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Seminar: Using natural history collections to understand adaptive responses to environmental change

Tas-Auditorium CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Jeff Good (University of Montana) Rapid environmental change threatens global biodiversity and has already led to the decline or extirpation of many taxa. Although phenotypic plasticity may enable populations to rapidly track changing climates, evolutionary adaptation will be essential for the long-term persistence of many species. Disentangling plasticity from evolutionary responses ultimately requires resolving the... View Article

Tropical variability meeting

Chen Li (BoM / Monash). Flux correction of land surface temperature. 3pm, Tuesday, April 16.i The zoom meeting details are as follows:   Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/825572965 Or iPhone one-tap:  16699006833,825572965# or 16465588656,825572965#   Or Telephone:     Dial: +1 669 900 6833 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)    ... View Article

Mapping land dryness at high resolution for fire prediction

Mapping land dryness at high resolution for fire prediction   Vinodkumar, Imtiaz Dharssi and Paul Fox-Hughes Bureau of Meteorology   Accurate soil moisture information is essential for the monitoring and prediction of fire danger, soil moisture being an important factor in determining the moisture content and flammability of fuels. The soil moisture status in operational... View Article

Fiona Johnson: Droughts and flooding rains – statistical methods for hydrological extremes

The Red Centre Rm 2060 Room 2060, Level 2, The Red Centre, Kensington, NSW, Australia

Hydrological extremes by their very nature are rare events and require careful use of statistical methods to ensure robust and reliable predictions. Talk summary Hydrological extremes by their very nature are rare events and require careful use of statistical methods to ensure robust and reliable predictions. This presentation focuses on two case studies of the... View Article

Climate Change Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific: Is Gender relevant?

China in the World Auditorium Building #188, 188 Fellows Lane, ANU, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Description Is gender a consideration for your program, project or research? Now is the time to reflect on this. Women are often portrayed as more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in Asia and the Pacific, with less information available about how to respond and adapt. Some adaptation options may put a disproportionate burden... View Article

Seminar: The past predicts the future – or not? Lessons on climate sensitivity from paleoclimate

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

Speaker: Anna von der Heydt (Utrecht University) Climate sensitivity is a key predictor of climate change. However, it is not very well constrained, either by climate models, observational, historical or palaeoclimate data. This 'uncertainty' has its origin in different aspects: i) There is a classical uncertainty related to measurements or proxy estimates of temperature and... View Article

Panel discussion – Wicked problems: domestic policy

Theatre 2, Kambri Precinct (#144), Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

ANU 2019 Federal Election Panel Series Many of the enduring challenges in Australian domestic policy are seemingly intractable. How we respond - or don't respond - will shape our society for decades to come. How do we energise on critical domestic issues including Indigenous disadvantage, climate change and tax policy? How will the arts and... View Article

Modelling seasonal rainfall forecasts forced with improved predictive ocean surface temperature

Bureau of Meteorology Level 9, Seminar Room, 700 Collins St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

 Zaved Khan (Bureau of Meteorology). Modelling seasonal rainfall forecasts forced with improved predictive ocean surface temperature Seasonal rainfall forecasts are in high demand for users such as irrigators and water managers in decision making and risk management. Both statistical and dynamical models are widely used to generate probabilistic rainfall forecasts in advance for a season.... View Article

Seminar: Is there any evidence of a poleward expansion in the subtropical jet stream in either hemisphere?

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

Penny Maher (University of Utrecht) The tropics are expanding poleward at about 1 degree per decade in observations. The Hadley cell edge is one common measure of tropical expansion. One alternative method is the trend in the subtropical jet position. Unlike the Hadley cell edge, the observed trends in the subtropical jet position are much... View Article