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Weekly newsletter | no 19 | 4–8 December 2017

 

Director's Message

Colleagues,

This week is an important one for all of our graduating students. It also provides an opportunity for the School to congratulate our students on their achievements. 

The undergraduate ceremony is taking place on Tuesday morning at 10am in Llewellyn Hall. Following the ceremony the School will hold a small function from 12:30 in the foyer of Jaeger 8 for the students and their families. Academic staff, demonstrators and others who have gotten to know our students are particularly encouraged to come along.

The graduate and research student ceremony takes place on Wednesday afternoon starting at 2pm. The School will host a small celebration on the top floor of Jaeger 8 at 5:30pm to congratulate our fabulous students and their families. Everyone is invited and welcome to attend.

 

Steve Eggins

 

RSES Holiday Party 2017

The RSES Holiday Party was held on 1 December.  A big thanks to the organisers and helpers who made the event so successful!

 

Movember Fund Raising

Throughout November several members of RSES grew moustaches for Movember, an annual event that aims to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues. We raised a total of $176.30 at the Holiday Party which has been donated to James Tolley, Pat Carr and Rhodri Davies. Thanks to everyone who donated.

 

 

End of year get together - Structure Tectonics Team

The ladies in the Structure Tectonics Team far outshone their male counterparts in a demonstration of sense-of-shear determination during the end-of-year get-together at the Lake.

 

 

Outreach Opportunities:

Over December-January we will have a lot of visitors to RSES.  Please consider contacting the person listed below to volunteer to either to host a group in your laboratory or to give a talk.

  1. Rossmoyne School, WA

Dates: 5 December, 11.30am - 12.30pm

Type of help needed: 1 hour chat and lab tour (a dozen students)

Contact:Michael Anenburg

  1. STEM Summer School for Indigenous Students

Dates: 11–15 December

Type of help needed: workshops, lab tours, lectures

Contact: Michelle Salmon 

  1. NYSFNational Youth Science Forum

Dates: Tuesday, 9 January 2 - 5 pm, Tuesday, 23 January 2 - 5 pm

Type of help needed: Student Session A: 14 students plus 1-2 student staff

Student Session C: 14 students plus 1-2 student staff

Contact: Charles Le Losq 

  1. NSTSSNational Science Teacher Summer School

Dates: Wednesday, 10 January, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm  20 teachers – request lab visits

Type of help needed: workshops, lectures, resources

Contact: Malcolm Sambridge 

  1. Science Olympiad programEarth and Environmental Science Summer School (EESO) lectures and practical

Dates: Mon-Thurs: Jan 8-11  and 15-18
Type of help needed: 1 hr guest lecturers and/or laboratory visits on any topic in Earth Systems Science [solid earth, geophysics, geochem, fluids, environmental, etc] and Planetary Astronomy will be most welcome. The EESO students are very high ability Yr9-11 High School students who have been invited to attend Summer School, having topped an extremely challenging national selection exam. At Summer School they are put through the equivalent of a first year university course in EES but in some areas of the course the students are easily operating at levels much higher than most good first year students.

Any ANU/RSES  staff and post-graduates who are in Canberra during January 2018 who would like to contribute can contact Greg to discuss how they might be able to help with a presentation that relates to their research work and/or how they might be able to show us some of the research laboratories in action.

Contact: Greg McNamara 

 

 

 

This Week's Seminars:

Data Surgery Event:

Hales room   11.30-12.30pm

Topic: TBC

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School Seminar: 

Jaeger 1 Seminar Room   4.00 - 5.00pm 

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OCG Seminar:
 
Jaeger 7, Hales Seminar room - TBC
 
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School Seminar:

Jaeger 1 Seminar Room   1-2pm

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Petrology and Geochemistry Seminar
 
Ringwood Room  J4 - 12.30- 1.30pm
 
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Best Student Presentation Award

RSES student Taimoor Sohail was awarded the Best Student Presentation at the 10th Australasian Natural Convection Workshop, held in Auckland, New Zealand from 29th November to 1st December 2017. 

Taimoor presented on his current PhD work related to identifying the impact of convection on circulation and mixing in the Southern Ocean. 

Congratulations Taimoor!

 

 

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ORCID

RIMS is now live, visit rims.anu.edu.au and login using your standard ANU login credentials. The release of RIMS provides you an opportunity to familiarise yourself with your dashboard, ensure your information is correct and connect and review your researcher iDs including ORCID.

See RIMS website for a simple step-by-step guide to logging into RIMS and either registering or linking your ORCID account – it will take 2 minutes.  If you have any feedback on the system, please contact the RIMS Project Team on ext. 50505 or rims.support@anu.edu.au or visit RIMS for further information.

 

 

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Conferences, Meetings and Workshops:

 Franco-Australian Astrobiology and Exoplanet School and Workshop 16 - 20 December, 2017, Australian National University

The ANU (co-sponsors include ORIGINS Team- RSES)  in collaboration with the Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) Research University will host the first Franco-Australian Astrobiology and Exoplanet School and Workshop.  Exoplanets and astrobiology are rapidly emerging fields that combine astronomy, biology, and earth sciences.  Key questions to answer are: Do protoplanetary disks include compositional trends that imprint on the future planets? What should future observations of Solar System bodies focus on? Where should we search for nearby habitable Earth-like planets? How can the science of the remote detection of biosignatures be advanced? What can our knowledge of life on Earth tell us about life elsewhere in the universe?

This workshop will bring leading experts from France, Australia and around the world to identify new avenues for answering these questions. The outcomes of this workshop will inform future collaborative projects between Australia and France. 

The first 2 days (Dec 16 & 17) will be a school with lectures intended for PhD, Masters and undergraduate students. The following 3 days will be a workshop with research presentations on astrobiology and exoplanets.  The outcomes of this workshop will inform future collaborative projects between Australia and France in these fields.

AMOS-ICSHMO 2018

The Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and the American Meteorological Society, are holding the Joint 25th AMOS National Conference and 12th International Conference for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, AMOS-ICSHMO 2018, at UNSW Sydney 5-9 February 2018

 

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