Robot engineering meets Antarctic science

UTAS ALUMNI WEBINAR SERIES 2017 Presented by Dr Damien Guihen Wednesday, 23 August 2017 12.00pm – 1.00pm AEST The Antarctic Gateway Partnership is a Special Research Initiative of the Australian Research Council and brings together the University of Tasmania, the Australian Antarctic Division, CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology in a project to develop the…

REVOLUTION – the documentary

  REVOLUTION, the new documentary on the environment and activism to preserve the Earth’s ecology is shared with clips from the film by director, Rob Stewart.   Acidification of oceans, the impact of fracking and tar sands on Canada’s environment, and the exhilarating possibilities for change from youth activists are all discussed, as we look…

The Frankenstein postdoc

Ockham’s Razor RN Listen now(Link will open in new window) Download audio show transcript Sunday 6 August 2017 7:45AM (view full episode) When Kylie Soanes bounced out of her graduation ceremony with a newly-minted PhD, she thought she knew what she was in for. She expected to have to work really, really hard. What she didn’t…

Listen now(Link will open in new window) Download audio show transcript Sunday 30 July 2017 10:30AM We’re all at sea this week on Future Tense as free-lance producer Colin Bisset takes a look at the growing global phenomenon that is the cruise line industry. It’s booming and only likely to get bigger as new markets open…

Lynchpin supports Homeward Bound 2018 participants

Lynchpin is happy to introduce and to offer support to  Karen Alexander and Justine Barrett, who are two of eighty women with a science background from around the globe who have been chosen to participate in the next Homeward Bound program. This 12 month program teaches leadership, strategy and communication skills and culminates in a three week trip…

From fish to forests, conflicts to coffee…

From fish to forests, conflicts to coffee…. A new international study led by scientists from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and the University’s Centre for Marine Socioecology (CMS) has highlighted how humans are being affected by climate-driven changes in the distribution of land, marine and freshwater species around the world. Global ecological…

Criminality and Climate Change

  While the obvious impact of climate change is the increased temperature, rising sea-level and an impact to the ecology, there is also the issue of increased criminality. One of the many side-effects of climate change that many people don’t make the connection with is the slow and steady rise in criminal activity. This could…

The beaches of one of the world’s most remote islands have been found to be polluted with the highest density of plastic debris reported anywhere on the planet, in a study published in the prestigious US scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Despite being uninhabited and located more than 5,000 kilometres from…

Important earth atmosphere facts:

  NASA | A Year in the Life of Earth’s CO2 An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe.   How deep is the Earth’s Atmosphere? Earth’s Atmosphere: read here The Earth’s atmosphere is an extremely thin sheet of air extending…

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…