Lynchpin – arts/ocean science conversations and collaborations
Lynchpin aims to encourage arts/ocean science conversations and collaborations that help tell important ocean stories in new ways and to link this with scholarship support in ocean science as a way of promoting an interdisciplinary response to stand with the reputable science. The Why Lynchpin and Art/Science Diaologue sections of this site enlarge on the rationale for the program and a visit to 2013/14, 2012, 2011, 2009 will outline the synergies and collaborations that are the thrust of this scholarship.
About the Site
Art works in the main frame of the Lynchpin websites are details of works by Sue Anderson, Lynchpin Coordinator. 
Artist statement:
Paintings
My art practice has been a response to issues of climate change. Microscopic plankton are the lungs of the planet – the lynchpin on which life itself depends. Just as these teaming microorganisms in the oceans are responding to the carbon molecules we emit, so the rolling plankton constellations depicted in my work are saturated with carbon in the form of charcoal and liquid graphite. Disintegrating spherical forms and plankton patterning, emerge from spontaneous pours to draw attention to the fact that the ocean’s chemistry is changing rapidly in ways that will affect us all.
Drawings
At a time when the signs of human influence on the finely tuned biosphere are becoming more evident, Environmental Philosophers, like Dan Dennett, ask why we can’t consider evolution as a demonstration of mind in nature, of the intelligence involved in species differentiation and elaboration, the intelligence of forms Dennett described as ‘the wisdom in the ring’. ‘The Wisdom in the Ring’ became the title for a series of drawings which explore the balance and symmetry within the marine world as revealed by the electron microscope. From the myriad of site specific forms, four species of phytoplankton were chosen which could be overlapped into a circular or ring formation, symbolising unity, wholeness, and infinity – attributes which reflect the critical and still emerging role played by these micro-organisms.
Photographic works: Nick Roden
Photos within the main frame of the site were taken by Nick Roden during a year spent in Antarctica with the Bureau of Meteorology. Nick is now a PhD candidate at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (University of Tasmania) and CSIRO – Marine and Atmospheric Research Division. 
Nick’s research is concerned with the other CO2 problem – ocean acidification, specifically the chemical changes of seawater around the coast of the Australian Antarctic Territory. In particular, the changes in carbonate chemistry (a processes that buffers changes in ocean pH and influences biological activity) resulting from anthropogenic ocean acidification. Nick’s interests include photography/cinematography, film/documentary making. Nick is a Lynchpin Scholar 2012/ 2013. His talented cinematography is being used in a collaborative venture with fellow 2012/2013 Lynchpin Scholar, Rob Johnson and composer Matthew Dewey, in what we hope will be a new experience of ocean science. Learn more about the collaboration at The Making of a Symphony.
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Blog posts
August 30, 2018
Sledging songs, penguins and melting ice: how Antarctica has inspired Australian composers
August 19, 2018
BeakerStreet Science Festival, Hobart
August 13, 2018
Planet Hot House
August 8, 2018
A domino effect
July 26, 2018
The Arts & Antarctica:
July 26, 2018
Adrift – 11th August, 6pm
July 5, 2018
Beach Couture: A Haute Mess By Marina Debris
May 25, 2018
Climate Coaster
May 24, 2018
Under Her Eye: Women and Climate Change
May 24, 2018
Under Her Eye: Women and Climate Change
May 24, 2018
Living Data – Inclusion
May 22, 2018
Marine Debris
May 8, 2018
Lynchpin supports women in STEMM
May 1, 2018
The Official EON Book Launch
April 19, 2018
Oceans and climate change
April 19, 2018
Plastic pollution
April 19, 2018
CSIRO sets sail to learn more about the East Australian Current
April 19, 2018
CLIMARTE news
April 3, 2018
SEED AND SPAWN – an exhibition by Linda Erceg
March 14, 2018
Introducing work by Jenny Pollak
February 3, 2018
IMAGINING A DIFFERENT FUTURE
December 3, 2017
The Southern Ocean has a powerful influence on Earth’s climate.
November 15, 2017
Lynchpin friend – Eveline Kolijn: Canada, launches a new website
November 15, 2017
Antarctica ArtScience Collaboration
November 15, 2017
Under the Sea – two young writers in IMAS
November 15, 2017
Science updates: cumulative total in the atmosphere that really matters
November 15, 2017
The Deluge Ark(ive) – Nigel Helyer – Exhibition runs 17 Nov – 16 Dec 2017
October 5, 2017
HASSEG Conference 2017 – Video overview
October 1, 2017
Julliard School of Music 109th Commencement Speech: Joyce DiDonato
September 29, 2017
Jack Johnson – pollution in the ocean
September 29, 2017
Further responses to Climate Change – in song
September 29, 2017
IMAGINING A DIFFERENT FUTURE- Hobart, Tasmania
8-10 February 2018
September 29, 2017
Living Data – fresh material to inspire
September 24, 2017
Fishing for better food solutions
September 24, 2017
EON the story of the fossils
September 17, 2017
The Arctic – big changes, super-fast
September 14, 2017
Water thinking: Caring for Oceans and Sharing Connections in Time of Climate Crisis
September 12, 2017
Sea Sick: a journalist takes to the stage to talk about climate change
August 17, 2017
GLOBAL CARBON PROJECT 2016
August 15, 2017
Robot engineering meets Antarctic science
August 11, 2017
REVOLUTION – the documentary
August 11, 2017
The Frankenstein postdoc
August 2, 2017
Cruising – what, if any, are the engineering and environmental limits?
August 2, 2017
Lynchpin supports Homeward Bound 2018 participants
July 29, 2017
From fish to forests, conflicts to coffee…
July 29, 2017
Criminality and Climate Change
July 29, 2017
Nearly 38 million bits of litter on one of world’s remotest islands
July 29, 2017
Important earth atmosphere facts:
July 28, 2017
Backscatter: the voyage of the Investigator
July 17, 2017
Geolocation journeys – the story enlarged
May 23, 2017
CLIMARTE – works showing in Melbourne
May 17, 2017
Pteropods: Very Small and Very Important
May 15, 2017
Not just carbon neutral but carbon negative
May 15, 2017
Plastic, plastic, everywhere
May 15, 2017
Michael Apathy: How We’re Getting Out of This
April 26, 2017
Fuzzy thinking won’t save the planet – Manning Clark Lecture, 2017
April 23, 2017
The threat to science and science integrity
April 20, 2017
FarmART
April 20, 2017
David Buckland works
April 19, 2017
EXIT, 2008-2015
April 19, 2017
ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017
April 19, 2017
The Ocean Inside
April 5, 2017
Investigator’s scientific safaris on the high seas
April 5, 2017
I am Ocean – ART/MOSPHERE workshop in Gothenburg
March 31, 2017
More on the Great Barrier Reef
March 24, 2017
Deepspace
March 24, 2017
Backscatter – the Voyage of the Investigator
March 20, 2017
Earth from Space
March 3, 2017
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg – the Great Barrier Reef bleaching again?
March 3, 2017
Oceans of Plastic
March 3, 2017
Microbes key to fighting global warming?
February 24, 2017
Music for a Warming World
February 24, 2017
Composition! – a musical response to the three core IMAS research themes!
February 17, 2017
the Spirit of Wild – once again, music in response to the environment
February 17, 2017
2017 Lynchpin Residency
February 17, 2017
Tasmanian east coast changing fast
February 3, 2017
Music for a Warming World – another arts science response to Climate Change
February 3, 2017
Art and science – make music once again.
February 3, 2017
Carbon cycling dynamics in the seasonal sea-ice zone of East Antarctica
February 3, 2017
Lisa Roberts and Living Data continue to tell stories of the Ocean
February 3, 2017
2017 begins in ernest! – Eveline Kolijn – new works
January 3, 2017
Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
December 6, 2016
A Churchill Fellowship for Lauren Black!
December 4, 2016
Dangerous Song – a collaboration between Linsey Pollak and Lizzie O’Keefe.
November 23, 2016
The Anthropocene: A New Age Of Humans
November 23, 2016
Scientists Discover an Underwater Pollinator
November 14, 2016
REMINDER! ECO Panel: Ocean and Coral Reef+ The Wonderful World of Plankton
November 14, 2016
Another perspective – consider grains of sand!
November 13, 2016
What if you could understand climate models better by eating them?
November 9, 2016
ANTARCTICA – a new musical!
November 9, 2016
Are scientists storytellers?
November 3, 2016
IS THIS HOW YOU FEEL?
November 2, 2016
‘CO2’ – the Opera
October 31, 2016
TeFF 2016
October 31, 2016
Climate of emotion: despair and Climate of emotion: hope
October 28, 2016
Whale song explored
October 21, 2016
How Forests Think and An Ocean Beyond Earth
October 20, 2016
Endangered Species –
October 2, 2016
Skimming across the earth’s anaemic oceans
September 27, 2016
Long term climate – new data
September 23, 2016
Geolocation Journeys – up date
September 23, 2016
What climate change sounds like, in D minor.
August 28, 2016
Global climate breaks new records January to June 2016
August 20, 2016
Meteorological phenomena and surface conditions – from space
August 20, 2016
NASA Climate Time Machine
August 20, 2016
Campaign for protection of the Arctic
August 14, 2016
The changing world of fish
August 14, 2016
NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK – bringing us the stories we need to hear:
August 14, 2016
Response to rapidly changing climate
August 11, 2016
Geolocation Journeys – wearable art!
August 11, 2016
For your Diary: Hobart 19th August – for National Science Week
August 11, 2016
What music does for us – 2016 Stuart Challender Lecture
August 9, 2016
The plight of post doc and graduate researchers
August 9, 2016
In Season
July 23, 2016
Soil microbes burp carbon dioxide – and Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony!
July 23, 2016
seasons & reasons
July 21, 2016
Weather news – learn more
July 15, 2016
ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE
July 12, 2016
Living Data reaffirms its aims and collaborations
July 12, 2016
Climate Change – merely a whisper during the election
July 12, 2016
Paper Sculptures – macroscopic and microscopic
June 29, 2016
Art in Antarctica
June 29, 2016
PHILLIP LAW LECTURE
June 19, 2016
Why climate change needs 60,000 artists to tell its story
June 19, 2016
Flying for Your Life, series – absolute must listening
June 19, 2016
Debate: that artists have a responsibility to speak . . .
May 31, 2016
The Inconvenient Scientists – an expose of the CSIRO cuts
May 31, 2016
A Century of Healing – “acting on science based understanding of how the planet works”
May 27, 2016
and more from Lisa Roberts – with Prof William Gladstone
May 27, 2016
Metabolism – more from Evelyn Kolijn in Canada – a Lynchpin featured artist
May 24, 2016
Lynchpin update –
April 27, 2016
CLIMARTE POSTER PROJECT Opening – Thursday 5 May 2016
February 12, 2016
A Plastic Ocean – help get this film in our cinemas
February 10, 2016
Algal bloom closed Tasmanian seafood industry for four months
February 10, 2016
Art Synthesising Science
February 10, 2016
Species on the Move International Conference – 9 – 12 February 2016
February 5, 2016
PLANKTON – learn more
February 2, 2016
CSIRO news from RV Investigator
January 13, 2016
Oceanic carbon dioxide leakage during the last deglaciation
January 13, 2016
How giant icebergs breathe life into remote oceans
December 17, 2015
CSIRO – a life in Science
November 20, 2015
How to Measure Success at the Paris Climate Conference
November 20, 2015
A Global Festival of Cultural Activity supports 21st United Nations Conference on climate change
November 6, 2015
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ROAD TO PARIS
November 5, 2015
Optimism, Knowledge and the future of enlightenment
November 5, 2015
Love song for a changing ocean
October 31, 2015
Carbon capture and storage: Seagrasses do it for free
October 7, 2015
“Godzilla” El Nino kicks off fire season
October 7, 2015
“Print It Large!”
October 6, 2015
Microscopic Antarctic phytoplankton ‘will double due to climate change’
September 20, 2015
Symphony of the Inland Sea by Matthew Dewey
September 20, 2015
The Naked Scientists – the effects climate change can have on the oceans
September 20, 2015
Public perception and energy policy
September 12, 2015
The reinvigoration of the Southern Ocean carbon sink
September 12, 2015
A View from the Cloud, New York City
September 12, 2015
Tasmania and Antarctica – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
August 21, 2015
Prof Nathan Bindoff – how the IPCC reports come together
August 18, 2015
Look who’s part of the CSIRO Seven!
August 18, 2015
Illuminations – by Andrew Baird
August 3, 2015
National Science Week – Tasmania
August 3, 2015
Living Data at the inaugural Sydney Science Festival
August 3, 2015
Making CO2 our friend not our foe
August 2, 2015
The Antarctic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
August 2, 2015
Reproductive capacity of a marine species (Octopus tetricus) within a recent range extension area
June 18, 2015
Video Resources
May 30, 2015
The power and limits of weather models
May 30, 2015
Sea urchin solo in the coral reef choir!
May 28, 2015
Running out of time: a 164km run through Tasmania’s Wilderness
May 16, 2015
The Sound of Climate Change – from the Amazon to the Arctic
May 8, 2015
Sisyphus and the water concern – Lorraine Beaulieu
May 8, 2015
Matthew Dewey – congratulations on new appointment!
May 8, 2015
Climate science is looking to art to create change
May 4, 2015
Vanishing Point – A MUST!
May 4, 2015
ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2015 in the news:
April 30, 2015
Vanishing Point – data underpinning the work
April 30, 2015
WWF report’s on the value of the Ocean
April 25, 2015
CLIMARTE: addressing climate change through art
April 23, 2015
CLIMARTE – Art Climate Ethics – What role for the Arts?
April 20, 2015
CLIMARTE is happening!
April 20, 2015
Kelp beds transplanted to Tasmania to help reveal effects of climate change
April 20, 2015
What is art?
April 19, 2015
Large discrepancies in reports of fish catches
March 28, 2015
Can Antarctic marine life survive ocean acidification.
March 25, 2015
Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica
March 25, 2015
ART+CLIMATE = CHANGE
March 25, 2015
UTexas-NASA Study Sees New Threat to East Antarctic Ice
March 17, 2015
Living Data – Align
March 2, 2015
Artists respond to climate change
February 24, 2015
Lisa Roberts – and ex Oceano – on Eastside Radio, Sydney
February 19, 2015
The Conversation – on arts/science collaborations
February 19, 2015
Vanishing Point – art/science collaboration
February 19, 2015
ex Oceano – Australian premiere broadcast!
January 1, 2015
ex Oceano – Movement 2, the phytoplankton
December 13, 2014
Phytoplankton Dance 001
October 29, 2014
The Canadian Connection: Carbon 12 – published by Cape Farewell
October 29, 2014
Become Ocean
October 13, 2014
Body Size, Growth and Life Span: Implications for the Polewards Range Shift of Octopus tetricus in South-Eastern Australia
October 9, 2014
Breath of Life
September 24, 2014
PLAN BEE – film making and animation bring Lynchpin friends together
September 23, 2014
Join the Conversation – at the Living Data Lab Evolving Conversations Forum
September 23, 2014
Perspective
September 23, 2014
The Diatomist
September 5, 2014
ex Oceano – part of Evolving Conversations Exhibition, Sydney, 3 September – 20 November 2014
August 2, 2014
Living Data – Evolving Conversations Exhibition
August 2, 2014
Antarctica’s Paradox
July 12, 2014
Ocean microbes orchestrate gene activity
July 12, 2014
Adventures in the Anthropocene
July 12, 2014
Tropical fish threaten kelp and algae
June 7, 2014
Cyanobacteria – a new role?
June 7, 2014
Rosetta nears its comet – and possible origin of the oceans
June 3, 2014
Plastic Toxicity Working by Stealth in Oceans
June 3, 2014
Julliard School of Music 109th Commencement Speech: Joyce DiDonato
May 31, 2014
ex Oceano – in Beijing!
May 27, 2014
The Business – on sustainability
May 17, 2014
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt – and patterns “of under- rather than over-prediction”
May 7, 2014
Scripps Institution of Oceanography celebrates 110 years
May 7, 2014
Slow Life – plants, fungi, sponges, corals, plankton, and microorganisms
April 30, 2014
Lessons from diatoms!
April 17, 2014
Mind The Environmental Gap
March 31, 2014
IPPC Working Group Two II – focus on the oceans
March 28, 2014
Learning and Teaching Sustainability
March 22, 2014
Cultivating Creativity in Conservation Science
March 22, 2014
Living Data 2014 initiative
March 22, 2014
ARGOS explained by new animation
March 6, 2014
Beyond Partisan Issues
January 16, 2014
ex Oceano – Sarah Gillam, ABC Statewide, 13 January, 2014
January 16, 2014
Big History: an origin story for our time?
January 12, 2014
ex Oceano promo piece available!
January 12, 2014
2014 begins in earnest! – articles promote ex Oceano and ABC Statewide interview arranged
November 25, 2013
ex Oceano – the film promotion or ‘taster’!
November 14, 2013
New data on global surface warming since 1997
September 29, 2013
ex Oceano – we are from the ocean – the ocean sustains us
September 16, 2013
LIVING DATA EXCHANGE at the Ultimo Science Festival
September 7, 2013
Bookend Lynchpin Scholarship 2014:
September 7, 2013
Stung – On jellyfish blooms and the future of the oceans
August 8, 2013
Ocean Acidification: Eating Away at Life in the Southern Ocean
August 4, 2013
ODEMM survey – Options for Delivering Ecosystem-Based Marine Management
July 26, 2013
What is the Biosphere – and How Much of This Do We Use Up Every Year?
July 23, 2013
Dissolve II – Melissa Smith
July 19, 2013
EXTREME WEATHER – ABC Catalyst explains why
July 19, 2013
West Antarctica warming three times faster than Global Average.
July 12, 2013
Key Antarctic species under threat from ocean acidification: animation tells the story
July 3, 2013
Global Warming Trend and Variations Charted by Cello
June 18, 2013
Photosynthesis – Art from Science at the Muse
June 17, 2013
Critical choices in The Critical Decade
June 16, 2013
Australia’s oil vulnerability
June 16, 2013
Emiliania huxleyi in the news
May 28, 2013
Do the Math(s): Bill McKibben live broadcast link-up
May 25, 2013
Daniel Morden: People can’t take the naked truth.
May 23, 2013
Forests of the Sea animation shows at University of Technology, Sydney
May 22, 2013
Marine Plastic Pollution – EAST COAST ODYSSEY
May 11, 2013
Atmospheric carbon dioxide level reaches 400 parts per million
May 8, 2013
Solastalgia | Wintering presented by Aimee Smith
April 21, 2013
To Increase Salmon Populations, Company Dumped 110 Tons of Iron Into the Pacific Ocean
April 8, 2013
Extensive dissolution of live pteropods in the Southern Ocean
March 28, 2013
Stories from the Sea
March 25, 2013
Warming World Caused Southern Ocean to Exhale
March 25, 2013
Life Blooms Under Arctic Ice
March 7, 2013
Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate change research explained
March 5, 2013
The Climate Commission’s Angry Summer Report
February 28, 2013
Natural Numbers
February 26, 2013
The Making of FORESTS OF THE SEA: the animation
February 13, 2013
Antarctic bottom water disappearing
January 29, 2013
The Carbon Brief and other resources
January 20, 2013
Marine Climate Change – Impacts & Adaptation Report Card Australia 2012
January 3, 2013
Living Data – Iteration
December 14, 2012
FORESTS OF THE SEA: the stop-motion animation is launched!
December 11, 2012
The Overview Effect
December 11, 2012
Stop-motion Animation Project: FORESTS OF THE SEA
December 7, 2012
Doha talks
November 20, 2012
LAST CHANCE!: sea stories – Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, closing 25th November
November 20, 2012
Promoting: BLUE On Tour
November 16, 2012
Taking Australia’s Temperature
November 12, 2012
Latest Southern Ocean research shows continuing deep ocean change
November 12, 2012
Human Dependence on Nature
November 12, 2012
STATE OF THE CLIMATE 2012
November 12, 2012
Same message, slightly new format, over and over…..
October 28, 2012
Bookend Trust wins Banksia Award
October 25, 2012
Lynchpin Scholar Profile 2012 – Nick Roden
October 21, 2012
THE EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN ANTARCTICA
October 19, 2012
REMINDER: sea stories – Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, 18th October-25th November
October 16, 2012
Explanation of marine Plasma production inside phytplankton blooms
October 16, 2012
Stresses on Global Phytoplankton
October 16, 2012
Climate Change Threatening the Southern Ocean
October 16, 2012
How does the Ocean Affect the Climate?
October 16, 2012
The Connections between Ocean and Atmosphere
October 9, 2012
Lynchpin Scholar Profile, 2012 : Robert Johnson
October 8, 2012
Climate Change Exhibition
October 8, 2012
sea stories: Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, 18 October – 25 November 2012.
October 7, 2012
Eradicating Ecocide – Polly Higgins
October 7, 2012
Wild Law – Cormac Cullinan
October 7, 2012
Australian Marine Environment Protection Association (AUSMEPA)
October 3, 2012
Oceanic Sydney
October 3, 2012
Tom Griffiths – Ice Core Warnings :TEDxSydney
September 23, 2012
Forests of the Sea
September 7, 2012
SPECTRA
September 7, 2012
Oceanic Living Data: installation/ performance
September 3, 2012
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record
August 27, 2012
IMPORTANT NOTICE: 2013 Bookend Lynchpin Ocean Scholarship
July 29, 2012
LIVING DATA: ANIMATING CHANGE
– your response invited
July 29, 2012
Greenland ice sheet melted at unprecedented rate during July 2012
July 25, 2012
Living Data: Animating Change – FORUM, Ultimo Science Festival
July 24, 2012
LIVING DATA – ART FROM SCIENCE
June 27, 2012
Carbon 12 – exhibition, Paris 3 May, 2012
June 25, 2012
Australian artist, Wendy Sharpe in Antarctica
June 23, 2012
Bookend Trust named Conservationist of the Year 2012
June 21, 2012
Vox on the Rox makes its debut!
June 21, 2012
Life Blooms Under Arctic Ice
June 18, 2012
Living Data contributes to the 2012 Antarctic Treaty Meeting
June 15, 2012
Latitude
June 12, 2012
The Climatedogs: The influencers of Victoria’s climate
June 12, 2012
Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting XXXV
May 11, 2012
Deep-ocean Antarctic research raises climate change concerns
April 10, 2012
146 ArtSpace Exhibition: Latitude -31 May to 28 June 2012
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