The Royal Society of Tasmania

The advancement of knowledge

July at QVMAG – Prof Hallegraeff

2019 Launceston Lecture Series

 

The Royal Society of Tasmania 

 

INVITES YOU TO

 

Harmful Algal Blooms in the Australian Region

 

A PUBLIC LECTURE BY

 

Professor Gustaaf Hallegraeff

 

Venue: Meeting Room, QVMAG at Inveresk, Launceston
Time: 1.30 pm Sunday, 28 July 2019
Admission is free for members of the Royal Society of Tasmania*
$6 for general admission, and
$4 for students, QVMAG Friends, and members of Launceston Historical Society.

(*membership forms available at the door)

 

 

 

While microalgal blooms are natural phenomena, since the 1980s their impacts on public health, tourism and fisheries have increased in frequency, intensity and geographic distribution. Environmental agencies and aquaculture are increasingly forced to invest in improved technologies for monitoring for an increasing number of harmful algal species in water, and increasing complexity of algal toxins in seafood. Climate change is calling for increased vigilance in seafood safety.

 

Gustaaf Hallegraeff is a Professor at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. He has worked on a wide range of Harmful Algal Bloom issues including shellfish toxins, climate change, ship’s ballast water and fish-killing algae. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences and Engineering, winner of the 2004 Eureka Prize for Environmental Research, and 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae.

 

 

 

 

Generously supported by 

Joint meeting with Geological Society at QVMAG

2019 Launceston Lecture Series

 

The Royal Society of Tasmania

  and

The Geological Society of Australia

 

INVITE YOU TO A JOINT MEETING AND PUBLIC LECTURE BY

 

Dr Claire Kain

Hazards of Flooding and Flood Modelling for Northern Tasmania

 

Venue: Meeting Room, QVMAG at Inveresk, Launceston
Time: 1.30 pm Sunday, 14 July 2019
Admission is free for members of the Royal Society of Tasmania and Geological Society of Australia
$6 for general admission, and
$4 for students, QVMAG Friends, and members of Launceston Historical Society.

 

 

The storm events of 2011 and 2016 led to severe flooding and sediment movement across northern Tasmania. During both events, the Westmorland Stream alluvial system at Caveside (near Mole Creek) was affected by debris flows and flash flooding, which threatened nearby residents and farming operations. A multidisciplinary study was undertaken to understand the hydrogeomorphic functioning of this system. The findings of this study have wider implications for the estimation of debris flow and flood hazard in Tasmania and elsewhere.

 

.Dr Kain is employed as a Natural Hazards Geologist at Mineral Resources Tasmania, working on understanding the risk and effects of hazards such as landslides, floods, debris flows and tsunamis in Tasmania. Originally from New Zealand, she has worked in the natural hazards field since 2008. After finishing her PhD at the University of New South Wales she moved to Tasmania three years ago.

 

 

 

Generously supported by

July at TMAG – Vision Zero

The Royal Society of Tasmania

presents

Garry Bailey

Vision Zero: Road Safety in Tasmania

 

Tuesday, 2 July 2019

8.00pm on the RST Rooms,

Customs House Building, Dunn Place, Hobart

 

 

Garry Baily, as chair of the Road Safety Advisor Council (RSAC) will present a lecture on their “vision zero” – working towards reducing the number of serious casualties associated with road accidents. The public have a seemingly high tolerance of serious road casualties, with an average of 35 people killed, and 260 injured annually in Tasmania. If this incidence of deaths and injuries happened in one place or time, it would no doubt led to public outcry, and demands for something to be done. The RSAC is implementing a range of initiatives and systems that underpin the Towards Zero strategy, which aims to change people’s perceptions about speeding.

 

Road Safety Advisory Council chair, Garry Bailey, has more than 45 years’ experience as a media professional. He held senior management positions with Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, publisher of the leading Tasmanian newspapers, The Mercury and the Sunday Tasmanian, for 30 years and was editor from November 2001 to January 2012. He has had an enduring interest in road safety, leading a series of campaigns in his time as editor of both newspapers. Garry continued that commitment as the Tasmanian advocate for Bicycle Network from 2014 to 2017 and as a member of the RACT’s southern advisory committee. Since leaving newspapers, he has been a broadcaster with the ABC, a media and communications consultant, a foundation member of the advisory board for the 26Ten adult literacy organisation, is on the board of the not-for-profit disability service provider Nexus, and was an inaugural member of the Tamar Valley Writers Festival committee.

June Lecture at QVMAG – Prof. Ross Large

2019 Launceston Lecture Series

 

 

The Royal Society of Tasmania

Presents

The Rhythms of Earth and Life through Time

A Public Lecture by  

Professor Ross Large AO

 

 

Venue: Meeting Room, QVMAG at Inveresk, Launceston
Time: 1.30 pm Sunday, 23 June 2019
Admission is free for members of the Royal Society of Tasmania
$6 for general admission, and
$4 for students, QVMAG Friends, and members of Launceston Historical Society.

 

 

This talk by challenges the Darwinian concept that evolution is a random process. Professor Large outlines recent research on the trace element composition of sedimentary pyrite that demonstrates that the chemistry of the oceans and atmosphere has varied significantly through geological time in a rhythmic fashion, which has greatly influenced the course of evolution on Earth. The rhythms, which are ultimately driven by super continent cycles and mountain building events, have sped up through time, and not only control evolutionary events, but also the variation of atmosphere oxygen and mass extinction events.

 

Ross Large is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Geology at the University of Tasmania. He gained his BSc (Hons) from the University of Tasmania in 1969, PhD from University of New England in 1973, and an Honorary Doctor of Engineering from the University of Lulea, Sweden. Ross has published over 130 scientific papers and is internationally recognised for his research on the genesis of ore deposits and relationships to Earth evolution. He has won many awards during his career the most recent being the 2016 Eureka prize for interdisciplinary research, and the 2018 Medal of the Royal Society of Tasmania. He was awarded an Order of Australia in 2019. Ross is the current President of the Royal Society of Tasmania and the immediate past chair of the Tasmanian Division of The Academy of Technology and Engineering.

 

 

This event is generously supported by  

2019 Lecture Calendar

The Royal Society of Tasmania

Hobart lecture program for 2019:



MARCH 5  –  Scott Rankin: Tasmanian Australian of the year for 2018.


APRIL 2 – Dr Elizabeth Robinson: On educating young people in Tasmania today.


MAY 7 – The Peter Smith Medal Lecture (changed to Doctoral Award Winner Lecture)


JUNE 4 – Aboriginal language revitalisation: celebrating the 2019 International Year of Indigenous languages


JULY 2 – Garry Bailey: Vision Zero: Road Safety in Tasmania


AUGUST 6 – Marley Large: A glimpse into 175 years of the Royal Society of Tasmania’s Minutes.


SEPTEMBER 3 – Doctoral Award Winner Lecture


OCTOBER 1 – Dr Anita Hansen: The first 175 years of the Royal Society of Tasmania.


NOVEMBER 5 – UTas Postgraduates Lecture Evening.


DECEMBER 3 –  John Williamson: Hobart’s Antarctic connection.


 


The full program for the 2019 Launceston Lecture Series can be viewed HERE


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In the meantime, our 175 Anniversary celebrations continue with exhibitions and events. Please check our anniversary program for more details :-  








Art Exhibitions


 










An exhibition of art works by Louisa Anne Meredith at the Lady Franklin Gallery opened on 2 February and goes until the end of the month. The gallery is open weekends only.


 












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An exhibition of the watercolour works of Tasmanian vistas by Francis Guillemard Simpkinson de Wesselow (1819–1906) will be on at TMAG from 21 March – 11 June.




 


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