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Teare, Sheldon, and Danielle Measday. "Pyrite Rehousing – Recent Case Studies at Two Australian Museums." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e26343. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26343.

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Two major collecting institutions in Australia, the Australian Museum (Sydney) and Museums Victoria (Melbourne), are currently undertaking large-scale anoxic rehousing projects in their collections to control conservation issues caused by pyrite oxidation. This paper will highlight the successes and challenges of the rehousing projects at both institutions, which have collaborated on developing strategies to mitigate loss to their collections. In 2017, Museums Victoria Conservation undertook a survey with an Oxybaby M+ Gas Analyser to assess the oxygen levels in all their existing anoxic microclimates before launching a program to replace failed microclimates and expand the number of specimens housed in anoxic storage. This project included a literature review of current conservation materials and techniques associated with anoxic storage, and informed the selection of the RP System oxygen scavenger and Escal Neo barrier film from Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company as the best-practice products to use for this application. Conservation at the Australian Museum in Sydney was notified of wide-scale pyrite decay in the Palaeontology and Mineral collections. It was noted that many of the old high-barrier film enclosures, done more than ten years ago, were showing signs of failing. None of the Palaeontology specimens had ever been placed in microclimates. After consultation with Museums Victoria and Collection staff, a similar pathway used by Museums Victoria was adopted. Because of the scale of the rehousing project, standardized custom boxes were made, making the construction of hundreds of boxes easier. It is hoped that new products, like the tube-style Escal film, will extend the life of this rehousing project. Enclosures are being tested at the Australian Museum with a digital oxygen meter. Pyrite rehousing projects highlight the loss of Collection materials and data brought about by the inherent properties of some specimens. The steps undertaken to mitigate or reduce the levels of corrosion are linked to the preservation of both the specimens and the data kept with them (paper labels). These projects benefited from the collaboration of Natural Sciences conservators in Australia with Geosciences collections staff. Natural Science is a relatively recent specialization for the Australian conservation profession and it is important to build resources and capacity for conservators to care for these collections. This applied knowledge has already been passed on to other regions in Australia.
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SAN MARTÍN, GUILLERMO, PAT HUTCHINGS, and MARÍA TERESA AGUADO. "Syllinae (Polychaeta, Syllidae) from Australia. Part. 2. Genera Inermosyllis, Megasyllis n. gen., Opisthosyllis, and Trypanosyllis." Zootaxa 1840, no. 1 (August 1, 2008): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1840.1.1.

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Large collections of Australian Syllidae (Polychaeta) from the Australian Museum (Sydney) have been examined and identified, together with material from the Hamburgische Zoologische Museum der Universität (Hamburg, Germany), as well as some specimens from other museums. All known Australian species of the subfamily Syllinae belonging to Inermosyllis San Martín, 2003 (1 species), Megasyllis n. gen. (3 species), Opisthosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (5 species), and Trypanosyllis Claparède, 1864 (2 species), are described and figured. The Scanning Electron Microscope was used to illustrate relevant taxonomic characters and reproduction methods in these genera. Inermosyllis pseudohaploides is described as a new species. Megasyllis is described as a new genus, including M. corruscans (Haswell, 1885) and M. heterosetosa (Hartmann-Schöder, 1991) from Australia, and M. inflata (Marenzeller, 1879) from Japan and Australia; thespecies M. multiannulata (Aguado, San Martín & Nishi, in press) from Japan is also referred to this genus. The genus Inermosyllis is reported for the first time from Australia, as well as the species Opisthosyllis longicirrata Monro, 1939 and Trypanosyllis aeolis Langerhans, 1879.
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Gascoigne, Toss, and Jennifer Metcalfe. "The emergence of modern science communication in Australia." Journal of Science Communication 16, no. 03 (July 20, 2017): A01. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.16030201.

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Modern science communication has emerged over the last 60 years as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession. This period has seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university courses to teach the theory and practice of science communication, the first university departments conducting research into science communication, and a sharp growth in employment of science communicators by research institutions, universities, museums, science centres and industry. This chapter charts the emergence of modern science communication in Australia, against an international background.
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ZHANG, JINGHUAI, and PAT HUTCHINGS. "A revision of Australian Pectinariidae (Polychaeta), with new species and new records." Zootaxa 4611, no. 1 (May 27, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4611.1.1.

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Samples of Pectinariidae in the Australian Museum and Museums of Victoria, Australia were examined. Thirteen species were identified, including three additional records of previously recorded species of Amphictene and two new species, A. cercusa n. sp. and A. undulata n. sp., two species of the genus Lagis which has not previously been recorded from Australia, including a new species, L. portus n. sp., and five additional records of previously recorded species of Pectinaria and one new species, P. ningalooensis n. sp. The study revealed additional characters which are useful to identify species of pectinariids, a pair of ear-shaped lobes which are adjacent to both sides of dorsal base of cephalic veil in species of Pectinaria and Amphictene, but in Lagis they are present between the buccal cavity and lateral margin of segment 1; and a pair of ventral lappets which have not previously been described on the lateral margin of segment I in all species of pectinariids from Australia. For species where numerous individuals were available for study, we investigated how some characters, change with increasing body size. A key to all recorded species from Australia is given, but does not imply any phylogenetic relationships.
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Maynard-Casely, Helen, and Neeraj Sharma. "Crystallography365 and Crystals in the City: IYCr 2014 activities in Australia." Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances 70, a1 (August 5, 2014): C1308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/s2053273314086914.

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Reflecting the strong heritage of crystallographic research in Australia, we wish to present two of the public outreach projects that are underway down-under to celebrate International year of crystallography 2014. A project that is already up and running is Crystallography365 - Blogging a crystal structure a day at http://crystallography365.wordpress.com/. Gathering a group of, principally students and early career researchers based in Australia, each day during 2014 a different crystal structure will be presented and described. The goals of the project is to present the wide range of uses crystal structures have to a broad spectrum of sciences, and to provide an outlet for this group of scientists to engage with International Year of Crystallography. The other (hopefully bigger) project is Crystals in the city will run 9th-30 August 2014 (coinciding with National Science Week in Australia). A partnership between ANSTO and University of New South Wales, it will bring a public display of 10-15 person-size crystal structure models exhibited in cities around Australia. The goal is that the crystal structures will `reflect' their surroundings and instil pride among the public in the crystallographic achievements of Australian science. Accompanying the exhibition will be website, where the public can find more about each of the structures and students can learn of studying opportunities. The project will also unite a host of supporters and sponsors; universities, museums and crystallographic groups.
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Mildwaters, Nyssa, and Danielle Measday. "Silcone-Based Solvents and Emulsions for Cleaning Natural Science Specimens: Case Studies from the Otago Museum and Museums Victoria." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e26450. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26450.

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Developed by the cosmetics industry, silicone-based solvents such as Cyclomethicone D4 and D5 and emulsifiers Velevsil Plus and KSG 350Z have found useful applications in museum conservation after being pioneered by Richard Wolbers to safety clean acrylic paint films. These products’ unique properties are also applicable for cleaning of natural science specimens. Silicone solvents are volatile and will completely evaporate away from surfaces. They have very low polarity and cannot not solubilise fats or oils, such as natural preen oils found in feathers. Low viscosity gives them the ability to flood a porous surface, such as bone, protecting it from absorbing chemicals and soiling during cleaning. Velevsil Plus and KSG 350Z provide the desirable ability to form an emulsion with water, and or solvents in a silicone based solvent carrier, allowing for the strictly controlled application of water or solvent solutions to the surface of a specimen. This poster will present case studies from the Otago Museum (Dunedin, New Zealand) and Museums Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) investigating the use of these products in cleaning natural science specimens. The experiments include the removal of an aged wax and shellac coating from a Moa (Dinonris sp.) skeleton, the removal of acrylic coatings on extremely moisture sensitive pyritized fossils, and the cleaning of soiled feathers and fur. Issues around sourcing and shipping these specialised products to Australasia will also be discussed. The successful application of paintings conservation techniques to scientific specimens demonstrates the benefits of collaboration between specialisations in conservation for developing new techniques for caring for our collections.
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Petrescu, Ana-Maria, Melania Stan, and Iorgu Petrescu. "Taxons dedicated to Grigore Antipa." Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 62, no. 1 (July 31, 2019): 137–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/travaux.62.e38595.

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A comprehensive list of the taxons dedicated to Grigore Antipa by collaborators, science personalities who appreciated his work was constituted from surveying the natural history or science museums or university collections from several countries (Romania, Germany, Australia, Israel and United States). The list consists of 33 taxons, with current nomenclature and position in a collection. Historical aspects have been discussed, in order to provide a depth to the process of collection dissapearance during more than one century of Romanian zoological research. Natural calamities, wars and the evictions of the museum’s buildings that followed, and sometimes the neglection of the collections following the decease of their founder, are the major problems that contributed gradually to the transformation of the taxon/specimen into a historical landmark and not as an accessible object of further taxonomical inquiry.
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Nelson, Gil, and Shari Ellis. "The Impact of Digitization and Digital Data Mobilization on Biodiversity Research and Outreach." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (July 25, 2018): e28470. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.28470.

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The first two decades of the 21st Century have seen a rapid rise in the creation, mobilization, research, and educational use of digital museum data, especially in the natural and biodiversity sciences. This has thrust natural history museums and especially the biodiversity specimen collections they hold into the forefront of biodiversity research in systematics, ecology, and conservation, underscoring their central role in the modern scientific enterprise. The advent of such digitization and data mobilization initiatives as the United States National Science Foundation’s Advancing the Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program (ADBC), Australia’s Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), Mexico’s National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Brazil’s Centro de Referência em Informação (CRIA), Europe’s SYNTHESYS, and China’s National Specimen Information Infrastructure (NSII) has led to a rapid rise in regional, national, and international digital data aggregators and has precipitated an exponential increase in the availability of digital data for scientific research. The international Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) now serves about 130 million museum specimen records, and Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio), the U.S. national biodiversity portal, has amassed over 109 million records representing over 300 million specimens that are international in scope. These digital resources raise the profiles of museums, expose collections to a wider audience of systematic and conservation researchers, provide the best biodiversity data in the modern era outside of nature itself, and ensure that specimen-based research remains at the forefront of the biodiversity sciences. Here we provide a brief overview of worldwide digital data generation and mobilization, the impact of these data on biodiversity research, new data underscoring the impact of worldwide digitization initiatives on citation in scientific publications, and evidence of the roles these activities play in raising the public and scientific profiles of natural history collections.
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Bennett, Tony. "Introduction." Museum Worlds 6, no. 1 (July 1, 2018): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/armw.2018.060102.

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Michel Foucault argues that truth is not to be emancipated from power. Given that museums have played a central role in these “regimes of truth,” Foucault’s work was a reference point for the debates around “the new museology” in the 1980s and remains so for contemporary debates in the field. In this introduction to a new volume of selected essays, the use of Foucault’s work in my previous research is considered in terms of the relations between museums, heritage, anthropology, and government. In addition, concepts from Pierre Bourdieu, science and technology studies, Actor Network Theory, assemblage theory, and the post-Foucaultian literature on governmentality are employed to examine various topics, including the complex situation of Indigenous people in contemporary Australia.
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Shaughnessy, P. D. "New mammals recognised for Australia - Antarctic and Subantarctic Fur Seals Arctocephalus species." Australian Mammalogy 15, no. 1 (1992): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/am92010.

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Recent authoritative texts on Australian mammals include several pinniped species but most omit the Antarctic Fur Seal Arctocephalus gazella and Subantarctic Fur Seal A. tropicalis. The former species breeds at Heard Island; at Macquarie Island it breeds in territories with A. tropicalis. Information is tabulated on skulls of these two species held in Australian museums. It is argued that they should be included in comprehensive lists of Australian mammals.
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Franklin, Donna. "Meaningful Encounters: Creating a multi-method site for interacting with nonhuman life through bioarts praxis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1574.

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This research advocates a multi-method approach to bioarts praxis, reflexively and critically questioning the contemporary contexts that frame our engagement with nonhuman life. In doing so, the research aims to generate further community engagement with nonhuman life and the environment, and engender critical discourse on the implications of developing biotechnologies. Hegemonic institutions influence the way culture is produced and how information is constructed and understood. Habermas (1987) suggests that these institutions will inevitably influence the individual’s lifeworld as they shape lived experience through the process of systemic colonisation. I assert that this process also shapes how individuals engage with or understand nonhuman life. Through the implementation of three major projects the research aims to develop the capacity of bioarts in challenging such institutions by providing the opportunity for hands-on life science activities and real-time interactions with nonhuman life. The research by employing such methods aims to counter-act the impact of urbanised living and indifference to environmental conservation. Each aspect of the creative praxis provides a reflexive case study to establish the research aims and answer the research agenda. This includes my creative bioartworks, an art-science secondary educational course and a curated group exhibition, symposium and workshop. This research provides an alternative communicative approach to hegemonic institutions such as the mass media, scientific biotechnological industries and traditional gallery spaces (Shanken, 2011).
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Books on the topic "Science museums Australia"

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Turnbull, Paul. Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9.

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Continent of curiosities: A journey through Australian natural history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Clode, Danielle. Continent of curiosities: A journey through Australian natural history. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Sheets-Pyenson, Susan. Cathedrals of science: The development of colonial natural history museums during the late nineteenth century. Kingston, Ont: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988.

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Cathedrals of science: The development of colonial natural history museums during the late nineteenth century. Kingston, Ont: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988.

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Museum, Australian. Science and scientists in the Australian Museum. Sydney, NSW: The Museum, 1996.

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1961-, Healy Chris, and Witcomb Andrea 1965-, eds. South Pacific museums: Experiments in culture. Clayton, Vic: Monash University ePress, 2006.

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Workshop on Coastal Management in Northern Australia (1984 Darwin, N.T.). Proceedings of the Workshop on Coastal Management in Northern Australia ... held at the Museum of Arts and Sciences ... Darwin, N.T. 4-11 November, 1984. Darwin: Northern Territory Branch of the Australian Marine Sciences Association, 1985.

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Turnbull, Paul. Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia. Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.

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Turnbull, Paul. Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

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Book chapters on the topic "Science museums Australia"

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Turnbull, Paul. "Colonial Museums and the Indigenous Dead, c. 1830–1874." In Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, 195–221. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9_7.

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Turnbull, Paul. "Erratum to: Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia." In Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, E1. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9_14.

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Turnbull, Paul. "Murdered for Science? Anthropological Collecting and Colonial Violence in Late Nineteenth Century Australia." In Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, 279–98. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9_10.

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Turnbull, Paul. "Introduction: ‘To What Strange Uses’." In Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, 1–32. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9_1.

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Turnbull, Paul. "Indigenous Australians’ Defence of the Ancestral Dead." In Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, 299–327. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9_11.

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Turnbull, Paul. "Repatriation and Its Critics." In Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, 329–55. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9_12.

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Turnbull, Paul. "Conclusion." In Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, 357–64. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9_13.

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Turnbull, Paul. "European Anatomists and Indigenous Australian Bodily Remains, c. 1788–1820." In Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, 33–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9_2.

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Turnbull, Paul. "Skeletal Collecting Before Darwin." In Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, 71–96. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9_3.

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Turnbull, Paul. "Indigenous Remains in British Anatomical and Ethnographic Discourse, 1810–1850." In Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia, 97–119. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9_4.

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