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SUMMARY:Fake Out: citizen science challenge
DESCRIPTION:Do you believe what you see? Did Obama really say that (he probably did but not on video)? What are Spiderman and Iron Man doing in Back to the Future? Deep fakes\, like YouTuber EZRyderX47’s Back to the Future deepfake video (image featured here)\, are getting better and better and humans remain the best judges of the truth despite the efforts of AI. Can you tell real from fake? And if you could\, would you share it? Take the ‘Fake Out’ challenge and find out. \nFake Out has been created by Dr Simon Cropper\, Dr Gergely Nyalasy\, Sarah Lorenz and Jennifer Nguyen from the University of Melbourne and citizen scientist responses will help inform their research into deep fakes. \nMore information and to take the ‘Fake Out’ Challenge
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/fake-out-citizen-science-challenge/
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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SUMMARY:Our Resilient Future - Water\, Agriculture & Biodiversity
DESCRIPTION:Enormous changes and transitions are already upon us\, and we find ourselves unprepared. This summer’s devastating bushfires and the unprecedented disruption to industries and the business of government here in Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic have given us a disquieting insight to the sustained uncertainty we’ll be facing under a rapidly changing climate in the decades to come. Under these new conditions\, referring to what happened in the past will be unhelpful in predicting the future. One thing is clear: policy\, operational\, regulatory\, investment\, management and other decisions will be made under increasingly ambiguous conditions\, and integration will be needed across all sectors and levels of our society to set us on a preferred climate path and prepare us for the outcomes we can no longer avoid. \nThe scale of environmental\, economic and cultural transformation required is immense; a seriously intimidating scope of change for planners and policy makers to even approach\, let alone implement. Yet short-term\, incremental changes can only help us to “cope” (until we can’t)\, rather than flourish. How do we enable our communities and industries to transform? How do we build agency for regional communities to drive a self-determining transformation over these long time-scales when the state-based decision-making and economic reality is itself so changeable? \nIt seems impossible\, but there are success stories we can learn and build from. We propose that we can’t plan for an uncertain future if we’re not prepared to take a systems perspective and focus on resilience. Join us for a series of six-minute presentations across the disciplines that consider the formation of localised resilience strategies for regional Victoria\, drawing on the experience and unique challenges of the Goulburn Murray region as a case study. We will look at the challenges and changes ahead for the agricultural sector\, the persistence and survival of our biodiversity\, and the interactions of these in a near future projected to feature less water from annual rainfall across our state\, with related drying conditions\, heat waves\, extended fire seasons and the increasing likelihood of a rolling\, resource intensive emergency management campaign that will reduce our society’s capacity to be proactive. \nPresentations:\n A Place-Based Approach: The Goulburn-Murray Resilience Strategy\nDavid McKenzie\, Chair\, Goulburn Regional Partnership\nClaire Flanagan-Smith\, Principal\, Community & Strategy\, RM Consulting Group \nClimate Change & Systems Transformation\nAssociate Professor Lauren Rickards\, Centre for Urban Research\, RMIT University \nPreparing for Biodiversity Decision Making\nProfessor Brendan Wintle\, School of Biosciences\, The University of Melbourne \n\nAgricultural Transitions\nProfessor Richard Eckard\, Director of Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre\, The University of Melbourne \nPreparing for the Transition of the Water Sector\nDr Briony Rogers\, Director of MSDI Water\, Monash Sustainable Development Institute \n\nBuilding Community Agency\nProfessor Sarah Bekessy\, Centre for Urban Research\, RMIT University \nWe will be joined by some of our speakers during the meeting to further discuss their work and potential for application in service of transformational initiatives in the State of Victoria. \nA part of the Possible Impossibles program for National Science Week. \nIn light of COVID-19 restrictions\, this meeting will be conducted online as a Zoom webinar\, with presentations pre-filmed and speakers answering questions from RSV members and guests in the webinar (invitations to register are sent via email and also listed on the Society’s membership page). The webinar will be livestreamed via the Society’s Facebook site – please tune in at the allotted time to follow the proceedings and add your questions and comments.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/resilient-future/
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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SUMMARY:Brewing Futures
DESCRIPTION:Join us from the comfort of your living room as Jon Seltin\, Head Brewer from Brick Lane Brewing Co.\, winds the clock forward on beer brewing. How will climate change and advances in sensory science affect beer production? How might our beer tastes change in the future? \nOn this behind the scenes brewery tour\, bring your curiosity and engage your palate to discover emerging brewing technologies and trends while sampling some great brews and important brewing raw ingredients. But be on the lookout\, not everything you taste will be as it seems! \nThis is an online event only. Ticket holders have been forwarded a Brewing Futures tasting kit prior to the event for consumption during the event – follow along at the Royal Society of Victoria’s live stream page at https://www.facebook.com/royalsocietyvictoria/live/ . \nA part of the Possible Impossibles series for the 2020 National Science Week program.  \nAbout our Host:\nJon Setin is Head Brewer at Brick Lane Brewing\, an independent brewery in Melbourne producing beers and ciders. \nPassionate about the science involved with making great beer\, Jon runs engaging workshops about this topic. He has even presented beer workshops at Parliament House Melbourne for public audiences! Prior to Brick Lane\, Jon was Head Brewer at Hawkers Beer and Bright Brewery. \nJon is also Chair of BIRA (Brewing Interlaboratory Reference Analytes)\, an industry led proficiency testing scheme for organisations performing beer analysis.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/brewing-futures/
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SUMMARY:Possible Impossibles Online Forum
DESCRIPTION:How can Science offer us a path of hope for our post COVID lives and world? What tools can Science give us to help society recover\, rebuild\, and thrive in the future? \nThe Victorian Parliament will partner with the Royal Society of Victoria to host a live online community forum exploring how science can help create the sort of future Victorians want. \nTo be held on Sunday 23 August 2020 as part of National Science Week\, the Possible Impossibles online forum will be hosted by award-winning ABC journalist Natasha Mitchell. \nThe forum will be streamed live from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm on the Facebook pages of the Victorian Parliament and the Royal Society of Victoria. Tune in to join in! \nPeople who wish to participate in the discussion can register their questions in advance by emailing them to community@parliament.vic.gov.au. \nFour scientists working at the forefront of environmental science\, new technologies\, medical science and space exploration will answer questions from an online audience and reflect on the way science can respond to community demands to improve people’s lives. \nScientists featured at the Possible Impossibles forum include: \n \nProfessor Elizabeth Croft is the Dean of Engineering at Monash University.  Her research in industrial robotics and human-robot interaction advances the design of intelligent controllers and interaction methods that support human-robot collaboration. She has won national and international awards for her scholarship\, advocacy for women in engineering\, and educational contributions. She is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers\, Engineers Australia\, Engineers Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. \n  \n \n  \nDr Kudzai Kanhutu is an infectious diseases physician and deputy chief medical information officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH). She is a past Superstar of STEM and recipient of the Victorian Department of Health excellence in culturally and linguistically diverse care award. Her current work portfolio includes patient care\, research and project management with a particular focus on the role that digital technologies can play in addressing health inequity. \n  \n \nAssociate Professor Julie Mondon is the Director for Environmental Science Marine Biology degree at Deakin University.  Her research emphasis is in marine and coastal ecology and environmental impact\, with special interest in aquatic ecotoxicology\, investigating the toxicological impact of contaminants on marine and estuarine organisms living in these exposed environments. This expertise has led to working in catchment\, industrial and urban waste contaminant impacts across tropical\, temperate and Antarctic ecosystems: pollution exposure and response in aquatic organisms at multiple levels including crustaceans\, molluscs\, fish and sharks to develop biomarker response tools to identify risks and harm at the organism\, community and ecological levels. \n  \n \nDr Gail Iles is a Senior Lecturer in Space Physics at RMIT University and serves on the Board of Directors of the Space Industry Association of Australia. Dr Iles has 15 years’ experience of working at nuclear facilities and synchrotrons around the world to explore the properties of materials such as structure\, magnetism and superconductivity – particularly from samples grown in Zero-G. Dr Iles was an astronaut instructor at the European Astronaut Centre in Germany and holds a medal for extensive time spent experimenting in zero gravity. In 2011\, she was presented the WISE Champion Award by HRH Princess Anne\, for inspiring children\, particularly girls\, to study STEM subjects.  Dr Iles conducts extensive outreach in schools and locations around Victoria and is the science correspondent on the Neil Mitchell radio show on 3AW. \n  \nForum MC: \n \nNatasha Mitchell is a multi-award winning ABC science journalist\, presenter\, producer and podcaster. She hosts the weekly science and culture show on ABC Radio National\, Science Friction\, awarded best science & medicine podcast at the 2019 Australian Podcast Awards. She was founding presenter of one of the ABC’s most popular radio programs\, All in the Mind\, for a decade\, and host of the flagship daily program\, Life Matters from 2012-2016. Natasha was vice president of the World Federation of Science Journalists and a recipient of the MIT Knight Fellowship. She has an engineering degree from Monash University and postgraduate diploma in science communication from the ANU. She regularly comperes at events and festivals around Australia\, including four dialogues with the Dalai Lama and scientists.
URL:https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/event/possible-impossibles-online-forum/
CATEGORIES:Science Week
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