For National Science Week
Presented by the Sapphire Coast Science and Sustainability Hub, Bournda EEC and Atlas of Life & the Great Southern BioBlitz..
Supported by Inspiring Australia and Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA)
Announcing the Sapphire Coast Science Festival 2022 - A week of online forums and webinars, local field trips and informative in-person events. Coinciding with National Science Week.
National Science Week is Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology.
Running each year in August, and co-ordinated by Inspiring Australia, it features more than 1000 events around Australia, including those delivered by universities, schools, research institutions, libraries, museums and science centres.
This year on the Sapphire Coast we’d like to encourage people to become citizen scientists. Through citizen science there are opportunities to get involved in many different kinds of science: formulating research questions, conducting scientific experiments, collecting and analysing data, interpreting results, and even making new discoveries.
With the Atlas of Life, people share what they observe from the nature around us to provide information for us and for science and natural resource managers.
Our online symposiums invite people on the Sapphire Coast to hear fascinating presentations and discussions about citizen science and the related BioBlitz projects and join the growing, global citizen science community.
There are in person events that include Science in the Pub, an encounter with a Tawny Frogmouth, a night tour of the mysterious world of our nocturnal marsupials, estuary rambles exploring life on our shores and an online forum that explores the ways we can encourage marine life on man-made structures like jetties, creating wonderful watery worlds full of life. Libby Hepburn of Atlas of Life says "This year we have a great range of topics in our Sapphire Coast Science Festival, from meeting a Tawny Frogmouth in the feathers to a national BioBlitz Symposium, a look under the Tathra Wharf at citizen science projects here and as far away as Busselton and Blairgowrie. Sessions about Place-based Science – how people can create really valuable science outcomes, by working on what’s around the place they live. There’s also our famous Science in the Pub, and a nocturnal ramble with our favourite marsupials at Potoroo Palace.”
“Come and learn about the fishers of the Amazon Basin or the studies of river turtles at Bellingen, learn about the secrets of a Tawny Frogmouth’s life, and the mysterious world of sea slugs and rose-petalled bubble snails and the importance of our coastal mangroves - citizen science for everyone, where we live.”
Link to our festival program: https://atlasoflife.org.au/2022-national-science-week
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