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STEM and Society: The Anthropocene
Human pressures on the planet as a whole – the ‘Earth System’ – have now become so great that scientists have proposed that we have now left the Holocene, the geologic epoch that has been humanity’s accommodating home for the last 11,700 years. It’s proposed we’ve entered a new geologic epoch, the Anthropocene, characterised…
Coastal Resilience: How Landforms Cope with Changing Waves and Rising Seas
Royal Society of Victoria 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Vic, AustraliaThe 2021 Howitt Lecture Presented in partnership with the Geological Society of Australia (Victoria Division). Our coast is a dynamic system. As the protective boundary between the land and sea it absorbs the constant energy it receives from waves and tides and in doing so creates the landforms on which people recreate and build. The…
Decarbonising Energy: At the Tipping Point
Online , AustraliaAustralia has the highest per-capita greenhouse emissions of any advanced economy, we’re on track to miss our Paris commitment, and we're nowhere near achieving net zero.
STEM and Society: A Hard-Won Theory – Tectonic Plates in Victoria
Online , AustraliaIt can be confusing when we hear from scientists reluctant to deal in absolutes, who instead engage in conversations about ‘degrees of certainty’. In the world of science, a ‘theory’ is the closest something may ever come to being ‘the truth’. To understand what modern scientists can go through to arrive at an accepted theory, we’re taking a look at one of the major revelations of the past century: the theory of tectonic plates.
Indigenous Food and Agriculture
Online , AustraliaCome yarn about native foods, healthy eating and Australian Indigenous farmers.
Free
Collecting Insights: Environmental Adaptation in Victoria @ Parliament of Victoria
Online , AustraliaJoin us for our ACCLIMATISE special panel conversation, streamed live from the Legislative Council Chamber at Parliament House with a small invited live audience of families.
From Dump to Paradise: Saving the Eastern Barred Bandicoot from Extinction
Explore this long-term campaign to recover and establish populations of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot in discrete locations across Victoria.
$6.36
Foodprint Melbourne: Building the Resilience of Melbourne’s Food System
Online , AustraliaCompounding crises have revealed the cracks in Melbourne's food supply system, flaws that make our population vulnerable to scarcity.
Electronic Skin: Sensing the World Around and Within Us
Researchers at RMIT University have developed a prototype to mimic real human skin to work as a viable alternative to invasive skin grafts and conventional prosthetics.
$6.36
Improving Drug Discovery: A Molecular Understanding of Cell Surface Receptors
Many hurdles remain to improving GPCR drug discovery, requiring an expanded, interdisciplinary approach to open the door to new therapies.
Bioremediation: Restoring Contaminated Ecosystems, Naturally
Nature-harnessing technologies are key to effectively and sustainably restoring contaminated ecosystems, using naturally occurring microorganisms to clean up contamination from oil and other organic pollutants in soils, groundwater and water bodies. The bioremediation process both destroys contaminants and restores an ecosystem’s microbiome. But every local ecosystem is unique when it comes to microbiological communities, so…