Geolocation Journeys – wearable art!

Geolocation Journeys – Annalise Rees working with IMAS PhD student, Jaimie Cleeland, is turning ‘retired’ animal geo locators into wearable art! The initiative will officially launch on September 9th at IMAS. You can donate and receive a bespoke, handcrafted wearable art creation, proceeds go back into the purchase of new geo locators supporting marine predator research at IMAS.…

CONTEMPORARY ART AND SCIENCE MEET IN THE REMOTE WILDERNESS OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2016 1:00PM PUBLIC LECTURE 6:00PM PERFORMANCE ENQUIRIES info@annaliserees.com www.scienceweek.net.au INTO THE UNKNOWN: PUBLIC LECTURE Visual artist Annalise Rees and choreographer James Batchelor will discuss their participation as part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers who travelled to Heard and McDonald Islands in…

“There are moments of magic all the time in works of art, but I think what happens is that each one of us becomes receptive to them at different times and in different ways.” David Robertson. For those of us who collaborated on ex Oceano – a love song for the Ocean, to hear what David Robertson, principal…

The plight of post doc and graduate researchers

  Escalating stress and pressure, poor work/life balance, depression, sleep disorders, substance abuse problems and eating disorders, have become hallmarks of academia. While increasing attention has been paid to mental health problems afflicting undergraduate students, issues among graduate students and early post-doctoral researchers are not only under-reported, but largely ignored and stigmatised. PhD student Diana…

In Season

In Season explores the background science and the real-world impact of our changing seasons. Does it seem like Spring is getting earlier every year? Linda Beaumont has collated the statistics that prove our warmer months are advancing. 
In Season: Sprinter Listen(Link will open in new window)
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Four seasons just aren’t…

Soil microbes burp carbon dioxide after drought-breaking rain Listen now(Link will open in new window)
 Download audio   An unpredictable source of carbon emissions in areas of sporadic rainfall, is the carbon dioxide released from soil when rain falls after drought. The emissions come from soil microbes, and as Catherine Osborne explains, these critters are…

seasons & reasons

Introducing Andrea Breen A piece composed for a dance/cross-arts performance about global warming: seasons & reasons, May 7 2016, Peacock Theatre Hobart. Respondibility1 Image of phosphorescence (caused by warmer waters): Arwen Dyer    

Weather news – learn more

Lynchpin has a particular interest in the Ocean, atmosphere, land balance –  two programs this week explain more. Drive, ABC RN:  World swelters through hottest June on record Listen now(Link will open in new window)
 Download audio Wednesday 20 July 2016 6:25PM (view full episode) New figures released by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE

This hardback publication includes beautiful images, and informative and thought provoking essays by Kelly Gellatly, Director of The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, and John Wiseman, Deputy Director of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.

  Since first creating the program (in 2011), Dr Lisa Roberts continues to lead Living Data in an effort to increase public understanding and encourage informed action towards a sustainable future. Today ‘About’ Living Data explains itself as: “an independent programme of interactive authoring that is true to science, clear in language, appealing to senses, evolving and surprising (showing something…