Events
Workshop on Monitoring the Impact of Climate Change on the Environment
Date: Sydney, 15-17 December 2008
Held in conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent Sensors,
Sensor Networks, and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2008), this workshop
will consider climate change monitoring, sensing technologies in marine ecosystems,
related sensor network technologies and the application and development of
sensor networks for monitoring the impacts of climate change.
Responding to climate change: Carbon trading and carbon offsetting
Date: 7 October 2008
Hear speakers with very different perspectives on the effectiveness, social equity, financial and environmental implications of carbon offsetting and carbon trading under the Federal Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. This special forum to be chaired by RIsCCS Director Professor Barry Brook.
The Environmental Activist Conference “Climate Emergency—No More Business As Usual!”
Date: 10-11 October 2008
Location: Basil Hertzel Auditorium, UniSA, and Australia Education Union
An event to to initiate wide-ranging discussion that will include exchanges between teachers, climate scientists and educators, activists and community organisations, environmental groups and concerned individuals. RIsCCS Director Barry Brook will speak at the public forum and a workshop.
2008 ASBS National Conference
Date: 28 September - 3 October 2008
Location: University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus
Wine 2030 Conference
Date/Time: 29 September 2008, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location: Hickinbotham Hall, National Wine Centre of Australia
Climate Change: Catastrophic Impacts and Human Rights
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
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
Full details
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
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
RIsCCS researchers win ARC grants
Release Date: Thursday, 16 October 2008
Alan Cooper will lead a Discovery project team looking at the phylogeography, evolution and taxonomy of the black rat, considered a major threat to Australia's biosecurity. New Linkage projects in 2009 will include ones led by Peng Bi and Dino Pisaniello looking at heatwaves, population health and emergency management; Barry Brook looking at the impacts of climate change and land use on biodiversity; and Graeme Hugo looking at the health and workforce participation of Australia's "baby boomer" generation.
Wine industry looks to secure its future for 2030
Release Date: Monday, 29 September 2008
RIsCCS member Christopher Findlay led the Wine 2030 conference to consider the challenges of the future and the technologies needed to transform the wine industry to ensure its continued viability.
Pooling resources to protect our wildlife
Release Date: Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Experts from the public and private sectors, research and business have banded together to help conserve and manage our local wildlife in the face of climate change. Headed by RIsCCS Research Director of Adaptive Responses for Sustainable Environments Andy Lowe, the new Equinox Group will work together on a range of flagship programs to retain South Australian biodiversity and develop better ways of protecting it.
Science communication featured in new RIsCCS newsletter
Release Date: Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Learn how our members are communicating their research to other scientists and to members of government, business, industry and the general public in the September edition of the RIsCCS newsletter. Don't miss the details about our new series of free public seminars or the postgraduate program in sustainability to be launched at the University of Adelaide in 2009.
Corey Bradshaw, Young Tall Poppy
Release Date: Thursday, 21 August 2008
Associate Professor Corey Bradshaw, Research Director of Marine Impacts at RIsCCS, is a winner in the 2008 Young Tall Poppy Science Awards. Established by the Australian Institute of Policy & Science, the awards recognize researchers under the age of 40 for their achievements and efforts to communicate science.
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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