Tom Doig (Author, University of Melbourne) The Super Wicked Problem of Climate Change Description Climate change is everywhere – and nowhere. It is simultaneously the most urgent problem facing humanity, and a hopelessly abstract concept that’s impossible for us to wrap our heads around. While 97% of the world’s climate scientists agree that human-caused... View Article
(University of Melbourne). Climatic Changes or Regional Human Activities? Lake Urmia Desiccation Description On the topic of climate change, there are two camps of politicians absolving themselves from responsibility. Politicians who deny or cast scepticism about the anthropogenic nature of climate change and/or its substantial implications; and those who blame climate change for the... View Article
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Bernadette Sloyan (CSIRO). Beer Aquatic: The ocean revolution – canvas bucket to the microprocessor
Stephen Gallagher (University of Melbourne). From Monsoons to Desert: 50 Million Years of Australian Climate History Description The 2019 Howitt Lecture - a joint presentation between the Royal Society of Victoria and the Geological Society of Australia (Victoria Division) Geoscience in Australia can be uniquely challenging. The harsh, arid and intense monsoonal climate of our continent generally destroys... View Article
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