2007
Events
Climate Change: Catastrophic Impacts and Human Rights (pdf 53kB)
A Research Tuesday joint presentation with The Hon. John von Doussa QC and Professor Barry Brook
Date/Time: Tuesday 11 December 2007, 5.30pm
Location: Lecture Theatre 102, Napier Building
Climate Change and the impact on our Australian Plants
Talk by Professor Andrew Lowe
Date/Time: Sunday 25 November 2007, 2.30pm
Location: Hills Garden and environmental expo, Uraidla Showgrounds
Assessing Strategies for Climate Stabilisation
(pdf 503kB)Seminar by Dr Tom Wigley
Date/Time: Thursday 25th October 2007, 12.30pm
Location: Lecture Theatre LG28, Napier Building
E.A. Cornish Memorial Lecture 2007
Statistical Critique of the International Panel on Climate Change's work on Climate Change
Speaker: Mr Dennis Trewin, former Australian Statistician and a member of the Australian State of the Environment Committee.
Date/Time: Wednesday 17 October, 5:45pm for 6:00pm
Location: Union Hall
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WATER - there's a hole in the bucket
Research Tuesday Seminar with Professor Mike Young
Date/Time: Tuesday 9 October 2007, 5:30pm
Location: Lecture Theatre G04, Napier Building
Bookings: research.tuesdays@adelaide.edu.au or phone 8303 3692
Policy-Relevant Research on Climate Change (pdf 1MB)
Seminar by Dr A Barrie Pittock
Date/Time: Tuesday 14th August 2007, 2.00pm
Location: Goodman Lecture Theatre, Botanic Gardens
Research Tuesday with Professor Mark Tester
Date/Time: Tuesday, 1 May 2007
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground, Napier Building.
Stirring the Possum: Climate Change... What's the BIG idea?
Date/Time: Wednesday, 28 March 2007
5:45 pm to 7:15 pm
Location: Hickinbotham Hall, National Wine Centre, Hackney Road, Adelaide
News
Kyoto not enough to curb climate change
Release Date: Thursday, 22 November 2007
Professor Barry Brook, Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair (Professor) of Climate Change and Director of the University's Research Institute for Climate Change & Sustainability, has written to Nature with co-authors Professor Tim Flannery (Chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council, and Division of Environmental and Life Sciences, Macquarie University) and Nick Rowley (former adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and now Director of Kinesis Pty Ltd, a climate change and sustainability consultancy company).
Drought hastens Murray’s demise
Advertiser, 13/11/2007, General News, Page 9
Adelaide University Associate Professor David Paton said the concerns outlined in the Murray-Darling Basin Commission report were just the tip of the problem. “Action is need now, not yet another report”, he said.
Executive Dean among Nobel Prize scientists
Release Date: Tuesday 16 October 2007
The University of Adelaide's Professor Nick Harvey is one of the global team of scientists recognised in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Climate change researcher is a bright spark
Release Date: Wednesday, 26th September 2007
The University of Adelaide's Professor Barry Brook has been named by national science magazine Cosmos as one of the top 10 young scientists in Australia.
Visiting Research Fellow
RIsCCS welcomes Dr Tom Wigley. Tom, born in Adelaide and educated at the University of Adelaide in the 1950s and 1960s, is one of the world's recognised experts in climate change. Tom’s main interest is in how humans are changing (and will change) the global climate. You can find abstracts of some of his more recent papers at:
http://www.essl.ucar.edu/LAR/2007/catalog/cgd/wigley.php
Royal Society honours for two researchers
Release Date: Friday, 14th September 2007
Congratulations to Professor Barry Brook and Professor Martin Williams for being awarded the Royal Society of South Australia’s 2007 Andrewartha Medal in recognition of their outstanding contribution to understanding climate change. [see full article]
New Research Institute tackles climate change
Release Date: Thursday, 9 August 2007
Tackling climate change will be the mission of a new University of Adelaide research institute to be launched by Premier Mike Rann on Monday, 13 August.
Global change expert is new Executive Dean
Release Date: Tuesday, 24 July 2007
The University of Adelaide has appointed leading global change scientist Professor Nick Harvey as its new Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from 30 July.
Climate change professor wins science prize
Release Date: Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Professor Barry Brook from the University of Adelaide's new Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability has been awarded the prestigious Edgeworth David Medal from the Royal Society of New South Wales. [read more]
Climate change professor takes leading role
Release Date: Wednesday, 7 March 2007
The University of Adelaide is to play a leading role in climate change research, with the appointment of a new Professor of Climate Change and the establishment of the Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability. [read more]
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