Nominations are kindly invited for the RST Doctoral Awards 2017.
Calling all researchers under 35 who have finished their PhD in the previous three years!
If you know someone who would be right for this award, please pass on.
Doctoral awards nomination form
Nominations close 30 Nov 2017 midnight.
BOOK NOW The RST Christmas lecture and dinner 2017
The President, Prof Matt King and all Council members warmly invite you, your family and friends to attend The Royal Society of Tasmania annual Christmas lecture and dinner.
This relaxed evening is one of the Society’s most popular events and we hope you can attend.
Emeritus Prof John Simons will speak to the topic of ‘Queen Victoria’s Hippopotamus’ at CSIRO’s Battery Point auditorium at 6 pm on Tuesday 5 December 2017, followed by a buffet Christmas dinner.
Tickets are $45 per person and available through trybooking:
https://www.trybooking.com/SMSS
In 1850 the Zoological Society of London acquired a hippopotamus. He was called Obaysch. He was the first hippopotamus to have been seen in Europe since Roman times and caused a sensation. This lecture will look at his life and at the various ways in which Victorians constructed the experience of seeing a hippopotamus in London.
Emeritus Professor John Simons lives in Taroona. He has worked in universities in the U.K., the USA and Australia and most recently was Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) at Macquarie University. He is the editor or author of some twenty academic books on a range of topics from medieval chivalric romance to the history of cricket via Andy Warhol. Over the last twenty years he has concentrated on the history of human-animal relationships and, especially, on exotic animals in Victorian England. He is also a published poet and has recently completed his first novel.
The menu for the dinner. A vegetarian meal is available on request, please contact royal.society@tmag.tas.gov.au:
If you have any queries, please contact us at royal.society@tmag.tas.gov.au or Wednesdays from 9.30 to 1.30 on 03 6165 7014.
LIVESTREAM Ghost Ships of the Arctic, Marc-Andre Bernier’s lecture about The exploration of Sir John Franklin’s HMS Erebus and HMS Terror
This lecture was given on Wed 11 Oct, 6 pm @Stanley Burbury Theatre, UTAS Sandy Bay campus to a packed audience so should be a good listen.
Nominations open for The Royal Society of Tasmania Medal! Closes 30 Sept midnight.
This medal is especially for ‘active’ members of the Society.
Nominations open for mid-career researchers! The M. R. Banks Medal closes Sept 30 midnight
Trevor McDougall researching Australian Climate Science capability
Leading research in to Australian Climate Science capability: UNSW Mathematics and Science Facebook page. Trevor was awarded the inaugural MR Banks Medal in 1998 and The Royal Society of Tasmania Medal in 2013. He is an important, founding member of the team who provided a thermodynamically consistent equation of seawater (EOS), called TEOS-10. This equation is used the world over by oceanographers. TEOS-10 was adopted by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission in 2009.
LIVESTREAM the Winter Series
The RST @ CONASTA
The RST had a successful outing at the annual science education conference of Australian Science Teachers Association hosted at Wrest Point by the Science Teachers Association of Tasmania, getting to know and show teachers the great work the RST puts forward. Thanks to the hard work of council members and Jeannie-Marie Leroi from UTas.
Winter Series – ABC Radio 936 interview with Stewart Frusher
ABC radio interview with Stewart Frusher, before his Winter Series lecture for the Society.
Featured image: Tane Sinclair-Taylor
ABC Radio 936 interview with Meredith Nash
ABC radio interview with Meredith Nash, Mon Jul 3 in the lead up to her Royal Society of Tasmania lecture.