The SEARCH project will draw on the expertise of volunteers to build a comprehensive online database of early Australian meteorological records and historical accounts of weather events. Volunteers will work out of our partner libraries, The State Library of Victoria, The State Library of New South Wales and the National Library of Australia to help … Continue reading Citizen scientists help create digital record of our climate past
Tag: Joelle Gergis
International Palaeoclimate meeting in The Age
Over 70 palaeoclimate scientists from across Australia and around the world were in Melbourne last week for the Aus2K regional workshop. The meeting was an opportunity for scientists to present the latest palaeoclimate reconstruction data for our region; information that will feed into the fifth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due in … Continue reading International Palaeoclimate meeting in The Age
SEARCH Project featured in The University of Melbourne Voice
The University of Melbourne's Voice newspaper has featured The South-Eastern Australian Recent Climate History project on page 2 of its May edition. Lead researcher, Dr Joelle Gergis, discussed the background to this landmark linkage project, while project historian, Professor Don Garden outlined how historical documentary records would be utilised. The feature is available on The … Continue reading SEARCH Project featured in The University of Melbourne Voice
Weather conditions of the First Fleet voyage
HMS Sirius Lieutenant William Bradley recorded the daily noon temperature in his weather journal maintained over the course of the First Fleet's journey from 1787-1788. He continued to record the noon temperature while the HMS Sirius was anchored at Port Jackson during the first eight months of the settlement of Sydney Cove. Analysis of these … Continue reading Weather conditions of the First Fleet voyage
Palaeoclimate scientists to meet in Melbourne
International palaeoclimate researchers will visit Melbourne from 31 May - 2 June for the Past Global Changes (PAGES) Aus2k workshop, to be hosted by the University of Melbourne's School of Earth Sciences. The workshop will target the need for extended estimates of regional-scale climate variables to reduce uncertainties about climate change and its potential impacts … Continue reading Palaeoclimate scientists to meet in Melbourne
Science Meets Parliament 2010
SEARCH project researchers, Joelle Gergis and Ailie Gallant were recently in Canberra, attending Science Meets Parliament, with the support of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. Science Meets Parliament offers scientists from around Australia the opportunity to meet with MPs and discuss issues of importance. This year's delegates also attended a series of professional development … Continue reading Science Meets Parliament 2010
Discovering Australia’s first weather record
As a young American researcher working in Australia in the late 1970s, Robert McAfee made a startling discovery that would have a huge impact on Australian Climate History research, the weather diary of Lieutenant William Dawes. This is his story. When I was a grad student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison I received a telegram … Continue reading Discovering Australia’s first weather record
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Don Garden releases climate history book
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
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
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