Director's Message

Dear Colleagues,

Everyone is invited to meet our new HDR students at the School’s Welcome Day morning tea in the Seminar Room at 10:30am tomorrow (donuts provided!).  

Everyone is also reminded of the upcoming RSES Photo Competition, with entries being open only until the 31st May.

Lastly, check out the new Indigenous cultural awareness program - Core Cultural Learning which has been released in advance of Reconciliation Week. Core Cultural Learning is designed to enhance cultural capability across ANU through learning about the cultural heritage and traditional knowledges, cultural expression and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

All new ANU staff being required to complete the Core Modules 1 and 2 as part of their probation requirements

Module 1 - Thinking About Cultures and Identities (EDHR10) Module 2 - My Country, Our Country (EDHR11)

After doing these and some of the other self-paced modules in the program myself over the weekend, I thoroughly recommend them to all staff.

Best wishes for the week ahead

Steve

AusIMM Student Meets Industry

On Wednesday the 1st of August the AusIMM Canberra Student Chapter will be hosting its annual "Students Meet Industry” night. This event is aimed to bring representatives from government and industry to RSES to meet both undergraduates and postgraduates about opportunities available in the mining, geospatial and water management industries. There will also be events run throughout the day in conjunction with the theme of “Resources in the 21st Century”. The Student Chapter would like to thank Chinova Resources (Gold Sponsor) and Frogtech (Silver Sponsor) for their contributions towards our event. Contact: Jack Muston   

Media interviews

Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić recently commented for the ABC News on the recent paper published in Science on the latest nuclear bomb test.

The article also featured Warramunga and its role. Here is a link:

Students Furry Friend

This is a photo of a possum that can be found in the tree right outside OHB. He can be found sleeping everyday in the large nook about a third of the way up (you have to look from the benches). Sometimes he'll be awake during lunchtime and you can see him peaking out. It's really cute! We have named him Tony Wombat.

Katie

RSES PhD Welcome Day will be held on Tuesday 22 May 2018.  Below is a draft agenda:

10:00am - 10:30am          Welcome and introduction of new students

10:30am  - 11:00am         RSES Morning Tea (for the entire School) "FREE Donuts"

11:00am - 12:00 noon     Introduction of PhD program by Simon McClusky (Delegated Authority)

12:00 noon - 1:30 pm      Pizza lunch for all students in the courtyard

1:30pm - 3:00pm             Visit to RSES labs

Can you pleae make sure to put the above date/times in your diary.

Special Event - Your invited

What: GRACE Follow-On launch

Where: RSES J1 Seminar Room

When: 5.47 am Wednesday 23rd May

Breakfast will be provided from 5.30am

The GRACE mission operated successfully for 15 year before being decommissioned in 2017 and the GRACE Follow-On mission will continue the legacy of tracking water on Earth. This is providing critical information regarding the contributions to global sea level rise from mass balance changes in Antarctica and Greenland. These missions also provide unprecedented knowledge of water resources (including soil moisture and groundwater) in Australia and around the world.

As you may be aware, ANU scientists developed and built the prototype laser interferometer that is part of the payload for the GRACE Follow-On mission. ANU scientists have also created software to analyse the data from the mission to quantify the redistribution of water on Earth.

It is an exciting time to be involved in space activities in Australia and we hope you will be able to join us in watching the live launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Airforce Base, California.

2018 Photography Competition

We’d like to invite everyone at RSES to submit photographs into the 2018 Photography Competition!  The deadline is May 31st.

This year we have four categories:

RSES in the Field - Highlighting the range of field activities, we undertake at RSES for both education and research

RSES in the Lab - A look at the lab facilities, machines and people at RSES

RSES samples -Thinsections, SEM images or anything looking at the samples we investigate at RSES

RSES on Holiday - Photos of the exciting geological, climatological, or environmental places we visit on holiday.

To enter your photos please upload them along with a short description on our Google Drive: Here

As with last year, all photos will be displayed in the J1 foyer and then used in RSES marketing (for example, on TV screens around the school, the website, and in print materials).  The winners will be announced at the Student Conference on Monday June 4th.

If you have any questions please email rses.stu.con@gmail.com

RSES Student Conference Photo Competition and for students to sign up for a talk or Bake Your PhD.

There are four categories for the Photography Competition

- RSES in the Field

- RSES in the Lab

- RSES samples

- RSES on Holiday

Max five photos for person entering the competition. 

RSES Photography Competition 2018

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GGw5FFYJelvFadbSg3eXTda1JV6qUmCbHYYIstjpkPI/

Sign up for a talk or Bake Your PhD entry

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SZ336wqbMPbTTR4glH5MeBoy498Af4NBfYEnivB6wgQ/

Winter Intensive Tutoring Program

Starts O Week Monday 16 July

Are you interested in gaining new skills to improve your effectiveness as a tutor/demonstrator?  Principles of Tutoring and Demonstrating (PTD) is an intensive 10 module program, designed to help you develop teaching strategies, apply effective lesson planning principles, offer practical help with marking and examples of how to give feedback to your students.

This program is offered during O Week to PhD students who have some tutoring experience. Another PTD program is scheduled for semester 2 and is more practical for those participants new to tutoring. Dates for the ‘new to tutoring’ program released in mid-June.

Winter Intensive Program

Modules T1 & T2 – Monday 16 July

Modules T3 & T4 – Tuesday 17 July

Modules T5 & T7 – Thursday 19 July

Module T8 – Friday 20 July

Module T9 – Monday 23 July ( fully online)

Module T6 – Monday 30 July (Peer Observation with online reflection, participants to organise)

Module T10 – Tuesday 31 July

Registrations essential at https://services.anu.edu.au/training/principles-of-tutoring-and-demonstrating (On the webpage click top right – Register Now button).

If you have completed a tutor training program in your College you can gain credit in PTD for the modules you have completed (please indicate in your registration what modules you have completed – you will need to provide a certificate or evidence of the completion of these modules).

All modules, except Peer Observation (T6) & Evaluation and Reflective Practice (T9), will be held in the CHELT Seminar Room, Chancelry 10T1.

Calling for abstract and registration to the Negative Emissions conference sponsored by RSES.

Where: The Shine Dome, Canberra

When: 30-31 October 2018

More information can be found here: and here:

This year there are a few sessions at the AGU Fall Meeting on Diversity and Inclusion, including this one in “Education on Diversity, Inclusion and Equality in the Earth Sciences” https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/preliminaryview.cgi/Session49591 

Don’t forget, as this is in the Education section, it is not subject to the first author rule.

Oral abstracts for the session are available here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/orals/27273

Poster abstracts are available here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/posters/27273 

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