List of archived lectures
- Melting in the Earth – complexity, diversity and a key to understanding “Seismic Shifts” and “Tectonic Plates” Prof Emeritus David Green Royal Society Room 8 pm 2 May 2017
- “Height, Health and History” Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stuart, University of Tasmania – 4th April 8 pm Royal Society Room TMAG
- Annual General Meeting 7 March 7.30 pm Central Gallery TMAG followed by free lecture 8 pm
- Where did all the tigers go? The Tasmanian Museum thylacine collection 7 March 8 pm @Central Gallery TMAG Hobart
- AGU Chapman Conference on Submarine Volcanism: New Approaches and Research Frontiers
- Dr Steve Rintoul ‘Hunting for Climate Clues in the Southern Ocean’
- Tuesday November 1 8 pm Royal Society Room TMAG Associate Professor Gretta Pecl
- Tuesday October 4, 8 – 9.30 pm TMAG Central Gallery Royal Society Postgrad Evening
- Extinction Matters: Could Citizen Science Help?
- “Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions”: The psychology of Climate Science Denial
- “Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions”: Smart Grids, Messy Society
- An Antislavery Moment in the Antipodes
- National Science Week presentation: Reflections on a Career in Astrophysics
- July Lecture presented by Prof John Dickey — What the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Will Tell Us about the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds — Tuesday June 7 2016, 8 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
- Dr Matthew Wilson presents Commercialisation of Tasmanian native pepper — Tuesday June 7 2016, 8 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
- Winter Lecture Series: “Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions”
- Dr Dan Gregory presents The accumulation of trace elements in diagenetic pyrite, an example from the metal rich Derwent Estuary and metal poor Huon Estuary — Tuesday May 3 2016, 8 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
- John K. Davidson presents The Upstream Petroleum Industry; Tasmania’s Position — Tuesday 5 April 2016, 8.00 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House Building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
- Professor Matt King presents Antarctica: Frozen not Frigid — Tuesday 1 March 2016, 8.00 pm — Venue: TMAG Central Gallery enter via Main entrance through the courtyard from Dunn Place
- 2016 Presidents Address, The Royal Society of Tasmania — Ocean Acidification and Atmosphere Oxygenation in Deep Time: A Multi-Proxy Approach to Tracking Past Ocean Chemistry — Tuesday 2 February, 8.00 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House Building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
- Seeking the Master Cave – Tasmania’s Junee-Florentine Karst System – Talk – Tuesday, January 19 2016, 8.00 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart. Entrance via Dunn Place. Excursion – Saturday, 23 January 2016
- JOINT LECTURE WITH AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING – Professor James Vickers and Professor Alison Venn – Wednesday 11 November, 6.30 pm Sir Stanley Burbury Theatre
- Dr Rachel Popelka-Filcoff presents Tracing the Past: Characterisation of Indigenous Australian Pigments to Understand Technology and Exchange: Wednesday 4 November, 8.00 pm
- Challenges for hydro development in Papua New Guinea – presentation by David Wilson – Tuesday 1 September 8.00 pm
- Jane Franklin – the real founder of The Royal Society of Tasmania by Dr Alison Alexander – Tuesday 4 August 8.00 pm
- Jane Franklin: the real founder of The Royal Society of Tasmania – presented by Dr Alison Alexander – Tuesday 4 August 8.00 pm
- Doctoral Award Winner 2014 Amy Peacock:A Mixed Hazard? The consequences of Co-Ingesting Alcohol with Energy drinks. Tuesday July 7 at 8.00 pm
- Winter Lecture Series June – July 2015 – Theme: Scientific Advances in Understanding The Evolution of Life on Earth over the Last 3.5 Billion Years
- Singapore: Global Pantry of the Future? – Dr Nicki Tarulevicz – Tuesday June 2 – 8.00 pm
- Come and join us for an evening on Maatsuyker Island with Marina Campbell and Gary Miller. Tuesday 5 May 2015 8.00pm
- “Global Hunger and Malnutrition: A practical Tasmanian ‘food plant’ solution.” – Dr John Thorne & Ian Geard – Wednesday April 8 2015 8.00 pm
- 3rd March Prof. Matt King – Continental loss: The quest to determine Antarctica’s contribution to sea-level change
- Walking from Hobart to Launceston with Dr Pugh in 1836 – Dr John Paull – Christmas Dinner Lecture – Tuesday 2 December 6.00 pm
- What has the ocean got to do with climate? – Prof Trevor McDougall FRS- Tuesday 4 November
- Post Graduate Night – October 7, 2014 – 8.00 pm
- The Library at the end of the World: Natural Science and its Illustrators – An upcoming new Royal Society publication – Editors and Authors whet your appetite! Tuesday 2nd September 2014 8.00 pm
- Bookending Tasmanian Education from Antarctica to Thailand – Presentation by Niall Doran Tuesday 5 August 2014
- Exercise Hypertension: Physiology and Clinical Consequences – Tuesday 1 July – Martin Schultz – Doctoral Award Winner 2013
- WINTER SERIES LECTURE – TUESDAY 15 JULY – POWER OPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
- WINTER SERIES LECTURES – TUESDAY 17 JUNE – POWER OPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
- What is special about Australian Caves and Karst? – Andy Spate -Tuesday June 3 – 8.00pm
- Vaccination: its Benefits, Risks and Problems of Community Acceptance – Dr Katie Flanagan – 25 May 2014
- “Volcanoes on the seafloor” presented by Professor Jocelyn McPhie Tuesday May 6th 2014
- MR Banks Lecture – Prof. Emily Hilder – Taking separations from the laboratory to the sample to the individual – April 1 2014
- The Tasmanian Aborigines and the Constitution of Modern Human Behaviour – Associate Professor Richard Cosgrove – 27 April 2014
- Discovering Tasmania’s Eucalypts – March 4 2014 at 8.00pm
- The Politics of Insanity – Dr Eric Ratcliff – 23 February 2014
- SPECIAL LECTURE February 4 2014 How warm is the water? or How much warm water?
- The Long Road Back from the Edge of Extinction by Robin Walpole [full text of presentation]
- From spiny ant-eater to promiscuous spiky baby killer: an incomplete natural history of echidnas – December 3 2013
- Delving into the Soil Carbon Black Box – November 24th 2013
- The Long Road Back from the Edge of Extinction – the Tasmanian Railway dilemma.
- Science Education in Tasmania – a teacher’s perspective – 22 September, 2013
- Winter Lecture Series-Future proofing the food supply: food security and food innovation in Tasmania
- Delving into the soil carbon black box – 24th November, 2013
- Trace Element Chemistry of the Oceans Reveals New Theory on Mass Extinction Events – 5th November, 2013
- Post Graduate night – 1st October, 2013
- The Kennedy family in Battery Point – 3rd September, 2013
- Behind the scenes at TMAG – 6th August, 2013
- Sir Joseph Banks – 2nd July, 2013
- Marine Biology Research – 23rd June, 2013
- Cloud Seeding – 4th June, 2013
- Systematic methods for Natural Disaster Risk Management – 7th May, 2013
- Edgeworth David in Antarctica – 9th April 2013
- Treating osteoarthritis with bone acting agents – 5th March 2013
- How we came to know (we think)! – 4th December 2012
- Ocean Wave and Tidal Energy Research at the Australian Maritime College – 25th November 2012
- The Ambitions of Lady Franklin – 6th November 2012
- Postgraduate Student Night – 2nd October 2012
- Tasmania’s Impact on the World Pulp and Paper Industry – 4th September 2012
- Texting: Spoiling our spelling or enhancing communication? – 7th August 2012
- WINTER SERIES-Saving Tasmania’s Unique Animals – 17th July 2012
- Sir Raymond Priestley and his Antarctic adventures – 3rd July 2012
- WINTER SERIES Saving Tasmania’s Unique Animals – 19th June 2012
- The ‘String of Beads’ (Horodyskia) in Proterozoic slate – 5th June 2012
- History of Steam Driven Cars – 1st May 2012
- Evolutionary landscapes of lizards – the accidental story of a climate change biologist – 3rd April 2012
- Genetics; A fast-track to the discovery of new therapies – 6th March 2012
- Building and testing of ship models and marine structures at the Australian Maritime College. – 4th March 2012
- Great Scott! (and the ACY?) – 6th December 2011
- Mawson Symposium – 30th November 2011
- Crisis between the Aborigines and white settlers circa 1830 – 1st November 2011
- Postgraduate Student talks – 4th October 2011
- SEPARATION SCIENCE IN PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS – 6th September 2011
- WINTER SERIES “Forests and Carbon” Northern Edition – 16th August 2011
- Agricultural research and teaching in Tasmania-responding to the ‘unprecedented confluence of pressures’ – 2nd August 2011
- WINTER SERIES – 19th July 2011
- Tasmania: the southern hemisphere’s hub for marine and Antarctic research – 5th July 2011
- The Derwent Estuary: what’s its health – 7th June 2011
- UTAS Library Tour – 17th May 2011
- Brunel’s Crimean War Hospital and its significance – 6th May 2011
- Diagnosing Darwin – the contribution of his Australian experiences – 3rd May 2011
- Erosion, fire, megafauna and the arrival of people in the Tasmanian landscape – 5th April 2011
- Tasmania’s Environmental Effect on my Music – A Personal Response – 1st March 2011
- Special Meeting then AGM – 1st March 2011
- New Worlds – 7th December 2010
- Are we seeing the physical impacts of renewed sea-level rise on Tasmania’s coasts yet? – 2nd November 2010
- Postgraduate Student Night – 5th October 2010
- The Royal Society of London after 350 Years including its beginnings and what it is today. – 7th September 2010
- WINTER SERIES – 3rd August 2010
- Microbial Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean : threats from climate change – 6th July 2010
- WINTER SERIES – 15th June 2010
- Tasmania’s Ancient Bushfire Heritage – 1st June 2010
- Tasmania’s Ancient Bushfire Heritage – 1st June 2010
- Update on architectural design for the future of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery – 4th May 2010
- Conflicting Anthropological Concepts: Georg Forster and Johann Reinhold Forster on New Zealand – 6th April 2010
- Conflicting Anthropological Concepts: Georg Forster and Johann Reinhold Forster on New Zealand – 6th April 2010
- HMS Beagle in Tasmanian Waters -Presidential Address – 2nd March 2010
- 2010 is the sesquicentary of the publication of The Flora of Tasmania by Joseph Hooker. – 17th February 2010
- Ex. Ex. and that odd view of the world (it couldn’t be right?) – 1st December 2009
- The Nature of the Discipline of Information Systems – 3rd November 2009
- Site Visit Radio Telescope, Cambridge – 31st October 2009
- Distant Suns and Hidden Earths – 6th October 2009
- Mathematics in 2020 – 1st September 2009
- Tasmania’s Energy Future – 18th August 2009
- Democratic Sanctions and Australia’s Role in the Pacific Islands. – 4th August 2009
- Tasmania’s Energy Future – 21st July 2009
- Fitzroy of the Beagle – 7th July 2009
- Tasmania’s Energy Future – 16th June 2009
- Food plants of the world: “Helping the hungry feed themselves” – 5th June 2009
- As the population clock winds down – 2nd June 2009
- William Archer: Tasmania’s links with Darwin – 5th May 2009
- TBA – 7th April 2009
- Melting in the Earth – complexity, diversity and a key to understanding “Seismic Shifts” and “Tectonic Plates” Prof Emeritus David Green Royal Society Room 8 pm 2 May 2017
- “Height, Health and History” Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stuart, University of Tasmania – 4th April 8 pm Royal Society Room TMAG
- Annual General Meeting 7 March 7.30 pm Central Gallery TMAG followed by free lecture 8 pm
- Where did all the tigers go? The Tasmanian Museum thylacine collection 7 March 8 pm @Central Gallery TMAG Hobart
- AGU Chapman Conference on Submarine Volcanism: New Approaches and Research Frontiers
- Dr Steve Rintoul ‘Hunting for Climate Clues in the Southern Ocean’
- Tuesday November 1 8 pm Royal Society Room TMAG Associate Professor Gretta Pecl
- Tuesday October 4, 8 – 9.30 pm TMAG Central Gallery Royal Society Postgrad Evening
- Extinction Matters: Could Citizen Science Help?
- “Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions”: The psychology of Climate Science Denial
- “Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions”: Smart Grids, Messy Society
- An Antislavery Moment in the Antipodes
- National Science Week presentation: Reflections on a Career in Astrophysics
- July Lecture presented by Prof John Dickey — What the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Will Tell Us about the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds — Tuesday June 7 2016, 8 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
- Dr Matthew Wilson presents Commercialisation of Tasmanian native pepper — Tuesday June 7 2016, 8 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
- Winter Lecture Series: “Living in an uncertain world: data and decisions”
- Dr Dan Gregory presents The accumulation of trace elements in diagenetic pyrite, an example from the metal rich Derwent Estuary and metal poor Huon Estuary — Tuesday May 3 2016, 8 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
- John K. Davidson presents The Upstream Petroleum Industry; Tasmania’s Position — Tuesday 5 April 2016, 8.00 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House Building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
- Professor Matt King presents Antarctica: Frozen not Frigid — Tuesday 1 March 2016, 8.00 pm — Venue: TMAG Central Gallery enter via Main entrance through the courtyard from Dunn Place
- 2016 Presidents Address, The Royal Society of Tasmania — Ocean Acidification and Atmosphere Oxygenation in Deep Time: A Multi-Proxy Approach to Tracking Past Ocean Chemistry — Tuesday 2 February, 8.00 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House Building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).
- Seeking the Master Cave – Tasmania’s Junee-Florentine Karst System – Talk – Tuesday, January 19 2016, 8.00 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart. Entrance via Dunn Place. Excursion – Saturday, 23 January 2016
- JOINT LECTURE WITH AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING – Professor James Vickers and Professor Alison Venn – Wednesday 11 November, 6.30 pm Sir Stanley Burbury Theatre
- Dr Rachel Popelka-Filcoff presents Tracing the Past: Characterisation of Indigenous Australian Pigments to Understand Technology and Exchange: Wednesday 4 November, 8.00 pm
- Challenges for hydro development in Papua New Guinea – presentation by David Wilson – Tuesday 1 September 8.00 pm
- Jane Franklin – the real founder of The Royal Society of Tasmania by Dr Alison Alexander – Tuesday 4 August 8.00 pm
- Jane Franklin: the real founder of The Royal Society of Tasmania – presented by Dr Alison Alexander – Tuesday 4 August 8.00 pm
- Doctoral Award Winner 2014 Amy Peacock:A Mixed Hazard? The consequences of Co-Ingesting Alcohol with Energy drinks. Tuesday July 7 at 8.00 pm
- Winter Lecture Series June – July 2015 – Theme: Scientific Advances in Understanding The Evolution of Life on Earth over the Last 3.5 Billion Years
- Singapore: Global Pantry of the Future? – Dr Nicki Tarulevicz – Tuesday June 2 – 8.00 pm
- Come and join us for an evening on Maatsuyker Island with Marina Campbell and Gary Miller. Tuesday 5 May 2015 8.00pm
- “Global Hunger and Malnutrition: A practical Tasmanian ‘food plant’ solution.” – Dr John Thorne & Ian Geard – Wednesday April 8 2015 8.00 pm
- 3rd March Prof. Matt King – Continental loss: The quest to determine Antarctica’s contribution to sea-level change
- Walking from Hobart to Launceston with Dr Pugh in 1836 – Dr John Paull – Christmas Dinner Lecture – Tuesday 2 December 6.00 pm
- What has the ocean got to do with climate? – Prof Trevor McDougall FRS- Tuesday 4 November
- Post Graduate Night – October 7, 2014 – 8.00 pm
- The Library at the end of the World: Natural Science and its Illustrators – An upcoming new Royal Society publication – Editors and Authors whet your appetite! Tuesday 2nd September 2014 8.00 pm
- Bookending Tasmanian Education from Antarctica to Thailand – Presentation by Niall Doran Tuesday 5 August 2014
- Exercise Hypertension: Physiology and Clinical Consequences – Tuesday 1 July – Martin Schultz – Doctoral Award Winner 2013
- WINTER SERIES LECTURE – TUESDAY 15 JULY – POWER OPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
- WINTER SERIES LECTURES – TUESDAY 17 JUNE – POWER OPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
- What is special about Australian Caves and Karst? – Andy Spate -Tuesday June 3 – 8.00pm
- Vaccination: its Benefits, Risks and Problems of Community Acceptance – Dr Katie Flanagan – 25 May 2014
- “Volcanoes on the seafloor” presented by Professor Jocelyn McPhie Tuesday May 6th 2014
- MR Banks Lecture – Prof. Emily Hilder – Taking separations from the laboratory to the sample to the individual – April 1 2014
- The Tasmanian Aborigines and the Constitution of Modern Human Behaviour – Associate Professor Richard Cosgrove – 27 April 2014
- Discovering Tasmania’s Eucalypts – March 4 2014 at 8.00pm
- The Politics of Insanity – Dr Eric Ratcliff – 23 February 2014
- SPECIAL LECTURE February 4 2014 How warm is the water? or How much warm water?
- The Long Road Back from the Edge of Extinction by Robin Walpole [full text of presentation]
- From spiny ant-eater to promiscuous spiky baby killer: an incomplete natural history of echidnas – December 3 2013
- Delving into the Soil Carbon Black Box – November 24th 2013
- The Long Road Back from the Edge of Extinction – the Tasmanian Railway dilemma.
- Science Education in Tasmania – a teacher’s perspective – 22 September, 2013
- Winter Lecture Series-Future proofing the food supply: food security and food innovation in Tasmania
- Delving into the soil carbon black box – 24th November, 2013
- Trace Element Chemistry of the Oceans Reveals New Theory on Mass Extinction Events – 5th November, 2013
- Post Graduate night – 1st October, 2013
- The Kennedy family in Battery Point – 3rd September, 2013
- Behind the scenes at TMAG – 6th August, 2013
- Sir Joseph Banks – 2nd July, 2013
- Marine Biology Research – 23rd June, 2013
- Cloud Seeding – 4th June, 2013
- Systematic methods for Natural Disaster Risk Management – 7th May, 2013
- Edgeworth David in Antarctica – 9th April 2013
- Treating osteoarthritis with bone acting agents – 5th March 2013
- How we came to know (we think)! – 4th December 2012
- Ocean Wave and Tidal Energy Research at the Australian Maritime College – 25th November 2012
- The Ambitions of Lady Franklin – 6th November 2012
- Postgraduate Student Night – 2nd October 2012
- Tasmania’s Impact on the World Pulp and Paper Industry – 4th September 2012
- Texting: Spoiling our spelling or enhancing communication? – 7th August 2012
- WINTER SERIES-Saving Tasmania’s Unique Animals – 17th July 2012
- Sir Raymond Priestley and his Antarctic adventures – 3rd July 2012
- WINTER SERIES Saving Tasmania’s Unique Animals – 19th June 2012
- The ‘String of Beads’ (Horodyskia) in Proterozoic slate – 5th June 2012
- History of Steam Driven Cars – 1st May 2012
- Evolutionary landscapes of lizards – the accidental story of a climate change biologist – 3rd April 2012
- Genetics; A fast-track to the discovery of new therapies – 6th March 2012
- Building and testing of ship models and marine structures at the Australian Maritime College. – 4th March 2012
- Great Scott! (and the ACY?) – 6th December 2011
- Mawson Symposium – 30th November 2011
- Crisis between the Aborigines and white settlers circa 1830 – 1st November 2011
- Postgraduate Student talks – 4th October 2011
- SEPARATION SCIENCE IN PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS – 6th September 2011
- WINTER SERIES “Forests and Carbon” Northern Edition – 16th August 2011
- Agricultural research and teaching in Tasmania-responding to the ‘unprecedented confluence of pressures’ – 2nd August 2011
- WINTER SERIES – 19th July 2011
- Tasmania: the southern hemisphere’s hub for marine and Antarctic research – 5th July 2011
- The Derwent Estuary: what’s its health – 7th June 2011
- UTAS Library Tour – 17th May 2011
- Brunel’s Crimean War Hospital and its significance – 6th May 2011
- Diagnosing Darwin – the contribution of his Australian experiences – 3rd May 2011
- Erosion, fire, megafauna and the arrival of people in the Tasmanian landscape – 5th April 2011
- Tasmania’s Environmental Effect on my Music – A Personal Response – 1st March 2011
- Special Meeting then AGM – 1st March 2011
- New Worlds – 7th December 2010
- Are we seeing the physical impacts of renewed sea-level rise on Tasmania’s coasts yet? – 2nd November 2010
- Postgraduate Student Night – 5th October 2010
- The Royal Society of London after 350 Years including its beginnings and what it is today. – 7th September 2010
- WINTER SERIES – 3rd August 2010
- Microbial Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean : threats from climate change – 6th July 2010
- WINTER SERIES – 15th June 2010
- Tasmania’s Ancient Bushfire Heritage – 1st June 2010
- Tasmania’s Ancient Bushfire Heritage – 1st June 2010
- Update on architectural design for the future of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery – 4th May 2010
- Conflicting Anthropological Concepts: Georg Forster and Johann Reinhold Forster on New Zealand – 6th April 2010
- Conflicting Anthropological Concepts: Georg Forster and Johann Reinhold Forster on New Zealand – 6th April 2010
- HMS Beagle in Tasmanian Waters -Presidential Address – 2nd March 2010
- 2010 is the sesquicentary of the publication of The Flora of Tasmania by Joseph Hooker. – 17th February 2010
- Ex. Ex. and that odd view of the world (it couldn’t be right?) – 1st December 2009
- The Nature of the Discipline of Information Systems – 3rd November 2009
- Site Visit Radio Telescope, Cambridge – 31st October 2009
- Distant Suns and Hidden Earths – 6th October 2009
- Mathematics in 2020 – 1st September 2009
- Tasmania’s Energy Future – 18th August 2009
- Democratic Sanctions and Australia’s Role in the Pacific Islands. – 4th August 2009
- Tasmania’s Energy Future – 21st July 2009
- Fitzroy of the Beagle – 7th July 2009
- Tasmania’s Energy Future – 16th June 2009
- Food plants of the world: “Helping the hungry feed themselves” – 5th June 2009
- As the population clock winds down – 2nd June 2009
- William Archer: Tasmania’s links with Darwin – 5th May 2009
- TBA – 7th April 2009
