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31 January 2019
Plans are currently underway to more than double Tasmania’s salmon production through major expansion into Storm Bay. Is this sustainable? What are the risks to the Derwent estuary and the sheltered waters of Frederick Henry…
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27 January 2019 - 24 February 2019
Part of the Royal Society’s 175 year celebration, see the work of naturalist and illustrator Louisa Anne Meredith. She was the first woman to be elected as an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Tasmania…
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14 January 2019 - 25 January 2019
School Holiday Program Week One: Digging for Dinosaurs Calling all young palaeontologists (dinosaur scientists!). Dig for dinosaur fossils with science educators. Learn about fossil casts and how to make one. Do some fossil sketches and…
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13 December 2018
The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to the launch, by Elle Leane, of Emma McEwin‘s new book, The Many Lives of Douglas Mawson, published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. Douglas Mawson is famous as an Antarctic explorer who narrowly…
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11 December 2018 - 13 December 2018
The Science Experience is a three-day program of science activities held every December for Year 9 and 10 students. Students participate in a range of hands-on science and engineering activities held on campus under the…
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10 December 2018
Please join us to mark a decade of science and environmental outreach using the most outrageous projects imaginable. We’ll hear from past teachers and students as we take a moment to pause and reflect. Then…
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9 December 2018
Discover Dinosaurs is our final Discovery Day for 2018 so don’t miss this chance to celebrate the secrets of the Dinosaurs! Discovery Days at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) provide an opportunity for…
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7 December 2018 - 5 May 2019
Horns, spikes, quills and feathers. The secret is in the skin! Journey back 100 million years to a time when fearsome beasts stalked the earth! This summer, TMAG’s galleries will be transformed into an amazing exhibition…
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6 December 2018
The nature of conservation and the conservation of nature: a philisophical, legal and scientific discussion #SciPubConservation Panellists Aidan Davison, Assoc. Prof, Human geography and Environmental Studies, UTas Phillipa McCormack, Lecturer, School of Law, UTas Andrew…
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16 November 2018
Take a stroll along the tracks and trails of Waterworks Reserve. Follow your nose, look out for tracks and scats, feel the rough bark of eucalypt trees and taste the crisp cool winter air as…
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16 November 2018
Coming to CSIRO Hobart is the Tasmanian premiere of ‘Stuck on a Rock’, a new short documentary (32mins) by Melbourne filmmaker Asher Flatt about adventuring into the unknown, extinction, conservation and our fragile connections with…
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13 November 2018
MARINE AND ANTARCTIC SEMINAR SERIES (MASS) – WHOLENESS AND REGIONALITY IN THE ANTARCTIC AND SOUTHERN OCEAN In the popular imagination, both the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean tend to be understood as wholes – undifferentiated…