Podcasts about australian museum research institute

Chief Scientist at the world's biggest museum, wildlife forensic scientist and conservation geneticist Rebecca Johnson is a leading researcher in koala conservation. The iconic Aussie marsupial is hostage to climate change and chlamydia. Dr Johnson came to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History from Australia, where she was chief investigator of the Koala Genome Consortium. As Director of the Australian Museum Research Institute, Rebecca helped put the Australian Museum on the map as a global leader in wildlife forensic science and applied conservation genomics. Rebecca is passionate about protecting threatened species, reducing the illegal trade of wildlife and the importance of STEM. She's been recognised as one of the 30 inaugural "SuperStars of STEM" by Science and Technology Australia.

In this Eureka Talk, explore the science behind the deadliest event of the 21st century. Australian Museum Eureka Prize winning journalist, Olivia Willis, sits down with world-leading evolutionary biologist and virologist, Professor Eddie Holmes, and our Chief Scientist and Director of the Australian Museum Research Institute, Professor Kris Helgen, to discuss what is being done to prevent future zoonotic outbreaks. Explore how viruses move between hosts, and the debates over their origins. Learn about the triggers for virus mutations and the cutting-edge research and discoveries that are paving the way towards preventing the next pandemic. Discover the fascinating links between habitat destruction, illegal wildlife trade and the next global health emergency. Recorded live at the Australian Museum on 8 July 2023.

Professor Kris Helgen's career has taken him to volcanic craters in Papua New Guinea, savannah grasslands of Kenya, and ventured deep into the forests of the Andes. The chief scientist at the Australian Museum Research Institute helped name and discover around 100 species of mammal, many of which were sitting undiscovered in the dark depths of museum storage facilities. His latest research published in the Australasian Journal of Palaeontology completely flips the narrative on where we think mammals came from, and instead places Australia at the heart of the emergence of mammal evolution. Kris talks to Kathryn about where his fascination with mammals comes from, how his latest research could turn 200 years of study on its head and how he got so good at finding new species.

The scientists of the Australian Museum Research Institute are hard at work investigating the world's biodiversity – which sometimes means discovering animals not previously known to science. These discoveries teach us what has come before us, and what we need to protect for the generations that will come after us. In the final episode of Explore we head out into the field – from the deepest ocean trenches to the peaks of the Himalayas – to discover how the Australian Museum's Chief Scientist Professor Kris Helgen and palaeontologist Patrick Smith identify new species, and what it means to add new branches to the Tree of Life. Guests: Professor Kris Helgen, Dr Patrick Smith, Dr Tim O'Hara and the scientists aboard the CSIRO RV InvestigatorHost: Alice GageFind images, extra stories and transcript at australian.museum/explore-----Professor Kristofer M. Helgen is Chief Scientist and Director of the Australian Museum Research Institute. He is responsible for a team of more than 100 staff, including research scientists, collection scientists, collection officers and more than 130 associates, fellows and students, who research and explore the natural world. Kris was most recently Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Adelaide. He has focused his research primarily on fieldwork with living animals and research in museum collections to document the richness of life, understand global change, and contribute to important problems in biomedicine. Originally from Minnesota, Kris gained his undergraduate degree in Biology at Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Zoology as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Adelaide. Dr Patrick Smith is a technical officer in the Palaeontology Collection at the Australian Museum Research Institute. He obtained a PhD at Macquarie University looking at Middle Cambrian (500–510 million year old) marine invertebrates from Ross River Gorge near Alice Springs in central Australia. He also was a previous curator at the Richmond Marine Fossil Museum (Kronosaurus Korner) in far northwest Queensland and a technical officer in the geology department at the University of New South Wales. Currently he is working to database the Australian Museum's entire Palaeontology Collection. This includes all the material onsite, as well as the material at the museum offsite storage facility. Dr Tim O'Hara is the Senior Curator, Marine Zoology, at Museums Victoria. He uses museum collections to answer large-scale questions about the distribution of seafloor animals around the globe. This research includes aspects of biogeography, macroecology, phylogeny, and phylogeography. Tim's taxonomic speciality is the Ophiurodea (brittle-stars), a class of echinoderms that are a dominant component of the seafloor fauna. Alice Gage is the producer, writer and host of the Australian Museum's Explore podcast, and editor of Explore, its biannual magazine. Alice is an editor, writer and content creator interested in the nexus of science, cultural knowledge and art. She founded and published cult art journal Ampersand Magazine from 2009-2013. Alice lives on Bidjigal Country with her husband and their two little redheads. She holds an MA in Communications from Melbourne University and a BA in English from Sydney University. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Modern science's rapidly evolving techniques are pretty impressive, but the big secrets of the animal world continue to keep our scientists guessing. In this episode, ancient creatures of Central Australia are unearthed by Australian Museum palaeontolgist Patrick Smith, while back in the present, frog expert Jodi Rowley hunts for answers to explain the mass frog die-off that plagues the eastern states. The combined power of the Australian Museum collections and citizen science may just offer some answers. A First Nations' take on the significance of the Eel offers a new understanding of this elusive creature and clues as to how we might reboot our connection to the natural world.Guests: Dr Patrick Smith, Dr Jodi Rowley and Sara Judge Host: Alice GageFind images, extra stories and transcript at australian.museum/explore-----Sara Kianga Judge is a Neurodiverse Walbunja-Yuin woman born and grown up on Burramattagal Country. She is an environmental scientist, geographer, and artist who is passionate about accessible science communication and helping people to grow meaningful relationships with Country. As First Nations Content Producer at the Australian Museum, Sara is currently working on Burra – a many-ways learning place that shows how western science and First Nations knowledges can work together. Dr Jodi Rowley is the Curator of Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, leading the Herpetology department, at the Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum & Centre for Ecosystem Science, UNSW Sydney. She is the lead scientist on the FrogID project. Jodi is a biologist with a focus on amphibian diversity, ecology and conservation, and a passion for communicating biodiversity conservation. Her research seeks to uncover and document biodiversity, understand its drivers, and inform conservation decisions. Jodi focuses on amphibians because they have the greatest levels of undocumented diversity of any terrestrial vertebrate group, perform irreplaceable functions in many ecosystems and are being lost at an unprecedented rate. Dr Patrick Smith is a technical officer in the Palaeontology Collection at the Australian Museum Research Institute. He obtained a PhD at Macquarie University looking at Middle Cambrian (500–510 million year old) marine invertebrates from Ross River Gorge near Alice Springs in central Australia. He also was a previous curator at the Richmond Marine Fossil Museum (Kronosaurus Korner) in far northwest Queensland and a technical officer in the geology department at the University of New South Wales. Currently he is working to database the Australian Museum's entire Palaeontology Collection. This includes all the material onsite, as well as the material at the museum offsite storage facility. Alice Gage is the producer, writer and host of the Australian Museum's Explore podcast, and editor of Explore, its biannual magazine. Alice is an editor, writer and content creator interested in the nexus of science, cultural knowledge and art. She founded and published cult art journal Ampersand Magazine from 2009-2013. Alice lives on Bidjigal Country with her husband and their two little redheads. She holds an MA in Communications from Melbourne University and a BA in English from Sydney University. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Pat Hutchings is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Museum Research Institute. She is a marine biologist who studies sea worms called polychaetes. Pat describes new species and works to understand where they live, what they do, and how diverse they are. These worms play an important role in the food chain and she has been devoted to studying them her entire career. Outside of science, Pat tries to spend her free time outdoors with activities like sailing and gardening. She also enjoys cooking with fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as spending time with friends. She received her B.Sc. with Special Honors from Queen Mary's College of the University of London and her Ph.D. and D.Sc. in reproductive biology of a sea worm from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Pat is a Fellow and Senior Vice President of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Whales. She is Past president of the Australian Coral Reef Society, Former Councillor of the Australian Marine Sciences Association, Past President of the International Polychaete Association, and Former Vice President of the Coast and Wetlands Society. In addition, she was the recipient of the Silver Jubilee Medal from the Australian Marine Science Association for her contributions to marine sciences. In this interview, Pat shares more about her life and science.

Zoe interviews Kris Helgen, Chief Scientist and Director of the Australian Museum Research Institute. They discuss how one species became three, what makes these animals unique, and what other questions scientists could ask about them in the future. This paper is in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society's February 2022 issue, “Across the great divide: revision of the genus Eupetaurus (Sciuridae: Pteromyini), the woolly flying squirrels of the Himalayan region, with the description of two new species.” A copy of the paper is available here: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/194/2/502/6287636 To learn more about Kris, follow him on Twitter: @khelgen Be sure to follow New Species on Twitter (@PodcastSpecies), like the podcast page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NewSpeciesPodcast), and music in this podcast is "No More (Instrumental)," by HaTom (https://fanlink.to/HaTom). If you would like to support this podcast: https://www.patreon.com/NewSpeciesPodcast

Museum collections play a vital role in active research and conservation programmes, and in this episode we’re going to explore a prime example of just how valuable they can be. Join Kyle Ewart (University of Sydney; Australian Museum Research Institute) and Leo Joseph (Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO) as they discuss their recent research on the iconic red-tailed black-cockatoo, and their discovery of a new subspecies that was hidden in plain sight. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We'll learn about the kinds of animals that live in urban environments and the challenges they face! One young Australian listener wants to know why wombats, kangaroos and koalas hang out in the countryside rather than the city. Dr. Mark Eldridge from the Australian Museum Research Institute tackles that one. And we turn our focus to one particular urban dweller, the raccoon, with York University raccoon expert Suzanne MacDonald. She lives in Toronto, which has one of the most dense populations of raccoons in the world. She helps answer why raccoons eat garbage, how long they live and why they look like they're wearing masks.

Everyone loves a good murder mystery and some of the trickiest cases to solve take place in the animal world. Dr Rebecca Johnson is an expert in wildlife forensic science and the Director of the Australian Museum Research Institute.

In 2010 a new species of frog was discovered in the forests of Vietnam. Sadly deforestation is threatening the habitat these little frogs depend on, putting their very future at risk.

A live panel discussion with former Eureka Prize winners, hosted by Robyn Williams. In this live recording hosted by The Science Show's Robyn Williams, Dr Michael Bowen, Dr Richard Major, Professor Angela Moles and Sonya Pemberton share their Eureka Prize-winning work and discuss the big issues facing Australian science. This lively panel discussion covers a diverse range of topics including psycho-pharmacology, rapid evolution in introduced plant species, making compelling and challenging science documentaries, science in the era of Trump and the importance of building curiosity in the world from a young age. Our panellists for the evening were: Dr. Michael Bowen, School of Psychology, University of Sydney; Dr. Richard Major, Senior Research Scientist, Australian Museum Research Institute; Professor Angela Moles, Big Ecology Lab, UNSW Australia; and journalist and producer Sonya Pemberton, Genepool Productions. The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes reward excellence in the fields of research, innovation, leadership, science communication and school science. The 2017 Eureka Prize finalists will be announced at the end of July and winners at the end of August. To read more, visit www.australianmuseum.net.au/eurekaprizes. 0:00 – 13:50 Introduction from Kim McKay AO, Executive Director and CEO, Australian Museum 13:50 – 50:10 Panel discussion hosted by Robyn Williams 50:10 – 55:00 Close from Kim McKay AO, Executive Director and CEO, Australian Museum

A green frog with orange hands and feet and purple thighs leaps into the spotlight.

“Here at AMRI, I’m so passionate about the work we do, of our three most senior scientists, two of them are women, we are very fortunate here to have that kind of leadership, that kind of expertise” Dr Rebecca Johnson Director, Australian Museum Research Institute, Science and Learning

Dr. Pat Hutchings is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Museum Research Institute. She received her B.Sc. with Special Honors from Queen Mary's College of the University of London and her Ph.D. and D.Sc. in reproductive biology of a sea worm from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Pat is a Fellow and Senior Vice President of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Whales. She is Past president of the Australian Coral Reef Society, Former Councillor of the Australian Marine Sciences Association, Past President of the International Polychaete Association, and Former Vice President of the Coast and Wetlands Society. In addition, she was the recipient of the Silver Jubilee Medal from the Australian Marine Science Association for her contributions to marine sciences. Pat is with us today to tell us all about her journey through life and science.

Spliced mice and oral HIV vaccines by Ian Woolf, Dr Jodi Rowley from the Australian Museum Research Institute talks about her search for rare amphibians at Inspiring Science, Gemma Sharp's Three Minute thesis: "Paying for Lip Service", Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by downloading a free audio book from http://www.audibletrial.com/science