By Carl Smith and Chris Kimball
A new $150 million Australian research centre is being set up to target space junk in Earth’s orbit.
The Cooperative Research Centre for Space Environment Management, based at Mt Stromlo Observatory near Canberra, will bring together work by researchers and industry groups from Australia and overseas. Read more …
She is also a trustee of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute. She was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide from 1996-2001. She was formerly Chair of the Australian Centre for Renewable Energy and is a former member of the Australian Research Council, the Co-operative Research Centres (CRC) Committee, the Tax Concession Committee, the board of the CSIRO, and the board of F.H. Faulding & Co Ltd. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and an honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia. [Read more…] about Mary O’Kane
