Next week is the third ‘Communicating Climate Change Workshop’

Dear ASCers,
Are you looking for a professional transformational experience?
The Communicating climate change series workshops are delivering even more than what they promised. Those who attended the second workshop left energised and enthusiastic about using practical new ways of thinking. Several people attended based on the strength of the first workshop and are looking forward to […]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29

The smell of fresh cut grass is the silent yet whiffy cry of the injured plant http://bit.ly/bsCLhg (via @Annaleen) #
I'm building a twitter list of ASC members. Tweet me and I'll add you over the wkend. Thanks for the responses. More please! #ascmembers #
We really should have a list of all ASC members on twitter. […]

Can we have our biodiversity and eat it too?

THE CRAWFORD FUND
MEDIA ALERT
30 August 2010
2010 International Development Conference
Biodiversity and World Food Security:
Nourishing the Planet and Its People
Parliament House, Canberra
Contact: Cathy Reade 0413 575 934 cathy.reade@crawfordfund.org
30, 31 August and 1 September 2010
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CAN WE HAVE OUR BIODIVERSITY AND EAT IT TOO?
Professor Stephen D. Hopper, Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Dr Christian Samper, Director, National Museum of Natural […]

Request for your cooperation in Case study for hands-on science programs (KOFAC)

ASC has received a request for information from the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity. Please reply to JiYun Lee or Mrs. Eunju Kim directly if you can provide the information they request and if you are interested in seeing them on their visit to Australia in mid- September.
Jesse
From:

Summer internship available – astronomy outreach – CSIRO Parkes radio observatory, NSW

Science communication students …
A ten-week summer internship in the field of astronomy outreach is available at CSIRO’s Parkes radio observatory in country NSW.
To be eligible, you must have completed at least three years of a relevant undergraduate degree.
Details are at:
https://recruitment.csiro.au/asp/job_details.asp?RefNo=2010%2F470 [project 10]
Please don’t reply to this email: read the information at the above URL and […]

Laser Fest @ Macquarie Uni, including Public Talk by Prof Hans Bachor

> —— Forwarded Message > From: Judith Dawes > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:55:59 +1000 > To: Phil Dooley
> Subject: Re: promotion for Hans Bachor Lecture on Wednesday 8 September for > Laser Fest? > > WHEN Wednesday 8th September > TIME 6:30 PM > PLACE Lecture Theatre W5A T2 […]

Future Renewables

For ASC members in Adelaide:
Cutting-edge lecture: The handfish
Tuesday August 31 6:00-7.30pm The Science Exchange
Free but bookings required: http://www.riaus.org.au/events/2010/08/31/cutting_edge_lecture_the_handfish.jsp
The first handfish was recorded during a French expedition in 1802. Found only in Australian waters, these small, unusual, slow-moving fish prefer to ‘walk’ on their pectoral and pelvic fins, which have extremities resembling a human hand. However, […]

Coast to Coast conference, Adelaide, 20-24 September

Coast to Coast 2010 – Adelaide
Actions for Change
Monday 20th September – Friday 24th September 2010 Adelaide Convention Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide
Coast to Coast is the renowned, and only, National Coastal Management Conference, when all with interest on coastal, estuarine and marine matters get together, every two years, to celebrate Australia’s coasts, and share knowledge […]

Future Renewables

For ASC members in Adelaide- come along to the third instalment of the Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy.
For interstate members, videos of the first two events are now available online.
The TCASE#2:Established Renewable
http://www.riaus.org.au/events/2010/08/11/thinking_critically_about_sustainable_energy_established_renewables.jsp
and TCASE#1: Our Fossil Fuel Future
http://www.riaus.org.au/events/2010/07/07/thinking_critically_about_sustainable_energy_fossil_fuel_future.jsp
Thinking critically about sustainable energy: Future renewables
Wednesday 1st September 6.00 – 7.30pm The Science Exchange
Free but booking […]

SA job opportunity -casual staff/contractors needed

Good afternoon,
I am looking for expressions of interest from communicators that might want to work with lush logic, a specialist science communication business.
Our business is currently expanding and we are anticipating availability of part time or casual hours, 5-25 per week (with the possibility of hours increasing).
We are looking for staff with skills in:
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