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Seminar: Understanding tropical precipitation and atmospheric circulation responses to climate change

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

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 robust, useable information for climate change adaptation, the mechanisms that drive regional precipitation change in the tropics must first be understood. In particular, the response... View Article

Public lecture: Climate Change, Water Security, and National Security for Jordan, Palestine and Israel

Theatre 1 University of Melbourne, 207 Bouverie St, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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 subject of the recently released EcoPeace report on Climate Change, Water Security and National Security for Jordan, Palestine and Israel. Gidon will present the challenges... View Article

Marine & Antarctic Studies Seminar: Seaweed and seagrass in the future ocean: impacts, opportunities and solutions

Aurora Lecture Theatre 101 Aurora Lecture Theatre, IMAS Waterfront Building, Salamanca, Tasmania, Australia

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 approaches to understand the effects that the projected future ocean conditions will have on seaweeds and seagrasses, including omics techniques and field and laboratory based... View Article

Public Lecture: Will the Earth be Too Hot for your Grandchildren to Handle? The Science and Politics of Carbon Emissions and Storage

Glyn Davis Theatre (Formerly Basement Theatre, B117) Glyn Davis Building (Melbourne School of Design) Parkville campus Masson Road, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

This lecture will outline the history of atmospheric temperatures in both the recent and distant past. Professor Huppert will explain the definite connection between the carbon dioxide and methane content of the atmosphere with the average global surface temperature. He will present a range of predictions of the Earth’s future climate, as well as practical... View Article

Seminar: Using observations to improve ensemble-based climate projections and the Ensemble Dependence Transformation

Australian German Climate and Energy College Level 1, 187 Grattan St, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Craig Bishop (University of Melbourne) This seminar introduces the “replicate Earth” ensemble interpretation framework, based on theoretically derived statistical relationships between ensembles of perfect models (replicate Earths) and observations. We transform an ensemble of (imperfect) climate projections into an ensemble whose mean and variance have the same statistical relationship to observations as an ensemble of... View Article

Seminar: Climate Engineering Under the Paris Agreement

Australian German Climate and Energy College Level 1, 187 Grattan St, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Neil Craik (University of Waterloo) While the Paris Agreement does not address the issue of climate engineering (CE) expressly, the target of limiting global average temperature rise to “well below” 2°C and to “pursue efforts to limit the temperature increases to 1.5°C”, (a goal that appears unlikely to be achieved in the absence of significant amounts... View Article

CSIRO Aspendale Women’s Network – special guest panel event and lunch

CSIRO Aspendale Theatre 107-121 Station Street, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia

Q&A style panel discussion on the career journeys of our senior women, then networking lunch. Panelists include: Assoc Prof Julie Arblaster (School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University); Helen Cleugh (Director of the Climate Science Centre, CSIRO); Beth Ebert (Research Program Leader at the Bureau of Meteorology); and Andrea Hinwood (Chief Scientist at Victoria’s... View Article