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Episode 151: Electric Vehicles
Join Niamh and Sarah in this episode as they talk to Assoc. Prof Evan Franklin about the challenges and barriers to electric vehicles.
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4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 150: Tassie Plant People: Ben
Kate chats to Dr Ben Halliwell, lizard-and-plant-man and postdoctoral researcher in the centre for Plant Success, based at UTAS. Hear about Ben’s res…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 149: Kate’s Planty PhD
Hear about TWICS team-member Kate’s PhD research from zapping trees, to the findings, highlights, challenges and advice to other PhD students. A love…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 148: Tassie Plant People: Vanessa
Episode 148
A passion for plants and science communication, saving a key Eucalyptus species from drought, plant computer games, moving to Australia to do a PhD a…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 147: Tassie Plant People: Tim
Episode 147
Feeding the world, fieldwork in wild forests, navigating field-specific scientific languages, the critical importance of plants, and more as Kate tal…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 146: A moment with Mibu
This week Niamh interviews TWICS co-host and marine scientist Mibu Fischer. Mibu is a Quandamooka woman with a connection to sea country, her work ha…
4 years, 6 months ago
Episode 145: Paramedic to Entrepreneur
Dr Niamh Chapman interviewed paramedic turned entrepreneur George Polous from Jay-Nik. George is from north-west Tassie and from working in emergency…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 144: Tales from Wedge Island: Part 2
Episode 144
Last week, we heard a mountain of exciting fieldwork stories from Olly and her fantastic team of volunteers: Madi McLatchie, Javed Riaz, Benjamin Vio…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 143: Tales from Wedge Island: Part 1
Episode 143
Venturing out from the usual recording room, Olly is camping on the uninhabited Wedge Island in order to research the behaviour of two seabirds: litt…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 142: World Engineering Day
Tasmanian Young Professional Engineer of the Year David Ewers from VEC Civil Engineering joins Niamh and Sarah to discuss sustainable engineering pra…
4 years, 7 months ago