Podcasts about climate change research centre

Send me a messageToday's episode is a real honour to be sharing. Alexander Pui is the guest, and he is an old colleague and someone I hold closely as a professional and person. He has been developing a significant volume of work across his career in both academia and industry for two decades, working in some of Australia and the broader region's largest and most influential organisations.Alex is an engineer and lawyer by training, received a PhD for his work in applied statistics specific to understanding hydrology and flood risk in the context of a changing climate, and is now a fellow of the University of NSW's Climate Change Research Centre and works up in Japan leading climate risk engagements for many of Asia's largest businesses. He has and continues to do outstanding work, especially at the frontlines of trying to merge and blend the incredibly complex science of a changing climate with the daily pragmatism and operational efficiency of large corporates. His work in exploring why there is such a discrepancy in how scientists describe the perils of a changing climate and the existential threat it poses to human and non-human life as we know it compared to the largely benign or muted results of individual - organisational climate scenario work is outstanding.We chat about a lot in this conversation - it's a bit of a climate101 primer, how climate does or doesn't fit into enterprise risk management frameworks, the necessity of collaboration and crossing into new disciplines and worldview, the challenge of balancing urgent action against all that is uncertain or unknown about how a changing climate will affect economies and societies, incentives, being the green sheep of his family and how to be the change as a translator and connector of disciplines, skills and knowledge sets.The theme for the newsletter this month is mavericks, and the work Alex does, what many of us do, requires some of the maverick spirit. An unorthodoxy in thinking and being that seeks to highlight hypocrisy, challenge norms and pursue curiously. I've seen it firsthand with Alex - unconditional courage despite the consequences.Arguably the first climate maverick was James Hansen, the NASA scientist who testified in front of the US Senate in 1988 on climate change. I can't decide if it would have been easier or more difficult to speak about climate change in that period. A changing climate wasn't part of the mainstream zeitgeist at the time, and it may have seemed like an impossibility to many that humans could change the climate through their collective actions so sharing something so incredulous possibly seemed insane. Perhaps though, the lack of politicised nonsense about the problem and its necessary responses were still to arise and maybe that meant it could just be said.Regardless, James Hansen was and remains a maverick, and in 1988, in that public setting he announced “Global warming is not a prediction. It is happening.” And yet here we are 36 years later.Until next time, thanks for listening.Today's show is delivered with Altiorem. Use the code FindingNature10 to get your first month free on their gold and platinum plans. Today's show is delivered with Gilay Estate. Add Finding Nature to your booking reservation for a free dinner and breakfast for each night you stay. Thanks for listening. Follow Finding Nature on Instagram

The oceans play a huge role in keeping our planet healthy. Maurice Huguenin, doctoral candidate at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, examines one example. Maurice Huguenin is a doctoral candidate at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. He holds a Master’s degree […]

Western Sydney and areas in the NSW Illawarra and Hunter have been hammered by yet another round of devastating floods for the fourth time in 18 months.  So, is climate change to blame?  Or are we simply building in the wrong places?  We're joined by Jason Evans, Professor at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales to explore whether the science is settled.  On this episode of The Briefing, is climate change to blame for the last week's devastating floods? Today's Headlines: - Boris Johnson resigns- Kyrgios to play Wimbledon final- PM will treat Putin with ‘contempt he deserves'- Godfather actor James Caan dies- Nutbush world record broken Follow The Briefing: Instagram: @thebriefingpodcast Facebook: TheBriefingNewsAUTwitter: @TheBriefingAU See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode of Coogee Voice Dr Marjorie O'Neill sits down with Professor Katrin Meissner from the UNSW Climate Change Research Centre. UNSW CCRC is a multi-disciplinary research centre comprising one of the largest university research facilities of its kind in Australia, administered within the School of BEES in the Faculty of Science. CCRC houses research expertise in the key areas of Earth's climate: atmospheric, oceanic and terrestrial processes. We apply basic scientific principles to pressing questions on climate dynamics, global climate change, and extremes of weather and climate. On today's episode we discuss the science of climate change and what we need to do to slow down it down.Beach: Coogee and MaroubraCoffee: Gusto

If you live on the east coast of Australia, your ocean swimming season has been rudely interrupted by the weather, with swims cancelled up and down the coast because of high swells and flooding. Australia has just experienced its wettest summer for five years because of a climate cycle known as La Nina.  Associate Professor Andréa Taschetto is an oceanographer and ARC Future Fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW. Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License: La Niña Y El Lobo - Jesus Adrián Romero La nina que yo ame - Tumi Music Ltd. La Nina De Tus OjoS - Daniel Calveti (DJ PRE Remix) Sapphire - Tobu Image from hippo px Some links from the show: Andrea on twitter, Marc on twitter, Marc on strava

Today on the podcast we take a deep dive on what this means for the planet and what can we do to change it? We've known for years that the Arctic is warming at twice the global average and one side effect is that the frozen ground that melts and refreezes each year is permanently shrinking. What's got scientists really worried is that it is no longer thawing gradually and is allowing masses of carbon that have been locked in frozen dirt to escape. Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick is from the Climate Change Research Centre at UNSW joins us on todays episode to answer our questions.   In today's news headlines: Victorian virus hotspots to be locked down at midnight, international flights suspended Queensland borders reopening on July 10 for all but Victoria European Union says 14 countries welcome to visit, including Australia TikTok blocked by India over security concerns   In today's Briefing we ask: What does a heatwave in Verkhoyansk in Siberia mean for the planet? What if anything can we do to change it? Why are we seeing more severe consequences of global warming in the Arctic compared to other areas? What are the physics of ice and global warming? What is permafrost? If we don't stop this how much greenhouse gas could escape through the thawing of permafrost? Can we stop or reverse global warming? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor Matthew England from the Climate Change Research Centre, comes into the studio to talk about the climate crisis, and the terrors at the bottom of the ocean. Is it too late for us to make a change? And whose responsibility is it anyway? Ruth Hessey and Matthew England get to the bottom of whether […]

David Barr from Drive Tuesday recently caught up with Bondi Feast Co-Director, Rachel Chant about this ‘feast’ of entertainment that is about to descend on Bondi.  Also there were Mikala Westall and Adriane Daff from one of the theatrical events – The Lady Of The Tiger. Bondi Feast promises to be a wonderful 10 days […]

On Thursday 20 June 2019 classical trained soprano Sara Macliver joined Gemma on Thursday Drive to chat about her current performance; a song recital with Ian Munro on the piano titled Songs My Mother Taught Me – a selection of well-known and not-so-well-known songs to champion women, their stories and their music. A homage to […]

The University of New South Wales posted a general information story about Véronique Lago on Twitter and where listed some of her credentials and she immediately appeared a natural choice as a subject to interview for Climate Conversations.Véronique, who has been with the university's "Climate Change Research Centre" is now involved with a relatively new project that is considering Australia's carbon emissions.She is a French/Canadian who has been in Australia for eight years and has found it an ideal place to study oceanography as the country is surrounded by water.Véronique worked in 2007/8 on a Canadian icebreaker in the Arctic, including an overwintering project, moving constantly through the region that links the Arctic Ocean to the Canadian archipelago.

Heat-waves are now a better and more understood dynamic thanks to the work of Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick from the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Sarah discusses not only climate change and heat-waves, but the personal challenges of having children (she already has one daughter and another is one the way) when she knows her children will be living in circumstances quite unlike those we enjoy today - when her eldest daughter is Sarah's age (she's in her early 30s) , she knows the global temperatures will be at least one or two degrees above what they are now.Sarah loves her work and her honesty and candidness is refreshing.

Evidence matters. Yet even before “fake news” became a political weapon, it’s been notoriously difficult to get evidence into the policymaking process. How can we keep good evidence from being overwhelmed by bad politics? In this conversation, moderated by ABC Radio National journalist Eleanor Hall, three world-renowned experts talk about their experience from the front lines of research and policymaking in contentious areas – climate change, refugees and, where the two meet, climate change- and disaster-related displacement. Professor John Church is Australia’s most credentialled expert on sea-level rise and a long-time research scientist with the government CSIRO. He joined UNSW in 2016 as a professor in the Climate Change Research Centre, so he’s seen Australia’s approach to science and international obligations from inside and outside government. UNSW Scientia Professor and Kaldor Centre Director Jane McAdam is a pioneer in research on climate change- and disaster-related displacement, advising governments and international organisations including UNHCR. In 2017, her work in this field was described as 'transformative' by the jury of the prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian Prize for Human Rights, which she was the first Australian to win. Walter Kälin has extensive international experience as scholar and policymaker, most recently serving as Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (and formerly of its predecessor, the Nansen Initiative on Disaster-Induced Cross-Border Displacement), providing strategic advice and leadership to this state-led process working towards better protection for people in the context of disasters and climate change. Professor Emeritus for international and constitutional law at the University of Bern (Switzerland), he has served the United Nations in various capacities, including as Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons and twice as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee.

WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR...?A just released Climate Institute report says limiting global warming to 1.5 C rather than letting it reach 2 degrees C could make a significant difference to the severity of extreme weather events and other environmental destruction. This week on Dirt Radio, we discuss the implications with Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, specialist in regional impacts of climate change at the Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW and Dr. Harry Jennens spokesperson and co-ordinator of Healthy Futures, an organization of health professionals taking action to address climate change.