The complete Volume 153, Part 2, December 2020.
Robert E. Marks
Editorial: A new era in vaccinology?
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 135-137, 2020
Submitted Papers
Jamin Forbes, Aldo Steffe, Robyn Watts, Lee Baumgartner, Paul Brown, Jason Thiem, Nathan Miles
Implementation of a harvest slot for Murray Cod: Initial impacts on the recreational harvest in a manmade reservoir and comparison to riverine fisheries
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 138-155, 2020
Kenneth R. Dutton
The Skottowe manuscript and the Cook connection
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 156-163, 2020
Commissioned Paper
Steven Patterson
The history of blue pigments in the Fine Arts – painting, from the perspective of a paint maker,
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 164-179, 2020
Point Counterpoint:
The Editor.
Introduction.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 180, 2020
25 Scientists.
A letter to the Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 181-183, 2020
Alan Finkel.
Response to the 25 scientists.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 184-185, 2020
Penny D. Sackett.
Gas is not a transition fuel to a safe climate. That ship has sailed.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 186-188, 2020
Richard Bolt.
The Chief Scientist’s critics are wrong about natural gas.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 189-190, 2020
Andrew W. Blakers.
Gas as a transition fuel is a bit-player.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 191-193, 2020
Peter Rez
The Chief Scientist is right, and why
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 194-199, 2020
Andrew Blakers and Peter Rez
Debate
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 200-204, 2020
PhD Abstracts
Yael Bar-Zeev,
Improving health providers' management of smoking in Australian Indigenous pregnant women
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 205-208, 2020
Emma Bradshaw,
Intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations and psychological wellbeing: a meta-analysis and latent profile analyses of life goals
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 208-209, 2020
Jie Chen,
Institutional influences on education investment and pro-social behaviour
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 209-210, 2020
James Farquharson,
"Black America Cares:" The response of African Americans to the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 210-211, 2020
Andrew Harrison,
Sounding out the past
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 211-212, 2020
Carolyn Hayes,
Investigating undergraduate nurse responses to simulated interruptions during medication administration--a qualitative multi-method study
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 212-213, 2020
Terri Janke,
True Tracks: Indigenous Culture and Intellectual Property principles for putting self-determination into practice
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 214-215, 2020
Luke C. Jeffrey,
Cryptic drivers of methane and carbon dioxide emissions from disturbed coastal wetlands
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 215, 2020
Jonathan Jones,
Murruwaygu: Following in the footsteps of our ancestors
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 216-217, 2020
Ralph Kenke,
A creative study on data portraits: the visualisation process of self-surveillance as an indicator of datafication of social life
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 217-218, 2020
Graeme Lyle La Macchia,
Big Gubba Business: The making of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, First Nations resurgence and the Australian connection
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 218-219, 2020
Coulson Lantz,
The impact of anthropogenic stressors on coral reef carbonate sediment metabolism and dissolution
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 219, 2020
Alicia Brooke Mitchell,
The impact of detection of respiratory viruses on at-risk patient populations
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 220, 2020
Andrew Nette,
Pulp Jungle Down Under: Horwitz Publications and the rise of the Australian paperback, 1945-1972
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 221, 2020
Stephane L. Rayner,
The role of cyclin F in Motor Neurone Disease
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 222, 2020
Jandson Santo Ribeiro Santo,
Belief change without compactness
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 222-223, 2020
Laura Stoltenberg,
Coral reef sediment dissolution in a changing ocean: insights from a temporal field study
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 224, 2020
Suzette Timmerman,
Diamonds--time capsules of volatiles and the key to dynamic Earth evolution
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 224-226, 2020
Sodany Tong,
Managerial quality, firm performance, technical efficiency and productivity in New Zealand
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 226-228, 2020
Obituary:
Richard Limon Stanton DistFRSN (1926-2020)
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 229-232, 2020
Proceedings, 2020:
Programmes of events in Sydney, the Southern Highlands, and the Hunter; the Awards 2020; the Gazetting of Fellows, February 2020.
Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 153: 233-246, 2020
ISSN (online): 2653-1305
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In this talk Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger will explore just one of the islands she has investigated and, through her art, has raised awareness about the impact that our contemporary society is having on these often-idealised environments. Through the use of her time-based installations, photography and sculptures, along with her paintings and drawings, Lea works to make science more accessible to the community at large.
In January 2017 Lea travelled to Antarctica. This journey was unusual, not just because it was with a not-for-profit organisation, no room service or cabin attendants, but also as it was in many ways in the footsteps of the adventurer explorer. Her journey here resulted in artworks and exhibitions that have been seen across Australia in universities and art galleries, with her goal to bring the plight of the remote into the lives of the everyday person.
Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger is an Australian contemporary artist who disseminates her research and artistic vision, as an ‘artist at large’ by presenting her response and advocacy for environmental issues. Her investigations into evolution, contemporary society, and the impact of tourism on island environments has seen Lea do onsite examinations through immersive residencies or eco-tourism inquiries in; the South Shetland Islands specifically Deception Island (Antarctica) 2017, the Faroe Islands (The North Sea) 2015, the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) 2014, Lord Howe Island (NSW Australia) 2014 & 2015 and in 2021 an Artist at Sea residency with the Schmidt Ocean Institute. Lea creates artworks and installations that examine a window into the impact of the Anthropocene and contemporary consumerism on the viewed utopian destination. Lea has disseminated this research and her unique perspective through lectures, paper presentations and peer reviewed journals.
Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at Edith Cowan University Western Australia, and Griffith University, Queensland, and group exhibitions including Sculpture by the Sea (Sydney and Cottesloe), the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. Internationally her work has been shown at the Venice Summer Academy, Stunning Edge Exhibition Taiwan, the New York Hall of Science, Galway International Arts Festival Ireland, the SVA (the School of Visual Arts) at the Flatiron Building in Manhattan and the NYABF at the MOMA annexe PS1, New York.