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State of the Climate 2020

13 November 2020
Mike Flattley
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November 2020 marks the release of the State of the Climate report. This report is a synthesis of the science informing our understanding of climate in Australia and includes new information about Australia’s climate of the past, present and future.

Spinning Yarns

We've asked four scholars, scientists and seekers of a better world: What's keeping you off the streets, and up at night? The unsurprising answer is that a life of enquiry is never short of things to do! Throughout Victoria's 2020 pandemic lockdowns, our speakers have dauntlessly continued their labours, producing scientific work for the public good, campaigning for a brighter future informed by scientific knowledge, or dutifully preserving the beautiful legacy of scientific instrumentation from earlier times, holding something of the story of long-gone people rising to the challenges of their own times.

Seeing the Smoke

by Catriona Nguyen-Robertson MRSV Science Engagement Officer “Smoke never has just a minimal impact,” says Dr Martin Cope, Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Climate Science Centre. We spent long periods shrouded in smoke due to the 2019-2020 bushfires that…

Citizen Science Victoria – July 2018 Meeting of ACSA-Vic

The second meeting of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Citizen Science Association will be held on Thursday, 19th July at the Melbourne headquarters of the Bureau of Meteorology. Chapter business will include presentations from: David Gooding, coordinator of WOW,…

Science and Orality: A 65,000+ Year Old Knowledge Base

It's NAIDOC Week, and what better time to reflect on the significance of the world's oldest continuous cultures and the incredibly complex knowledge systems that have been sustained through the remarkable practice of "orality?" Dr Duane Hamacher and Krystal de…

Knowing what the weather’s going to do

Join Dr Robert Dahni, a retired meteorologist, and improve your weather awareness through a better understanding of weather forecast information. Knowing what the weather’s going to do will help you to make better decisions in your weather-impacted activities. Improve your…