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Space science and Climate change (May 17 2011)

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…

Global Climate Change: Perspectives from the Past (April 22 2010)

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

The global energy challenge (December 15 2009)

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

Human Evolution and the Atmosphere: A Return to the Pliocene? (May 20 2009)

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

Messages from the Past: The Warm Earth We Know (May 13 2008)

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

The Dark Side of the Universe (August 21 2007)

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.…

Planet Earth

Debunking ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ (July 13 2007)

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

Geological Perspectives on Climate Change (June 20 2007)

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

It Ain’t Necessarily So … Bro (November 02 2006)

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

The Beginning of Earth History (October 26 2006)

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

Submarine Volcanoes of the Western Pacific (August 17 2006)

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,…