ex Oceano – the film promotion or ‘taster’!

ex Oceano  – we are from the ocean  – the ocean sustains us Matthew Dewey Symphony No 2, 2013 Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Prague   Those who have been following this year’s project, will know that ex Oceano  is a collaborative expression between disciplines and understandings. Over the last eighteen months, Ocean researchers expressed their…

New data on global surface warming since 1997

A new paper published in The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society fills in the gaps in the UK Met Office HadCRUT4 surface temperature data set, and finds that the global surface warming since 1997 has happened more than twice as fast as the HadCRUT4 estimate. This short video abstract summarizes the study’s approach and results.

ex Oceano becomes a reality! ex Oceano is the second symphony of Australian composer, Matthew Dewey. The symphony was recorded by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in the Rudolfinum – Dvořák Hall, Prague, 24-27 September, 2013. A truly epic journey in creative ability and expressive powers took Matthew Dewey across the globe for this powerful and…

LIVING DATA EXCHANGE at the Ultimo Science Festival

LIVING DATA EXCHANGE: CONVERSATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS Program for the Ultimo Science Festival at The Muse, ABC Foyer, UTS Living Data Atrium 12 – 21 September 2013 REMINDER – BE THERE! and be part of this exciting arts science gathering. And be part of this exciting speed-meet encounter: Art & Science Soirée: Connect, create and collaborate: Artists, creative thinkers…

Bookend Lynchpin Scholarship 2014:

 No new marine science scholarship will be offered under this program in 2014. Lynchpin will focus instead on the arts side of its arts/ocean science collaborative program, combining the  2013 Making of a Symphony project with visual arts, Antarctic and Southern Ocean footage. Please watch this space for marine science scholarships to be open for application…

Stung – On jellyfish blooms and the future of the oceans: University of Chicago Press Lisa-ann Gershwin is at Marine and Atmospheric Research, CSIRO, Hobart TAS, and is Director, Australian Marine Stinger Advisory Services. Ecosystem models don’t consider jellyfish. Lisa-ann Gershwin suggests the world’s oceans have passed a silent but significant tipping point. They are on their way to a different…

from Sceptical Science: getting sceptical about global warming scepticism Quote: …. despite the fact that not all marine calcifiers are directly harmed by acidification and we don’t know exactly how bad this might turn out, enough key species are threatened (coral reefs for example) that business-as-usual fossil fuel use poses a significant threat to our…

ODEMM: Options for Delivering Ecosystem-Based Marine Management   Lynchpin received the following request from a researcher involved with this ODEMM project: I am a research assistant in Edinburgh, Scotland, and I am involved in a small piece of research that I am hoping you might be able to help me with. Some colleagues and I are…

  Vaclav Smil sets out to answer this question in his book Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken From Nature. Bill Gates reviews the book, and bring us some important facts – using good technology to the max! Visit The Gates Notes: Harvesting the Biosphere, book review.  

Dissolve II – Melissa Smith

Dissolve II:  Melissa Smith 20 July – 18 August 2013:  Devonport Regional Gallery on the North West coast of Tasmania.   Melissa Smith writes:  The new works build on the Dissolve series, which advances earlier explorations into the tilt in our natural environmental balance. The catalyst for the production of this series was reading the paper,…