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2022 annual report highlights Academy’s wide range of achievements
The announcement that the Academy will lead the International Science Council Asia Pacific Regional Focal Point was one of the many achievements highlighted in the Academy’s 2022 annual report, released today.
Academy welcomes 20 new Fellows for their outstanding contributions to science
An engineer, a microbiologist and an ecologist are among 20 researchers recognised for their outstanding contributions to science by being elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science.
Mangroves help us understand droughts and floods, and the climate-altering chemistry of kelp: Thomas Davies 2020 awardees
Using climate clues stored in mangroves to better understand our history of droughts and flooding rains, and how storms reduce the ability of kelp forests to fight ocean acidification—these are the outcomes of two projects awarded funding in 2020 through the Thomas Davies Research Grant for Marine, Soil and Plant Biology.
Academy Fellow among Australian scientists elected to Royal Society
Academy Fellow and polymer chemist Dr Graeme Moad is one of two Australian scientists elected this year to the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
Sir Mark Oliphant archival collection now available online
An Australian Academy of Science collection of papers belonging to one of the twentieth century’s most influential physicists has been digitised as part of an ongoing collaborative project with the National Library of Australia.
Science has been heard at the Kathleen Folbigg Inquiry
Australia’s scientists have welcomed a submission by the Inquiry’s assisting lawyers that it is open for the Inquirer, former Chief Justice of NSW Tom Bathurst AC KC, to find reasonable doubt about Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions.