Ocean Talks August 2022

Ocean Talks: Sea-ing the Future

This Science Week, join curator, Emily Jateff, in conversation with UTS Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research, Professor Chris Turney, as they discuss the impacts of climate change and the possible role the oceans may play in capturing carbon and buying us precious time.

Ocean Talks: Sea-ing the Future

Just how bad is the climate crisis? Can the oceans help to buy us some time? What is ocean carbon sequestration? Find out the answers to these questions and more at Ocean Talks.

 

Join Emily Jateff, the Australian National Maritime Museum’s first curator of Ocean Science and Technology, in conversation with Professor Chris Turney, the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Research at the University of Technology, Sydney. They will discuss everything from deep time to current and future ecological impacts of climate change. Learn about scientific breakthroughs and the prospect of a zero-carbon economy for Australia.

 

Tickets to this Science Week event include a drink on arrival, and access to all exhibitions, including our newest exhibitions, Shaped by the Sea and Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Outside the Museum, walk along the waterfront and marvel at the majesty of Australia’s east coast seafloor, projected across the Museum’s roof in a dynamic technicolour animation.

 

Speaker Bio:

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Chris Turney is an award-winning, British-Australian Earth scientist, entrepreneur and optimist. Chris is the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research at the University of Technology Sydney and works with an amazing team to find solutions to environmental, social, and economic challenges facing the world today.

Chris is passionate about the decarbonization of the global economy to reach a net-zero economy. To help reach this goal, he was a Founding Director, Inventor and now Scientific Advisor to the New Zealand-based clean tech company, CarbonScape. CarbonScape have developed technology to covert plant material into locally-produced, sustainable, net zero, bioengineered graphite for lithium-ion batteries. Chris is a member of the Climate Recovery Institute which is working to deliver global solutions to the climate crisis.

Communicating scientific thinking is at the core of what Chris does. He has published over 230 research papers and four books. Chris and his team at ‘Intrepid Science’ travel the globe and report on science discoveries when they happen, where they happen.


 Curator Bio:  

Emily Jateff is the inaugural Curator of Ocean Science and Technology at the Australian National Maritime Museum.  She leads the museum’s 10-year program in support of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, 2021-2030. Her role includes exhibitions, programs, partnerships and collections acquisition. Emily has worked in museums for over a decade. Before this, she was a university lecturer and archaeologist.

   

 

   


   
   
 


   

 

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