Join us at the Black Buffalo to learn all about local scientific research via the poetry of memes. Three panellists will be challenged to present for 10-12 minutes about their work, featuring slides with only scientific figures and memes and no text. Come along for an entertaining and enlightening evening. #SciPubMemes Panellist 1: Dr Thomas…
Topic: Environment and Nature
Fervor Food Experience
We will behaving the amazing FERVOR visit Mukinbudin District High School to educate the students, staff and wider community on local and sustainable food sources. FERVOR are a gastronomic experience and the local community will be able to learn about local food sources as well as partake in the tasting of food they would never…
Wing’s Wildlife Junior Keeper Experience
In National Science Week we will be holding two Junior Keeper experiences. These will give children the opportunity to become a keeper for a day and learn about the animals and all the work that goes into looking after them. Throughout the day they will get time to walk around with some of our keepers…
The Young Scientist Research Prizes
To foster and recognise excellence in Victoria’s early career scientists, the Royal Society of Victoria offers four, prestigious, competitive prizes, open to Victorian students in their final year of doctoral candidature, in all areas of the Biomedical & Health Sciences, Biological Sciences (non-human), Earth Sciences and Physical Sciences. Following assessment of applications across the four…
Fieldwork Film Festival
Are you a Tasmanian based scientist or school student with an interest in science? The Tasmanian Australian Marine Association (TasAMSA) and The Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) invite Tasmanian Climate and Marine Scientists and Tasmanian Schools/Students to participate in a Fieldwork Film Festival as part of National Science Week. Our event will showcase the…
Nundah State School Science Week
Every Year Nundah State School hosts a variety of activities to engage the school’s students with the yearly theme of National Science Week. For this year’s theme ‘Food: Different by Design’, our two key activities are: a carbon footprint relay where students learn about the environmental impacts related to the production and transport of different…
RST Doctoral Award Webinar
Dr Abersteiner is the 2020 Royal Society of Tasmania’s Doctoral Award winner. His PhD focused on kimberlite, an igneous rock that originates deep within the Earth and is the primary source of diamonds. He will deliver an online webinar and speak about how his work greatly improves our understanding of the Earth’s deep interior.
Who’s Singing Underwater?
Water is not a habitat area quickly associated with Katanning. With annual rainfall less than 400mm, ephemeral creeks and waterbodies, the role of aquatic life in our ecosystem is commonly underestimated. As a small inland town, it is also amisconception that research and science opportunities are limited. This project will challenge both of these misconceptions….
Glen Dhu Primary School Science Fair
Glen Dhu Primary School children demonstrating their learning within the Science Curriculum to each other and also members of the school community.
Circular Head Science Gig
This year’s National Science Week theme is Food: Different by Design and Circular Head is virtually a food bowl. We have an abundance of food production here – beef, lamb, pork, dairy, vegetables as well as commercial fishing and aquaculture -oysters, crayfish, abalone, octopus. We have milk and cheese processing, vegetable processing and an abattoir….