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Monthly Archives: December 2010

The Neandertal in you: what have we learned from the Neandertal Genome Project

Listen to visiting Prof Carles Lalueza-Fox speak about findings from the Neandertal Genome Project. The Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) was pleased to host Professor Carles Lalueza-Fox who gave a free public talk on ‘The Neandertal in you: what have we learned from the Neandertal Genome Project?’ on 9 December at the University of […]

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Projecting future fuel production – peak oil, coal and natural gas

Listen to Prof Kjell Aleklett (Uppsala University, Sweden) speak about future fuel production. The Centre for Energy Technology (CET) and Institute for Mineral and Energy Resources (IMER) were pleased to host a seminar by Professor Kjell Aleklett entitled ‘Projecting Future Fuel Production – Peak Oil, Peak Coal, Peak Natural Gas, and the Intergovernmental Panel on […]

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A Renewable Energy Plan for Australia

Listen to Peter Seligman speak at the final Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy forum. Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy: Our Energy Future Interactive discussions about energy 40 years into the future This RiAus and Centre for Energy Technology event was the final of six public forums aimed at providing comprehensive examinations of sustainable energy technologies […]

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Genographic Project Results

Listen to Prof Alan Cooper reveal the results from a recent Genographic Project event held in Adelaide. The Genographic Project results were ‘revealed’ to participants last Tuesday 7 December at an event held at the Science Exchange, RiAus. Listen to Prof Alan Cooper and Dr Wolfgang Haak (University of Adelaide) and visiting Prof Carles Lalueza-Fox […]

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Genographic Competition Winners!

The winners of our Genographic competition have been announced. Thanks to our partner IBM we gave 6 tweeters the opportunity to participate in the Genographic project. Tweeters were encouraged to follow @environmentinst on twitter and compose a tweet explaining who in history they would like to be related to and why. The winners received a […]

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