Monday 5 September 2016 The ABC’s Wildlife Spotter project and competition closes at midnight tonight. But the project has been so successful that the wildlife spotting will continue into the future. In just one month, 44,000 citizen scientists have classified frogs, feral cats, bettongs, bandicoots, birds, Tassie devils, dingoes, and other animals caught on camera…
images of wildlife caught on camera download the Wildlife Spotter video [9 MB] spokespeople available for interview Scientists are thanking the 30,000 Australians who have gone online and spotted more than 800,000 animals in 680,000 images through the ABC’s Wildlife Spotter project, helping scientists monitor Australia’s wildlife, their predators and pests. But there’s still more…
Media release from ABC Radio National Thursday, August 4, 2016 Australian wildlife scientists need all eyeballs on deck this August to help them study where Australia’s wild things are, as part of Wildlife Spotter — the ABC’s citizen science project for National Science Week (13–21 August 2016). Since its launch on Monday 1 August: 133,601 images…
images of wildlife caught on camera download the Wildlife Spotter video [9 MB] spokespeople available for interview Australian wildlife scientists need your eyeballs this August to help them study where Australia’s wild things are for Wildlife Spotter—the ABC’s citizen science project for National Science Week. Australia is a vast country. Researchers have set up automatic…
Seventeen scientists, science communicators and wildlife experts are available for interview in Victoria, Northern Territory, NSW, Queensland and Tasmania. More information and contact details for each spokesperson are below. Or you can contact: Ellie Michaelides on ellie@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 809 789 Tanya Ha on tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863
Why everyone (except you) is an idiot. Live show on tour Daniel Keogh, reporter for ABC’s Hungry Beast and Radio National’s Science Show, is on tour for National Science Week to show why human stupidity is unavoidable.
“Our failure to act on climate change could encourage an underground movement to take action and fix climate change through geo-engineering. It’s a real threat according to leading academics. And the ethics of geo-engineering were explored at a Victorian government backed conference in California earlier this year,” says science commentator Tim Thwaites. Shock? Horror? Why…
11 am, 27 April 2010 From Australians stranded in Europe to fresh vegetable growers in Africa, people dependent on the world’s airlines have done it hard in the past two weeks. If the eruption of one volcano in Iceland can disrupt us so badly, what could the Bluebird project do? You are about to find…