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January/February 1999

First broadcast	Topic	Guests
16/1	MOA Observatory – gravitational microlensing used to find extrasolar planets	Phil Yock, Ian Reid, U. Auckland; John Hearnshaw, U. Canterbury; Pam Kilmartin, Mt John Observatory
	Evidence against climate change in New Zealand during Younger Dryas	Jamie Schulmeister, Victoria U.
	Factors influencing obesity in Polynesians	Elaine Rush, AIT
23/1	Undersea volcanoes and black smokers	Ian Wright, NIWA; Cornel de Ronde, IGNS
	Dating the Cambrian Explosion	David Penny, Massey U.
	Falling sperm counts	Frank Sin, Canterbury U.
30/1	Green Chemistry	Terry Collins, Carnegie Mellon U., (Pennsylvania)
	Weddell seal mating	Joseph Waas, Massey U; Rob Harcourt, Macquarie U. (Australia)
6/2	Red sprites	Richard Dowden, U. Otago
	Hamilton Lake: an ecological disaster	John Clayton, NIWA
	Sea Bather’s Eruption	Anita Freudenthal, Leigh Marine Lab.
13/2	Nanotechnology	Simon Brown, Richard Blaikie, Rebecca Cheung, U. Canterbury
	Hi-tech ear tags detect livestock stress	Christian Cook, Philip Harris, HortResearch
	Stargazing	John Dunlop, Auckland Obs.
20/2	Looking for landmines: research into new methods	Lawrence Carter, U. Auckland
	Skylarking: ecology of the skylark	Steve Wratten, Stefan Thomson, Lincoln U.
	Plant sunscreens: flavonoids	Ken Markham, IRL
27/2	Imagination inflation: the fallibility of memory	Maryanne Garry, Seema Assefi, Victoria U.
	Food irradiation	Peter Roberts, IGNS
	Clean water: screening for Giardia and Cryptosporidium (contributed by Jill Galloway)	Tim Brown, MicroAquatec and Massey U.

March/April 1999

First broadcast	Topic	Guests
6/3	Preserving Maori flax weavings	Gerald Smith, IRL; Rangi Te Kanawa, independent conservator
	Technology: Making better paper with geosilica	Jim Johnston, Victoria U.
13/3	“Psycho” – a look at forensic science, including: - post mortem examination - scene assessment - DNA fingerprinting - forensic entomology	Jane Vuletic, U. Auckland Douglas Elliot, ESR Sallyann Harbison, ESR Trevor Crosby, Landcare Research
20/3	Genetically Modified Organisms (part I): gene transfer techniques and health issues	Dan Cohen, HortResearch; Jo Putterill, U Auckland
27/3	Genetically Modified Organisms (part II): environmental concerns	Dan Cohen, HortResearch; Richard Gardner, Richard Bellamy, Peter Wills, U. Auckland; Paula Jamieson, Massey U., Murray Willocks, Monsanto; Tony Conner, Crop and Food Research; Bas Walker, ERMA
3/4	The Brain: a stimulating environment prevents damage	Matthew During, Deborah Young, U. Auckland
	Quest for Language: a gestural origins for human speech?	Michael Corballis, U. Auckland; Andrew Carstairs McCarthy, U. Canterbury
10/3	“The Dating Game” - radiocarbon dating - berylium-10 dating - index fossils and relative dating - optical dating - sample preparation - calculating the age of the Universe	Roger Sparks, GNS Ian Graham, GNS Roger Cooper, GNS Olav Lian, Victoria U. Nancy Beavan-Athfield, GNS Richard Hall, Carter Observatory
17/4	Pheromones, moths and elephants	Richard Newcombe, Dave Greenwood, HortResearch
	Technology: testing the cricket pitch	Colin Cook, Brian Wilkins, Victoria U.
	Mathematics (1): fractals	Geoff Whittle, Victoria U.
24/4	Ecology: In search of the Giant Kokopu	Gerry Closs, Bruno David, U. Otago
	Evolution of clams: does ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny?	James Crampton, GNS

May/June 1999

First broadcast	Topic	Guests
1/5	Interview with a Nobel Laureate: Atmospheric Ozone	Paul Crutzen, Max Planck Institute of Chemistry (Mainz, Germany)
	The Shadow Box: learning to measure the earth at home	Graham Murray, science teacher and inventor
8/5	Sheep models of human disease: Batten’s disease	Bob Jolley, Massey U.; Murray Broom, U. Otago
	Sheep models of human disease: cystic fibrosis	Scott Tebbut, U. Otago
	Takahe rearing unit	Andrew Smart, DOC
15/5	Into the bat cave: Deer Cave in Borneo	Simon Pollard, U. Canterbury
	Predicting climate: rain in the Tararua Ranges	Warren Gray, NIWA
	Science Policy	Maurice Williamson, Minster of Research, Science and Technology
22/5	IQ, Intelligence, Race... and Flynn	Jim Flynn, U. Otago
	Biosecurity: New Pest Quarantine Facility	Toni Withers, Geoff Ridley, Forest Research Institute
29/5	“Managing Manapouri” - lake levels - new fish pass - new tailrace tunnel through West Arm powerstation - monitoring in Doubtful Sound	Alan Mark, U. Otago; Bill Jarvey, Southland Fish and Game Colin Sinclair, Tom Martin, Meridien Energy Mark Gibb, Bryan Stewart, U. Otago
5/6	Interview with a Nobel Laureate: Bob Curl	Bob Curl, Rice University (Texas)
	Biosecurity: Plant viruses	Paul Guy, U. Otago
	Mathematics (2): irrational numbers	Geoff Whittle, Victoria University
12/6	The Whole Earth Telescope	Dennis Sullivan, Victoria University
	Power to the paua: research and aquaculture	Philip Mlaadenov, U. Otago; Roger Bartlett, Craycorp
19/6	Oceaonography: Iron and phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean	Rob Murdoch, NIWA
	Climate change: carbon balances, quotas, and forests in Siberia and New Zealand	Frank Kelleher, Landcare Research
	Technology: Making better logs better	Alistair Riddle, FRI; Chris Bridson, Interpine Forestry
26/6	“Women in Science” – why there are so few and at what can be done about it	Nancy Lane, Cambridge U. (UK); Phillipa Wiggins, Genesis Research and Development; Jaqueline Rowarth, Lincoln U.; Sally Brooker, Lynn Dowsett, Judy Broom, U. Otago

July/August 1999

First broadcast	Topic	Guests
3/7	Biotechnology debate: GM (Bt-) corn and Monarch butterflies	John Losey, Cornell U. (Ithica, New York)
	Technology: supercomputing the climate	Ric Pridmore, NIWA
	National Science and Technology Roadshow	Rebecca Hurrell, roadshow manager
	Astronomy: the expanding Universe	Richard Hall, Carter Observatory
10/7	Language and technology: synthesising Maori speech	Mark Laws, University of Otago
	Earth science: the search for oil	Peter King, Richard Cook, IGNS
	Physiology: why Antarctic toothfish and some humans lack albumin	Victoria Metcalf, Christchurch Medical School
17/7	“The Fifth State” – Bose Einstein Condensation	Andrew Wilson, Rob Ballagh, Jos Martin, Callum McKenzie, Nick Thomas, U. Otago
24/7	Behaviour: Animal learning	Christian Cook, HortResearch
	Ecology: the Kepler Mire, string bog and world heritage area	Kath Dickinson, Alan Mark, U. Otago
	Environment: Vehicle emissions	David Beaglehole, Rose Gong, Victoria U.
31/7	Gallloping: Tendon strain in horses	Elwyn Firth, Massey U.
	Food: phytoestrogens and functional foods	Grant Washington-Smith, AgResearch
	Astronomy: meteorites	Richard Hall, Carter Observatory
7/8	Antarctic Earth Sciences Symposium - sea level rises - K-T extinctions - expedition to Lake Vostok	Bob Oglesby, Purdue U. (Indiana) Bill Zinsmeister, Purdue U. (Indiana) Robin Bell, Columbia U. (New York)
	Mathematics (3): coding theory	Geoff Whittle, Victoria University
14/8	Climate change and farming - Effect of increasing u.v. on pasture - Methane production from livestock - Nitrous oxide emissions from soil	AgResearch, Palmerston North Bruce Campbell Mark Elliot, Keith Joblin Andrew Carran
21/8	Risk: - Risk management, fault tree analysis, nuclear missiles and the Challenger space shuttle disaster - Xenotransplantation and the risk of infection, esp porcine endogenous retrovirus	John Stevens, Priority Systems Roger Morris, EpiCentre, Massey U.
28/8	Forces in Flight: pilot strength testing	Dave Hewson and others, RNZAF
	Asthma: epidemiology and causes	Neil Pearce, Wellington School of Medicine
	Astronomy: “New Worlds” (the search for new planets)	Richard Hall, Carter Observatory

September/October 1999

First broadcast	Topic	Guests
4/9	“Workings of the Human Heart” - a computer model of the human heart and new understanding of cardiac anatomy that supports it	University of Auckland Peter Hunter, Andrew Pullen, Nick Smith (Engineering science) Brett Cowan (Medicine) Alistair Young, Ian LeGrice (Physiology)
11/9	Biotechnology: Development of a salt resistant plant	Eduardo Blumwald, University of Toronto
	The Brain of the Shark	John Montgomery, U. Auck
	Mathematics (4): cryptography	Geoff Whittle
18/9	Amateur Astronomers	Rebecca Greatrex, Albert Jones, Frank Bateson, Marc Bos; Ian Griffin, Auckland Observatory
25/9	Animal Welfare	Kevin Stafford, Massey U.
	Astronomy: Fire and Ice (the moons of Jupiter)	Richard Hall, Carter Obs.
2/10	Ageing and Ageing Research: - Stroke - Osteoporosis - Alzheimer’s - Strength and balance	Craig Anderson, U. Auck Ian Reid, U. Auck Phil Wood, North Shore Hosp John Campbell, Melinda Gardner, Clare Robertson (U Otago); Nancy Latham, Caroline Stretton (U. Auck)
9/10	Environment: plants that extract toxic metals from soil	Robert Brooks (Massey U); Brett Robinson, Tessa Baird (HortResearch)
	Mathematics (5): chaos	Geoff Whittle (Victoria U.)
	In memorium: Dan Walls, physicist	Matthew Collett (U Auck); Jared Milburn, Peter Drummond, University of Queensland (Australia)
16/10	From Beethoven to the brain Hearing research, part I	Gary Housely, Peter Thorne, U. Auck
23/10	Hearing research, part II	Peter Thorne, Grant Searchfield, Susanne Purdy, Andrea Kelly (U. Auck.)
30/10	Rutherford: Scientist Supreme (book)	John Campbell, author
	Astronomy: SETI and the Drake Equation	Richard Hall

November/December 1999

First broadcast	Topic	Guests
6/11	Ecology: Epiphytes	Katharine Dickinson, U. Otago
	Giant Squid	Steve O’Shea (NIWA)
	Technology: Fertility monitor	Len Blackwell, Massey University
13/11	A walk in the woods: Weta, peripatus and the species concept	Mary Morgan-Richards, Steve Trewick (U. Otago)
20/11	Environment: Plantation trees for renewable energy	Ralph Sims, Massey U.
	Earth science: Recycling through volcanoes	John Gamble, Victoria U.
	Mathematics (6): bases	Geoff Whittle
27/11	Pre-Christmas Science Book Reviews	Reviewers: Ian Griffin, Gillian Lewis, Blair Jarvis, Vicki Hyde, Richard Hall
4/12	Genomics and Molecular Biology - The Human Genome Project - Molecular biology in the fishery - Dolly, cloning and the media	Grant Sutherland, Women’s and Children’s Hospital (Adelaide) Peter Smith, NIWA Grahame Bulfield, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh)
	Astronomy: Milky Way and Galaxies	Richard Hall
11/12	Interview	Sir John Maddox (former editor of Nature)
18/12	Yea -end highlights

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