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I am pleased to present Newsletter Number 7-2021 of Queensland Science Network, a collaboration between 26 scientific and natural history societies, hosted by our Royal Society of Queensland. The Newsletter is available now on the Network’s website download here. Apologies to subscribers/members who clicked on this link between 7 pm on 26 August and 12.05 pm on 27 August and who received an error message.
Included in this issue:
- HOT NEWS AND COMING EVENTS
- MEMBERS AWARDS, NEWSLETTERS AND MEDIA
- ALLIED COMMUNITIES ACTIVITY
- COMMUNITY DATA COLLECTION AND DIGITAL APPS
- EDITOR’S EXCERPTS FROM EXCEPTIONAL ARTICLES
- GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
Snippets of general science information from Society members are welcome. Please contact me on the email address below.
Col Lynam
Editor, QSN Newsletter
col.lynam@gmail.com
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I am pleased to present “Express” Newsletter Number 6-2021 of Queensland Science Network, a collaboration between 26 scientific and natural history societies, hosted by our Royal Society of Queensland. The Newsletter is available now download here.
Included in this issue:
- HOT NEWS AND COMING EVENTS
- MEMBERS AWARDS, NEWSLETTERS AND MEDIA
- ALLIED COMMUNITIES ACTIVITY
- COMMUNITY DATA COLLECTION AND DIGITAL APPS
- EDITOR’S EXCERPTS FROM EXCEPTIONAL ARTICLES
- GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
Snippets of general science information from Society members are welcome. Please contact me on the email address below
Col Lynam
Editor, QSN Newsletter
newsletter@scienceqld.org.au
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I am pleased to present Newsletter Number 5-2021 of Queensland Science Network, a collaboration between 26 scientific and natural history societies, hosted by our Royal Society of Queensland. The Newsletter is available now on the Network’s website download here.
Included in this issue:
- HOT NEWS QLD’S CHIEF SCIENTIST & CLIMATE EMERGENCY
- MEMBERS AWARDS, NEWSLETTERS AND MEDIA
- ALLIED COMMUNITIES ACTIVITY
- COMMUNITY DATA COLLECTION AND DIGITAL APPS
- NOTEWORTHY PUBLICATIONS AND DATABASES; SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
- EDITOR’S EXCERPTS FROM EXCEPTIONAL ARTICLES
- GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
Snippets of general science information from Society members are welcome. Please contact me on the email address below.
Col Lynam
Editor, QSN Newsletter
newsletter@scienceqld.org.au
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Welcome to the fourth edition of the QSN Newsletter. Table of Contents follows:
Editorial
HOT NEWS – Pandemic impacts
Qld funds world first biosecurity ‘virtual lab’
Insect decline in the Anthropocene: ‘Death by a thousand cuts’
Members Awards, Newsletters and Media
Table of Recent Newsletters received from Networking Societies
Happenings at Wildlife Preservation Society
LIZ DOWNES: QUEENSLAND VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR 2020
CSIRO science champions in 2020
Physicist Cathy Foley appointed Australia’s next Chief Scientist
Happenings at RGSQ
Happenings at Australian Citizen Science Association
Happenings at Brisbane Shell Club Inc
Happenings at Butterfly & other Invertebrates Club inc.
and Cubberla-Witton Catchment and Brisbane Catchment Networks
Happenings at Entomological Society of Queensland
Healthy Land and Water partners – QLD Farmers’ Federation preparing for floods
Queensland Fire and Biodiversity E-News (Publications- See Appendix)
Happenings at National Parks Association of Queensland Continue reading
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Welcome to the third edition of the QSN Newsletter. Highlights include:
- Table of QSN Partner Newsletters produced
- Research Fund grants open – QCF 2021 grants, Inspiring Citizen Science Grants
- Dr Cathy Foley – New Australian Chief Scientist
- Results-Aussie Backyard Bird count
- Brisbane’s Big Butterfly Count field day continues until March 2021
- Teaching Resource – Local Birds in S.E. Queensland app.
- QCC analysis of recent Queensland elections
- Political parties’ platforms
- Entomological Society – The Dung Beetle Date
- ACSA – Publication listing for Citizen Science for September 2020
- Editors Excerpts from Exceptional Articles.
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Welcome to the second edition of the Newsletter. Highlights include:
- Research Fund grants open – Royal Society Queensland, citizen science encouraged
- Dr Geoff Monteith honoured
- New Australian butterfly stamps
- Anyone interested in study on Norfolk Island?
- Expedition Solar System – Teaching resource
- Guidelines to Indigenous knowledge
- Political parties’ platforms
- OzFish agenda
- World Rivers Day
- Citizen science opportunities – birds, weather, Trove, mozzies.
QSN Members and Newsletter Subscribers have an opportunity to order copies of a new book at a significant discount to the recommended retail price:
The Long Enlightenment: Australian Science from its Beginnings to the Mid-20th Century. Sample pages and a Table of Contents accompany this message.
Download the Newsletter here (1.645 MB). Editor Col Lynam (col.lynam AT gmail.com) welcomes feedback on this Newsletter and items for the next edition.
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The past two centuries of history and loss of shellfish reefs in South-east Queensland have been chronicled in a scientific paper co-authored by Dr Ben Diggles, a member of The Royal Society Of Queensland. View pdf file.
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Western Sydney University and the University of New England have set up a Citizen Science Project called the Dead Tree Detective.
The aim of the project is to collect observations of dead or dying trees around Australia. It sounds a bit grim, but knowing where and when trees have died will help us to work out what the cause is, identify trees that are vulnerable, and take steps to protect them.
This project will allow people Australia-wide to report observations of tree death. In the past, there have been many occurrences of large-scale tree death that were initially identified by concerned members of the public such as farmers, bushwalkers, bird watchers and landholders. Collecting these observations is an important way to monitor the health of trees and ecosystems.
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Royal Society Member Ron Turner has produced a delightful e-book on the lighthouses of Australia. 18 lighthouses in Queensland are featured, each with an impressive photograph and a page of notes. The compilation will be an excellent companion for anyone visiting one of structures, each one a masterpiece of innovation.
It can be found at www.esplash.me . Scroll down to the Featured Publications section where this eBook can be found together with articles relating to the authors’ sojourns at two Queensland lighthouses in recent years (Living at a Lighthouse) even a ‘History of Fraser NP’ and several other articles about that park.
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Author: Paul Williams
Plants are exceptional chemists and their pharmacy provides us with an enormous number of compounds that are essential to our long-term good health. Continue reading