QSN Newsletters
The latest Newsletter has been issued, with items on “Eastern King Prawns have nurseries at Toondah Harbour” use of drones to survey wading birds and South East Queensland Underwater Ecological Survey Teams (SEQUEST). Contact the Foundation to join.
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Recent publications on fire and related themes, news and forthcoming events. Click here.
Read more of QFBC’s work here.
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I am pleased to present another content-packed Newsletter, Number 8-2021 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 (3.3MB).
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
New section GRAPHICS (CARTOON) EXPRESSIONS USED IN SCIENCE
Special articles on use of hollows by birds and tree biodiversity decline.
Snippets of general science information from group members are of course welcome. Please contact me on the email address below.
Col Lynam
Editor, QSN Newsletter
newsletter@scienceqld.org.au or
col.lynam@gmail.com
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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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The latest newsletter from the Consortium includes items on the K’Gari bushfire review, bushfire recovery in Scenic Rim, new natural hazards research centre, lessons from Black Saturday plus lots more. The Newsletter includes citations of current literature from Australia and around the world.
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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.