RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
The Annual General meeting of The Royal Society of Tasmania was held on Monday 2 March 2026 and was followed by a lecture from, Professor Anya Reading speaking on ’Discovering Antarctica’s evolving glaciers, and hidden landscapes, with icequake seismology’.
Her lecture focused on her research into the Antarctic subsurface. The subglacial environment plays a critical role in how ice sheets evolve as a result of climate change. Anya employs both computational and seismic methods to investigate hidden and rapid-onset processes and other influences (e.g. geothermal heat and subglacial water systems) in her research to advance understanding of ice-sheet behaviour and accelerations of sea-level rise. This work supports environmental risk mitigation, Antarctic stewardship, and training future researchers. Professor Reading will share her adventures in geophysical data collection and advanced computation.
Apart from being a Professor of Physics in the School of Natural Sciences and Physics at UTAS, Professor Reading holds several additional posts, including Group Leader, Compute Antarctic Group, Physics, University of Tasmania; Program Lead, Circum Antarctic and East Antarctic, Australian Centre of Excellence for Antarctic Science; and Chair, Coordinating Committee for East Antarctica, International Lithosphere Program. Anya has led over 20 major geophysical field deployments across temperature extremes: Antarctica and outback Australia, is a 2025 ARC Laureate Fellowship awardee, supervises both PhD and Master degree students, and lectures in the School of Natural Sciences. Anya is a current Director of Tasmania’s Sci-Art Festival ‘Beaker Street’.
The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.