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…
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…
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…
Dr Andrew Glikson, ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology and Research School of Earth Science
The evolution of Australopithecines and subsequently the Genus Homo from about 4.5 million years ago was intimately related to an overall cooling trend associated with orbital forcing…
Emeritus Professor Ted Moore
As a pioneer in paleoceanography who has contributed to three generations of scientific ocean drilling programs, Ted Moore questions whether lessons learned from Earth's past will help us better appreciate…
Professor Joseph Silk FRS, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford
Professor Silk discusses how our understanding of cosmology has evolved in recent years from the old Big Bang cosmology of the Einstein era. Observations have shown us that the universe is mostly dark.…
Associate Professor Janette Lindesay, Professor Robert Dunbar, Professor Malcolm McCulloch
Leading expert scientists from ANU and Stanford University presented critiques of the ABC televised program from the previous evening entitled 'The Great Global Warming Swindle'. The forum was then opened…
Dr Andrew Glikson, Department of Earth and Marine Science and Planetary Science Institute, ANU
Throughout Earth’s history, mass extinctions of species were closely related to physical and chemical changes in the atmosphere and the oceans. These variations were controlled by heat from the…
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Juilius Sumner Miller Fellow, University of Sydney
Dr Karl explodes our most common ‘mythconceptions’, including whether the daddy long legs is really the most venomous spider in the world and whether a frog will really sit in a pot of gently…
Professor David J Stevenson
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago with its initial condition greatly affected by the trauma of giant impacts. In this lecture, Professor David Stevenson discusses how this trauma affects the similarities…
Professor Richard Arculus, Head of Department Earth & Marine Sciences, ANU College of Science
The way the sea floor is mapped has been revolutionised in the last decade by high resolution, multi-beam sonar systems,…
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