Explore Magazine – Winter 2018

Explore, the news and events magazine of the Australian Museum and Australian Museum Members, is published biannually.

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Editor Alice Gage

Design Sam Wilson

Production Jenny Hooker

Views expressed are not necessarily those of the Museum.

We welcome your feedback, comments and enquiries. Email the editor at alice.gage@australian.museum

Contents

• 4 – What's on
• 5 – From the Director
  The future health of our environment is in our hands
• 7 – Preserving the art of science
  Meet the recipients of the inaugural Australian Museum Scientific Illustration Scholarship
• 8 – Whales Tohora come to the AM
  Fran Dorey gives us a taste of this upcoming exhibition about the giants of the deep
• 10 – Citizens rise!
  The Australian Museum's citizen science projects are helping change the world for the better, writes Alice Gage
• 18 – Climate in the Anthropocene
  Professor Mike Hulme of the University of Cambridge explores our evolving notion of climate
• 20 – Every skerrick of Eric
  Gabriel Wilder pieces together the story of Australia’s most complete pliosaur
• 22 – Access all areas
  How the Australian Museum is creating social change through inclusion, writes Gabriel Wilder
• 24 – First of their kind
  The Australian Museum's type specimens
• 28 – Blood and bone
  Australian Museum Research Institute scientist Dr Sandy Ingleby describes the evolving art of cleaning a whale carcass
• 31 – Behind the screens
  Digital interactives in the Westpac Long Gallery are opening doors to once-closed collections
• 32 – Out of their shells
  Louise Schwartzkoff meets the Australian Museum’s mollusc experts
• 35 – Welcoming David Armstrong
  Peter Munro interviews the new President of the Australian Museum Trust
• 37 – News