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Climate Futures moves to Geography at UTAS

Gabi Mocatta July 1, 2019 No Comments

In July 2019, Climate Futures moved from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC) to the Discipline of Geography at the University of Tasmania. Between 1991 and [...]

Climate Futures advises Sustainable Timber Tasmania on climate change

Gabi Mocatta June 1, 2019 No Comments

Climate Futures researcher Tom Remenyi presented at Sustainable Timbers Tasmania’s Leadership and Innovation Conference in June 2019. Tom’s presentation Two Degree Warming, and Consequences for Growing Natural Forests, was of [...]

Dr Rebecca Harris presents plenary talk at IPCC meeting

Gabi Mocatta May 18, 2019 No Comments

Dr Harris was invited to present a plenary talk at the IPCC Expert meeting on Regional Assessment in Trieste, Italy, 16-18 May 2018. The meeting brought together WGI and WGII [...]

The Conversation: Dry lightning sets Tasmania ablaze

Gabi Mocatta February 1, 2019 No Comments

Climate Futures researchers, Nick Earl, Peter Love, Rebecca Harris and Tom Remenyi published an article in The Conversation explaining the significance of “dry lightning” as a cause of recent bushfires [...]

Dr Nick Earl joins Climate Futures

Gabi Mocatta January 13, 2019 No Comments

Nick joins the Climate Futures team as a research associate from the University of Melbourne. Nick has developed a strong meteorological and climatological research background comprising both observational and NWP [...]

Dr Tom Remenyi interviewed on BBC News

Gabi Mocatta January 13, 2019 No Comments

Climate Futures researcher Tom Remenyi was interviewed by BBC journalist Hywel Griffith for a news segment about the tourism boom in Tasmania. Tom discussed climate change impacts including increasing fire [...]

Climate researchers warn of ecosystem collapse

Gabi Mocatta July 5, 2018 No Comments

Climate Futures researcher Dr Bec Harris was lead author on a journal article in Nature Climate Change, and also co-authored an allied article on some of the authors’ research in [...]

Dr Rebecca Harris awarded Humboldt Fellowship

Gabi Mocatta November 1, 2016 No Comments

Dr Bec Harris has been awarded a prestigious Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work with Prof Klaus Henle at the Department of Conservation Biology, Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, in [...]

Comprehensive natural disaster risk assessment for Tasmania

Gabi Mocatta July 1, 2016 No Comments

A collaboration between the University of Tasmania, RMIT University and the ACE CRC’s Climate Futures group has produced Tasmania’s most comprehensive natural disaster risk assessment, providing emergency services with key information to [...]

Fire risk in Tasmania’s World Heritage Area

Gabi Mocatta June 1, 2016 No Comments

The Tasmanian Government recently announced the launch of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Bushfire and Climate Change Research Project to examine how the state’s fire fighting techniques can be strengthened. [...]

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