Northern Branch Past Lectures

List of archived lectures for Northern Branch (starting with the most recent)

2023

Date.of.this.event	Speaker(s)	Topic
2023, July 23	Jon Addison	“The Tasmanian origins of the Australian flag” (Click to learn more)
2023, Jun 25	Dr David Harris	“Hydrogen as a renewable energy carrier” (Click to view recording)
2023, May 28	Dr Valeria Konyakova	“Artificial structures as marine habitats: challenges and opportunities” (Click to learn more)
2023, Apr 23	Professor Nick Shakel	“Liver Disease: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (Click to view recording)
2023, Mar 26	Professor Jocelyn McPhie	“Complex Volcanic Eruptions” (Click to view recording)
2023, Feb 26	Dr Eric Ratcliff	“The peril of naming things” (Click to view recording)

2022

Date.of.this.event	Speaker(s)	Topic
2022, Nov 27	Shane Fitzgerald	“QVMAG: A Catalyst for Cultural Activation” (Click to learn more)
2022, Oct 23	Dr Mike Pook	“Living with climate variability – the Tasmanian experience” (Click to view recording)
2022, Sep 25	Dr Allison Trimble	“School Principals and School Law” (Click to view recording)
2022, Aug 28	PhD candidates Rhys Tanton, Freya Su, Jack Tan, and supervisor Dr Mark Dewsbury	“From Mouldy Houses to Drying Timber” (Click to view recording)
2022, Aug 14	Dr Peter McGoldrick	“Tasmania’s Oldest Fossil” (Click to view recording)
2022, July 24	Dr Raj Eri	“Personalised Medicine: are we there yet?” (Click to view recording)
2022, June 26	Dr Charles Connor	“Identifying the source with Forensic Science” (Click to learn more)
2022, May 22	Andrew Bishop	“A Brave New Biosecurity System: Over the Horizon Musings” (Click to view recording)
2022, Apr 24	Kathryn Medlock	“Sharing the bounty” (Click to learn more)
2022, Mar 27	Dr Indrani Mukherjee	“Understanding Early Earth Environments” (Click to view recording)
2022, Feb 27	Prof. Kimberley Norris	“From Antarctica to Outer Space” (Click to view recording)

2021

Date.of.this.event	Speaker(s)	Topic
2021, Nov 28	Emeritus Prof. Greg Woods	“A Double Devil Dilemma” (Click to learn more)
2021, Oct 24	Tim Smallbon	“Breathing New Life” (Click to learn more)
2021, Sept 26	Sarah Lloyd OAM	“My Life in Slime” (Click to view recording)
2021, Sept 12	Assoc. Prof. Sebastien Meffre	“East meets West: the Geological Development of Northern Tasmania” (Click to learn more)
2021, August 23	Duyen Tran, Indika Fernando, and Christelle Auguste	RST Northern Branch Science Week Forum (Click to learn more)
2021, July 25	Dr John Whittington	“Growing Australia’s Blue Economy“
2021, June 27	Ralph Bottrill	“What made Tasmania?“
2021, May 23	Dr Jennifer Lavers	“Impact of Plastics on Marine Wildlife”
2021, April 25	Dr Christine Hansen	“Telling the stories of kanamaluka”
2021, March 28	Prof. Katie Flanagan	“Global and Australian Perspectives for COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout”
2021, Feb 28	Prof. David Bowman	“Pyrogeographic thinking – the key to tackling the global fire crisis”

Lectures before 2021

Date.of.this.event	Speaker(s)	Topic
2020, Nov 22	Prof. Henry Reynolds	“Patriotism and Place in 19^th Century Tasmania”
2020, Oct 25	Trevor Lambkin, David Maynard and Simon Fearn	“Butterfly Brilliance: The Lambkin-Knight Butterfly Collection”
2020, Sept 27	Prof. Michael Breadmore	“Chemical Answers Now: protecting us and our environment”
2020, Aug 23	Duyen Tran, Indika Fernando, and Christelle Auguste	RST Northern Branch Science Week Forum: Breaking New Ground. View recording.
2020, July	Andrew Parsons	“Map Spam: (yet more of) Launceston Revealed”. View recording.
2020, Feb	Ngaire Hobbins	“Live It Up”
2019, Nov 24	Prof. James Vickers	“Reducing risk of dementia – evidence and opportunities”
2019, October 27	Prof. Rufus Black	“Ethics of Place”
2019, September	Dr Tas van Ommen	“Ice Cores and Climate Change”
2019, August	The Governor of Tasmania	“The history of Government House gardens”
2019, August 11	Ravichandra Vemuri, Rachael Sanders, Matt Taylor, and Rajesh Raj	Science Week – Breaking New Ground (Launceston)
2019, July	Prof. Gustaaf Hallegraeff	“Harmful Algal Blooms in the Australian Region“
2019, July	Dr Claire Kain	“Hazards of Flooding and Flood Modelling for Northern Tasmania“(Joint meeting with Geological Society)
2019, June	Prof. Ross Large	“The Rhythms of Earth and Life through Time”
2019, May 26	Dr Alison Alexander	“Jane Franklin – the Real Founder of the Royal Society of Tasmania”
2019, April	Prof. Barry Brook	“The Future of Humanity”
2019, March	Dr Costan Magnussen	“Growing Healthy Hearts”
2018, Nov 25	David Maynard	“Tasmania’s Forgotten Emus”
2018, Sep 23	Dr Patsy Cameron	“Voices from the Other Side of the Colonial Sea Frontier”
2018, Sep 4	Assoc. Prof. Arko Lucieer	“Rise of the Drones: how Unmanned Aircraft Systems create new opportunities for environmental remote sensing and geosciences”
2018, August 26	Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Binns	“Why does an Engineer need a PhD?”
2018, 22 July	Dr Caitlyn Vertigan and Dr Richard Tuffin	“Shoot, Catalogue, Eat: Interacting with Nature at a Tasmanian Penal Station”
2018, June 24	Dr Karin Orth	“Mega Volcanic Eruptions and the Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time”
2018, May 27	Lynette Ross	“Science and nature: Government Cottage and the Franklins”
2018, April 22	Prof. Hamish Maxwell-Stuart	“Health, Height and History in Victoria and Tasmania 1850 – 1920”
2018, March 25	Prof. Pat Quilty	“Some highlights of Tasmania in Antarctic history Scott (why Scott?) and others”
2018, Feb 25	Jim Palfreyman	“The 2016 Glitch of the Vela Pulsar”
2017, Nov 26	Mr Martin George	“Planet, Planets Everywhere: Our search for other Solar Systems”
2017, Oct 22	Dr Anita Hansen	“175 years of the Royal Society of Tasmania”
2017, Sep 24	Dr Claire Hawkins	“Extinction matters: could citizen science help?”
2017, Aug 27	Dr Mark Dewsbury	“Sustainable Housing: Challenges facing zero energy homes in southern Australia”
2017, Jul 23	Sarah Lloyd	“Acellullar Slime Moulds – the most remarkable organisms”
2017, Jun 25	Prof. Matt King	“Continental Loss: The Quest for Antarctica’s Contribution to Sea Level Rise”
2017, May 28	Mr Nigel Burch	“Ephemeral Lisle: The Town that Disappeared”
2017, April 23	Dr Nicholas Chantler	“Get it Right. Trousers First Then Boots!” – What is Military Intelligence?
2017, March 26	Dr George Merridew	“The Geneva Conventions: Protection of Medical Personnel in War Time”
2017, February 26	Prof. Dom Geraghty	“Medicinal Cannabis – Hope or Hype?”
2016, Nov 27	Richard Mulvaney	“The Queen Vic: 125 and still going strong”
2016, Oct 23	Alan Jackson	“Seeking the Master Cave: Junee-Florentine Karst, Tasmania”
2016, Sep 25	Dr Kieren Mitchell	“Genetic Analysis of Australia’s Extinct Fauna”
2016, Aug 28	Mr Peter King	“Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Under-Ice Exploration and Research”
2016, July 24	Dr Eric Ratcliff	“The Buildings of Our Small Universe”
2016, June 26	Prof. Nicholas King	“The Enthusiastic Immune System: Curbing Nature’s Oldest Attack Dogs without Forgoing their Protection”
2016, May 22	Dr Nigel Swarts	“Terrestrial Orchid Conservation and Research: A Tasmanian Perspective”
2016, April 24	Dr Nicholas Chantler	“Bee Bop a Lula, She’s My Honey in the Meeting Room”
2016, March 20	Prof. Matt King	“Antarctica: Frozen not Frigid”
2016, Feb 28	Dr Nick Shuley	“Reflections on Radar”
2015, Nov 22	Prof. Jocelyn Mcphie	“Connections between Volcanoes and Ore Deposits”
2015, Oct 25	Dr Les Baxter	“Commercialisation of New Agricultural Crops in Tasmania: Some Lessons from the Past and Present”
2015, Sep 27	Mr John Watts	“Maatsuyker, Deal and Bruny Islands: A Lighthouse Caretaker’s Perspective”
2015, Aug 20	Mr Martin George	“The Science of Light”(Science Week)
2015, July 26	Dr John Batten	“Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Evolution of Joint Replacement Surgery”
2015, June 28	Prof. Margareta Lutzhoft	“Human-Centred Design and Maritime Simulation”
2015, May 24	Assoc. Prof. Stewart Nicol	“From Spiny Ant-Eater to Promiscuous Spiky Baby Killer: An Incomplete Natural History of Echidnas”
2015, April 26	Prof. Ross Large	“Variations of Nutrient Trace Elements in the Past Oceans Provides a New Explanation for Major Extinction Events”
2015, March 22	Mr Paul Brunton	“The Portraits of Captain James Cook”
2015, Feb 22	Mr Solomon Walker-Bowd	“The Northern Branch of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 1853-1953”
2014, Nov 23	Mr Andrew Parsons	“The Royal Society of Tasmania Library, 1845-“
2014, Oct 26	Prof. John Pearn	“The First Medical Research in Australia”
2014, Sep 28	Dr Guy Williams	“Antarctic Ocean/Ice Interactions: New Insights from Biotagging and Autonomous Platforms”
2014, Aug 24	Dr Tom Dunning	“The Virtues of Local History: the Case for Launceston”
2014, Aug 10	Mr Tim Roberts	“Designing a Low-Emission, High-Speed Ferry for Argentina” (Science Week)
2014, July 27	Dr Scott Fanning, Dr Hung Nguyen, and Dr Mark Bell	“A Public Forum on the Diagnosis and Management of Colorectal Cancer”
2014, June 22	Dr Andrew Pirie	“Evaluation of Climate Indices for Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Tasmanian Viticulture”
2014, May 25	Dr Katie Flanagan	“Vaccination: its Benefits, Risks and Problems of Community Acceptance”
2014, April 27	Assoc. Prof. Richard Cosgrove	“The Tasmanian Aborigines and the Constitution of Modern Human Behaviour”
2014, March 23	Prof. Michael Bennett	“The Sciences were Never at War: Edward Jenner, FRS, English Cowpox, and the Vaccination of Napoleonic France”
2014, Feb 23	Dr Eric Ratcliff	“The Politics of Insanity”
2013, Aug 25	Prof. Alison Venn	“Childhood Obesity”
2013, July 28	Prof. Don Chalmers	“The Promise of Personalised Medicine: Hope or Hype”
2013, June 23	Mr David Maynard	“Subtidal Habitats and Inhabitants of the Tamar Estuary”
2013, May 26	Dr Brendan Vote	“Ophthalmology Advances”
2013, April 28	Mr Barry Waining	“A Working, Clean Coal Power Station: an Experiment to Combat Climate Change”
2013, March 24	Mr Paul Richards	“Call of the Abyss: Caverneering & the Mole Creek Karst System”
2013, Feb 24	Mr Kevin Chilman	“Atlantic Salmon: From Egg to Plate”
2012, Aug 26	Prof. Paulo de Souza	“Curious about Curiosity”
2012, July 1	Amanda Locatelli, Andrew Fullard, and Robin Frith	“Siltation in the Tamar” (Panel discussion)
2012, May 6	Dr Andrew Osborn	“Studies on a broad cross-section of aquatic invertebrates in Lake Pedder”
2012, April 1	Dr Michael Powell	“Musquito: Translating the Language of Black Resistance”
2011, November 6	Capt. Ron Riley	“Another Day-Another Challenge- Pilotage on the Tamar”
2011, October 2	Nick Clements	“Inside the Black Line: Three Startling New Documents That Change Everything”
2011, August 1	Dr Bob Mesibov	“The Millipede Mystery in NW Tasmania”
2011, July 3	Emeritus Prof. John Mulvaney	Reflections on Uncovering Australia’s Prehistoric Past
2011, June 21	Mr Tim Woods, Dr Martin Moroni, and Assoc. Prof. Mark Hovenden	WINTER SERIES “Forests and Carbon” – 21st June 2011 (Panel discussion chaired by The Honourable Peter Underwood AC, Governor of Tasmania)