A scientist whose work showing the massive amounts of carbon that could be captured by oceans and coastal ecosystems has been chosen to represent Australia in a lucrative global sustainability prize.
Dr Nicolas Flament’s research allows us to not only peer under Earth’s crust but to uncover what the planet’s interior looked like hundreds of millions of years ago.
You may have read in previous Academy newsletters or noted media reports about the work of Academy Fellows and their scientific discoveries in informing the deliberations of the Second Inquiry into the Convictions of Kathleen Folbigg.
The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the release of the Australian Government’s Trusting Australia’s Ability: Review of the Australian Research Council Act 2001.
Academy President Professor Chennupati Jagadish said the underlying theme of the review is that of trust with a strong emphasis on the critical role of the ARC in Australia’s research system.
Nominations and applications are now open for the Academy’s 2024 honorific awards, research conferences, research awards and travelling fellowships.
The closing date for honorific awards is 1 May and for funding opportunities 1 June.
Find out more about the Academy’s awards and funding opportunities
Professor Richard Ellis CBE FAA FRS has been awarded the 2023 Gruber Cosmology Prize.
This prize honours a leading cosmologist, astronomer, astrophysicist or scientific philosopher for theoretical, analytical, conceptual or observational discoveries leading to fundamental advances in our understanding of the Universe.
Admitted to the Australian Academy of Science as a Corresponding Member in 2018, Professor Ellis is a distinguished astronomer at University College London.
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.
The Academy is coordinating Australia’s participation in the Science20 (S20) meetings hosted in India this year on Disruptive Science for Innovative and Sustainable Development.
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