Showcasing the activities of member groups, as well as items of general scientific interest, notably as contained in the QSN Newsletters. Nearly 30 years of persistence and vision has paid off when the first 24 captive-bred critically endangered Kroombit Tinkerfrogs (Taudactylus pleione) were released at Kroombit Tops in March 2023! This is a huge milestone for this species, and one which a small group of volunteers from QSN-member group the Queensland Frog Society helped to […] Dr Peter Dart and Col Lynam, members of The Royal Society of Queensland, have compiled this primer on the coal seam gas industry. Are you aware that Queensland coal seam gas is a risk to food security? The paper includes a useful table of recent reports and media columns with hotlinks. The paper has been […] See the Entomological Society’s webpage or the QSN Events Calendar for details. In 1923, the Entomological Society of Queensland was born, with the national body (the Australian Entomological Society) to follow some 40 years later, in 1965. Since then, Queensland remains a significant State in Australia’s entomological community and the ESQ has grown to over […] Pharmacist Geraldine Hall, educated at the University of Queensland, took a position as Pharmacist at the public hospital on Norfolk Island in 1999. In 2006 she opened her own pharmacy business in the Island’s commercial centre and became a trusted member of the community in the light of her extensive medical knowledge and personal discretion. […] The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science award Australian scientists and innovators with prizes to recognise outstanding achievements in science and research-based innovation. Closing date: Thursday 9 February 2023 5:00pm AEDT There are five Science Prizes ranging between $50,000 and $250,000. The Prizes are awarded for outstanding achievements in: scientific research research-based innovation excellence in science […] Landslip is a significant but under-acknowledged risk to residential development and infrastructure in vulnerable localities. Senior geologist Warwick Willmott wrote an account Slope Stability and Its Constraints on Closer Settlement in the Foothills of the Toowoomba Range, Gatton Shire, Number 44 in the 1984 Record Series of the Geological Survey of Queensland. “The prime cause […] An amount of up to $20,000 is available. See The Royal Society of Queensland’s Research Fund page for details. The 131st issue of the Proceedings of The Royal Society of Queensland has been completed. The full text is available free of charge online. The Society has been able to continue to offer free open access without shifting charges onto authors through the generosity of benefactors. Printed copies can be ordered from the Society’s Administration […] The irreversible damage that mining for coal seam gas can wreak on cropping land through subsidence was a highlight of a scientific paper published late in 2022 by four members of The Royal Society of Queensland. “The coal seam gas industry is causing irreversible damage to the landscapes of the Darling Downs, including its highly […] On 3 October 2022, citizen science networks and practitioners from around the world welcomed the formation of the Citizen Science Global Partnership (CSGP), a newly established association which seeks to promote and advance citizen science for a sustainable world. The partnership’s mission is to coordinate the collaboration of existing citizen science practitioners with international organisations […]
Tinkerfrogs Released at Kroombit !
Coal seam gas: Unsolved problems in defiance of the precautionary principle
One hundred years strong: Queensland entomology
Improving public health in remote communities: The Geraldine Hall Memorial Prize
The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science
Slope Stability, Toowoomba Foothills
Walter Fisher Grants for Mycology Research – Open to 5 March 2023
Proceedings 131 of The Royal Society of Queensland complete
Coal seam gas: An assault on farming, water and land rights
Citizen Science Goes Global
