The Northern Branch of The Royal Society of Tasmania invites you to hear Rachelle Hawkins speak about exciting work being conducted in partnership with CSIRO and UTAS to breed and research the critically endangered handfish and release them into the wild. Join us in the QVMAG Meeting Room at Inveresk, on Sunday 23 March 2025. Open the post to learn more.
Tasmania Reads 2025
The Royal Society of Tasmania invites you to its March 2025 public lecture by Tasmanian author David Owen. Join us at our lecture room in Customs House, 19 Davey St, Hobart on Wednesday 26 March and be part of Libraries Tasmania’s “Tasmania Reads 2025” event. Open the post to learn more.
Assembling a National Forecast from an Ensemble of Global Weather Models
The Royal Society of Tasmania invites you to its April 2025 Public Lecture by Dr Rob Johnson. Join us at the Geology Lecture Theatre, UTAS, Sandy Bay Campus on April 6 to learn how machine learning is shaping tomorrow’s weather forecasts. Open the post to learn more.
The House That Paterson Built:The Story of Launceston’s Government Cottage
The Northern Branch of The Royal Society of Tasmania invites you to hear Lynette Ross tell the story of Launceston’s Government Cottage. Join us in the QVMAG Meeting Room at Inveresk, on Sunday 27 April 2025. Open the post to learn more.
View a recording of the lecture by Dr Hanne Neilsen – December 2024
The recent 2024 lecture by Dr Hanne Neilsen, “Antarctica and Popular Culture”, is now available on the RST YouTube channel. Open the post to view it now.
View a recording of the lecture by Dr Mel Fitzpatrick – November 2024
The recent 2024 lecture by Dr Mel Fitzpatrick, “Climate Disinformation: Strategies to Defeat Decades of Denial and Deceit”, is now available on the RST YouTube channel. Open the post to view it now.
2025 Lecture Calendar
Open this post to view lecture programs during 2025 for South and North.
Royal Society YouTube channel
Click here to see the full list of recorded lectures available in our YouTube channel.
The Royal Society of Tasmania 2024 Doctoral (PhD) Award Winners
The RST Council recently approved the two winners of the 2024 Doctoral (PhD) Award. This award recognises recent PhD graduates who have made significant advances during their doctoral research. Open this post to find out who they are.
RST Medal Winners 2024
The RST Council recently awarded the two medals on offer this year, namely the Peter Smith Medal and the Louisa Anne Meredith Medal. Open this post to find out who they are.
Vale Distinguished Professor James Barrie Kirkpatrick AM 1946 – 2024
Distinguished Professor James Barrie Kirkpatrick AM, one of the Royal Society’s most prestigious members and prolific contributor, died on 21 October 2024 in Hobart. Professor Kirkpatrick was awarded the RST Clive Lord Medal in 2019 for his outstanding research on Tasmania’s natural environment and maintained a publication record in the Society’s Journal which spanned half a century. Open this post to read the obituary.
Call for Nominations for the 2024 RST Doctoral (PhD) Awards
Nominations for the annual RST Doctoral Awards open on 1 October 2024. Two awards are offered for recent PhD graduates who have made significant advances in the course of their doctoral research. The value of each award is $1,000 (AUD).
Vale Professor David Headley Green AM FAA FRS, 1936 – 2024
Professor David Green, a long-term member of the RST, died on 6 September 2024 in Hobart. Professor Green was one of Australia’s most eminent geologists. He was awarded the RST RM Johnston Memorial Medal in 2016. Open this post to read an obituary.
Lynne Uptin OAM FSBA
Congratulations to our RST member Lynne Uptin OAM who was awarded the 2024 Best Botanical Art Exhibit Award and a Gold Medal award for 2024 for her suite of works. Open this post for more details.
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