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Kale Sniderman – Palaeoclimate

Skeats Lab Room 209, McCoy Building, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Kale Sniderman (University of Melbourne). Title TBC (Palaeoclimate)

LaTrobe Asia Panel: Climate change and conflict in the Himalaya

La Trobe Boardroom City Campus Level 20, La Trobe University City Campus 360 Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne launch of the new La Trobe Asia Brief. About this Event The snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas are instantly recognisable, but the critical role these mountains play in Asia’s climate, hydrology, ecology and geopolitics is mostly underplayed. Despite this importance, or perhaps because of them, there are a number of threats to the environment,... View Article

Seminar: A ‘pragmatic holism’: the logic of integration in the adaptation of social-ecological systems to a changing climate

Deakin Downtown Tower 2 Level 12 / 727 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

SSN Interdisciplinary Seminar with Dr Sophie Adams (UNSW) presenting on interdisciplinarity in discourses of climate change adaptation. About this Event Please join us for the next SSN Interdisciplinary Seminar with Dr Sophie Adams from the UNSW Environmental Humanities group. The seminar presentation will include a short panel discussion with two invited respondents from STEM and... View Article

Seminar: From O.D.E’s to S.D.E’s – an introduction to stochastic processes

Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) 4th Floor, Matthews Building, UNSW, Kensington, NSW, Australia

Dr. Tim Duty (Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQuS)) In this tutorial, Tim will introduce basic stochastic processes via the Langevin stochastic differential equation. He will discuss its relation to the Fokker-Planck equation, focusing initially on linear (Ornstein-Ulhenbeck) processes. These are stochastic processes that exhibit linear o.d.e.’s for the time dependence of expectation... View Article

ANU: ‘Chasing Coral’ Screening and Panel Discussion

R N Robertson Lecture Theatre Building 46, Sullivans Creek Rd, Acton, ACT, Australia

Coral Reef Environment and Management Fund presents 'Chasing Coral' Screening and Panel Discussion. Chasing Coral taps into the collective will and wisdom of an ad man, a self-proclaimed coral nerd, top-notch camera designers, and renowned marine biologists as they invent the first time-lapse camera to record bleaching events as they happen. Unfortunately, the effort is... View Article

MSSI Oration: Rebecca Huntley, in conversation with Maxine McKew. Renewing democracy in a time of environmental crisis

Carrillo Gantner Theatre Swanston Street, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Renewing democracy in a time of environmental crisis About this Event There is now widespread public acceptance of the reality of climate change and the need for governments to respond. Climate change is increasingly being framed as a ‘crisis’ or an ‘emergency’. Yet the recent Australian federal election shows that there are growing divisions amongst... View Article