Public Libraries NSW and City of Parramatta Libraries presents Amy Heap chatting with James Bradley as he talks about his new book ‘Ghost Species. The talk takes place online from 6:30pm to 7:30pm AEST This free online author talk will be presented via Zoom with a Q &A session at the end. Copies of the…
Topic: Archaeology and Antiquity
FameLab Academy Online Live
We are inviting Western Australian schools to tune in LIVE for a very special National Science Week event for the pilot of FameLab Academy in Australia. Your students will be part of the virtual audience at Cecil Andrews College, as thirteen Western Australian students take to the stage to deliver short and sharp explanations on their chosen topic from…
STEM Design Challenge for Regional Students
This National Science Week, the University of Technology Sydney, Engineers Without Borders and Tech Girls Movement Foundation invite regional students to create for your community in a two-day design challenge. On Thursday 20 & Friday 21 August, classes from Stage 3 and 4 can join our virtual classroom to design, create and build solutions to…
GIRT Scientific Divers
The citizen science project Gathering Information via Recreational and Technical (GIRT) Scientific Divers is a no-impact public archaeology program and part of a PhD research project at the University of New England that aims to: better understand the motivation of divers; the condition of shipwrecks and other underwater cultural heritage; and the factors driving shipwreck…
Maritime Archaeology – presented by the SA Branch of the Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society
Associate Professor Jonathan Benjamin is a specialist in the archaeology of submerged landscapes, Pleistocene-Holocene transitions and applied methods in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology at Flinders University. Dr Benjamin’s research interests include past human transitions and cultural migrations, the inundation of coastal sites and the resulting impacts on past societies. He is an expert in diver-based…
Shirty Science Season Home
Dust off those art supplies because Shirty Science Season Home is streaming scientists straight into your lounge room so you can try your hand at science shirt making and learn a few things in the process. Each weeknight of National Science Week, Shirty Science will go live on Instagram with a Canberra scientist, armed with…
Challenge: Go plastic free this July
By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. WOAH. It’s up to all us to be the change we want to see in the world if we’re to make a plastic-free future come to life. Are you brave enough to make a start? Challenge: Take part in Plastic Free July, and…
Oceans Innovation Challenge
How might we change the future of our oceans-for the better? What innovative idea would you love to see applied here in WA? Your challenge is to help us find and lead on an innovative solution from around the world and suggest where or how it could be applied locally in WA. Submit your idea…
An ROV Cuttlefish Challenge
Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) technologies dive into the deeper blue, giving us the chance to get up close with the amazing flora and fauna that inhabit our seas. Your challenge: Analyse a video from ROV specialist, GeoOceans, monitoring sites at Point Lowly then perform some calculations to quantify the cuttlefish density. To take the challenge, read about…
Challenge: Make your own seaweed spheres
One of the greatest contributors of plastic pollution in our oceans are single-use plastics which have been littering our coasts, endangering our wildlife and polluting our oceans. Sign up to make seaweed spheres-plastic free water bubbles made from sodium alginate which is derived from seaweed. These bubbles are 100% edible, entertaining,environmentally friendly and easily made…