Ever wanted to know more about life on a marine research vessel or the real facts about rays and sharks or perhaps awesome info about coral? Email your questions before Thursday 20 August then register to join one or all three Zoom webinars to join in. Ever had an office that is constantly moving?: Life…
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Coral Restoration in Vanuatu and The Sunken HMAS Adelaide as a Reef – Videos
How is coral reef restoration carried out in Vanuatu? How did the HMAS Adelaide become a coral reef? Online learning resources will be made available on the Central Coast Science Hub’s Facebook page. With thanks to grant funding from Inspiring Australia NSW.
Interested in Science?
A mini-series of bite-sized, short online presentations by University of Newcastle PhD students highlighting how/why/what inspired them to become interested in science, what they like best about science and the work they’re doing currently as scientists. Go to the Central Coast Science Hub’s Facebook page: With thanks to grant funding from Inspiring Australia NSW.
Print your own 3D coral
If you have access to a 3D printer you can print your own 3D coral model. Download your own 3D coral printing plans courtesy of Central Coast (Ourimbah) Library MAKERSPACE; the School of Environment & Life Sciences at The University of Newcastle and the NOAA Coral Reef Restoration Program. With thanks to grant funding from…
Behind the Scenes Tour: Explore MAGNT’s Wet Store
Join Senior Collections Manager, Natural Sciences, Gavin Dally as he shares the stories behind the amazing variety of specimens and how they support scientific research and wildlife conservation. Explore the MAGNT Wet Store and peer into jars of preserved animal specimens held as part of MAGNT’s Scientific Reference Collection. You might even catch a rare…
Curator Talk: The changing nature of the NT
The Australian Miocence epoch saw Bullockornis planei, the giant flightless goose and other megafauna, roaming the forests of the Top End 22 to 5 million years ago. So much has changed since then; the climate and the landscape, as well as the flora and fauna that inhabit it. Explore fossils with Dr Richard Willan and…
Climate Action: How to take effective action on climate change
How can we as individuals take effective action to reduce our carbon emissions? Most of us accept the science of climate change but it can be difficult to know how to best take action on it. This panel discussion will explore the opportunities and obstacles for reducing carbon emissions, with a goal of finding concrete…
National Science Week Launch + Science Saving Lives
Join us as we officially launch National Science Week and the special ‘Science Saving Lives’ forum. Following the official launch of Science Week, stay online for a very special event that will take you behind the scenes of Australia’s COVID response. Our expert panel will reveal how maths and science expertise has helped to save…
Immersive Science IV (SciVR): Science Champions (Canberra)
SciVR will take you on the hunt for things that go boom! We’ll explore the universe and origins of explosions in space, tracking events as they happen with Alan Duffy and Rebecca Allen with live Q&A. They share research using Australian facilities, like the CSIRO Parkes telescope, to reveal more about the nature of these extreme…
Robots in the Making
The Student Robotics Club of South Australia (the RoboRoos) celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2020, and we are about to kick off two new competition seasons, FIRST Lego League (FLL) and FIRST Tech Challenge. From our NEW Build Site, The Shed at Adelaide Showgrounds we will livestream our students in action as they workshop the…