The Marine Team! celebrates the National Science Week school theme, Deep Blue: innovations for the future of our oceans, and explores marine science and innovation to achieve long-term sustainability of our oceans. The educational theatre sketch comedy is full of scientific facts and is captured live-online with multi-cameras and in high definition, so everyone watches from…
Topic: Environment and Nature
Science Exchange Series – Where did the beach go?
Our local beaches have had a rough start to winter with many looking narrower than they have been in some years as a result of recent storms. Many of us who visit our local WA beaches may wonder how and why our coastlines change shape so dramatically throughout the seasons. Join Dr Jeff Hansen, as…
Science Exchange Series – Visualising a Virus
When dealing with the strange nanoscopic world that is simply too small to see, experiments and data visualisation approaches are vitally important to our understanding of life on this scale. Brady Johnston is a PhD student in structural biology at UWA. Brady will introduce you to how data is collected and presented, leading to famous images…
PrimeSCI! School Holiday Science Webinars
PrimeSCI! Winter School Holiday Science Workshops will be running from Monday 29 June – Friday 10 July and will be filled with hands-on home science for your children. Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, PrimeSCI! will be providing live-streamed Zoom Webinars for the Winter School Holidays. Webinars are scheduled to run for a minimum of…
Oceans of Poetry
Write a poem about THE OCEAN: it could be a discovery under the waves; a form of ocean life you find interesting; anything that’s Ocean-related. By the time National Science Week begins the Science Rhymes website will display a collection of your rhyming verse poems about THE OCEAN and related science discoveries that have captured…
UNSW Bragg Student Science Writing Prize
Are you a writer in Years 7-10? Want to win great prizes? What are the solutions that will help us to address global challenges such as catastrophic climate change, global pandemics, severe weather and sea level rise? From bushfire science using smart satellites and Indigneous know-how, to vaccine development, citizen science apps tracking insect population…
Science Exchange Series – What can I actually do with my drone?
Drone use has grown rapidly in recent years. As a society we have come to appreciate drones and remote sensors as affordable tools that enable high resolution and on-demand data collection. Join Dr Nik Callow (Senior Lecturer and UWA Chief Remote Pilot) as he explores the purpose of drones as useful remote sensing tools in…
Leeuwin Ocean Adventure
Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation is a not for profit organisation which operates Australia’s largest Sail Training Tall Ship Leeuwin ll out of Fremantle, WA. The interactive presentation aims to inspire the community to become involved with STEM based immersion activities whilst experiencing adventure sailing over the “Deep Blue”. The presentation showcases the environment and wildlife…
Stories of Research Impact
The Centre for Social Impact at UNSW is exploring how Australian adults have been influenced by research. Have you come across some research that changed the way you thought or acted? Would you like to share what research impacted you and how, so we can get a picture of what types of influence science can…