Day: January 8, 2010

January 8, 2010

Calendar 2009

19 January
Skeptics Cafe Speaker: Margaret Kittson Brain Gym?
Around 12 February
VARIOUS DARWIN DAY CELEBRATIONS Darwin Day Suggestions
16 February
Skeptics Cafe Speaker: Darren Freeman Curing the Incurable: We can’t do It so Neither can You
16 March
Skeptics Cafe Speaker: Chris Krishna-Pillay The Use of Performance in Science Education and Communication
20 April
Skeptics Cafe Speaker: Ian Robinson : Topic TBA
19 May
Skeptics Cafe ”Fifth Annual Skeptics Trivia Extravaganza”
15 June

Dick Gunstone

Skeptics Cafe Speaker: Professor Dick Gunstone: Why Creationism Has no Place in Science Education
20 July
Skeptics Cafe Speaker: Dr Andrew Prentice. (Melbourne Mathematician and Astronomer).
14 August
A National Science Week 2009 Event: Vic Skeptics and Young Australian Skeptics at Hypothesis from 5pm – 10pm MA15+ BMW Edge Federation Square
17 August
Skeptics Cafe Speaker: Peter Bowditch: The Antivaccination Lobby
22&23 August
National Science Week 2009 Event: Vic Skeptics at Scienceworks Spotswood
21 September
A Skeptics Cafe Speaker: Trevor Hand: Presentation of meteorite and fossil evidence for Deep time and biological evolution.
19 October
Skeptics Cafe Video Night
16 November
Skeptics Cafe Speaker: Steve Roberts: Astronomical Hoaxes
21 December
Skeptics Cafe Social Evening

January 8, 2010

Roger Francey

R J Francey, 2009

Roger Francey

  • Resigned in 2004 after 31 years in CSIRO, during which he was promoted to Chief Research Scientist level.
  • Has had advisory roles in Europe , including 5 years on the Advisory Board of the new Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena (East Germany), 8 years with the European Commission CarboEurope Program, and currently as the Senior Advising Scientist on IMECC (Infrastructure for the Measurement of the European Carbon Cycle).
  • BSc Hons and PhD at University of Tasmania, with PhD Thesis title “Cosmic X-Ray Surveys“. Continued X-ray astronomy for 4 Years at Simon Fraser University Canada as a PostDoc / Research Associate.
  • Joined CSIRO to carry out Micrometeorology research (heat and moisture fluxes from land and sea surfaces). View More Roger Francey