Presentation by The Royal Society Of Tasmania
Dechaineux Theatre University of Tasmania
Wednesday, 30th November 2011 Commencing 8.30 am until 5.30 pm
Two day symposium. Full details under the education heading on this website
Another Day-Another Challenge- Pilotage on the Tamar – 6th November 2011
Presentation by Capt. Ron Riley
QVMAG – Inveresk
Sunday, 6th November 2011 Commencing 2.30 pm until 4.30 pm
About the Speaker
Capt Ron Riley is a Senior Pilot for Tasmanian Ports Corporation. He joined BHP in 1964 as a Marine Deck Apprentice and obtained a 2nd Mates Certificate in1967, a 1st Mates Certificate in 1969 and Masters Certificate in 1978. From 1972 to 1979 he spent time overseas with P&O Bulk Shipping and Bank Line sailing as 2nd Mate and 1st Mate. Captain Riley commenced piloting on the Tamar in 1980 and currently hold licences for the Tamar River and Devonport. he was called up for National Service in 1966 and joined RANR in 1969 and spent 28 years in Naval Reserve rising to Lieutenant-Commander. he was awarded IHO Category B Certificate in Hydographic Surveying in 1987 and accredited as Hydrographic Surveyor Level 1 in 1995. He was awarded the Australian Defence Medal and Reserve Force Decoration. His main interests are bee keeping, gardening, sailing and reading, with particular reference to early maritime explorers and methods of navigation and surveying. He sailed as navigator on replica sloop NORFOLK during the 200th anniversary re-enactment of Flinders’ voyage from Sydney to Hervey Bay in 1999.
Brief Abstract of the Talk
The aim of the talk is to look at the changes to pilotage on the Tamar over the last 4 decades.
Crisis between the Aborigines and white settlers circa 1830 – 1st November 2011
Crisis between the Aborigines and white settlers circa 1830
Presentation by Dr Peter Chapman
The Royal Society Room
Tuesday, 1st November 2011 Commencing 8.00 pm until 10.00 pm
Postgraduate Student talks – 4th October 2011
Postgraduate Student talks
Presentation by See Below
The Royal Society Room
Tuesday, 4th October 2011 Commencing 8.00 pm until 10.00 pm
Three postgraduate students from areas such as CRC Forestry, Menzies and Tasmanian Devil Research
About the Speaker
1. Ms Gemma Morrow. 2. Ms Clare Smith. 3. Dr Natasha Wiggins
Brief Abstract of the Talk
1. Gemma Morrow is nearing completion of her PhD in the School of Zoology at UTAS. Using a multidisciplinary approach utilising novel ultrasonography, cytology, endocrinology, genetic techniques as well as behavioural obsevations, she aims to understand the mating system of the Tasmanian echidna tachyglossus aculeatus setosus in the wild. Gemma was runner-up for the Bollinger award for best student talk at the 2011 joint meeting of the American and Australian mammal Societies in Oregon, USA. 2. Clare Smith is a PhD student (about to hand in her thesis) with the Menzies Research Institute, UTAS. Her work has focused on developing new antimalarials to overcome the problem of drug resistance, using a ‘host-directed’ approach. Clare was one of only six Australians selected to attend the recent 61st Nobel Laureates Meeting in Lindau, Germany. She also spent 2 months working with collaborators at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, and was awarded the Bede Morris Travelling Fellowship by the Australian Academy of Science. 3. Dr Natasha Wiggins’ research has predominately focused on plant-animal interactions between the Eucalyptus genus and mammal herbivores. Specifically, she is interested in the chemical and physical properties of plants and how this influences herbivore feeding preferences. Her PhD focused on the feeding behaviour of possums in response to a variety of eucalypt species, and she has since worked on wallaby movement patterns across agriculture landscapes as a postdoctoral fellow with the School of Plant Science at UTAS.
Inside the Black Line: Three Startling New Documents That Change Everything – 2nd October 2011
Inside the Black Line: Three Startling New Documents That Change Everything.
Presentation by Nick Clements
QVMAG – Inveresk
Sunday, 2nd October 2011 Commencing 2.30 pm until 4.30 pm
Public lecture – Northern Tasmania
About the Speaker
Nick was born in rural northern Tasmania, but has lived in Launceston for the past seven years. He currently teaches history, philosophy and Aboriginal studies at the University of Tasmania where he is also completing the final year of his PhD looking at the experiences of both whites and Aborigines during Tasmania’s Black War (1825-31).
Brief Abstract of the Talk
The Black Line, as it came to be called, was Australia’s largest military operation prior to the defence of Darwin in WWII. It cost the Colonial Government half its annual revenue and detained 2,300 men in the field for eight weeks during October and November, 1830. An epic undertaking for an infant Colony like Van Diemen’s Land, the details of the campaign have long been mired in obscurity. Government records which give us a basic idea of the movements and key developments, but what about those who participated in this historic event? Why did they join? What happened day-to-day? What was it like? Until recently, the only sources that spoke to such questions were two brief and embellished accounts by George Lloyd and Jorgen Jorgenson. This was before the discovery of three exciting new sources written by civilian party leaders. In this lecture I examine these tantalising documents in an attempt to come to terms both with what happened on the Line and how it was experienced.
SEPARATION SCIENCE IN PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS – 6th September 2011
SEPARATION SCIENCE IN PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS
Presentation by Professor Brett Paull
The Royal Society Room
Tuesday, 6th September 2011 Commencing 8.00 pm until 10.00 pm
About the Speaker
Following the award of his PhD from Plymouth University in 1994, Dr Paull began his academic career within the School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania. From there Dr Paull moved to Dublin City University in 1998, where until recently he held the position of Associate Professor of Analytical Science, and the Director of the Irish Separation Science Cluster (ISSC). He has now returned to the University of Tasmania to take up a New Stars Professorship within the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS), based within the School of Chemistry
WINTER SERIES “Forests and Carbon” Northern Edition – 16th August 2011
Presentation by Three Speakers (see below)
Raymond Ferrall Theatre, University of Tasmania, Newnham
Tuesday, 16th August 2011 Commencing 7.30 pm until 9.30 pm
Chaired by Prof. Jim Reid, President of The Royal Society of Tasmania
About the Speaker
1. Mr Tim Woods, CarbonEdge. 2. Dr Martin Moroni, Forestry Tasmania. 3. Mr Alistair Graham, Natural Resource Planning
Brief Abstract of the Talk
1. What price for carbon? 2. How much carbon is in our forests? 3. The Kelty report-Implications for forest policy.
Agricultural research and teaching in Tasmania-responding to the ‘unprecedented confluence of pressures’ – 2nd August 2011
Presentation by Professor Holger Mienke
The Royal Society Room
Tuesday, 2nd August 2011 Commencing 8.00 pm until 10.00 pm
About the Speaker
Professor Holger Mienke is the new Director of the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research and Head of the School of Agricultural Science at UTAS. He came to us from Wageningen University and held senior positions in DPI in Queensland before that.
Brief Abstract of the Talk
The Millipede Mystery in NW Tasmania – 1st August 2011
Presentation by Dr Bob Mesibov
QVMAG – Inveresk
Monday, 1st August 2011 Commencing 7.30 pm until 9.30 pm
About the Speaker
Dr Mesibov will discuss a curious feature of two millipede species in the State’s northwest. The range of the widespread millipede Tasmaniosoma hickmanorum (Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) has a 400 sq km ‘hole’ which is filled with the range of T. compitale. The boundary between the two species is 200km long, does not follow habitat boundaries and in places is only 100 m wide. In this presentation Dr Mesibov will report the latest results from fine-scale mapping of this boundary and will discuss other strange features of the biology of these two millipede species
Brief Abstract of the Talk
Dr Mesibov has been an Honorary Research Associate of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery since 1994. He was the editor of the Museum’s Invertebrata newsletter (1997-2002) and is currently president of the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists. He has a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in the USA. Since migrating to Tasmania in 1973 he has worked as a mine assayer, high school teacher, forester, forest ecology/zoology/forest management consultant and museum-based zoologist. Now retired, he lives in Penguin and studies millipedes and other litter invertebrates.
WINTER SERIES – 19th July 2011
Presentation by Various. See detail below
Sir Stanley Burbury Theatre, University of Tasmania.
Tuesday, 19th July 2011 Commencing 7.30 pm until 10.00 pm
Chaired by Professor Peter Rathjen, Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania
About the Speaker
1. Mr Alistair Graham, Natural Resource Planning. 2. Dr Jen Schweitzer, University of Tasmania. 3. Mr Tim Woods, CarbonEdge
Brief Abstract of the Talk
1. The Kelty report – Implications for forest policy. 2. Maximising soil carbon: can soil carbon storage offset rising CO2? 3. What price for carbon
