Tag Archive: Mathilde Ritman

How my CLEX Undergraduate Scholarship set me up for success

September 22, 2021 8:49 am Published by Comments Off on How my CLEX Undergraduate Scholarship set me up for success

Mathilde Ritman describes her journey as a second-year undergraduate student into a CLEX research project with Linden Ashcroft. It led to a publication, a massive learning curve in coding, stints with the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, and opened a path to a career in climate science.

Research brief: Revisiting the 1888 Centennial Drought

January 12, 2021 11:27 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Revisiting the 1888 Centennial Drought

To shed more light on short droughts of the past, CLEX researchers took advantage of a newly released dataset from the Bureau of Meteorology to re-examine the infamous Centennial Drought of 1888. Using the new dataset along with historical station data, they analysed monthly rainfall variability across south eastern Australia throughout 1888.