Tag Archive: CLEX

Celebrating the CLEX “Hump Day Tip” Series

August 14, 2021 10:59 am Published by Comments Off on Celebrating the CLEX “Hump Day Tip” Series

On 16 May 2018, CLEX staff, students and affiliates on our mailing list received a rather curious email with the subject line Hump Day Tip. Since then, the Centre’s Diversity and Culture Committee has sent roughly 140 more messages with that same subject heading. What started as a bit of a gamble has turned into an important part of CLEX culture that is appreciated and deeply valued by many.

CLEX presents to the forewarned is forearmed community

August 14, 2021 10:43 am Published by Comments Off on CLEX presents to the forewarned is forearmed community

As part of CLEX’s engagement with the agricultural sector, Chief Investigators Ailie Gallant and Andrea Taschetto presented an overview of some of the Centre’s relevant research interests to the monthly meeting of the Forewarned is Forearmed Community of Practice (FWFACoP) group in June 2021.

Evaluating Climate Classrooms workshops for school teachers

August 13, 2021 3:47 pm Published by Comments Off on Evaluating Climate Classrooms workshops for school teachers

One of CLEX’s aims is to promote climate and weather science to secondary school students of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) subjects. We do this by bringing together secondary teachers and climate scientists in Climate Classroom workshops that develop teaching resources using climate science that can be used in the Australian secondary school curriculum.

RP4 Ocean Extremes report – August 21

August 13, 2021 1:53 pm Published by Comments Off on RP4 Ocean Extremes report – August 21

The ocean extremes research program is underway with regular meetings, split between marine heatwaves meetings on the first Friday of the month and ocean biogeochemistry meetings every fortnight. We have also been engaging externally with industry stakeholders and our peer networks.

Knowledge brokerage team report – August 2021

August 13, 2021 11:01 am Published by Comments Off on Knowledge brokerage team report – August 2021

It has been an incredibly busy time for the Knowledge Brokerage Team. We've hired a graphic designer, Ally Crimp, added 3 key briefing notes, become deeply involved with industry sectors, developed our climate classrooms and so much more.

Research brief: Evapotranspiration shows an increasing trend since 1980

August 2, 2021 2:54 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Evapotranspiration shows an increasing trend since 1980

Climate change is affecting the amount of water evaporating (from soils and surfaces) and transpiring (evaporating through plant leaves) from the land surface. Trends derived from DOLCE V3 show clear increases in ET since 1980 over the majority of the Earth’s surface.

Briefing note 15: Can we limit global warming to 1.5C°?

July 28, 2021 2:43 pm Published by Comments Off on Briefing note 15: Can we limit global warming to 1.5C°?

Irrespective of tipping points, climate change adaptation efforts will be less costly and disruptive to society – and will stand a better chance of success – if warming can be limited to 1.5°C rather than 2°C or higher. We therefore in no way advocate for policies that forgo pursuing the ambition to limit global warming to 1.5°C, regardless of whether that target remains feasible or not.