CSIRO Education is seeking a highly organised and creative person with excellent communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills to become part of a close-knit team responsible for the publication of The Helix, Scientriffic, Science by Email and Maths by Email. The position needs to be filled from the first week of January 2010 until December 2010. […]

A new animation illustrating how gold behaves at the nanoscale has been launched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkYB_pnExNY.
As foreshadowed earlier in the year, the National Enabling Technologies Strategy (NETS-PACE) has been expanding the reach of the national nanotechnology secondary school resource AccessNano http://accessnano.org.
With the help of James Hutson, Bridge8 has added to the collection of resources with an animation […]

Sorry about the multiple posts.
My earlier posts seemed to go into a list black hole. So I tried shorter ones – unwise.
BTW who is the list meister these days?
And perhaps they could advise on etiquette/process.
The list used to generate reasons if an email had been blocked – too big, too large an attachment, too liberal […]

Dear ASCers,
In 2011 Australia will hold one of the world’s largest meetings of earth scientists. They will explore all the physical aspects of our planet, from deep in the Earth’s core to our place in space.
Given recent natural disasters-such as the Pakistan floods, Black Saturday bushfires, Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, 2010 Chile […]

Dear ASCers,
In 2011 Australia will hold one of the world’s largest meetings of earth scientists. They will explore all the physical aspects of our planet, from deep in the Earth’s core to our place in space.
Given recent natural disasters-such as the Pakistan floods, Black Saturday bushfires, Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, 2010 Chile […]

Sent on behalf of Samantha Selinger-Morris of the Sydney Morning Herald

Dear ASCers,
In 2011 Australia will hold one of the world’s largest meetings of earth scientists. They will explore all the physical aspects of our planet, from deep in the Earth’s core to our place in space.
Given recent natural disasters-such as the Pakistan floods, Black Saturday bushfires, Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, 2010 Chile […]

Dear ASC’ers
Here is the latest physics bulletin, sent on behalf of Brian James, President of the Australian Institute of Physics.
The full bulletin is too long to post on the list – below is a brief summary of some of the events and the table of contents.
To view the full bulletin, visit http://www.scienceinpublic.com/blog/bulletins/aip-presidents-blog/physics-in-december-2010
Kind regards,
Niall

Dear ASC’ers,
The Council of Australian Museum Directors and the Ecological Society of Australia are holding a reception and free public forum in Canberra next Tuesday 7 December.
ASC members are invited.
The Council of Australian Museum Directors invite you to a reception and public forum for the International Year of Biodiversity
To be held on Tuesday 7 December […]