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Be a part of Centre of Excellence's first Climate Science Winter School
23 March 2012
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science will host its first annual winter school on July 9-13 at the School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne. This is a high-level education program for honours and graduate students interested in climate science. Most students will have an undergraduate background in maths, physics or computational science.
The winter school will provide a broad overview of the key areas of climate science in the Centre’s main research programs. Researchers will explain how the Centre uses physics, maths, biology and hydrology, coupled with high performance computers to understand the processes and phenomena associated with climate science, climate variability and climate change.
Sessions of the winter school will be dedicated to the key drivers of Australian climate including tropical convection, climate extremes and land surface and ocean processes.
The school will also feature sessions on the modelling and data tools used in the Centre, particularly the ACCESS modelling system and CMIP5 data sets. Centre of Excellence staff based at Universities and partner organisations will deliver lectures.
The school is open to anyone, and funding is available to support attendance. However, priority will be given to honours and graduate students working on climate science problems. The number of places is strictly limited.
To register, email a one page CV and a half page statement on why you want to attend to Anna Haley at anna.haley@monash.edu.au by April 30. Successful applicants will be notified by May 15.
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Announcing the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014
06 May 2013
To mark the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by the great scientist and explorer Sir Douglas Mawson, Professor Chris Turney and Dr Chris Fogwill of the CCRC are leading a privately-funded voyage of discovery to the Antarctic during the Austral summer of 2013-2014. |
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New website will let you Adrift away
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Dr Erik Van Sebille along with David Fuchs and Jack Murray has created a new website, Adrift, which allows visitors to track the path of flotsam for the next 10 years from almost any place by the ocean. |
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