by Econnect | Apr 13, 2016 | Newsletter | Planning science communication
Welcome to our April 2016 newsletter: A report from the 2016 ASC Conference What’s new in science communication? In March, we went along to the 2016 Australian Science Communicators national conference to find out. Many thanks to the organisers for a...
by Econnect | Apr 5, 2016 | BLOG | CSIRO ECOS
Client CSIRO What we did The Blue Mountains west of Sydney are not blue. But the air around them is often seen as a blue haze, especially on hot summer days. This bluish haze is caused by a chemical reaction in the atmosphere, driven by a compound called...
by Econnect | Feb 19, 2016 | Projects
Client Centre for Appropriate Technology The Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT) reviewed more than 400 small Aboriginal communities—homelands and outstations—in the Northern Territory, recording details of both the physical infrastructure and the social services...
by Econnect | Feb 3, 2016 | Newsletter | Writing science simply
Welcome to our February 2016 newsletter: The beauty of language Pet language peeves? We all have them. If you write about science or you edit someone else’s science writing, it’s easy to become jaded by the familiar hum-drum of involving key stakeholders,...
by Econnect | Dec 14, 2015 | BLOG | CSIRO ECOS
Client CSIRO What we did 3 days over 40 degrees is enough to make a flying fox fall out of the trees, dead. Our story, entitled Paris, truffles and extreme weather – it’s all relative, describes research to understand what constitutes an extreme weather event...
