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Program booklet (including biographies and abstracts)

A full record of the Formal admission of new Fellows and new Fellows seminar is available from here

Formal admission of new Fellows and new Fellows seminar
Wednesday 2 May 2012
9.00am Welcome
Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRS
President, Australian Academy of Science
9.05am Formal admission of new Fellows
9.30am New Fellows seminar
New Academy Fellows will each present a 12-minute talk about their research, followed by an opportunity for questions
5.15pm Close
Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRS
President, Australian Academy of Science
Full program here

A full record of the Honorific and early career honorific award presentations available from here

Thursday 3 May 2012
Honorific and early career honorific award presentations
9.00am President's address
Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRS
President, Australian Academy of Science
9.20am Macfarlane Burnet Medal Lecture
Presented by Professor Ruth Hall FAA, University of Sydney
Honorific Awards presentations
9.55am Honorific award presentations 
10.50am Morning Tea
Early Career Honorific Awards presentations
11.20am Early career honorific award presentations
1.15pm Lunch
2.30pm-5.00pm Annual General Meeting (closed session for Fellows of the Academy)

Social program: National Archives of Australia
(Traversing Antarctica: the Australian experience)
Early-career researcher workshops (2.00–5.00pm)
7.00pm Annual Dinner (Pre-dinner drinks at 7.00pm, dinner at 7.30pm)
Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia
Presentation of Career Award Medals
Dress code: Black tie/cocktail
Guest Speaker: Professor Tom Griffiths FAHA
Full program here | 2012 awardees

A full record of the Annual symposium
100 years of Antarctic Science is available
from here

Friday 4 May
Annual symposium
100 years of Antarctic Science
8:45am Morning session: Chair, Dr Ian Allison

Welcome

Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRS

8:50am Welcome
Professor Mike Coffin (Gold Sponsor)
IMAS UTAS
8:55am Introduction
Dr Tony Fleming
Australian Antarctic Division
9:00am The South Magnetic Pole
Dr Charles Barton
Australian National University
9:30am Terrestrial vegetation of East Antarctica in a changing climate
Professor Sharon Robinson
University of Wollongong
10:00am Marine biodiversity in the Southern Ocean: new paradigms of speciation and connectivity
Dr Jan Strugnell
La Trobe University
10:30am Morning Tea
11:00am Changing Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry: the Influence of Iron and CO2
Professor Thomas Trull
University of Tasmania
11:30am Links between the geology of Antarctica and Australia
Dr Kate Selway
The University of Adelaide
12:00pm Looking through the ice: the landscape of subglacial Antarctica
Professor Martin J. Siegert
The University of Edinburgh, UK
12:30pm Launch of Frank Stillwell’s 1911-13 Antarctic diaries
Dr Tony Fleming
Australian Antarctic Division
12:40pm Lunch
1:45pm Afternoon session: Chair, Dr Trevor McDougall

Climate and Meteorology of the Antarctic region
Dr Phillip Reid
Bureau of Meteorology
2:15pm The Southern Ocean and climate
Dr Stephen Rintoul FAA
CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research
2:45pm The Antarctic ice sheet, ice cores and climate
Dr Tas van Ommen
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
3:15pm Afternoon Tea
3:45pm Paleoenvironmental records from Antarctica
Professor Tim Naish
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
4:15 – 4:35pm Wrap up and close
Dr Ian Allison
Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre
Full program here | Social program
To order a copy of the Academy publication Still no Mawson:
Frank Stillwell’s 1911-13 Antarctic diaries  please click here.