Professor Alan Smith and Dr Ady James
As part of Mt Stromlo’s centenary celebrations for 2011, this lecture series provides an opportunity to hear…
2010 Lions Oratory Competition
In this year's Sixteenth Annual Lions Oratory Competition, student representatives from the ANU Colleges competed for the perpetual Oratory Trophy and prizes totaling $3,000 in cash. The objective…
Dr Michael Watkins
, NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory
The Earth's gravity field varies from place to place and from one day to the next. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) is a revolutionary satellite system that allows scientists to use…
Dr Bradley Opdyke
, President, ACT Division of the Geological Society of Australia
People are constantly asking how today's climate compares with detailed climate records from tens of thousands of years ago to tens of millions of years ago. To the best of our knowledge, we have to…
Dr Aaron Bernstein
, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston
Biodiversity loss, namely a reduction in the variety of life on Earth, continues relatively unabated worldwide. Biodiversity loss represents far more than a loss to experience nature's beauty or to…
Professor Will Steffen
, Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute
Over the past few months, the climate change challenge has taken some odd twists and turns. The COP15 meeting in Copenhagen was widely condemned in the press as a failure; the Australian Government…
Professor Roel Snieder
, WM Keck Distinguished Professor, Colorado School of Mines
A stable and sustainable energy supply is one of the major issues of this Century. World-energy demand is expected to increase by about 70% in the coming 20 years, while the production of petroleum…
Rod Quantock, Comedian, Writer and Climate Change Activist
Rod Quantock says, "If climate change doesn't scare you, then you don't get the science." Fortunately Quantock does, and when he gives you his take on the physics, chemistry, biology, geology, palaeontology,…
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