• How my CLEX Undergraduate Scholarship set me up for success

    How my CLEX Undergraduate Scholarship set me up for success

    Mathilde Ritman describes her journey as a second-year undergraduate student into a CLEX research project with Linden Ashcroft. It led to a publication, a massive learning curve in coding, stints with the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, and opened a path to a career in climate science.

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  • A List of Common Unspoken Knowledge for Postgrad Climate Students

    A List of Common Unspoken Knowledge for Postgrad Climate Students

    Kim Reid offers a useful list of common unspoken knowledge for postgraduate students in the climate sciences. Hopefully, she says, this will save you some time and mistakes in the future.

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  • The latest global climate models present challenges for generating climate projections

    The latest global climate models present challenges for generating climate projections

    Climate sensitivity describes how sensitive the Earth’s temperature is to a doubling of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. One measure of climate sensitivity for projections of future climate is the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS). ECS is the increase in the global average temperature between the pre-industrial era and a future doubled carbon…

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  • Developing and publishing open-source software and my experience with an open peer-review process

    Developing and publishing open-source software and my experience with an open peer-review process

    Navid Constantinou developed a new Julia package that provides solvers for geophysical fluid dynamics problems in periodic domains. It was also the first time he had been involved in an open peer-review process, and this experience was “mind changing”.

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  • Sobre el Día Internacional de la Mujer

    Sobre el Día Internacional de la Mujer

    El pasado 08 de marzo conmemoramos el Día Internacional de la Mujer, el cual es un día que me resulta en un encuentro de emociones opuestas.

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  • Thoughts on International Women’s Day

    Thoughts on International Women’s Day

    On March 8, we celebrated International Women’s Day but for Denisse Fiero Arcos, it’s a day that raises mixed feelings.

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  • ¡Hola mundo!

    ¡Hola mundo!

    Mi nombre es Denisse Fierro Arcos, soy bióloga marina nacida en Ecuador, pero que adopté a Australia como mi segundo país hace unos años. He trabajado como consultora ambiental e investigadora y he tenido la oportunidad de trabajar en proyectos que se enfocan en una variedad de sistemas y especies marinas en Sudamérica y Australia.

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  • Hello world

    Hello world

    Denisse Fierro Arcos is back in Australia completing her first semester as a PhD student at the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS). Her project focuses on understanding how fine scale changes in sea ice and ocean conditions affect Southern Ocean marine ecosystems. This is her first blog post.

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  • Conferences in the time of COVID

    Conferences in the time of COVID

    This time last year Kim Reid was planning a Euro-adventure where she would attend a summer school in the Swiss Alps, attend EGU, visit Reading and the Met Office and explore some castles on the side. Now she and her supervisor joke that if case numbers stay low, Kim might be able to visit a…

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  • Demonstrating a sovereign climate risk capability

    Demonstrating a sovereign climate risk capability

    PhD student Charuni Pathmeswaran was invited as a climate scientist to take part in a young professionals’ event organized by the NESP Earth Systems and Climate and Change (ESCC) Hub and jointly hosted by the Actuaries Institute and Engineers Australia.

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