Science Media Centre
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Here you will find copies of Science Media Centre Alerts, Briefing notices and our weekly Heads-Up newsletter. For more information contact the SMC on 04 499 5476
HEADS-UP 15 - 21 FEB 2013
HEADS-UP 25-31 JAN 2013
SMC ALERT: Cats and conservation
HEADS-UP JAN 11-17 2013
HEADS-UP 21 DEC - JAN 10 2012-13
2012 Mayan Theory
HEADS-UP 14 - 20 DEC 2012
HEADS-UP 7 - 13 DEC 2012
HEADS-UP 30 NOV - 6 DEC 2012
SMC ALERT: WMO Annual Report
Fracking comments
HEADS-UP 23-29 NOV 2012
HEADS-UP 16-22 NOV 2012
Green growth report - updated comments
Kyoto release
HEADS-UP 9-15 NOV 2012
HEADS-UP 2-8 NOV 2012
CCAMLR
Hurricane Sandy
HEADS-UP 26 OCT - 1 NOV 2012
HEADS-UP 19-25 OCT 2012
2 HEADS-UP 12-18 OCT 2012
HEADS-UP 12-18 OCT 2012
HEADS-UP 5-11 OCT 2012
Modified Milk Experts Respond
HEADS-UP 28 SEP- 4 OCT 2012
Coronavirus
HEADS-UP 21-27 SEP 2012
UPDATE GM Corn Toxicicty
IMAC Gardasil Commentary
GM Corn Toxicicty
Copy of Copy of HEADS-UP 7-13 SEP 2012
GM Wheat liver
HEADS-UP 7-13 SEP 2012
NIWA court ruling
Arctic Ice melt
HEADS-UP 24-30 AUGUST 2012
HEADS-UP 17-23 AUGUST 2012
HEADS-UP 10-16 AUGUST 2012
Gardasil
Tongariro eroption
Mars Curiosity rover landing
Copy of HEADS-UP 27 July - 2 August 2012
HEADS-UP 27 July - 2 August 2012
Influenza rates 'not epidmeic'
HEADS-UP 20-26 July 2012
Iron fertilisation of Southern Ocean
HEADS-UP 13-19 July 2012
(SMC NZ) ALERT: Antarctic Threats
HEADS-UP 6-12 July 2012
Higgs announcement alert
Omega 3 fatty acids alert
HEADS-UP 29 June -5 July 2012
Alpine Fault
HEADS-UP 22-28 June 2012
Big Food
HEADS-UP 15-21 June 2012
HEADS-UP 8-14 June 2012
HEADS-UP 1-7 June 2012
SKA dual site decision
HEADS-UP 25-31 May 2012
Budget and smoking
Science sector's reaction to Budget 2012
HEADS-UP 18-24 May 2012
HEADS-UP 11-17 May 2012
(SMC NZ) ALERT: PSA
HEADS-UP 27 April - 3 May 2012
HEADS-UP 20 - 26 April
HEADS-UP 13 - 19 April
UPDATED: (SMC NZ) ALERT - GM pine tree trials vandalised
(SMC NZ) ALERT: Indonesian Earthquake
UPDATED: (SMC NZ) ALERT - GM pine tree trials vandalised
(SMC NZ) ALERT: Indonesian Earthquake
HEADS-UP 5 - 12 April
HEADS-UP 30 March - 5 April
HEADS-UP 23 - 29 March
(SMC NZ) ALERT: NIWA PUP
(SMC NZ) ALERT: PCE's Water quality report
HEADS-UP 16 -22 March
(SMC NZ) ALERT: cochrane labour review
(SMC NZ) ALERT: Maui Doplphins
(SMC NZ) ALERT: DIME "legal high"
HEADS-UP 9-15 March
(SMC NZ) ALERT: Solar flares
Fukushima / Tsunami anniversary ALERT
HEADS-UP 2 - 8 March
HEADS-UP 24 February - 1 March 2012
HEADS-UP 17 - 23 February 2012
(SMC NZ) ALERT: Engineers give answers on quake and rebuild
HEADS-UP 10 - 16 February 2012
(SMC NZ) ALERT: NZ research advances potential genetic gain for sheepfarmers
RESEARCH RADAR 7 February
(SMC NZ) ALERT: Kauri tree rings give clues to El Nino/La Nina cycles
(SMC NZ) ALERT: Traffic light food labels
(SMC NZ) ALERT: When good research could be used for terror...
HEADS-UP 20-26 January 2012
(SMC NZ) ALERT: DES cancer case US
(SMC NZ) ALERT: Internet addiction changes brain structure - expert respond
(SMC NZ) ALERT: Schoolmilk may lower colon cancer incidence
HEADS-UP 16-22 December 2011
HEADS-UP 2-8 December 2011
HEADS-UP 25 November to - 1 December
(NZ) ALERT: [UPDATED]Experts explore euthanasia in New Zealand
(NZ) ALERT: Experts explore euthanasia in New Zealand
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Election 2011 and science: Q&A with the political parties
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Monitoring Rena's longterm impact - experts respond
HEADS-UP 28 October - 3 November
SMC (NZ) ALERT: World population hits 7 billion
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Maui gas leak
HEADS-UP 21 - 27 October
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Science accounts for urban heat islands in climate data
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Could 'Google Maps for ships' have saved Rena?
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Meningococcal B vaccine delay cost lives
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Rena's condition - Q&A with naval architects
HEADS-UP 14 - 20 October
SMC (NZ) ALERT: More synthetic cannabinoids banned
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Experts on Rena oil spill - latest update
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Experts on the case for water flouridation
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Experts on Rena oil spill - update
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Experts on Rena oil spill
HEADS-UP 7 - 13 October:
SMC (NZ) ALERT: GM Canola in America
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Experts on innovation and the primary sector
Copy of HEADS-UP 30 September - 6 October
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Examining moods through twitter - experts respond
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Comments on State of NZ Environment
SMC (NZ) ALERT: RESOURCES: NASA's UARS satellite - re-entry due tomorrow
HEADS-UP 23- 29 September
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Experts on radio telescope "mega science" project
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Experts on canterbury quake link
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Italian Seismologists on Trial
SMC (NZ) ALERT: glaciologists respond to the Times Atlas on shrinking Greenland
HEADS-UP 16 -22 September
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Doctors on International Alcohol Reforms
SMC (NZ) ALERT: NZ Diet & Nutrition Survey - UPDATED
SMC (NZ) ALERT: NZ Diet & Nutrition Survey - Experts Respond
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Scientists on ETS review panel recommendations
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Fatherhood and testosterone
HEADS-UP 9-15 September
SMC (NZ) ALERT: One drink per day and women's health
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Review of nanotechology regulation
HEADS-UP 2-8 September
SMC (NZ): Veteran science journalist joins the SMC
SMC (NZ) ALERT: bird flu is back
HEADS-UP 26 August - 1 September
HEADS-UP 19 - 25 August
SMC (NZ) ALERT: NZ and youth suicide - experts respond
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Experts on radioactive sulphur from Fukushima
HEADS-UP 12 - 8 August
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Food security issue looms large
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Hydraulic fracturing for gas extraction - scientists respond
HEADS-UP 5 Aug - 11 Aug
SMC (NZ) ALERT: ESR reaffirms phenazepam in Kronic
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Man's last wilderness - impact on deep sea
HEADS-UP 29 July - 4 August
HEADS-UP 22 - 28 July
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Project Energize
HEADS-UP 15 - 21 June
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Australia's carbon price package - NZ scientists respond
HEADS-UP 8 - 14 June
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Cochrane review on saltreduction and cardiovascular disease
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Are trout to blame for declining water quality? - experts respon
SMC (NZ) ALERT: UPDATED Experts - Phenazepam detected in Kronic smoking blend
HEADS-UP 1 - 7 June
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Experts - Phenazepam detected in Kronic smoking blend
HEADS-UP 14 - 30 June
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Antimicrobial resistence in food - MAF Survey
HEADS-UP 17 - 23 June
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Further details on Chilean volcano / ash
SMC (NZ) ALERT: update on Chilean volcano / ash
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Sleep in preganancy and stillbirth - BMJ
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Aftershocks - expert responds
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Chilean Volcano Ash Disruption
HEADS-UP 10 - 16 June
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Clinical trials report - Experts respond
SMC (NZ) ALERT: 1080 report
HEADS-UP 3 - 9 June
SMC (NZ) ALERT: BREAKING: Further expert reaction to German E. coli
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Expert reaction to E. coli / HUS outbreak in Germany
SMC (NZ) ALERT: UN - mobile phone radiation "possibly carcinogenic"
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Adolescent health report launch
HEADS-UP 27 May - 2 June
HEADS-UP 20 - 26 May
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Budget 2011
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Experts on the future of coal
HEADS-UP 13 - 19 May
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Experts on Government's freshwater management package
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Foot and mouth disease - new research
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Quake-damaged buildings - lessons for the rebuild
SMC (NZ) Heads Up to 31 Mar
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Expert update on Japan food contamination
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Food safety in Japan
SMC (NZ) Heads Up to March 24
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Health risks from low dose radiation
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Japan - Projections for a radioactive plume
SMC (NZ) Heads-Up to March 18
SMC (NZ) Heads-Up to March 11
SMC (NZ) ALERT: 'I predicted the earthquake' - scientists respond
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Survival in the rubble -- evidence from Haiti's quake
SMC (NZ) Heads-Up to March 4
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Lessons from Kobe as Christchurch looks to rebuild
Copy of SMC (NZ) ALERT: Experts - quake an "unusually big" aftershock
SMC (NZ) ALERT: Major Christchurch earthquake - experts respond
SMC (NZ) ALERT: UPDATE: Experts on Christchurch earthquake
SMC (NZ) Alert: IPv6 - Internet protocol change looms
SMC Heads-Up to Feb 25
SMC(NZ) Alert: Experts on children's hair test results for methamphetamine
SMC(NZ) Briefing: Earth Observation briefing
SMC Heads-Up to Feb 18
SMC(NZ) Alert: Meat 'gassing' - what are the concerns?
SMC Heads-Up to Feb 11
SMC(NZ) Alert: Biodiversity breakdown
SMC(NZ) Alert: Queensland braces for Cyclone Yasi - experts respond
SMC(NZ) Alert: Scientists find part of Pink Terraces under Lake Rotomahana
SMC(NZ) Briefing: Pink and White Terraces results
SMC(NZ) Alert: Dogs can sniff out cancer - experts respond
SMC Heads-Up to Feb 4
SMC Heads-Up to Jan 28
SMC(NZ) Alert: Statins
SMC Heads-Up to Jan 21
SMC(NZ) Alert: Queensland floods: the aftermath experts respond
SMC Heads-Up to Dec 24
SMC Heads-Up to Dec 24
SMC(NZ) Alert: New vitamin D advice out of UK - NZ experts respond
SMC(NZ) Alert: hCG diet fad
SMC(NZ) Alert: Cancun agreements - COP 16
SMC Heads-Up to Dec 17
SMC(NZ) Online Briefing: Engineering for seismic hazards
SMC(NZ) Alert: Fur seal deaths - expert responds
SMC Heads-Up to Dec 10
SMC(NZ) Briefing: Year of Biodiversity wrap up
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