Studying (or interested in) the weather, climate or our oceans in Canberra? Want to know where it might lead? The ACT branch of the Australian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society is holding a careers night! Come and talk to researchers, forecasters, officers of the public service and others about where you might go after you get…
Join award-winning climate scientist and writer Dr Joëlle Gergis as she shares her fascinating journey through Australia to unearth our climate history. Joëlle's new book, Sunburnt Country (MUP, 2018), pieces together Australia’s climate history for the first time. It uncovers a continent long vulnerable to climate extremes and variability, gives an unparalleled perspective on how…
What was Australia’s climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about natural climate cycles? Dr Joëlle Gergis will be in Canberra…
Understanding the processes and predictability of high impact weather is key to enabling better warnings that will assist the community to respond to the weather hazard. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), through the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP), is conducting a 10-year international project on High Impact Weather ("HIWeather"). The aim of the program is: To…
