The lecture on April 25, 2021, by Dr Christine Hansen, is now available on the RST YouTube channel. Read more about the lecture here.
Impact of Plastics on Marine Wildlife
The Royal Society of Tasmania, Northern Branch, invites you to a public lecture on Sunday 23 May 2021 at 1.30pm by Dr Jennifer Lavers.
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She will deliver a lecture on “Impact of Plastics on Marine Wildlife“.
If you wish to attend the lecture in person you must register in advance due to COVID rules. You can do so by sending an email to apcachris@gmail.com or by phone on 0417 330 118. Do so early to guarantee a seat.
Alternatively you may view the lecture remotely via ZOOM. In this case you must also register in advance in ZOOM. This has nothing to do with COVID. It simply ensures that you receive an email containing instructions for joining the webinar on the day of the talk. Click here to register for ZOOM.
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Plastic has only been mass produced since approximately the 1950s, yet debris is now ubiquitous in aquatic and terrestrial environments, from the Arctic to the Antarctic and from the top of Mount Everest to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Remarkably, the impact all this debris is having on species, habitats, and the ecosystem as a whole is poorly understood. Much of what we do know has been documented for seabirds and remote islands.
The presentation will highlight Australia’s contributions to this emerging and important field of research.
Dr Lavers is a Lecturer in Marine Science at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania. Her research focuses on understanding how remote islands and seabirds can act as bio-indicators of ocean health, particularly in relation to plastic pollution. She teaches a number of ecology-focused courses and coordinates Adrift Lab, a team of scientists who mentor graduate students through the research process.
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View recording of the lecture by Professor David Bowman – February 2021
The lecture on February 28, 2021, by Professor David Bowman, is now available on the RST YouTube channel. Read more about the lecture here.
Telling the stories of kanamaluka
The Royal Society of Tasmania, Northern Branch, invites you to a public lecture on Sunday 25 April 2021 at 1.30pm by Dr Christine Hansen.
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She will deliver a lecture on “Telling the stories of kanamaluka, the Tamar River“.
To view remotely via ZOOM: Register in advance by clicking here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
To attend the lecture in person: Due to COVID restrictions, registration will be required – by phone 0417 330 118
or email to apcachris@gmail.com
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kanamaluka/Tamar River (estuary) is a fascinating water way: a complex ecosystem, a unique hydrological phenomenon and a major factor in the founding of Launceston. It is also a magnet for passionate debate and strong opinion. While discussion about its future rages in public, behind the scenes QVMAG is preparing a new gallery that celebrates life above and below the water.
Dr Christine Hansen is the current Manager of Knowledge and Content at QVMAG. She arrived in Launceston from Sweden where she was a scholar in the Centre for Environmental Humanities at Gothenburg University and worked for the Swedish National Museum of World Cultures. She has a PhD in History from the Australian National University and these days proudly calls herself a ‘Tasmanian.’
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Global and Australian Perspectives for COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
The Royal Society of Tasmania, Northern Branch, invites you to a public lecture by Professor Katie Flanagan, on Sunday March 28, 2021, at 1:15 pm. The lecture will commence at 1.30 pm following the branch Annual General Meeting.
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The lecture will take place at the Meeting Room, QVMAG at Inveresk.
If you intend to attend in person: Due to COVID restrictions, registration will be required – phone 0417 330 118 or email apcachris@gmail.com
To view remotely via ZOOM: Register in advance by clicking here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Katie is a world-renowned clinician scientist, Head of Infectious Diseases at LGH and a Professor at UTAS, RMIT and Monash Universities. She is Honorary Secretary of the Australian Society for Infectious Diseases, chairs their Vaccination Special Interest Group, is a member of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, and chairs their COVID-19 Vaccine Utilisation and Prioritisation Subgroup.
Her talk will discuss the platform technologies being used to design COVID-19 vaccines, candidates in preclinical and clinical trials and phase 3 trial efficacy results. It will then discuss the progress globally with COVID-19 vaccine rollout and the Australian COVID-19 strategy and program in more detail. It will conclude with discussing next-generation vaccines including those against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.
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Pyrogeographic thinking – the key to tackling the global fire crisis
The Royal Society of Tasmania invites you to a public lecture on Sunday 28 February 2021 at 1.30pm by Professor David Bowman.
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He will deliver a lecture on his research into problem solving as a means of achieving sustainable co-existence with fire.
Register in advance for this webinar.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Due to circumstances beyond our control the advertised lecture by Dr Lavers has been postponed until 23rd May, and Professor David Bowman most generously agreed to bring forward his lecture previously planned for that date.
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View recording of the 25th October virtual lecture “Butterfly Brilliance: The Lambkin-Knight Butterfly Collection”
For those who missed the virtual lecture by lepidopterist Trevor Lambkin and QVMAG staff entitled “Butterfly Brilliance: The Lambkin-Knight Butterfly Collection” on October 25, 2020, view it now on our YouTube channel. Read more about the lecture here.
Patriotism and Place in 19th Century Tasmania
The Royal Society of Tasmania, Northern Branch, invites you to a Zoom webinar by Henry Reynolds, on Sunday November 22, 2020, at 1:30 pm.
Topic: Patriotism and Place in 19th Century Tasmania
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Andrew Inglis Clark was the one of the few republicans among the generation of colonial politicians who became the fathers of federation. His views are more interesting because they emerged from a long tradition of Tasmanian patriotism based on a powerful commitment to place, which was already apparent in the 1820’s and reinforced in succeeding generations.
Our speaker Henry Reynolds – Honorary Research Professor, Aboriginal Studies, Global Cultures & Languages at the University of Tasmania – grew up and was educated in Tasmania at Hobart High School and the University of Tasmania with a B.A hons and a M.A. With his wife Margaret he spent several years teaching in London, returning to Australia in 1965 to take up a lectureship in the new Townsville University College. He spent most of his career in North Queensland, and is best known for his many books, articles and documentaries about the relations between Aborigines and settlers.
Prof. Reynolds has published several articles about the Honourable Andrew Inglis Clark, including the entry on Clark in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Henry Reynolds has published 20 books and over 60 chapters in books and articles in journals. Among his best known books are: The Other Side of the Frontier, The Law of the Land, This Whispering in Our Hearts, Fate of a Free People, Why Weren’t We Told, North of Capricorn, Forgotten War and Drawing the Global Colour Line co-authored with Marilyn Lake. Many of his books have appeared on best-seller lists and total sales would be around 250,000 copies. Several of Henry’s books have won major literary prizes: the Prime Ministers Prize for non-fiction, the Queensland Premiers Prize (twice), the Human Rights Commission Prize for literature (twice), the Victorian Premier’s prize for non-fiction, the Banjo Prize of the Australian Book Council, and the Ernest Scott Prize(twice). His most recent book Forgotten War won the Victorian Premier’s Prize and was short-listed for the Queensland Premier’s prize and the Tasmanian Literary Prize.
Henry Reynolds received the Royal Society of Tasmania Clive Lord Memorial Medal, in 2016. Among numerous other awards and distinctions are:
- Honorary doctorates from University of Tasmania and James Cook University
- Election to Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres-Strait Islander Studies, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
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Butterfly Brilliance: The Lambkin-Knight Butterfly Collection
The Royal Society of Tasmania invites you to a public lecture by Trevor Lambkin, David Maynard and Simon Fearn.
Where: On your computer via Zoom
When: 1.30 pm Sunday 25th October 2020
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A collection of around 12000 butterflies compiled by Trevor Lambkin and Ian Knight over the last 50 years has most generously been donated to QVMAG. Including many hundreds of species, some extremely rare and some that are now extinct, it is an important part of Australia’s national research infrastructure.
Hear from one of the donors, lepidopterist Trevor Lambkin about building the collection, and from QVMAG staff David Maynard (Senior Curator of Natural Sciences) and Simon Fearn (Museum Collections Officer) on its research potential and housing such a large collection.
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Chemical Answers Now: protecting us and our environment
Where: On your computer via Zoom
When: 1.30 pm Sunday 27th September 2020
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Professor Breadmore is pioneering the development of portable and transportable technology to provide chemical information when and where the sample is collected. Applications include the detection of home-made explosives at airports, the continuous monitoring of nutrients in our rivers, and more recently, whether we can use these to detect viruses.
After public education in northern Tasmania, our speaker graduated from University of Tasmania with BSc (Hons); PhD; DSc. He has made a continued and sustained contribution towards miniaturized analytical technology for clinical, forensic, environmental and food applications at UTAS. He was one of three finalists in the Eureka Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2011), has been listed in the Analytical Scientist’s power list of the top 100 analytical chemists in the world (2014, 2017, 2019), and is the Director of the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science.
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