The new Moreton Bay Foundation is being launched today August 30, 2019 after long negotiation and lobbying for investment in the Foundation by founder John and Meta Goodman. Pictured here is John and Meta with Uncle Bob Anderson and Cathy Boyle June 2, 2017. Photo by Jo Fay Duncan. "Focusing expertise, wisdom & enthusiasm for …
Visual anthropologist; Michael Aird
A fascinating merger between anthropology, the arts, culture and curating is exemplified by the work of Michael Aird... Professor Memmott and Queensland Museum curator Michael Aird brought this exhibition together after more than 30 years of collecting, researching and studying historical photographs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Retrieved November 1, 2018 from https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/02/wild-australia-photos-brought-light In the spotlight: curator …
Darwin and Plutichik’s EMOTIONS
Plutchik proposed that 'basic' emotions of anger, fear, sadness, disgust, surprise, anticipation, trust, and joy. are biologically primitive and have evolved in order to increase the reproductive fitness of the animal. Plutchik argues each of these emotions are a trigger to behaviour with high survival value, such as the way fear inspires the fight-or-flight response. …
JOURNEYING: Kangaroo Island, Reflecting on Islands of the World Conference July 2017
The 15th Islands of the World Conference was a gathering of peoples at Kangaroo Island Australia, July 2-7 2017 organised by the ISISA the International Small Islands Studies Association. Conference themes were considered, determined and decided before island visitors arrived. How else to organise a rabble of renegade and retired academics, active senior citizens, young …
2018 Reef Check Australia Brisbane Talk Series
The Reef Check Australia BRISBANE talk series, 'Coast to Coral Moreton Bay', is kicking off in May. Join Reef Check Australia and friends at The Bearded Lady on Tuesday May 30th for an evening of discovery, inspiration and appreciation of our local marine, coastal and catchment environments. Kick the night off at 6:30PM with a …
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Minjerriba’s Wetlands Date Back to the Ice Age
Local Council Mapping the Quandamooka
Released today by the Queensland Redistribution Commission were the new state electoral boundaries for the Redlands. These four electorates: Oodgeroo (formerly Cleveland), Capalaba, Redlands or Springwood which will include people living in Sheldon and Mt Cotton. Oodgeroo was the traditional name of the Aboriginal poet and activist Aunty Kath Walker. Oodgeroo Noonuccal mans paper bark …
Where Have all the Fish Gone?
Dave Hannan writes "Vanishing World. All dead - from bleaching event earlier this year ....coral structure in place to remind us for a little while of what once was. No-one had ever dived this place before I filmed this. Its beautiful though - death in nature". The NOAA colour coded charts indicate alert levels on …
Carving it Up; Mosaics Over the Bay
It struck me that mages from the Moreton Bay Quandamooka Catchments Conference very much portrayed a collection of islands and water divided, traversed, labelled, demarcated and mapped.
Migrating Birds MBQC Conference
Migrating Bar-Tailed Godwit
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The bar-tailed godwit migrates in flocks to coastal East Asia, Alaska, Australia, Africa, northwestern Europe and New Zealand, where the sub-species Limosa lapponica baueri is called 'Kūaka' in Māori. It was shown in 2007 to undertake the longest non-stop flight of any bird. ... The flight took approximately nine days.
Bar-tailed godwit - Wikipedia
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