by Captain Skellett | Feb 3, 2012 | Science at Home, Science Communication
True blue replica of Captain Cook’s tall ship HMB Endeavour is circumnavigating Australia and dropping into me home town Adelaide for a spell. Australians can sail the tall ship replica Endeavour in June 2012 to watch the rare transit of Venus from Lord Howe...
by Captain Skellett | Dec 5, 2011 | Science Communication
On Friday I went to day three of the international barcode of life conference, which happened to be in my hometown of Adelaide, actually at the home of my undergrad – The University of Adelaide – how convenient! DNA barcoding matches a region of DNA to a...
by Captain Skellett | Dec 2, 2011 | Science Communication
Yesterday afternoon I went to a prospectus to the HMS Beagle Project while founder David Lort Phillips is in Adelaide. It’s a CRAZY exciting project which plans to build a modern version of Darwin and FitzRoy’s tall ship the HMS Beagle, kitted out as a floating...
by Captain Skellett | Nov 25, 2011 | Science Art
I’ve got some good blog posts up my sleeve, but they’ll have to wait until after NaNoWriMo, because I’m quite sick of typing at the moment! Instead, here are some more of my contributions to the Adelaide crochet coral reef over at the RiAus. The...
by Captain Skellett | Oct 28, 2011 | Science Communication
Today marks the start of Research Week at the University of Adelaide, so if you’re SA based like me, might be worth heading in for a look. Monday 5pm there’s a seminar on wind energy that looks good. We’re always spotting turbines when we road-trip...
