Joseph Mark Gani 1924–2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Eugene Seneta
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Stochastic Modelling ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
Applied Probability ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
Epidemic Theory ◽  
National University ◽  
Visionary Leader ◽  
Csiro Division

Joe Gani, as he was universally known, was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 15 December 1924 and died in Canberra on 12 April 2016. A visionary leader, mentor, and brilliant organizer, he created the Journal of Applied Probability, and was Chief of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Mathematics and Statistics. A distinguished academic career included posts at the Universities of Sheffield, Kentucky, California at Santa Barbara, and the Australian National University. His numerous research contributions are dominated by stochastic modelling, especially epidemic theory.

scholarly journals From Science to Heritage: the History of a Wood Collection

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Dargavel ◽  
Philip D. Evans ◽  
Gordon Dadswell
Keyword(s):  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
National University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Collections ◽  
Microscope Slides

There is a process by which scientific collections become heritage. The case of a wood collection, or xylarium, at the Australian National University (ANU) is discussed from its start in the Commonwealth Forestry Bureau in 1926, its association with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research/Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1928, its transfer to ANU in 1965, its manifold uses at ANU, and its decline and heritage assessment in 2011. The collection, consisting of 8,400 wood samples, microscope slides, panels and artefacts, was used for teaching forestry students, research into wood anatomy, and for identifying timber. Its future is uncertain.

Bernard Yarnton Mills AC FAA. 8 August 1920 — 25 April 2011

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 215-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. Frater ◽  
W. M. Goss ◽  
H. W. Wendt
Keyword(s):  
Radio Astronomy ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
The University ◽  
Csiro Division

Bernie Mills is remembered globally as an influential pioneer in the evolving field of radio astronomy. His contributions with the ‘Mills Cross’ at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Radiophysics and later at the University of Sydney’s School of Physics and the development of the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) were widely recognized as astronomy evolved in the years 1948–85 and radio astronomy changed the viewpoint of the astronomer as a host of new objects were discovered.

Joan Mary Anderson 1932–2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Peter Horton ◽  
Wah Soon Chow ◽  
Christopher Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Thylakoid Membranes ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
Lifetime Achievement ◽  
National University ◽  
Jan Anderson ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Molecular Organisation

Joan Mary (Jan) Anderson pioneered the investigation of the molecular organisation of the plant thylakoid membrane, making seminal discoveries that laid the foundations for the current understanding of photosynthesis. She grew up in Queenstown, New Zealand, obtaining a BSc and MSc at the University of Otago in Dunedin. After completing her PhD at the University of California, she embarked on a glittering career at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and then Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. Not only a gifted experimentalist, Jan was a creative thinker, not afraid to put her insightful and prophetic hypotheses into the public domain. Her many notable achievements include establishing the details and the physiological significance of lateral heterogeneity in the distribution of the two photosystems between stacked and unstacked thylakoid membranes and the dynamic changes in the extent of stacking that occur in response to changes in the light environment. Her investigations brought her into collaboration with prominent researchers throughout the world. Recognised with many honours as a leading scientist in Australia, international recognition included Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Photosynthesis Research, and Honorary Fellowships at Universities in the UK and USA.

scholarly journals Estimación de la subida del nivel del mar por efecto del Cambio Climático mediante datos de mareógrafos y la serie de satélie

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58
Author(s):  
Dadiel Ibarra Marinas ◽  
Touria Dawahidi ◽  
Francisco Gomariz-Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
Representative Concentration Pathway ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
Península Ibérica

La subida del nivel del mar es una de las consecuencias más relevantes derivado del Cambio Climático. Los estudios relacionados con la subida del nivel del mar muestran una gran variabilidad espacial. Este trabajo se ha centrado en el área litoral de la ciudad de Valencia, situada en el Mediterráneo de la Península Ibérica. La proyección de la subida del nivel del mar se ha estimado a partir de altimetrías multimisión de satélite y del Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation para los escenarios Representative Concentration Pathway RCP2.6, RCP4.5 y RCP8.5, regionalizados mediante regresión lineal y los registros históricos de los mareógrafos del Permanent Servicefor Mean Sea Level. Los resultados muestran incrementos entre 27,59 y 143,63 cm, (R2= 0,62 para mareógrafos y R2=0,37 para satélites), para finales del S.XXI. Las consecuencias implican la intensificación del efecto de los temporales marítimos y el aumento de la vulnerabilidad de las áreas costeras.

Fraser John Bergersen AM FAA. 26 May 1929 — 3 October 2011

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 33-58
Author(s):  
John Brockwell ◽  
Janet I. Sprent ◽  
David A. Day
Keyword(s):  
Nitrogen Fixation ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Plant Industry ◽  
Terminal Oxidases ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
Physiology And Biochemistry ◽  
Biological Nitrogen ◽  
Legume Nitrogen Fixation ◽  
Csiro Division

Fraser Bergersen rose from humble beginnings in New Zealand to become a leading microbiologist who specialized in the physiology and biochemistry of legume nitrogen fixation. He and his family emigrated to Australia in 1954. Virtually all of his career was spent in Canberra at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Plant Industry. In the 1970s, Bergersen and colleagues achieved worldwide prominence when they elucidated the role of leghaemoglobin in facilitating oxygen diffusion to the Bradyrhizobium bacteroids in soybean nodules and in the nitrogen fixation process itself. During the rest of his working life, Fraser Bergersen contributed greatly to understanding the role of oxygen, the mode of its delivery, and terminal oxidases in all forms of biological nitrogen fixation.

Addressing Diversity in STEM Education: Authenticity and Integration

2009 ◽  
Vol 1233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona M. Goodchild ◽  
Maria O. Aguirre
Keyword(s):  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Diversity In Stem ◽  
Social Components ◽  
The University

AbstractThis talk will reflect on the challenges of designing educational opportunities that broaden diversity in the ranks of future scientists and engineers. The speaker, who is Education Director at the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will report on the design and evaluation of a program that integrates academic, career and social components to engage a community of undergraduates, graduate mentors and research faculty at UCSB. The program builds on key practices such as academic mentorship, community networking and early undergraduate research. Evaluation of this program, Expanding Pathways to Science, Engineering and Mathematics (EPSEM) indicates that it has been successful in recruiting and retaining students from under-represented (URM) groups into science, technology, engineering and math disciplines (STEM disciplines).

Raymond John Stalker 1930–2014

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Stalker ◽  
Richard Morgan ◽  
Roger I. Tanner
Keyword(s):  
Hypersonic Flow ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The World ◽  
Flow Speeds ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

Raymond John Stalker was born in Dimboola, Victoria on 6 August 1930 and died in Brisbane on 9 February 2014. He had a distinguished academic career at the Australian National University in Canberra and at the University of Queensland. His work on hypersonic flow was universally recognized, and the ‘Stalker Tube' facilities he pioneered were able to reach unprecedented flow speeds and were reproduced in many laboratories around the world.

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