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
The advancement of knowledge
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
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
1. Ms Gemma Morrow. 2. Ms Clare Smith. 3. Dr Natasha Wiggins
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.
Presentation by Nick Clements
QVMAG – Inveresk
Sunday, 2nd October 2011 Commencing 2.30 pm until 4.30 pm
Public lecture – Northern Tasmania
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).
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.
Presentation by Professor Brett Paull
The Royal Society Room
Tuesday, 6th September 2011 Commencing 8.00 pm until 10.00 pm
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
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
1. Mr Tim Woods, CarbonEdge. 2. Dr Martin Moroni, Forestry Tasmania. 3. Mr Alistair Graham, Natural Resource Planning
1. What price for carbon? 2. How much carbon is in our forests? 3. The Kelty report-Implications for forest policy.
Presentation by Professor Holger Mienke
The Royal Society Room
Tuesday, 2nd August 2011 Commencing 8.00 pm until 10.00 pm
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.
Presentation by Dr Bob Mesibov
QVMAG – Inveresk
Monday, 1st August 2011 Commencing 7.30 pm until 9.30 pm
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
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.
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
1. Mr Alistair Graham, Natural Resource Planning. 2. Dr Jen Schweitzer, University of Tasmania. 3. Mr Tim Woods, CarbonEdge
1. The Kelty report – Implications for forest policy. 2. Maximising soil carbon: can soil carbon storage offset rising CO2? 3. What price for carbon
Presentation by Professor Mike Coffin
The Royal Society Room
Tuesday, 5th July 2011 Commencing 8.00 pm until 10.00 pm
Mike Coffin commenced as Executive Director of UTAS’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) in January 2011, and is inspired by the unique opportunity to build a new institute that aims to become a global centre of excellence for temperate marine, Southern Ocean, and Antarctic studies. He is a marine geoscientist whose research expertise encompasses episodic Earth-Ocean system phenomena and processes. Educated at Dartmouth College (AB) and Columbia University (MA, MPhil, PhD) in the USA, he has pursued an international career that reflects the boundless nature of the global ocean. Mike has previously worked at Geoscience Australia (1985-1989), the University of Texas at Austin (1990-2001), the University of Tokyo (2001-2007), and the UK’s University of Southampton and National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (2007-2010).
Tasmania is a primary gateway to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, placing the University of Tasmania in a unique strategic position to pursue preeminent global excellence and reputation in Antarctic, Southern Ocean, and temperate marine research. With this in mind, IMAS has been established by the University to build a critical scientific concentration around its internationally recognized expertise in marine and Antarctic research, previously spread among diverse faculties, institutes, and schools across the Hobart and Launceston campuses. The bringing together of the elements of IMAS will give a focus that is intended to provide national and international leadership in studies of the Southern Ocean and its margins. This research concentration will also provide both CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research and the Australian Antarctic Division with a complementary research environment, infrastructure, and underpinning education and training services. The vision of IMAS—to advance, unify, and enable temperate marine, Southern Ocean, and Antarctic studies—will be achieved by innovative science and a focus on measurable benefit to society, enabled through building a network of national and international research, education, and training collaborations.
Presentation by Emeritus Professor John Mulvaney
QVMAG – Inveresk
Sunday, 3rd July 2011 Commencing 3.00 pm until 5.00 pm
Emeritus Professor John Mulvaney AO, CMG, was Professor of Prehistory at the Australia National University, a member of the Australian Heritage Commission, Chairman of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and a member of the 1974–75 Inquiry on Museums and National Collections. He is the author, co-author or editor of 20 books.
John Mulvaney commenced archaeological excavations in Australia in 1956. Between that date and 1969 the dated antiquity of human occupation extended from 5,000 to 30,000 years; present estimates are some 50,000 years. This illustrated talk will concentrate on key excavations which produced this evidence, including Lake Mungo, and Kenniff and Kutikina Caves. The significance of these exciting discoveries will be assessed.