Royal Society of New Zealand: Leonard Cockayne Memorial Lecture, 2012

Ever green but seeing red? Deciphering the palette of New Zealand’s flora
Professor Kevin S. Gould
School of Biological Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington

Room S.G.01
Gate 8
University of Waikato
Wednesday March 7, 2012, at 7.30 pm.

Royal Society of New Zealand: Robert Glennon Lecture

Unquenchable: America’s water crisis and what to do about it
Robert Glennon
University of Arizona

Concert Chamber
Gallgher Academy of Performing Arts
University of Waikato
Wednesday 1 February, 2012 at 6.00 pm.

RSNZ Waikato Branch - Talk Series

This year we are presenting a talk series entitled Facing the Future. Under this theme, invited speakers will consider topical issues in which science plays a major role, not only from the perspective of what we know, but also in terms of what we need to do and how we might do it.

Royal Society of New Zealand, Waikato Branch
Conservation Week Lecture, 2011

Maungatautari: celebrating a success
Roger McGibbon
Principal Ecologist
Opus International Consultants, Hamilton

Room S.G.01
Gate 8
Waikato University
Wednesday September 14, 2011, at 7.30 pm.

2011 RSNZ Distinguished Speaker Lecture

Science meets art: investigating pigments in art and archaeology
Professor Robin Clark CNZM FRS Hon FRSNZ
University College London

Gallgher Concert Chamber
Academy of Performing Arts
Waikato University
Tuesday April 5, 2011 at 7.30 pm.

RSNZ Fleming Lecture, 2011

Mountain tops to ocean depths: involvement with a range of ecological/environmental issues, mainly in the south.
Professor Sir Alan Mark
Department of Botany
University of Otago, Dunedin.

Room L.01 Gate 8
Waikato University
Wednesday March 9, 2011 at 7.30 pm.

Café Scientifique

Café Scientifique, Tuesday 23 November 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton. Pablo Gregorini (Kudos winner in 2009) from DairyNZ will talk about the grazing patterns of cows.

Café Scientifique, Tuesday 19 October 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton. John Perrone from the University of Waikato will be talking about the psychology of vision.

Café Scientifique, Tuesday 7 September 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton. Malcolm Green from NIWA will be talking about managing river estuaries.

Café Scientifique, Tuesday 17 August 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton. Ian Shaw, Professor in Toxicology at The University of Canterbury, will talk about Oestrogen (female sex hormone)-mimicking chemicals in the food supply and the feminization of the country.

Café Scientifique, Tuesday 20 July 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton. “What does ultraviolet radiation have to do with climate change?”

Café Scientifique, Thursday 8 July 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton. ‘Nanotechnology - opportunity or risk?' presented by Shaun Hendy, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

Café Scientifique, Tuesday 1 June 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton. ‘Cleaning up our Nitrate Waste’, presented by Louis Schipper from the University of Waikato.

Café Scientifique, Tuesday 27 April 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton.  “How Science and the Media Interact”. Aimee Whitcroft from the Science Media Centre in Wellington will talk about the ways that scientists and the media interact, in a New Zealand context. She will discuss some good and bad examples and outline some initiatives to improve the communication of science by the media within New Zealand.

Tauranga Continuing Education Group

The Tauranga Continuing Education Group is one of several such groups in Waikato/Bay of Pleny affiliated to the University of Waikato, Hamilton. Each year they organize in Tauranga, a series of lectures with a wide range of topics and speakers.

Progaramme of speakers for 2010