In October 2015, three science and conservation organisations hosted a 2-day symposium in Melbourne, titled Managing Victoria’s Biodiversity under Climate Change.
Matthew Flinders’ most obvious claim to fame is that he captained the Investigator, the first ship to circumnavigate Australia, charting the sections of the coast which were unknown to Europeans.
Back in June we sought bright ideas from the Melbourne community for the small yet very prominent plot of land formerly occupied by the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) through an article in The Age and subsequent radio discussion. We have been truly amazed by the wealth of creative thinking Melburnians have demonstrated in coming forward with ideas for our […]
We are delighted to announce the 2015 Phillip Law Postdoctoral Award for the Physical Sciences recipient is Dr Marcus Doherty, a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Laser Physics Centre at the Australian National University. This distinguished award is presented in honour of the late Dr Phillip Garth Law AC, a secondary science teacher, university physics lecturer, President of the Royal Society of […]
Eight remarkable young women and men presented their work to a meeting of the Royal Society of Victoria on the night of Thursday, 24 September. Over a two hour session, our audience was treated to the very latest research by Victoria’s emerging researchers across four categories (and eight disciplines) of science. It was a thrilling journey, made […]
