IPPC Working Group Two II – focus on the oceans

The World Today: ABC RN  12:10:00 31/03/2014 ‘Disturbing picture’ of climate change impact on oceans in latest IPCC report A coordinating lead author of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it paints a disturbing picture of how the earth’s oceans are being affected by climate change. Professor Ove Heough-Guldberg says…

Learning and Teaching Sustainability

Sharing sustainability education This site represents a community of Australian tertiary educators that is supported by the Australian Government. The aim is to provide information on sustainability courses in tertiary institutions in Australia and to share innovative sustainability teaching materials. Contact for more information or register to contribute to the community. Oceanic Living Data: Visualising the global ecosystem : through our links with Living Data, Lynchpin is…

Cultivating Creativity in Conservation Science

“Creativity is a learned trait, rather than an innate skill. It can be actively developed at both the individual and institutional levels . . .” Programs like Lynchpin and Living Data seek to harness the communicative energy of the arts to tell important science in new ways. The following article embraces many of the challenges we…

Living Data 2014 initiative

Lynchpin has links with the Living Data lead by Dr Lisa Roberts at UTS.  The program develops and presents visualisations that: Engage the senses  are True to science Clear in language and Surprising!   Follow the 2014 Living Data initiative 1. and 2. here – as they bring scientists and artists together in recorded conversations that encourage the…

ARGOS explained by new animation

Malou Zuidema – new animation!   Read more about the background to the Argo stop-motion animation which aims to inspire children (and adults) to engage with marine science. It is quirky, fun and informative at the same time. The animation explains what an Argo float is, how it operates and how all this data helps us…

Beyond Partisan Issues

Beyond partisan issues – For the next generation – How can we not do this? Watch Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, argue that the devastating weather events being experienced in many parts of the globe are indications  that climate change is not an issue of the future – it…

HEAR Matthew Dewy, Nick Roden and Rob Johnson in conversation with Sarah Gillam, ABC Statewide, 13 January, 2014 >ABC Symphony in Science Read the full story of The Making of a Symphony.

Big History: an origin story for our time?

Hear about the Big History Project in this interview on Saturday Extra, ABC, RN. Can you imagine a simple story that weaves science and history together to give us a sense of why we are here? Big History aims to explain the evolution of our planet, from the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago to the…

ex Oceano promo piece available!

To view the promotion piece for ex Oceano  we are from the ocean  – the ocean sustains us Matthew Dewey Symphony No 2, 2013 go to Current Students. We expect the final mix adjustments to be made within a few weeks and hope the CD and iTunes versions of the work will be available sometime in February.  Watch this…

Two articles have been published promoting ex Oceano – we are from the Ocean – the Ocean sustains us.  These can be found at The Australian Antarctic Magazine  Symphony in Science and related articles Speeding toward an acid ocean and Measuring phytoplankton from space.  The articles  feature the research of Lynchpin scholars, Nick Roden and Robert Johnson.…