Geoff Edwards
How different lesson materials are in the 2020s ! However, one can’t be confident that this knowledge-packed volume of 178 pages will be useless for modern-day teachers.
First Studies in Insect Life in Australasia by William Gillies is 41.5 MB and has been rendered searchable.
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The Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee invites you to join the ‘army’ of Frog Finders.
Find a Frog in February #citizen science program from all over the Sunshine Coast, Noosa, Gympie and Fraser Coast council regions.
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See https://scienceqld.org/get-involved/grant-opportunities/
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Agricultural Ecologist Jim Galletly of Gatton earned his doctorate in 2007 for a study of the source of water feeding Lockyer Creek. An obituary and an abstract of his doctoral dissertation can be viewed in Volume 128 of the Proceedings of The Royal Society of Queensland. The attached summary of his dissertation is a little longer (there is a word limit for the Proceedings) and QSN is pleased to bring this teaser to a wider audience.
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This charming booklet was first published in 1957 and reprinted several times, with this printing dated 1964. It lacks the first-rate colour images that modern publications can use but it should serve as a good teaser for primary age students.
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QSN doesn’t normally feature material from interstate, but this thoughtful little document from about 1995-1996, titled NSW Weirs Policy, an element of water reforms, has some valuable lessons for the management of watercourses wherever they are located.
QSN isn’t in a position to research the extent to which this document has been superseded by later ones, but we think it is useful even as a snapshot of knowledge at the time.
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This informative briefing note by the predecessor to QSN member body Healthy Land and Water, Newsletter No. 2 of March 2011, is useful not just as a summary of the catastrophic flooding of January 2011, but for its insights into catchment hydrology generally.
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QSN member body The Moreton Bay Foundation has released a Blueprint for a sustainable Moreton Bay for people and nature (2025-2035) along with a Technical Appendix and a readable summary is available.
A video of the launch is available on the website of Redlands 2030, an activist group based in Bayside South East Queensland.
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Royal Society Member Adj. Prof. David George has penned a thoughtful account of NCCARF and its relevance after the disappointing 2024 Conference of the Parties on climate change. It advocates for a greater urgency for climate adaptation and includes an outline of a ‘how-to?’ approach.
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Royal Society of Queensland Member Dr Shay Dougall has co-developed a ‘Psycho-social Climate’ Scorecard to highlight the damage that the energy industries are doing to the well-being of Queensland’s farmers and to farmland.
Under workplace health and safety legislation, farmers who are unwilling hosts to energy/resource projects have a right to a safe workplace protected from the risks created by co-location. It places on persons in control of energy undertakings clear obligations to address workplace psychosocial well-being within farming workplaces.
The absence of effective enforcement of Queensland workplace law severely minimises the visibility, voice and role of host farmers in both the resource and planning regulatory arrangements. Co-location creates an unmitigated shifting of hazards and risks from the energy project to the farming occupational group.
Click on the image above for a poster explaining the PSC Scorecard. For more information contact Dr Dougall.
Dr Dougall has also has a chapter “An Overview of Unconventional Gas Extraction in Australia: The First Decade”. By Geralyn McCarron and Shay Dougall in the following book:
Stolz, J., Bain, D., Griffin, M., & Stolz, J. (2022). Environmental Impacts from the Development of Unconventional Oil and Gas Reserves (First edition.). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108774178