ENVIRONMENT highlights from across Australia this National Science Week

• Caring for the rare: meet the people saving Victoria’s species – online via Parliament House, VIC
• How hydrogen could create jobs and cut carbon dioxide – Hawthorn, VIC
• Saving the planet by gardening underwater – Lake Macquarie and Sydney, NSW
• Tree scientist encourages gardeners to grow the urban forest – Adelaide, SA
• Feeding caterpillars to get butterflies – Kuranda, QLD
• Wattle vs Wollemi: what is Australia’s favourite tree? – online

More on these highlights below.

Sunday 14 August 2022

Highlights from day two of National Science Week

Researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview around the country.

ACT: Footy Quake: can a rugby crowd register on the Richter scale?
NSW: Fighting superbugs, big bad tech, caring for sky country, and microfactories making new materials from old – Sydney Science Festival is back
NSW: What and where the wild things are in Western Sydney
TAS: How an astronomer is helping an ecologist eavesdrop on bats and bitterns – Swansea
ACT: A band of physicists go on a roadtrip to explain quantum and dark matter – Tharwa
VIC: Step inside the International Space Station and take a selfie
ACT: Science while you shop – multiple locations in Canberra
NT: Students survey the Territory’s soil, from Darwin’s dirt to sands in Central Australia

Read on for more on these, including event contact details.

Saturday 13 August

Highlights from day one of National Science Week

Researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview around the country.  

ACT: Reaching organism: an adults-only marine science show
NSW: Orchids, traditional knowledge, and the plant doctors: the secret science inside the Royal Botanic Garden
NSW: Saving the planet by gardening underwater – Lake Macquarie
NT: Will we have enough prawns for Christmas?
QLD: Cultural connection and Indigenous astronomy with Uncle Wayne Fossey – Logan
VIC: Starlings flock, humans crowd, drones… zizz?  Explore the swarm in this exhibition-cum-experiment
QLD: Feeding caterpillars to get butterflies – Kuranda
WA: Hack a webcam; see inside your cells

Read on for more on these, including event contact details.

Explore Indigenous Knowledge this National Science Week, 13 to 21 August

Available for interview:

• Kamilaroi water scientist Bradley Moggridge
• Ngarrindjeri sustainable fisher Derek Walker on harvesting pipi in Goolwa
• Caring for Sky Country with Gamilaraay astronomer Karlie Noon in Sydney
• Gomeroi astrophysicist Krystal de Napoli, talking science through stories in NSW & Tas
• The Indigenous Science Experience at Redfern

ENTERTAINMENT highlights from across Australia this National Science Week

• One-up your mate’s Bali pics with selfies in a replica International Space Station – Melbourne
• This ain’t your mammal’s reproduction, in the adults-only Sex on the Beach Science Show – Canberra
• What do experts make of the ‘science’ in Mars Attacks!? – Canberra
• Can Raider’s fans move the needle? Earthquake experts will find out – Canberra
• Brewing experimental beer, with interactive drink-along four packs – online and Hobart
• Dr Karl, dinosaurs, furry friends, and a T-Rex autopsy show: all on the Sydney Science Trail – Mt Annan and Sydney
• Plant-powered cars, Jurassic poop, the science of piracy, and more at Festival of Bright Ideas 2022 – Hobart
• Battle of the boffins: which scientific field is best? – Hindmarsh, SA

More on these highlights below.

ScScientists, performers and event organisers are available for interview leading up to and throughout National Science Week: 13 to 21 August.

Dozens of Science Week stories around South Australia

• Daleks, racing drones, and dinosaur droppings: Science Alive! is back – Wayville Showgrounds
• South Australian landmarks set alight with science story projections – Barmera, Karoonda, Port Pirie, Quorn and Wallaroo
• Alzheimer’s takes centre stage in acclaimed play – Adelaide
• Insect corn chips and roasted seaweed: what will you be eating in 2050? – online via Adelaide
• Stingrays in the stars: Indigenous knowledge of the sea – Port Adelaide
• Tree scientist encourages gardeners to grow the urban forest – Adelaide, SA
• Smaller, lighter, faster X-rays – Tonsley, SA
• My Science Rulz, Your Science Droolz! – Hindmarsh, SA
• Wattle vs woollybutt: what is Australia’s favourite tree? – online

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Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

This year’s festival runs from 13 to 21 August, with thousands of events.

National launch with Minister at Parliament House – Thursday 4 August.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview leading up to and throughout National Science Week. Here are some early stories:

• National: 88% of Australians trust science and scientists, but scepticism has increased slightly amid social media misinformation – 3M State of Science Index 2022 results reveal what we think of science
• Canberra: First Nations Sciences of the Land: the official launch of National Science Week at Parliament House
• Hobart: Dr Karl, a NASA astrobiologist, and 150 roving scientists walk into a science bar…
• Adelaide: Daleks, racing drones, and dinosaur droppings: Science Alive! is back
• Melbourne & online: Are you smarter than a TV personality? Charlie Pickering quizzes Nate Byrne, Lawrence Leung and scientists
• Melbourne: Step inside the International Space Station and take a selfie
• Perth: What does climate change have to do with human rights?
• National, with Brisbane talent: 1,500+ rockets simultaneously launched around Australia
• Darwin: Thunderbirds are go! Why have they gone? Ask a palaeontologist
• Sydney: Fighting superbugs, big bad tech, caring for sky country, and microfactories making new materials from old – Sydney Science Festival returns.

Dozens of Science Week stories around Tasmania

• Join a NASA astrobiologist and 150 roving scientists for a drink – Hobart
• Beer quenches scientists’ thirst for knowledge (online and live in Tassie)
• Plant-powered cars, Jurassic poop, the science of piracy, and more at Festival of Bright Ideas 2022 – Hobart
• Bugs, bats, brains, and space junk: young scientists tour Tasmania
• Wattle vs woollybutt: what is Australia’s favourite tree? – online

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

Dozens of Science Week stories around Victoria

• Starlings flock, humans crowd, drones… zizz?  Explore the swarm in this exhibition-cum-experiment  – Parkville
• Saturn up close – Ballarat
• Hydrogen energy 101 – Hawthorn
• Moving images: virtual reality helps us accept death – Carlton
• A band of physicists go on a road trip to explain quantum and dark matter – Bendigo and Stawell
• Misinformation puts the Q into 5G – Parkville
• Who wants to be an epidemiologist? – Torquay
• Caring for the rare: meet the people saving Victoria’s species – online via Parliament House
• Wattle vs woollybutt: what is Australia’s favourite tree? – online

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.