ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR CLIMATE EXTREMES SEMINAR SERIES
PAST CLEX SEMINAR SPEAKERS
2024
October: Prof. Andy Hogg, ANU, presenting on ACCESS-NRI:
Australia’s climate simulator
September: A Prof Danielle Vernon-Kidd, University of Newcastle, Rings of time: Leveraging palaeoclimatology for smarter hydroclimate risk assessment
July: Prof Noel Keenlyside, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Supermodelling Climate
June: Prof Thomas Froelicher, University of Bern, Marine heatwaves and compound extremes: Drivers, trends, and impacts , Part 2
May: Prof Nerilie Abram, ANU, Emerging tipping points in Antarctica
April: Dr Stephan Hoyer, Google Research, AI-based weather and climate prediction with Neural General Circulation Models
March: Prof. Simon Tett, University of Edinburgh, UK. Event Attribution: Methods and application to a heatwave in Shanghai, China and a Cloud Burst in Edinburgh, Scotland
2023
March: Prof Christian Jakob, Monash University. ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century
May: Dr Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, USA. New climate physics with machine learning
July: Prof Moninya Roughan, University of New South Wales, Australia. Ocean Warming and Marine Extremes in the East Australian Current System
August: Dr Chloe Watfern, The Black Dog Institute, Australia. Climate distress PowerPoint slides here
June: Dr Erin Coldham, The Star of the South Wind Farm, Australia. Star of the South and the offshore wind energy resource
September: Prof Andrew Weaver, University of Victoria, Canada. Privilege, agency, and the climate scientist’s role in the global warming debate
October: Dr Claire Spillmann, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia. Predicting ocean extremes at subseasonal to seasonal timescales for operational decision support
November: Dr Paul Newman, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, USA. The Antarctic Ozone Hole: Past, Present, and Future
2022
February: Dr Dörte Jakob, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia. The Australian Climate Service – a new national approach to assist Australian’s build resilience to climate hazards
March: Dr Tapio Schneider, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA. Accelerating and improving climate models with hybrid AI approaches
June: Dr Kerry Burke, Shell Renewables, Australia. Extreme Weather and Power Supply
August: Dr Linden Ashcroft, University of Melbourne, Australia. Citizen Science in Climate Science
September: Dr Mika Pearce, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia. ACCESS-Fire: case study learnings
October: Dr Ramona Della Pozza, NESP Climate Systems Hub, Australia. Putting users at the centre of research design
November: Dr Vassili Kistios, CSIRO, Australia. QuickClim: A machine learning solution to generating climate projections of arbitrary user-defined emissions pathways
2021
April: Dr Jerry Meehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA. Mutually interactive decadal-timescale processes connecting the tropical Atlantic and Pacific
May: Dr Stephanie Downes, Deloitte’s Risk Advisory, Australia. Climate Science through a Consulting Lens
June: Dr Alain Protat, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia. New radar-based nowcasting techniques to alert citizens and businesses of imminent high-impact weather
July: Dr Peter Bauer, ECMWF, UK. The European Union’s Destination Earth programme – a template for future Earth system prediction?
August: Prof Detlef van Vuuren, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Netherlands. Integrated scenarios to support climate research
September: Dr James Dyke, University of Exeter, UK. Net zero: facts, theory, and wishful thinking
October: Dr Charmaine Franklin, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia. Urban finescale weather modelling to support improved prediction
November: Dr Johanna Spiers, Snowy Hydro, Australia. Weather and Climate Science at Snowy Hydro Ltd
