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QVMAG School Holiday Program

North

14 January 2020 - 29 January 2020

A change is as good as a holiday! We have changed our school holiday program format for January 2020. Our program runs across three weeks. The topics are: Tuesday 14 January – Secret Life of…

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Operation Ouch

South

11 January 2020

TV’s favourite doctors return to Australia these summer school holidays with a brand new show! Following two sell-out Australian tours, and a smash hit season in London’s West End, Dr Chris and Dr Xand are…

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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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Bush Adventures summer program

Statewide

1 January 2020 - 28 February 2020

There’s loads of fabulous science activities in the Bush Adventures summer program. Head to their website for more.

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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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BOOK LAUNCH: Child of Gondwana (North)

North

6 December 2019

Join Petrarch’s Bookshop as they welcome Keith Corbett with his new Tasmanian geology book, Child of Gondwana, to be launched by Roy Pallett. ‘Gifted geologist and writer, Keith Corbett, has created a book that will…

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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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Forthside Farm Open Day

North West

5 December 2019

Do long term cover crops improve soil health?  Register now for this once-a-year opportunity to check-in on 13 years of cover crop trials to boost soil health. Catch-up on the latest research trial updates, speak…

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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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