Backscatter: the voyage of the Investigator

James Batchelor, Pete Harmsen, Annalise Rees To be opened by Dr Tara Martin, CSIRO 5.30 Friday 11 August, 2017 IMAS Gallery 20 Castray Esplanade Battery Point 11 Aug – 8 Sept Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm In early 2016, a media photo/videographer, choreographer and visual artist joined a scientific voyage to Heard and McDonald…

Geolocation journeys – the story enlarged

Animals and technology Listen now(Link will open in new window)
 Download audio Sunday 16 July 2017 10:30AM Digital technology is opening up new relationships between humans and animals – instead of alienating us from nature as in the past. Thanks to sensors, GPS and mini-cameras, scientists can now gather data on animal migration and behaviour…

CLIMARTE – works showing in Melbourne

Ocean Imaginaries The long held romantic view of the ocean as a compelling metaphor for the sacred mysteries of nature has recently been contradicted by a countervailing imagery of the slow violence of ocean pollution. In Ocean Imaginaries artists provide complex responses to global oceans in our era. Exhibited for the first time in an art gallery,…

Pteropods: Very Small and Very Important

    Pteropods and Ocean Acidification Pteropods are very small free-floating marine snails that play a very big part in oceanic ecosystems. Although tiny, these creatures are extremely important because they make up an important part of the oceanic food web. Scientists have seen the negative effects of ocean acidification on pteropods and are studying…

Not just carbon neutral but carbon negative

  Food for thought – radical thinking from those close to the land – in a changing world.     Butan is the only country in the world that is not only carbob neutral, it is carbon negative. In this TEDX talk, Tshering Tobgay brings us Butan for Life; he talks about the reality of climate…

Plastic, plastic, everywhere

Almost ten years since Lynchpin linked with work on plastic waste found in the guts of the mutton birds of Lord Howe Island, follow this link   for the work of Dr Jen Lavers and others, here comes a program on ABC Life Matters bringing the story again to an audience who should know and should understand…

Michael Apathy: How We’re Getting Out of This

“Reworking the Therapeutic Frame to Apply Psychotherapy to Environmental Crisis, and the Environment to Personal Crisis” from the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists Conference, 2013, Auckland, New Zealand     Think about it.      

TUESDAY 25 APR 2017 Listen(Link will open in new window)
 Download The Oxford Dictionary nominated post-truth as the Word of the Year in 2016.  Rather than objective facts,  politicians promote alternative facts, emotion and personal beliefs as the basis for public debate. This spells disaster to a scientist like Brian Schmidt who says we can’t…

The threat to science and science integrity

Listen now(Link will open in new window) Download audio Saturday 22 April 2017 12:35PM (view full episode) The 2018 budget proposed by President Trump for institutions of scientific research sees crippling and severe cuts. 20% here, 30% there, and in other cases budget cuts of 50% and more. So what to do? Scientists gathered in Boston…

FarmART

Cape Farewell and The Arts Development Company present FarmART  An exhibition at Bridport Arts Centre’s Allsop Gallery 22nd April – 3rd June Preview Invitation Friday 21st April 6pm – 8pm Exploring food, farming and our relationship with the environment Food is fundamental to life. The way we produce it is the most pressing issue of our…