Bristol & Bath Branch

 

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Forthcoming events...

(PDF version of the paper programme)

• What future for our coastal and marine environment?
• Date: Friday 5^th June 2009
• Time: 7pm
• Venue: Holland House Hotel, Redcliffe Hill, Bristol BS1 6SQ (Map)
• Cost: Free - All Welcome (Refreshments can be bought from the hotel bar.)
• More info: Part of the Bristol Festival of Nature, 6^th-7^th June
• Speaker: Natasha Barker, Senior Marine Policy Officer - WWF-UK
• Times and Tides are changing the way we manage our seas. On our own doorstep people are looking at how we can harness tidal energy from the Severn Estuary. Using our seas for generating renewable energy such as offshore wind farms is high on the government agenda. But to date there has been no proper planning, management or protection for our valuable marine environment. A new UK Marine Act is expected later this year to improve management of our seas. Natasha will illustrate how the Severn Estuary is under the spotlight as the future for our coastal and marine environment is rapidly changing.

• Science Café
• Genetic Futures
• Date: Tuesday 16^th June 2009
• Time: 7.30pm for 8pm
• Venue: Arnolfini Café, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol (Map/Directions)
• Cost: Free
• More info: Website
• Speaker: Dr Ainsley Newson - Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Ethics, University of Bristol
• Ainsley Newson spends her time unpicking the social and moral issues of developments in genetic technologies. With DNA sequencing and genetic testing technologies advancing all the time, the reality of a 'personal genomic profile' for any one of us is just around the corner.
  
  But what could receiving your genetic profile mean to you? Would you change your behaviour or feel trapped by your DNA? Who else might be interested in your data?
  
  To ask these questions and more come along to this Science Café and find out more about this interesting area of scientific and ethical dilemma.