STEM and Society: SealSpotters
Join Dr Rebecca McIntosh and Ross Holmberg from the Phillip Island Nature Parks team as they prepare to launch the annual SealSpotter Challenge, when citizen scientists around the globe jump online to count Australian fur seals and contribute to vital conservation research. The SealSpotter program allows anyone with a computer to help with the management and protection of our oceans by counting…
Frogs and Dogs – Glenroy Library
Science at the Extreme
Women in STEM Conference at Melbourne Zoo
Women in STEM: Future Careers, 21st Century Skills and Role Models Females are drastically underrepresented in STEM subjects and jobs across the planet – let’s change that! On the eve of National Science Week 2019, educate and inspire your Year…
Women in STEM Conference at Melbourne Zoo (Catholic Schools)
Women in STEM: Future Careers, 21st Century Skills and Role Models Females are drastically underrepresented in STEM subjects and jobs across the planet – let’s change that! On the eve of National Science Week 2019, educate and inspire your Year…
Science Festival – Tiegs Zoology Museum Tour
Established in 1887, the Tiegs Zoology Museum is Australia’s oldest university museum of zoology. Its collection, accumulated over 120 years, has specimens dating from the late 19th century to the present representing the whole animal kingdom, including an African lion and a…
Eggs Alive!
Kangaroo Flat Library (Goldfields Libraries) is excited to announce that for National Science Week from the 13 – 21 August we are presenting “Eggs Alive!” Goldfields Libraries is a successful SEED grant winner and would like to share this whole…
Stuck on a Rock – Premiere Screening
The premiere screening for my short documentary on the Lord Howe Island stick insect. Stuck on a Rock is a documentary on the saga of the Lord Howe Island stick insect, one of the rarest species of insects on the…
Secrets from Beyond Extinction: Unlocking the Thylacine Genome
The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was the largest carnivorous Australian marsupial to exist into the modern era. Their resemblance to the eutherian wolf is considered the most striking example of convergent evolution in mammals. This is even more…