Have the wilderness adventures of Bear Grylls, Survivor or Alone on TV captured your imagination? If so, it’s time to change channels and join Dr Kate Selway on a trip to Greenland to undertake critical climate change monitoring.
Read MoreThis year, AuScope attended Science Meets Parliament 2022, an annual event designed by Science & Technology Australia (STA) to ‘forge deeper connections between federal Parliamentarians and those working in science and technology’. Here’s what our representatives had to say.
Read MoreProfessor Fred Jourdan is fascinated by asteroids, passionate about sharing his research far and wide, and managing the NCRIS enabled Western Australia Argon Isotope Facility at Curtin University! Discover Fred’s path from the laboratory to Youtube.
Read MoreToday for International Day of Women and Girls in Science we celebrate a globally esteemed geoscientist in our midst, Associate Professor Heather Handley. Investigating volcanoes, fighting for gender equity in geoscience, designing a film festival and writing a book are all in a day’s work for Heather.
Read MoreIn March, five geoscientists from AuScope’s community attended Science Meets Parliament (SmP), an event that connects scientists with politicians to help raise awareness of why science is so important for Australia’s future. Here, our representatives share their reflections.
Read MoreHappy #EarthScienceWeek! To celebrate, we explore the joys, importance, misconceptions, and future of Earth Science in this series of videos with Dr Jess Stromberg from CSIRO and Dr Sima Mousavi from The Australian National University.
Read MoreTo celebrate National Science Week, we connect creatives at TERRAIN and Girl On Road with leading geoscience researchers Prof Dietmar Müller, Dr Maria Seton and Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz from The University of Sydney to discuss our human connection with earth systems, and GPlates’ new residence in the Directory.
Read MoreHow can we geoscientists share what we do with the public — and what are we looking for in return? It’s an urgent question in these uncertain times, and one that AuScope representative, Rohan Byrne found on the minds of many delegates at the Australian Science Communicators 2020 conference.
Read MoreMeet Min, our talented Subsurface Observatory technician who has taken her love of geology into the arts, environment and community — all in the name of reconnecting people with place.
Read MoreRecently, geologist, Belinda Smith joined artist Lee Harrop in a group arts-science project led by Lee at the Darwin Festival titled ‘Still Lives — A Beautiful Science’, to share the science of spectral geology as it relates to mineral exploration in Australia. Belinda and Lee reflect with us on insights from each other’s worlds.
Read MoreHow does one distill a PhD project in just three minutes and simple terms? Rohan Byrne from Melbourne Uni has it down to a fine art, winning a 3-Minute Thesis competition in June. Here are his tips for sharing science.
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