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Podcast- Genetic Data Reinforcing Aboriginal Connection to Country
Radio Adelaide’s Sound of Science program chats to Dr Ray Tobler, geneticist from the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD). Dr Tobler is part of a team of researchers working on the Aboriginal Heritage Project which aims to reconstruct the genetic history of Aboriginal communities using ground-breaking techniques. The project uses specimens and records collected through anthropological studies […]
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Vodcast: Unreconciled: Museums, Galleries and Aboriginal Art History
The South Australian Museum holds among the most extensive and important collections of Aboriginal creativity and material culture in the world. But what values, and whose values, does a museum promote in the way it cares for and displays art and material culture? How does the role of a museum differ from that of an […]
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Podcast- To Patagonia We Go
Join Ewart Shaw from Radio Adelaide on his show Orbit, as he talks with the Environment Institute’s Professor Alan Cooper. Professor Cooper takes us on a journey through Patagonia. What will we encounter? There are llamas, guanacos and vicuna, but what other magical beasts will they find? Listen to the podcast to find out.
Vodcast- Rediscovering Indigenous Genetic Heritage
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) celebrates and builds upon the respectful relationships shared by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians. Building upon the 2016 theme of “Our History, Our Story, Our Future”, Professor Alan Cooper, director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD), and Dr Raymond Tobler, ARC Indigienous fellow and geneticist with […]
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Exploring the world of life beneath us.
Erinn Fagan-Jeffries explains a whole new world of life under the Australian desert, Stygofauna in her presentation for the FameLab final. Congratulations and well done to Erinn for taking Adelaide research to the world stage in such stellar fashion! Abhimanya Veerakumarasivan from Malaysia was crowned the Winner, with his presentation explaining how genetics with transform future […]
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Podcast: The Right-Clawed Amphipod
Join Ewart Shaw from Radio Adelaide on his show Orbit, as he talks with the Environment Institute’s Dr Pablo Munguia. Dr Munguia introduces us to Dulichiella Appendiculata, a tiny but entirely fascinating little creature that has attracted the attention of ecologists. Listen to the podcast to find out more
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Podcast: Squid Inc.
Join Ewart Shaw from Radio Adelaide on his show Orbit, as he talks with the Environment Institute’s Dr Zoe Doubleday. Dr Zoe Doubleday explores the underwater world of the octopus and squid. With climate change transforming marine environments, how have these creatures fared? It turns out,they’re doing pretty well! Listen to the podcast to find out […]
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Podcast: Gut contents reveal wasps’ favourite caterpillars
FameLab winner, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, from the University of Adelaide describes how wasps can be used to save crops from attack by caterpillars in her winning presentation, which is now available as a podcast on ABC radio national. Wasps make perfect agents for biological control. Parasitic wasps choose specific caterpillars to lay their eggs, then when the […]
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Vodcast: Sprigg Geobiology Seminar. Assoc. Prof. Greg Jordan
As part of the Sprigg Geobiology Seminar Series, Associate Professor Greg Jordan, from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania delivered a seminar on the 29th of April, 2016 entitled “Five reasons why we might underestimate past climate change“.
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Podcast: Carp in our rivers
Professor Justin Brookes from the University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute spoke with Ian Henschke on 891 ABC Adelaide recently, discussing a potential bio-control agent designed to control the carp problems we have in our rivers. Managing the current carp infestation problem in the Murray River systems has benefits and risks, and how we manage those can all have […]
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