The SEARCH project team is excited to announce that our project's Environmental Historian, Assoc. Prof. Don Garden has just released his book Droughts, Floods and Cyclones; El Ninos that shaped our colonial past. The book is a comprehensive study of El Nino events in colonial Australia, examining how colonists came to understand their climate and … Continue reading Don Garden releases climate history book
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Claire Fenby’s NLA research trip report
The months of January and February have marked the first of a number of research trips to come during my PhD. I have spent four weeks in Canberra working with our project partner, the National Library of Australia. adobe creative cloud . The library treated me to the privileges enjoyed by the NLA's 2010 summer … Continue reading Claire Fenby’s NLA research trip report
A moonbow is uncovered
PhD student Linden Ashcroft came across a rare meteorological phenomenon when looking through some early instrumental data given to the SEARCH project by a former CSIRO scientist Derek Reid. Derek Reid One of the scientists who conducted pioneering research into early instrumental data in Australia was Derek Reid. Before his retirement from CSIRO in 2008, … Continue reading A moonbow is uncovered
In the media: First settlers battled weather extremes
Australia's first European settlers had good reason to complain about the weather, according to a landmark Australian climate history project. Lead academics on the SEARCH project, Dr Joelle Gergis and Prof David Karoly recently conducted an analysis of the journals of Lieutenant William Dawes, outlining temperature conditions at Sydney Harbour in the early days of … Continue reading In the media: First settlers battled weather extremes
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