Description The oceans are critically important to our planet. In addition to the obvious uses of oceans as a food source and biodiversity resource, oceans have a range of major... View Article
Important lessons regarding current and future climate change trends can be derived from the paleo-climate record. Particularly from abrupt events such as the Oldest dryas (~16 kyr), Older dryas (~14 kyr), Younger dryas (12.9–11.7 kyr) and the ~8.2 kyr Laurentian ice melt event all of which occurred over time-scales of a few decades to a few years.
Lavanya Rajamani (The Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi) The international climate change negotiations, plagued as they are by deep-seated and seemingly irresolvable differences, have had to demonstrate remarkable dexterity... View Article
At present, the most important strategy to avert such consequences would be investment in CO2 down-draw measures and the channeling water from flooded to desiccated regions, such as from northern Australia to the Murray-Darling basins
Gilbert Brunet (Bureau of Meteorology)
Rob Chadwick (Met Office UK) Future projections of tropical precipitation show large uncertainties at the regional scales relevant to climate change impacts. In order to narrow this uncertainty and produce... View Article
Gidon Bromberg (co-founder and Israeli co-Director of EcoPeace Middle East) Description Gidon Bromberg, co-founder and Israeli co-Director of EcoPeace Middle East, will give a lecture and answer questions on the... View Article
Claire Mason (University of Tasmania)
Coastal ecosystems such as seagrass beds and seaweed communities are facing rapidly changing ocean conditions due to ocean warming, ocean acidification and eutrophication. The three speakers will talk about different... View Article
Bree Woods (University of Tasmania)