2019

Conversations about climate change at the science-policy interface and in our lives are stuck. In this presentation, Maxwell Boykoff will explain how to get them unstuck by integrating lessons from the social sciences and humanities.…

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What does Japan’s policy shift in whaling mean for global whale populations?

South

28 November 2019

For only the second time in many decades there will be no whaling in the Southern Ocean this summer. Japan’s departure from the IWC last July is the most dramatic change in whale politics and…

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