Tag Archive: Australian Research Council

The role of the Early Career Researcher Committee

June 22, 2018 2:29 am Published by Comments Off on The role of the Early Career Researcher Committee

The role of the ECR committee is to facilitate, encourage, and contribute to the development of all CLEX researchers undertaking postgraduate study or who are five years post-PhD.

PhD Opportunity: Locating renewable energy sites to avoid climate and financial risk

June 22, 2018 1:49 am Published by Comments Off on PhD Opportunity: Locating renewable energy sites to avoid climate and financial risk

With major developments in climate modelling we are significantly closing the gap that used to exist between what business needs to know and what climate science/engineering can provide. This project will merge climate science and engineering to address the key question industry asks – what is the future economic viability of renewable projects?

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PhD opportunity: How intense will design storms become with rising temperatures

June 22, 2018 1:36 am Published by Comments Off on PhD opportunity: How intense will design storms become with rising temperatures

This PhD will use sophisticated alternatives for removing systematic biases in the lateral boundary conditions of such experiments, with the aim of assessing the extent of change that results in the resulting extreme storm. Outcomes here can help define how we design Civil Engineering infrastructure in warming climates.

The science manuscript submission process

June 20, 2018 12:56 am Published by Comments Off on The science manuscript submission process

Drawing on 5 years of experience as an editor for Geophysical Research Letters, Peter Strutton presented a talk that covered what happens between submission of a manuscript and eventual acceptance or rejection. Specific topics included the importance of cover letters, dealing with rejection, addressing reviewers’ comments and considerations around authorship.

PhD Opportunity: Ocean heat recycling during El Niño events

June 20, 2018 12:12 am Published by Comments Off on PhD Opportunity: Ocean heat recycling during El Niño events

Using novel techniques developed by the supervisory team, the PhD candidate will evaluate the role of diabatic processes in the ENSO cycle, and how they may change in the future, using new observations and state-of-the-art model simulations. This research is critical to improving our ability to project future climate change.

PhD Opportunity: Latent heat balance dynamics and heatwaves in cities

June 12, 2018 3:13 am Published by Comments Off on PhD Opportunity: Latent heat balance dynamics and heatwaves in cities

This project will connect plant water use and stomatal conductance models differentiated by vegetation-soil systems with land surface models to provide new insight into the impacts of the built environment on moisture fluxes that influence heatwave intensity. Then it will investigate the climate impacts of the dynamic response of greenery in extreme heat conditions.

Special guests at our official launch: (left to right) CEO Australian of Australian Research Council Prof Sue Thomas, Minister for Small and Family Business, the Workplace and Deregulation, The Hon. Craig Laundy MP, CLEX Director Prof Andy Pitman, University of New South Wales President and Vice Chancellor Prof Ian Jacobs; and UNSW Dean of Science Prof Emma Johnston.

CLEX officially launched at UNSW

April 12, 2018 7:56 am Published by Comments Off on CLEX officially launched at UNSW

The Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes was officially launched on Tuesday, April 10, at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) by the Minister for Small and Family Business, the Workplace and Deregulation, The Hon. Craig Laundy MP.

CLEX official launch

March 30, 2018 12:51 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Join us for the Centre's official opening The formal opening of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes is on Tuesday, April 10.