The Decadal Plan for Australian Geoscience is being developed by the Academy of Science’s National Committee for Earth Sciences with input from the wider Earth Sciences community. The National Committee for Earth Science includes:

The process for plan development involved the following phases:

Concept and Initiation Community Engagement Development of the draft Decadal Plan Consultation Finalisation of the Decadal Plan Publication and Launch

The final plan is currently in press.

Please feel free to contact us if you have queries about the Decadal Plan for Australian Geoscience.

Professor Sue O’Reilly (Chair of the National Committee for Earth Sciences) Tel: +61 2 9850 8362 Fax: +61 2 9850 8943 Email: sue.oreilly@mq.edu.au

Dr Brent Davis (Policy Manager) E-mail: brent.davis@science.org.au

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Left to right: Aidan Byrne, Paul Mulvaney and Andrew Holmes launching the chemistry decadal plan

Improving chemistry research and education will be vital in supporting future industries, according to a new plan for the future of chemistry in Australia launched in February. 

Athena SWAN adviser James Lush Participants at one of the six SAGE workshops
From left: Nalini Joshi, Tanya Monro and Emma Johnston

The Australian Academy of Science has worked with the National Press Club to put together a lunchtime panel discussion with three leading scientists on the issue of women’s participation in science.

‘The future of science: women’ will be held at the National Press Club in Canberra and broadcast live nationally on ABC1 on Wednesday 30 March.

An IGC grant will enable Paul Ashwell to attend the Cities on Volcanoes Conference, Chile, and to conduct fieldwork to study modern lava domes as analogues for physical models and risk assessment of future lava dome eruptions in New Zealand. Image: Mt Taranaki, New Zealand. Source: Tony Fernandez/Flickr

Director of International Programs at the Academy, Nancy Pritchard, was recently invited by the Department of Education and Training to speak at the ‘Researcher mobility among APEC countries’ workshop in Jakarta. 

Ms Pritchard spoke about mid- and late-career researcher mobility from the perspective of the Academy, which has been managing mobility and exchange programs on behalf of the Australian Government for many years. 

Participants from 12 APEC economies attended the workshop, held in December.

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