Unearthing Australia’s climate history
Climate History Australia is a citizen science project helping to uncover historical climate data. With an informed understanding of past extremes, we can better benchmark the significance of current climate phenomenon – such as drought, bushfires, hailstorms, heatwaves and floods.
Our team is based at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University (ANU), working with partners across the country and around the world.
Past projects
Our researchers won the 2014 Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research – informally known as the ‘Oscars of Australian Science’ – for their reconstruction of south-eastern Australia’s climate record for the past 200–500 years. Known as SEARCH (South Eastern Australian Recent Climate History), the project was based at the University of Melbourne, and utilised a now concluded citizen science portal, OzDocs.
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