2021: CLEX researchers in the news
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CLEX researchers in the news
It has been remarkable how much we have achieved in this extraordinarily difficult year. Research coming out of the Teleconnections and Variability program over the past four months has strongly focused on how influences in one part of the world can have direct impacts on another.
With the drama and instability of 2020, many of our ECRs have faced unprecedented challenges including loneliness, homesickness and the mounting uncertainties for their future careers. That latter concern may be why the majority of ECRs wanted this year's virtual ECR workshop to focus on the Future in academia and planning your research career.
It has been remarkable how much we have achieved in this extraordinarily difficult year. Research coming out of the Teleconnections and Variability program over the past four months has strongly focused on how influences in one part of the world can have direct impacts on another.
It has been an unprecedented year in academia in 2020, a year where many people have been doing it tough in particular those of you in Victoria. The impact of COVID will take a long time to be fully realized of course, with impacts on our students, researchers, administration and technical teams that we could not anticipate.
A lot has happened over the past few months with the publication of high-profile and challenging research and the continuing growth, development and recognition for the RP4 team.
CLEX Director Andy Pitman acknowledges the "impossibly challenging" nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Centre's response. He also reviews some of the successes of our researchers and highlights remarkable results published over the past few months.
New international research has found a worrying change in the Indian Ocean’s surface temperatures that puts southeast Australia on course for increasingly hot and dry conditions.
December The beasts to our east: What are El Ninos and La Ninas? Sydney Morning Herald. December 31. (Dr Agus Santoso). World battered by billion-pound disasters linked to climate change in 2020. Click Lancashire. December 30. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick). The 10 most expensive climate-fuelled natural disasters in 2020. Christian Today. December 30. (Dr Andrew King). Extreme Weather Cost Billions Worldwide in 2020, Says Study. Interesting Engineering. December 29. (Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick). ‘Disastrous extremes’: Christian Aid catalogues $145bn cost of 2020... View Article
It has been an incredibly busy period for RP4, with a wealth of research, multiple international visits and many awards and honours for its students and researchers.