Daniel Frank Walls FRSNZ. 13 September 1942 — 12 May 1999

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 531-540
Author(s):  
Sir Peter Knight ◽  
Gerard J. Milburn
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Quantum Optics ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Major Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Dan Walls, a pioneer of quantum optics and especially the study of non-classical light, died in Auckland on 12 May 1999 after a battle with cancer, at the age of 57 years. Dan Walls completed a PhD with Roy Glauber at Harvard in 1969 and joined the University of Waikato in 1972. Together with his colleague Crispin Gardiner, during the next 25 years he established a major research centre for theoretical quantum optics in New Zealand and built active and productive collaborations with groups throughout the world.

Sustainability in Photography Can Change the World

2014 ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Rowena H. Scott
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Landscape Photography ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
World Environment

Photography plays important, but undervalued and misunderstood, roles in how modern urban humans relate to nature and how nature is mediated to us, forming our perceptions and national identity. Typically landscape photography depicts nature aesthetically as sublime, picturesque and beautiful. Photographs have been powerful raising awareness of sustainability and communicating political messages. The chapter reviews the influence of two great Australian wilderness photographers, Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis, as well as Edith Cowan University's (ECU) Photography for Environmental Sustainability Competition. In conjunction with World Environment Day, the university invited students to submit photographs that showcase the principles and practices of environmental sustainability. This chapter describes the history, purposes and impact of photography and the competition. Starting as an engagement partnership between the environment coordinator, academics and the Perth Centre for Photography, it is now an international competition across Australia and New Zealand, not exclusive to photography students, hosted by Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS).

Project MERLIN: A learning environment of the future

ReCALL ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Marsh ◽  
Imogen Arnold ◽  
Nicolette Ellis ◽  
Julian Halliwell ◽  
Clare Hodgins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Computer Conferencing ◽  
Distance Teaching ◽  
Web Interface ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Support Interaction ◽  
The World ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The University

In September 1995 the Language Institute at the University of Hull and British Telecommunications plc began working together on a major research project with the aim developing an environment to support distance teaching and learning. Project MERLIN is exploring the latest commincations techologies to support interaction and collaboration between groups of remote learners, and between these learneers and their tutor. These technologies include: computer conferencing, dynamic HTML and the integration of specifically designed database and telephone-conferencing facilities with the World Wide Web interface.

Attic Vases in Australia and New Zealand

1951 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 178-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Trendall
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The World ◽  
Greek Vases ◽  
The University

A growing interest in the study of archaeology has led in recent years to very substantial developments in the several collections of antiquities in Australia and New Zealand. Pottery has perhaps made the greatest contribution to this expansion, and the total amount of available material here has reached a point at which definitive publication in the Corpus Vasorum has become well worth while. Provision for this has already been made, but in the meantime it seemed to me that some account of the Attic vases in this part of the world might be of service and interest to scholars, since our collections by reason of their remoteness are not well known, although they contain several distinguished pieces, including a few which have been lost to sight for some time. For the sake of brevity, and because they are likely to be of wider interest, I confine myself here to Attic black-figure, red-figure and white-ground.The main Australian collection of Greek vases is housed in the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney. The nucleus of this collection was acquired, some 90 years ago, by Sir Charles Nicholson, Chancellor of Sydney University from 1854 to 1862, during his travels in Italy and was catalogued by Miss Louisa Macdonald in 1898. Considerable additions have since been made by gift or purchase, as may be seen from a comparison between the vases listed by Miss Macdonald and those mentioned in the second edition of the Handbook to the Nicholson Museum, published fifty years later.

scholarly journals Bibliography of the History of Australian Science, No. 29, 2008

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Helen M. Cohn
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
National Library ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
The University ◽  
Number Of Citations

This bibliography, in geographic terms, covers principally Australia, but also New Zealand, New Guinea and other islands of the Pacific Ocean near Australia, and Antarctica. It includes material on the history of the natural sciences (mathematics, physical sciences, earth sciences and biological sciences), some of the applied sciences (including medical and health sciences, agriculture, manufacturing and engineering), and human sciences (psychology, anthropology and sociology). Biographical material on practitioners in these sciences is also of interest. The sources used in compiling this bibliography include those that have proved useful in the past in finding relevant citations. The library catalogues of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, the National Library of Australia and the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga O Aotearoa were particularly useful sources of information. Journals that have yielded articles for previous bibliographies were checked, as were some titles that have not previously been scanned. Hence a number of citations are included that were published earlier than 2008. Assistance has been received from a number of people who sent items or information about items published in 2008 for inclusion in the bibliography. In particular, Professor Rod Home has been most helpful in forwarding relevant citations. Staff of the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, especially Helen Morgan, were of great assistance in the preparation of this bibliography. Readers may have access to information about relevant books, journal articles, conference papers, reports, Master's and PhD theses and reviews published in 2009. They are encouraged to send such information to the compiler at the above email address for inclusion in future bibliographies.

scholarly journals A computerised identification key for 30 genera of plant parasitic nematodes

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 287-290
Author(s):  
N.L. Bell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Parasitic Nematodes ◽  
Plant Parasitic Nematodes ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Quantitative Characters ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Plant Parasitic

A computerbased key for identifying plant parasitic nematodes of temperate agriculture in New Zealand and around the world is described It uses the Lucid software developed at the University of Queensland and includes images of major diagnostic features The key is multiaccess rather than dichotomous so may be entered at any point allowing for the most obvious characters of a specimen to be scored first and thereby immediately reduce the number of likely taxa Both qualitative and quantitative characters are used The key requires that the specimen can be viewed microscopically but examples of most morphological terms are illustrated so the nonspecialist should be able to make use of the key

scholarly journals Introduction

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Wevers ◽  
Richard Hill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Staff Member ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
The University

This issue of the Journal of New Zealand Studies has been edited by Anna Green, who is the new staff member at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.  Wellknown as an oral historian and formerly of Waikato University, Associate Professor Green comes to us from the University of Exeter, and we are delighted to welcome her as a new colleague as well as the editor of the JNZS.  She brings enormous experience and expertise to the role.

Bioscience enterprise: Postgraduate education at Cambridge and Auckland

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Allan ◽  
Joerg Kistler ◽  
Chris Lowe ◽  
Wendell Dunn ◽  
Claire McGowan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Leading universities around the world are addressing the demand for science-business-skilled professionals with a variety of novel programmes. The University of Cambridge (the United Kingdom) and University of Auckland (New Zealand) have each developed a Master's in Bioscience Enterprise programme providing specialist business and legal skills relevant to employment in the bio-economy. The biotechnology contexts in which these programmes were developed are significantly different and are reflected in the internship choices, thesis topics and postgraduate employment opportunities. In each case, industry feedback has been excellent to date as evidenced by the increasing engagements of companies in these programmes.

scholarly journals Dieter Eckstein, 1939-2021 and his rich legacy of dendrochronology in Slovenia and the world

Les/Wood ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Katarina Čufar
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Wood Anatomy ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Wood Protection ◽  
Federal Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Teacher Mentor ◽  
Wood Science ◽  
The University

Prof. Dr. Dieter Eckstein (1939-2021) was a leading scientist, teacher, mentor, leader, promoter and motivatorin the field of dendrochronology and wood biology. After graduating in wood science and receiving a PhD indendrochronology, he was professor of wood biology at the University of Hamburg. From 1995-2004, he was Director of the Department of Wood Biology, University of Hamburg, and of the Institute of Wood Biology and Wood Protection at the Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products in Hamburg, Germany. His work had a decisive influence on the development of wood anatomy, wood biology and dendrochronology and his laboratory was a reference point for dendrochronology worldwide. He supported dendrochronologists throughout Europe and around the world in their pioneering work to establish dendrochronology laboratories and develop dendrochronology in numerous countries, including Slovenia.

scholarly journals The Spatial Analysis for Bassia eriophora (Schrad.) Asch. Plant Distributed in all IRAQ by Using RS & GIS Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 0126
Author(s):  
Al Ramahi Et al.
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Gis Techniques ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
World Organization ◽  
Natural Ecology ◽  
The University ◽  
And Control

        Most vegetation’s are Land cover (LC) for the globe, and there is an increased attention to plants since they represent an element of balance to natural ecology and maintain the natural balance of rapid changes due to systematic and random human uses, including the subject of the current study (Bassia eriophora ) Which represent an essential part of the United Nations system for land cover classification (LCCS), developed by the World Food Organization (FAO) and the world Organization for environmental program (UNEP), to observe basic environmental elements with modern techniques. Although this plant is distributed all over Iraq, we found that this plant exists primarily in the middle and southern parts of Iraq in wet areas and near rivers or catchment area or water basins.  The main idea is how to use this techniques to monitor the distribution of the plants (Bassia eriophora), in order to utilize and take provisions of plant growth and diffusion, Moreover, know and control the breadth of these areas in Iraq and prepare for them, and understanding climates and the variable plantation habitats and mapping patterns, may lead to a successful environmental protection and dominance plan. In this study, monitoring the distribution of Bassia eriophora in Iraq by apply remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS) techniques. The data was obtained from (BAG) National Herbarium of Iraq, Ministry of Agriculture. (BUNH) Iraq Natural History Research Centre and Museum, University of Baghdad the University Herbarium (BUH) in College of Science at University of Baghdad. This data contains only the address (place of germination), this information (addresses) was detected, identified and covered for all areas sampled by the techniques of satellite imagery and images taken from the air and some data records where the main features of these areas.

Report on ACIS Conference, ‘The Importance of Italy’, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, September 2001

Modern Italy ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-203
Author(s):  
Jonathan White
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Italian Studies ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

Italian programmes can now be taken in fteen of Australia's thirty-nine universities-a contraction from their offer in twenty-six universities in 1990. In order to promote collaboration among Italianists and Italian scholars in both Australia and New Zealand, the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) was established in 2000, under a management representing seven universities. ACIS’ work includes the organization of conferences (the next to be held at the University of Western Australia in July 2003), sponsorship of collaborative research projects and the award of annual scholarships for Honours and postgraduate students to work in Italy.

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