MASS Event: Annalise Rees (Maritime Museum), Mary-Anne Lea (IMAS), Mary Finsterer (Composer), Tom Wright (Librettist). Field reports from the remote, strange, bizarre and beautiful territory of art-science collaboration.
Elizabeth Truswell (Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU). A memory of ice: the Antarctic voyage of the Glomar Challenger
Danielle Udy (University of Tasmania). PhD Confirmation: Extending the Palaeohydroclimatology Record of Eastern Australia to Underpin Efficient Water Management by Understanding Long Term Climate Variability.
Thomas Giambelluca (University of Hawai’i). Are invasive plants problem drinkers? Evidence from Hawai’i.
David Jamieson (University of Melbourne). The Double Planet: The Physics of the Earth-Moon System
John Allen (Central Michigan University). Global Perspectives on Severe Convective Storms
Rebecca Hamilton (ANU College of Asia and the Pacific) LGM-Holocene environmental change in SE Asia
Presenter: Prof. Rosemary Rayfuse University of New South Wales Host: Climate Change Research Centre Climate change-induced changes in species composition, distribution and abundance pose significant threats to global fish stocks and to global food security. The transformation of ocean ecosystems as a result of climate change and associated ocean acidification also poses significant challenges for... View Article
Speaker: Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb (Climate Energy College, University of Melbourne) Ocean acidification is increasingly recognized as a potentially devastating threat to marine ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. Despite this, no existing multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) explicitly requires a response to it and the issue remains largely unaddressed in international environmental law and policy.... View Article
Richard Parncutt (University of Graz). Estimating the long-term human cost of climate change
Stacey Hitchcock (University of Melbourne). On the environments and dynamics of nocturnal mesoscale convective systems. External attendees without a local host should email sts_seminars_admin@bom.gov.au their details (name and affiliation) at least one day prior to arrange entrance.
Scott Power (Bureau of Meteorology). The rate at which we'll experience unprecedented high temperatures over coming decades: benefits and limitations of reducing emissions