Gary Tilley
Media Kit
- Reptile guru Rick Shine wants to release small cane toads to protect native snakes, lizards and quolls (Sydney)
- Michael Aitkin is making stock markets fair and efficient; can he do the same for the health system? (Sydney)
- Colin Hall’s plastic mirrors are the beginning of a new manufacturing technology, and jobs (Adelaide)
- Kerrie Wilson is providing the evidence-base for good conservation decisions by putting a value on clean air, water, food, tourism and the other benefits that forests, rivers, oceans provide (Brisbane)
- Richard Payne is re-engineering peptides from ticks, bacteria, and leeches to create new drugs for stroke, TB, and malaria (Sydney)
- Suzy Urbaniak’s #therealclassroom in Perth’s Kent Street school is setting up students for jobs in mining, conservation, tourism and more
- Gary Tilley is turning the next generation of primary teachers on to science at Seaforth school and Macquarie Uni in Sydney
2016 PM’s Science Prizes – video links
Links to YouTube versions which you can embed in websites, social media, etc. are now available below.
Rick Shine – Prime Minister’s Prize for Science: YouTube video
Michael Aitken – Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation: YouTube video
Colin Hall – Prize for New Innovators: YouTube video
Richard Payne – Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Life Scientist of the Year: YouTube video
Kerrie Wilson – Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year: YouTube video
Suzy Urbaniak – Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Secondary Schools: YouTube video
Gary Tilley – Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Primary Schools: YouTube video
Where’s wallaby? Last call for online wildlife spotters
Monday 5 September 2016
The ABC’s Wildlife Spotter project and competition closes at midnight tonight. But the project has been so successful that the wildlife spotting will continue into the future.
Volunteer wildlife spotters have collectively spent more than 16,000 hours assisting scientific research by identifying two million animals in the images. [Read more…] about Where’s wallaby? Last call for online wildlife spotters
Breeding mosquitoes; turning Aussie wheat into Indonesian exports; connecting land and sea; the first 1,000 days of life
Today in Surabaya, the third Indonesia-Australia Research Summit discusses research to change lives, including:
- What happens when islands and remote communities get electricity? How does 24/7 power change families, businesses, and hierarchies?
- Families hatching and releasing mosquitoes to fight dengue
- Joint competitive advantage – working together to build our economies
- Australian wheat becomes Indonesian noodles for global export
- Australian cotton and rayon transform into Indonesian fashion exports
Scientific bollocks; NASA’s hunt for life; biotech, the virus slayer; and racing single cells in the Slime Mould Cup
Sunday 21 August 2015
Highlights from Day 9 of National Science Week
Brisbane: Engineer and test fly paper planes and whirly bird helicopters.
Sydney:
- How hard is it to get scientists to believe BS (bad science)?
- Kids racing single cells through mini moldy mazes in the Slime Mould Cup.
- Indigenous science and scientists, astronomy, artefacts, bushfoods, and demonstrations.
Canberra: Why NASA’s hunt for water in the solar system is the hunt for life.
Melbourne:
- Life under a lens: how cutting-edge microscopes explore cancer cures, infectious diseases, how DNA works, and the impacts of disasters on biodiversity.
- Superbugs, the science of scent, and pharmaceutical science on the big screen.
- The science of chocolate, make your own sherbet, and a special space-guest at Queen Vic Market.
Up close with a virtual reality dinosaur; on water matter; building LEGO particle detectors; and music for plants?
Saturday 20 August 2015
Highlights from Day 8 of National Science Week
Brisbane: Superbugs, sea level rise, baby stress, and seabird conservation: Soapbox Science spruiks discoveries in King George Square.
Sydney:
- Fossils, safeguarded seeds at the Australian PlantBank, and face-to-face with a virtual reality dinosaur – all at Mount Annan’s Jurassic Garden.
- Build an ATLAS particle detector with LEGO to reveal its engineering – continues Sunday.
- What can science and Indigenous knowledge tell us about the secret life of eels?
30,000 people identify 800,000 animals – Australia’s online wildlife census is working!
- images of wildlife caught on camera
- download the Wildlife Spotter video [9 MB]
- spokespeople available for interview
Scientists are thanking the 30,000 Australians who have gone online and spotted more than 800,000 animals in 680,000 images through the ABC’s Wildlife Spotter project, helping scientists monitor Australia’s wildlife, their predators and pests.
But there’s still more work to be done, with hundreds of thousands of pictures of animals taken by automated ‘camera traps’ needing to be done.
“You’re helping us save bandicoots and other animals,” says Deakin University ecologist Euan Ritchie. “And you’re literally saving us years of work, so we can get ahead with understanding and protecting our wildlife.”
Anyone with a tablet or computer and an internet connection can join – head to www.wildlifespotter.net.au to start spotting and identifying the wildlife caught on camera. [Read more…] about 30,000 people identify 800,000 animals – Australia’s online wildlife census is working!
The scent of a Sav Blanc; fats, fads and navigating nutrition; and a whisky-powered jet engine?
Science Week highlights for foodies
Wednesday 17 August 2016
Talent, researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview and photo opportunities around the country.
- What’s whisky got to do with climate change and could there be a whisky-powered jet engine? – Parkes, ACT
- The science and scent of a Sav Blanc – North Adelaide, SA
- Drones in the vines – Pokolbin, NSW
- The science of chocolate, make your own sherbet and a special space-guest at Queen Vic Market – Melbourne, VIC
- Gluco-what? Poly-huh? The science of what’s in our food and on the label – Ultimo, NSW
- DNA: what makes fruit a fruit, and a human a human? – Falcon, WA
- Make your own gin with scientific equipment – Canberra, ACT
- Fads, facts and a tasting tour of a training restaurant – Geraldton, WA
… and there’s more on each below.
Find more National Science Week events online at www.scienceweek.net.au [Read more…] about The scent of a Sav Blanc; fats, fads and navigating nutrition; and a whisky-powered jet engine?
Flying robocops; cyber security; and what space robots are next for NASA?
Tech highlights from National Science Week
Tuesday 16 August 2016
Local and international talent, researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview and photo opportunities around the country.
- Robots in NASA’s search for ‘Terra-Nova’? – SA, NSW and ACT
- Flying robocops! Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems – Adelaide, SA
- Cryptic questions on cyber security – Adelaide, SA
- What do robots and the Space Age represent for minerals and wealth? – Newcastle, NSW
- All things quantum, from computing to transport – Carlton, VIC
- Teaching with technology in the 21st Century – Melbourne, VIC
… and there’s more on each below.
Find more National Science Week events online at www.scienceweek.net.au. [Read more…] about Flying robocops; cyber security; and what space robots are next for NASA?