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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

GRANT seminar – Dust to the ocean: Does it really increase productivity?

Flex Spaces, Salamanca 20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Zanna Chase, Andrew Bowie, Pete Strutton (University of Tasmania). GRANT seminar - Dust to the ocean: Does it really increase productivity? This project investigates the relationship between dust deposition and marine productivity. We will quantify dust deposition to the ocean and its chemical and ecological impact by using new geochemical techniques and novel approaches with... View Article

Science webinar: Australia’s boundary current pathways to the deep ocean

Overview The ocean has absorbed 93% of global warming heat. This service by the ocean to life on Earth has not been without consequence. The oceans are warming rapidly, ocean species are being displaced and sea level rise threatens many coastal communities. The pathway for heat to enter the deep ocean is primarily through dense... View Article

Analytics in the Public Sector Networking Event – Spatial solutions: the value of satellite data for the public sector

Nous Group 567 Collins Street L19, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Caitlin Adams (FrontierSI Data Scientist). Spatial solutions: the value of satellite data for the public sector About this Event Curious about what you could do with data from a different perspective? What about a perspective that is hundreds of kilometres above us? FrontierSI Data Scientist Caitlin Adams will present on “Spatial solutions: the value of... View Article