Learning with the Fang » university http://mseyfang.edublogs.org a place where I 'think out loud' and share stuff online Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:23:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Live from OpenDay at the University of Adelaide http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2009/08/16/live-from-openday-at-the-university-of-adelaide/ http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2009/08/16/live-from-openday-at-the-university-of-adelaide/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:01:55 +0000 mseyfang http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2009/08/16/live-from-openday-at-the-university-of-adelaide/ Today is OpenDay at the University of Adelaide. I’m there helping out at the Faculty of Sciences corner of the Science tents. I’ve already uploaded a couple of short videos on how to find us and some early morning pictures of the setup activity. The plan is to come back and update this post from time to time during the day. If you find or create anything interesting from openday online, please tag it with ‘uofaoday’.

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]]> http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2009/08/16/live-from-openday-at-the-university-of-adelaide/feed/ 2 We need to talk about saving the murray, darling! http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/05/16/we-need-to-talk-about-saving-the-murray-darling/ http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/05/16/we-need-to-talk-about-saving-the-murray-darling/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 19:23:30 +0000 mseyfang http://mseyfang.edublogs.org/2008/05/15/we-need-to-talk-about-saving-the-murray-darling/ South Australia IS in the midst of a water management crisis and we need to have some robust discussions with each other and our upstream neighbours to find a way forward. According to Professor Mike Young we have a small window of opportunity to influence the detailed implementation of a memorandum of understanding signed by the state premiers. And if we are smart we will lobby for a system based on shares rather than volumes – in which the ‘books’ or ledger can be effectively balanced.

UPDATE:

  • Paul Dalby from LitFuse points out that we can leave a message for Minister Penny Wong HERE.

Prof Young provides a detailed explanation of one such scheme in this podcast from the Climate2030 seminar series.

A recent episode of a science show on the ABC concludes with Prof Young and David Paton talking about the state of the end of the line – the coorong. The entire episode is worth a download and look from the show’s vodcast site (episode 12, 2008). There is a special enhanced online viewing version of the murray darling episode here. Watch the episode, listen to podcasts like this, this and this ripper from the late Peter Cullen.

Most importantly start your own conversations, if you don’t know how – join this one by leaving comments on this blog post.

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