AMplify - Conversations at the Australian Museum

In this episode of AM Live, join our panel of experts featuring Sophie Li, Clinical Psychologist; Nicole Wright, Pharmacist and Specialist in Poisons Information; and Lachlan Manning, Naturalist and Live Exhibits Officer at the Australian Museum as they examined the dangers – real and imagined – which underpin our society’s persistent fear of spiders.

This week, Kim McKay talks to Dr Jenny Newell about her extensive background and expertise in the Pacific art and culture, as well as her focus in the cultural communities affected by the climate change.

In the latest episode of AMplify, Kim McKay talks to Dr Jenny Newell, Manager, East Pacific Collection and Acting Director of Programs, Exhibitions & Cultural Collections at the Australian Museum.

In this AM Live episode, Dr Helen Maynard-Casely talks about exploring the solar system on the eve of the United Nations Day of Women and Girls In Science on 11 February.

“I know why I’m a scientist: when I was 8 the very first British person in space was a woman called Helen Sharman, and I wandered up to see my dad after hearing this momentous news and said “Dad - I’m going to space because that’s what Helens do.” I really can’t tell you how important that moment was for me - it drove me to be a scientist and to want to explore space.”

Hear Dr Helen Maynard-Casely share her fascinating insights as we celebrate the United Nations’ inaugural International Day of Women and Girls in Science.Dr Helen Maynard-Casely is an instrument scientist for the WOMBAT High-Intensity Powder Diffractometer at ANSTO. Her expertise is in the study of small molecules and ices under pressure. She is as passionate about understanding the planetary bodies in our Solar System as she is about promoting science to a wide audience, for example, in her column ‘The Shores of Titan’ for The Conversation.

Kim McKay talks to Vanessa Finney, Manager of Archives and Rare Books about the Australian Museum's newest exhibition Transformations - Art of the Scott Sisters.

"It (the Scott sisters archive) consists of 100 amazing, incredible, beautiful, jewel-like paintings, but behind that sits a larger archive of manuscripts, notebooks, sketches and drawings, which make it an unusually comprehensive view into 19th century science done by women which is incredibly rare in the Australian context." - Vanessa Finney.

Get behind-the-scenes of Australian Museum's newest exhibition Transformations - Art of the Scott Sisters with Vanessa Finney, Manager of Archives and Rare Books as she talks about this jewel of AM's collection with Kim McKay.

Sheldon Teare works in Materials Conservation across the AM's Collections, and specialises in Natural Sciences Collection materials and objects.

Listen to Executive Director and CEO Kim McKay in conversation with Sheldon Teare, Objects Conservator at the Australian Museum (AM).

Sheldon works in Materials Conservation across the AM's Collections, and specialises in Natural Sciences Collection materials. He was recently given the opportunity to study in Spain as part of the AM's Staff Awards, recognising his outstanding contribution to the AM

"Even something as large as a lion can be affected by something as small as a pest, a little beetle that could eat the skin or fur or feathers, things like that, so while we deal with things on a macro scale we also deal on a very micro scale. " Sheldon Teare

Listen to Kim McKay in conversation with Professor Tim Flannery who has made many remarkable discoveries in palaeontology, mammology and environmental science.