Coming Events:
In a change to our originally planned movie, we are now showing the documentary A Plastic Tide.
Over eight million tonnes of plastic enters the ocean each year, killing sea life. Now new evidence says it's entering our food chain with unknown health effects.
Pre-movie presentation by Dr Mark Hartl, Associate Professor of Marine Biology, Director, Centre of Marine Biodiversity & Biotechnology. Microplastic contamination is now ubiquitous in the (marine) environment. Efforts to put mitigating government policy measures in place require a monitoring programme to establish baseline concentrations in order to gauge impact and effectiveness.
Sun Apr 2
2:00 PM
Jeremiah's Taproom
Today's world is one more saturated with science than any other in history, with technology reaching into all aspects of life, understanding of our biology and origins greater than ever, and with humans able to affect the very climate of the Earth. At the same time, we live in an information era, and also in an era of misinformation. From climate change, to vaccination to evolution, science faces the challenge of imposing facts in an opinion driven world. We will discuss these challenges and how best we can sort the good information from the bad.
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