Geoengineering – deliberate manipulation of the physical, chemical, or biological aspects of the Earth’s environment – is increasingly being discussed as a mechanism for combating climate change, especially in the world’s current political climate.
Geoengineering – deliberate manipulation of the physical, chemical, or biological aspects of the Earth’s environment – is increasingly being discussed as a mechanism for combating climate change, especially in the world’s current political climate.
Australian Academy of Science President Professor Suzanne Cory will this week address the National Press Club.
Professor Cory will look at the ways in which Australia’s potential to build on its international science success stories is under threat. She will examine the state of school science education in Australia, explore challenges to the workforce and propose opportunities to improve Australia’s prosperity beyond the mining boom.
About 60 of the country’s brightest early- and mid-career research scientists from a range of disciplines will gather in Brisbane this week to find new ways to help save one of the nation's most vulnerable ecosystems: the Ningaloo Marine Park.
About 60 of the country’s brightest early- and mid-career research scientists from a range of disciplines will gather in Brisbane this week to find new ways to help save one of the nation's most vulnerable ecosystems: the Murray-Darling Basin.
About 60 of the country’s brightest early- and mid-career research scientists from a range of disciplines will gather in Brisbane this week to find new ways to help manage one of the nation's most vulnerable ecosystems which is facing an increase in coal seam gas mining and drilling: the Bowen and Surat Basins.
The Bowen and Surat Basins are within the Great Artesian Basin that is the main source of freshwater for agriculture and human use in Queensland. But the basins are the focus of extensive coal seam gas drilling, raising concerns of groundwater contamination.
About 60 of the country’s brightest early- and mid-career research scientists from a range of disciplines will gather in Brisbane this week to find new ways to help manage one of the nation's most vulnerable ecosystems increasingly under threat from the urban sprawl: the Melbourne grasslands.
Australian Academy Science Fellow, Professor David Black, has been elected Secretary General of the International Council for Science (ICSU).
ICSU is a non-government organisation with a global membership of national scientific bodies and International Scientific Unions, which aims to strengthen science globally for the benefit of all humankind. It plans and coordinates interdisciplinary research to address major issues of relevance to both science and society.
Sixty high-achieving young physical, natural and social scientists from around Australia have put their heads together to come up with ideas to manage some of Australia’s most stressed ecosystems.
The Theo Murphy High Flyers Think Tank, held by the Australian Academy of Science in Brisbane, examined the Ningaloo Marine Park in Western Australia, the Murray-Darling River Basin, native grasslands on the outskirts of Melbourne, and Queensland’s Surat and Bowen Basins, which have been the subject of recent controversy over the extraction of coal seam gas.
Australian Academy of Science President Professor Suzanne Cory today warmly congratulated Australian astrophysicist Professor Brian Schmidt on winning the Nobel Prize for Physics.
The Nobel Foundation last night announced Professor Schmidt, a Fellow of the Academy, had won the Prize with US astrophysicists Professor Adam Reiss and Saul Perlmutter, for a discovery that has completely changed our understanding of the universe.
“This is an absolutely wonderful day for Australian science,” Professor Cory said.
The Australian Academy of Science today salutes two of its Fellows, Professors David Solomon and Ezio Rizzardo, for being awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science.
“Solomon and Rizzardo’s research in polymer chemistry has been truly transformative,” said Academy President Professor Suzanne Cory.
“Their work is a marvellous example of how elegant fundamental science can also be of immense practical benefit.”
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