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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 [...]

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 [...]

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