Climate science expertise for local planning and adaptation

June 20 is Show Your Stripes Day. This is an annual global awareness campaign dedicated to sparking conversations about climate change. On this day, people around the world can share ‘warming stripes’ that show how their local climate has changed over time. The climate stripes project – a climate science communication initiative by British climatologist Professor Ed Hawkins -allows people to pinpoint locations across the world, and create local temperature change visualisations.  This climate stripes graphic for Hobart shows annual […]

At the 2026 conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), under the theme “Southern Skies, Southern Oceans: Science on the Edge”, researchers, practitioners and policymakers came together to focus on the shared challenge of turning climate science into decisions that matter in the real world.  For the Climate Futures team, the conference marked a step forward in that […]

We are excited to announce that thanks to the support of the Tasmanian Government, the Climate Futures Research Group is leading a major new initiative to deliver high-resolution (4 km) climate projections for Tasmania.   This $1.8 million project, aligned with the National Partnership for Climate Projections (NPCP) and Tasmania’s Climate Change Action Plan, will provide detailed insights into future climate conditions under different climate scenarios. The project will generate state-of-the-art, high-resolution climate projections […]

Tasmania’s tall eucalypt forests are globally significant because of their exceptional growth rates, tree height and the quantity of carbon they store. These values were recognised in the listing of the Minor Extension to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area in 2013. Recent discoveries from monitoring of tall forest within the TWWHA, found the forest […]

Climate Futures has been working closely with Wine Australia to produce a new, comprehensive ‘Climate Atlas’ which lays out climate change-induced effects on Australia’s wine growing regions, and identifies pathways to adaptation. A three-year project with the University of Tasmania brought together an extensive, multi-disciplinary research team to consider the impact of seasonal climate variability […]

This project extended previous research to include greater understanding of potential vegetation change and consider the combined effects of extreme climate conditions associated with high fire danger, aspects identified by Tasmanian fire managers as being necessary to help them make decisions about the timing of prescribed burning in the future. The project assessed changes in […]