Welcome to the July edition of the CSRP Newsletter. If you wish to have anything included in the newsletter, please email Lisa Laurie at lisa.laurie@csrp.com.au
The Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) met this quarter in Melbourne on 30 July 2008, kindly hosted at the offices of Nyrstar. Comprehensive updates on the Research Action Plans (RAP) were given by the leaders of the Bauxite Residue, Geopolymers and Zero Waste/Minor Elements programs. The remaining programs on Sustainable Development, Comminution and CO2 Breakthrough will present at the next TAP meeting.
> Members agreed to change the date of the next meeting from 21 October to 17 November 2008 to coincide with the CSRP’08 conference being held in Brisbane.
The Mineral Council of Australia's "Sustainable Development" conference is being held in Darwin on 15-19 September 2008. The program offers a range of case studies and presentations, bringing together leaders, experts and practitioners from around the world to exchange ideas, information and practical examples of sustainable development.
As a tangible example of the “Solutions through Collaboration” theme, CSRP’s booth at the trade exhibition will promote our achievements and current work to potential future sponsors of “CSRP2”. The University of Queensland will also have a booth promoting its Sustainable Minerals Institute.
Conference presentations and workshops are being given by various members of the CSRP community, including: Stevan Green (CEO, CSRP), David Brereton and Chris Moran (University of Queensland), Geoff Brent (Orica), Peter Elliott (URS) and others.
> registrations close Friday 29 August 2008
> visit www.sd08.com.au for the latest program and further information
The program for our CSRP’08 conference being held in Brisbane on 18-19 November 2008 is almost finalised. Registrations will be open shortly.
The Participants’ Forum is scheduled for the afternoon of 18 November. Its purpose is to provide a forum for consultation among the CSRP Participants; and to act as an advisory body to the CEO.
Stevan Green (CEO) recently met with the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research to highlight CSRP’s achievements, our research plans for the next two years, and thoughts on a future CSRP2. The General Manager was present and was very impressed. Stevan gave a similar presentation to the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Present at the meeting was a Director in the Environment Protection Branch and he stated he was very happy with the progress and outcomes of CSRP.
CSRP researchers at CSIRO in Clayton presented their work on dry granulation to the Chairman of the CSRP Governing Board, Mr Malcolm Macpherson. Mr Macpherson was very excited to hear about the developments in this area.
CSRP headquarters continues to prepare for the re-bid and has been busy promoting the future CSRP2 to various companies and stakeholders. We have received and are reviewing the report by Mary O'Kane on the CRC Program Review. The full National Innovation System Review has been postponed until the end of August, which will delay the Government's response.
> read the full report at http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Documents/CRCReviewReport.pdf
CSRP is promoting its award-winning Teacher Program at the tradeshow of the “ARRC Showcase Teacher’s Night” being held in Perth on Monday 18 August 2008. This event has been organised as part of National Science Week.
> visit www.csiro.au/events/ARRCshowcaseTeachersNight.html for details
A 90-minute PD course "Mineral to Metal in One Lesson" was held at Spinifex College in Mt Isa (Qld) on 17 July 2008, then again at St Brigid’s College in Horsham (Vic) on 30 July.
> when available, photographs will be posted in the Teacher PD Archive section of the website
An intensive one-day professional development course for science teachers "The Chemistry and Physics of Extractive Metallurgy" is scheduled for Friday 10 October 2008 at Murdoch University in Perth.
> visit the Teacher PD section of the website to download the flyer
If you are aware of any upcoming events that would be of interest to other CSRP members, please email the details to Lisa Laurie. Listed below are some of the upcoming events and a complete list can be found in the Events section of the website.
It would be wonderful to keep our publications lists up to date. If you have anything that has been published as part of CSRP (including conference presentations), please send Lisa Laurie a copy of or the reference for the publication. Listed below are publications received this month and a complete list can be found in the Publications section of the website.
> Request to Publish and Standard Acknowledgement forms are located on Centric.
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