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The Royal Society of Tasmania – Northern Branch
2021 Launceston Lecture Series

Lectures commence at 1.30* pm – Online or at QVMAG @ Inveresk
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*Start time varies as shown below)

PROGRAM (issued 3 June 2021)
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FEBRUARY 28
Prof. David Bowman
‘Pyrogeographic thinking’ – the key to tackling the global fire crisis

* ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING **

MARCH 28, 1.15 pm
Dr Katie Flanagan
‘Global and Australian Perspectives for COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout’. Hear from our local infectious disease physician, leader of the group advising the government on the Australian COVID-19 vaccine program.

** ANNUAL QVMAG STAFF LECTURE **

APRIL 25
Dr Christine Hansen
‘Telling the stories of kanamaluka’ – the fascinating kanamaluka/Tamar estuary will be the first subject of QVMAG’s new gallery of environmental history

MAY 23
Dr Jennifer Lavers
‘Impact of Plastics on Marine Wildlife’ – previously unknown sub-lethal and largely invisible consequences for aquatic and even terrestrial species

** NORTHERN BRANCH CENTENARY LECTURE, 1.15 pm, June 27 **

JUNE 27
Mr Ralph Bottrill
‘What made Tasmania?’ – 140 years of geological mapping and research – what have we done and what is left to do?

JULY 25
Prof. John Whittington
‘Growing Australia’s Blue Economy’ – meeting the challenges of operating in high energy offshore marine environments provides enormous potential to increase seafood and renewable energy production.

** 2021 SCIENCE WEEK FORUM **

AUGUST 22
PhD Candidates, University of Tasmania
‘Breaking New Ground’
Kate Edwards – Exercise induced gut damage and the estrobolome: does periodisation matter?
Priya Bindal – Oral health-related quality of life in the older population
Eric Gubesch – Generating renewable energy from ocean waves

** JOINT MEETING WITH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA **

SEPTEMBER 12
A/Prof. Sebastien Meffre
‘East Meets West’ – the geological development of northern Tasmania

SEPTEMBER 26
Sarah Lloyd OAM
‘My Life in Slime’ – Ten years of research in a northern Tasmanian forest has revealed a slime mould ‘hotspot’ with at least four previously undescribed species

OCTOBER 24
Tim Smallbon
‘Breathing New Life’ – founded in 1937 as the Land Army training centre through the war, a farmer training facility in the 1970s, but what has become of Cressy Research Station today?

NOVEMBER 28
Dr Greg Woods
‘A Double Devil Dilemma’ – Transmissible cancers are rare, except with the Tasmanian devil. Why? What is known, what do we need to know, what is the future?

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