Harnessing Knowledge, Creativity and Technology to build green, healthy cities for the future
Dr Amy Hahs is an urban ecologist with an established research career investigating how urban landscapes impact the local ecology, with a strong emphasis on the use of spatial data and geographic information systems as a critical tool for understanding…
Cutting Down on Waste with EPA Know-How
By Priya Mohandoss Most of us know to ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’. Yet now, when it comes to waste, this only scratches the surface. As part of National Science Week, EPA Victoria hosted its 3rd annual event, Waste Away -…
Citizen Science Victoria – July 2018 Meeting of ACSA-Vic
The second meeting of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Citizen Science Association will be held on Thursday, 19th July at the Melbourne headquarters of the Bureau of Meteorology. Chapter business will include presentations from: David Gooding, coordinator of WOW,…
Science and Orality: A 65,000+ Year Old Knowledge Base
It's NAIDOC Week, and what better time to reflect on the significance of the world's oldest continuous cultures and the incredibly complex knowledge systems that have been sustained through the remarkable practice of "orality?" Dr Duane Hamacher and Krystal de…