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DigiVol: Why volunteer?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/digivol-why-volunteer/

Julie, Louise and Ron are experienced volunteers who provide insight into why they devote their valuable time, knowledge and skills volunteering weekly on this project. Currently, we have over 60 committed volunteers who digitise valuable entomology specimens/labels, malacology specimens

DigiVol: Volunteers have their say
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/digivol-volunteers-have-their-say/

Andrew and Duncan are volunteers on the digitisation project, called DigiVol, who both provide interesting commentary on life behind the scenes in the digitisation lab.

Wave Energy Technology: Greek sea goddess CETO to the rescue
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/wave-energy-technology-greek-sea-goddess-ceto-to-the-rescue/

Named after a Greek sea goddess, CETO is a wave energy technology that converts ocean swells into zero-emission electricity and zero-emission desalinated freshwater.

Toad Busting: The battle against cane toad invasion
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/toad-busting-the-battle-against-cane-toad-invasion/

The battle continues with the cane toads that will soon be reaching the Bungle Bungle range in the World Heritage Listed Purnululu National Park in Western Australia.

Mining in the backyard
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/mining-in-the-backyard/

Privately owned land can be mined, and there is not much farmers can do or say about it. Should farmers have more rights to what happens on their own turf?

Eureka! Triumph for Carbon Neutral Events
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/eureka-triumph-for-carbon-neutral-events/

Events, whether large or small, impact the environment; they consume a lot of resources and produce excessive waste. You can make any event carbon neutral by measuring its footprint and offsetting the impact of this through the purchase of carbon offsets.

Grow a backbone!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/grow-a-backbone/

Can you imagine living without the vertebrae in your neck? Surely no animal on earth has a backbone that doesn't connect with its skull. Think again ...

Professor Stephen Heppell: Learning and technology Part 2
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/professor-stephen-heppell-learning-and-technology-part-2/

My second lot of quick notes from Stephen's parallel session at the Museums Australia 2010 conference. Note these have been cut and pasted from Twitter so are very brief.

Professor Stephen Heppell: Learning and technology
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/professor-stephen-heppell-learning-and-technology/

My quick notes from Stephen talk at the Museums Australia 2010 conference

Pea flowers at the Field of Mars
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/pea-flowers-at-the-field-of-mars/

A walk around the Field of Mars Environment Education Centre with Steve Papp and Pat Spiers last week revealed a plethora of native flowers of many colours and shapes, including pea flowers - all perfect for a field study of pollinators.