Polar Pod, a crewed oceanographic platform, will flip onto its side and drift around Antarctica to research the Southern Ocean. French explorer and environmentalist Jean-Louis Etienne has spent the last 10 years designing this scientific vessel capable of braving the terrifying waves and winds found there. WA will be engaged in this expedition through the…
Topic: Environment and Nature
Postponed: Thought for Food Café
We regret to advise that due to current covid restrictions, this event has been postponed. Eat, drink and feed your mind at the Thought for Food Café during an entertaining evening of discussion and debate about humans and our relationship with food. FedUni researchers will explore the myths, the science and the tricks that influence…
Women in STEM – schools
Join one of WA’s notable women in STEM, former Chief Scientist Professor Lyn Beazley AO, as she facilitates a panel of the WA Museum’s most distinguished women in science to discuss their scientific passion, what makes them tick, and how they entered the field. Budding scientists will be able to meet these STEM practitioners, be…
Broadwater Public School STEM Day
The week will involve the students accessing online activities. They will think analytically and problem solve different STEM activities based on food problems.
Sustainable Food
We are going to implement a focus on agriculture and sustainable food futures as part of the new K-6 Science syllabus through an agriculture day where students can interact with food and agriculture to develop sustainable solutions through STEM based activities. Students will be involved in a range of activities that will be rotated throughout…
Postponed: Life in Our Cemeteries Mini Bioblitz
Postponed due to the COVID lockdown. This is the first of a series of mini-Bioblitzes which will visit each cemetery in Bega Valley Shire over the next 3 years. This is a community event where we will explore and record all the creatures and plants in and around the cemetery on the iNaturalist app ….
Postponed: BRAWL by the River
Postponed due to the COVID lockdown. Bega River and Wetlands Landcare (BRAWL) is hosting a family-friendly, community engagement event fusing bush tucker education and re-vegetation on the Bega River with indigenous plant species. Participants will collect, soak & grind seeds on grinding stones, to cook up a damper for morning tea. This will be followed by…
The Gap SHS Escape Rooms
Students will participate in a range of science-themed virtual escape rooms.
Citizen Scientists Wanted: Record soil sounds with borrowed equipment to add to an audible audit of soil health in the area.
This National Science Week endeavour is a foray into the emerging field of ecoacoustics, interdisciplinary science that investigates natural and anthropogenic sounds and their relationship with the environment over a wide range of study scales, both spatial and temporal, including populations, communities, and landscapes. Ecoacoustics operates in all types of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. We…
Science at Parramatta Online Trivia Quiz
Sick of lockdown isolation? Then join your fellow science enthusiasts for this fast and furious, live and online, trivia quiz. The Science at Parramatta Trivia Quiz will feature the topics: The Earth, The body, The sky. It will test your knowledge of some amazing science associated with Parramatta, from agriculture to biology, medicine to archaeology,…