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Visiting Scholar from Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany

johnanderson March 6, 2020 No Comments

Dr Annegret Grimm-Seyforth is visiting Climate Futures in Hobart from 2-22 March 2020 to work with Dr Bec Harris on thermal modelling at the microclimate scale. Dr Grimm-Seyforth is a [...]

Explaining climate change at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

Gabi Mocatta February 25, 2020 No Comments

Climate Futures’ Dr Rebecca Harris was joined by Ian Barnes-Keoghan from the Bureau of Meteorology in a public panel discussion on climate change at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery [...]

Review of Climate Change Research on Tasmania 2019

johnanderson February 24, 2020 No Comments

Tasmania draws strongly on the natural environment for many sectors of its economy, including agriculture, energy and tourism. Climate change affects the risks of natural disasters such as bushfire, drought [...]

Australian bushfires: what will recovery look like?

Gabi Mocatta February 23, 2020 No Comments

Climate Futures researchers Rebecca Harris, Tom Remenyi and Gabi Mocatta, together with University of Tasmania Environmental Science researcher, Grant Williams, published an article in The Conversation, in which they refuted [...]

Climate Futures team presents at AMOS

Gabi Mocatta February 1, 2020 No Comments

Dr Nick Earl traveled to Perth for the annual Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference. His talk was in the ‘Compound Events – an Australian perspective’ session, where he presented Climate [...]

Dr Bec Harris attends IPPC lead author meeting in Portugal

Gabi Mocatta February 1, 2020 No Comments

Bec Harris attended the third lead author meeting in Faro, Portugal, for the 6th IPCC Assessment Report, This was the third of four meetings where the authors come together in [...]

Compound Extreme Events Project workshop

Gabi Mocatta December 10, 2019 No Comments

On 10 December 2019, the Climate Futures team held a workshop at UTAS’ Medical Sciences precinct presenting the final analysis for the group’s Compound Extreme Events project. The project was funded [...]

Climate Futures Team Attends MODSIM 2019

Gabi Mocatta November 1, 2019 No Comments

The 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2019) was held at the National Convention Centre in Canberra from the 1st to 6th December 2019, attended by three of the [...]

Prof. Bindoff is key author on IPCC report

Gabi Mocatta September 20, 2019 No Comments

Professor Nathan Bindoff was a key author of the Special Report on the Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. He was coordinating lead author of Chapter 5 of the [...]

Understanding future fire danger

Gabi Mocatta July 1, 2019 No Comments

The risks of climate change were thrown into sharp relief this recent summer for Australia’s most southern state, Tasmania. A reduction in hydro-electric generation capacity due to dwindling dam storages [...]

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