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March 2017
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Thursday 02 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar: Lethal and sub-lethal impacts of dredge-related stressors on corals
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Corals are the framework builders of coral reefs and face a suite of both global and local pressures. One of the most prominent local stressors is sedimentation resulting from river-runoff, natural resuspension events and dredging. This project has investigated the impacts of a large scale dredging (...)
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April 2017
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Tuesday 04 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Offshore Safety in the Wake of the Macondo Disaster: business as usual or sea change?
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A public lecture by Jacqueline L. Weaver, the A.A. White Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center and Terence Daintith, Professorial Fellow, University of London’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Easter Sunday will mark the seventh anniversary of the incident in the deep (...)
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Friday 21 |
The UWA Oceans Institute and the U.S Consulate General Perth invites you to an exclusive screening of "The Last Ocean".
The Ross Sea, Antarctica is the most pristine stretch of ocean on Earth. A vast, frozen landscape that teems with life – whales, seals and penguins carving (...)
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May 2017
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Thursday 25 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Fisheries and Global Warming: Impacts on marine ecosystems : Professor Daniel Pauly takes a historical look at fisheries, and comments on the current challenges of global food security
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The period following the Second World War saw a massive increase in fishing effort, particularly in the 1960s. However, crashes due to this overfishing began to be reflected in global catch trends in the 1970s, and intensified in the 1980s and 1990s. In response, the industrialised countries of the (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Fisheries and Global Warming: Impacts on marine ecosystems : Public Lecture by Daniel Pauly
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A public lecture by Professor Daniel Pauly, fisheries expert and marine conservationist
In this public lecture, Professor Pauly takes a historical look at fisheries, and comments on the current challenges of global food security.
The period following the Second World War saw a (...)
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June 2017
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Monday 12 |
17:15 - FREE LECTURE - Public Panel Discussion - Sustainable Oceans and Security: Global Perspectives on the Indian Ocean Rim : Public Panel Discussion
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The Perth USAsia Centre, the UWA Oceans Institute and the School of Biological Sciences invite you to join us for a panel discussion on the sustainability of the Indian Ocean and the future prosperity and peace of the Indian Ocean Rim nations.
The Indian Ocean contains biodiversity and resources (...)
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August 2017
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Thursday 31 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Rigs, Reefs and Re-cycling: how offshore infrastructure can be re-used to benefit our oceans : All at Sea: Restoration and Recovery Series
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A public lecture by Professor Erika Techera, Director, Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia.
The offshore oil and gas industry is facing the prospect of de-commissioning thousands of installations in the coming decades. In some parts of the world the issue is already (...)
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September 2017
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Tuesday 19 |
18:00 - FREE LECTURE - Fish and Sharks... Marine Parks and our Oceans : Come share a research journey across Australia's top end
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Fish and sharks ... marine parks and our oceans - come share a research journey across Australia’s top end.
Please join the University of Western Australia Marine Futures team at the WA Maritime Museum, Peter Hughs Drive, Victoria Quay, Fremantle to share their findings after four (...)
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October 2017
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Monday 02 |
9:00 - CONFERENCE - In The Zone 2017 : The Blue Zone: Environment, Resources, and Security in the Indo-Pacific Maritime Realm
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In collaboration with The University of Western Australia, the Perth USAsia Centre is pleased to announce that the 2017 In The Zone Conference – “The Blue Zone” will be held on Monday, 2 October 2017 in Perth, Western Australia. The conference will host a program of distinguished and expert (...)
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November 2017
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Thursday 23 |
17:30 - ORATION - Lloyd's Register Foundation Oration, Australia
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How do you make society a safer place in an interconnected and autonomous world?
With the pace of technology development we’re increasingly living in an interconnected and autonomous world. This is reflected in the fact that it took more than a century for society to progress from the (...)
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Wednesday 29 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar Series: Exploring magnetism in biology using defects indiamond
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Magnetic resonance spectroscopy techniques have changed the face of biomedical research and our view of the human body to the point where electron spin resonance (ESR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) now permeate most areas of clinical science and research (...)
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May 2018
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Thursday 17 |
A public lecture by Professor Daniel Pauly, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia and 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
One of the expected responses of marine fishes to ocean warming is decrease in body size, as supported by (...)
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Monday 21 |
15:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Industry Mentoring in STEM (IMNIS) : A prestigious mentoring program that connects PhD students in their 2nd year with high level industry leaders
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Thursday 31 |
A public lecture by Veronique Florec, Research Associate, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, The University of Western Australia.
Plastic pollution in the ocean has become one of the most challenging environmental issues of our time. In 30 years, there will be more plastic in (...)
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June 2018
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Wednesday 06 |
13:00 - EVENT - Postgraduate Showcase: Frontiers in Agriculture : All are welcome to listen to eight of UWA's best PhD Candidates studying agriculture and related areas present their research. Afternoon tea and refreshments provided.
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Please join us at this year’s Postgraduate Showcase: Frontiers in Agriculture, where some of UWA’s top postgraduate students undertaking research in agriculture and related areas will present their findings.
For more information, download the flyer http://www.ioa.uwa.edu.au/__data/ass (...)
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August 2018
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Monday 06 |
10:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar Series : Advanced EELS and camera technology for research in physics, chemistry and life sciences
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Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is arguably the most powerful technique for the characterisation of materials structures at the micro-, nano- and sub-nanometer scales. Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS)is a TEM technique for composition and chemical environment or chemical bonding (...)
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Tuesday 07 |
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - Free Presentation : Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ms Frances Adamson on The Indo-Pacific: A Western Australian Perspective
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The Perth USAsia Centre is honoured to host Ms Frances Adamson, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for a public presentation on ‘The Indo-Pacific: A WA Perspective'.
The Indo-Pacific region is a central focus of the 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper. The White Paper recognised (...)
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Thursday 16 |
An 'All at Sea' public lecture by Professor Anas Ghadouani, Head, Aquatic Ecology and Ecosystems Studies and Programme Chair, Environmental Engineering, The University of Western Australia.
Do you think you’re water literate? More than 80% of Australians know little about the most (...)
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September 2018
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Tuesday 11 |
For the first time in Perth, join ten world-leading UWA researchers as they escape their labs and lecture theatres to bring impactful talks into ten Perth City bars. Raising the Bar Perth is for one night only, so bookings are essential.
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Wednesday 19 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Explorer�s Self-discovery: Matthew Flinders� Correspondence with Mauritian friends during, and after, his imprisonment on Isle de France (1803-1814)
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A public lecture by Professor Serge Rivière, 2018 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Throughout seven years of exile, which was marked by frustration and hope, followed by disillusionment and anger born of an inability to influence events and an increasing sense of (...)
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