Technoscience

This coming Thursday evening on Catalyst (ABC 8.00 pm), Dr. Stephen Carey from the School of Science and Engineering at the University of Ballarat will be one of the featured scientists. Stephen is a geology lecturer who specialises in “soft rocks” – sedimentary rocks and the processes involved in their deposition and formation, such as [...]

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It has been a long and devastating week in Victoria, since “Black Saturday” and the worst bushfires since Australia was colonised in 1788. 181 people have been confirmed dead and many others, listed as missing, may never be identified due to the extreme conditions. Here in the western district we have been largely unaffected [...]

On Monday and Tuesday this week we had “Wild Action” visit Hawkesdale – Xavier and his menagerie of native Australian animals came to school. It was a fast-paced, action-packed show with the opportunity to touch many of the creatures including a tiny squirrel glider, green tree-frog, stumpy-tailed lizard, short-necked turtle, black-headed python and salt-water crocodile. [...]

Yesterday the Warrnambool Standard reported that, after more than two years, UNESCO has declared an area of land from Colac to South Australia as Australia’s first Geopark. The volcanic features of the area, including Tower Hill, Mt. Eccles, Lake Condah and Camperdown’s crater lakes will be marketed as Kanawinka Geopark, which may increase tourism in [...]