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Acacia Pepler

@acaciapepler.bsky.social
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Climate scientist interested in how weather systems and their impacts are changing in a changing climate

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Tim Raupach @timraupach.com · 22/09/2026
Respect and applause to @andrewkingclimate.bsky.social, @alexborowiak.bsky.social, Ruchit Kulkarni, @drkimclimate.bsky.social, @taimoorsohail.bsky.social, Gen Tolhurst, & Anna Zehrung for this piece on making climate science more inclusive for LGBTQIA+ scientists 🌈 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Increasing LGBTQIA+ inclusion in climate science
Nature Climate Change - LGBTQIA+ climate scientists have long encountered oppression and discrimination across society and in the workplace. We suggest specific actions, which need to be supported...
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 08/09/2026
Oh, my H-Index? Well,
A sign that's been edited to read: I don't mean to brag, but my scientific papers are enjoyed by well over 4 people worldwide
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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are pleased to announce that abstract submissions are now open for the Convection-Permitting Modelling Workshop 2027, to be held at UNSW Sydney, Australia, from 1–4 February 2027, with additional side events on 5 February 2027. unsw.to/cpm2027
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Convection-Permitting Modelling Workshop 2027
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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025
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The Research Whisperer @therealrw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New post this week: early findings from a study about how academics use GenAI that offers crucial insight into the emotional aspects of engaging with it, by @neilselwyn.bsky.social and colleagues: researchwhisperer.org/2026/07/21/a... #academicsky #highered #genAI
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Academic (mis)uses of GenAI
This second post by Neil Selwyn and his collaborators shares some of the preliminary results from their research survey, which was discussed in an RW post earlier this year ‘Academics’ …
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026
13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
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Cristi Proistosescu @cristiproist.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Moving this discussion out of Gavin's replies. NOAA is about to update their precip frequency atlas to account for global warming non-stationarity (more rain!) In practice, what difference might that make to infrastructure design, insurance, legal compliance, etc? DISCUSS!
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“Snow coverage in Australia is in long-term decline due to increasing temperatures caused by climate change, data from the Bureau of Meteorology shows. “ www.smh.com.au/environment/...
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‘Frustrating start’ to ski season as climate change and El Nino weather pattern converge
Resort operators in NSW and Victoria insist the muddy start to the season is not unusual and does not suggest coverage will remain low.
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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 01/05/2026
Bringing so-called ‘negative’ results into interactive open access #publications with the new #EGU manuscript formats: LESSONS (Limitations, Errors, Surprises, Shortcomings and Opportunities for New Science)! Find out more: egu.eu/3M3CH1 📸 Debayan Chatterjee on imaggeo.egu.eu
Image description:  mountainous background, with text reading:''EGU Publications launches two new manuscript types: 
LESSONS (Limitations, Errors, Surprises, Shortcomings and Opportunities for New Science)''
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hug a climate scientist today! Just don’t make it weird, they are already dealing with enough | First Dog on the Moon
Today we show our love and gratitude to the brave boffins at the coal face of existential dread
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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Acacia Pepler @acaciapepler.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
As someone who cares about climate and the environment, it's easy to feel cynical about the future. As an antidote, I highly recommend When There Are Wolves Again, a fantastic book which shows how incremental steps really could lead to a better world in our lifetimes ❤️
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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Check out our new paper that shows the unusually warm East Australian Current in early 2022 contributes to the extreme flooding rainfall occurring further south than it would have otherwise doi.org/10.1007/s007... 🧪 @ccrc.bsky.social
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Effects of high local sea surface temperature on the extreme rainfall over the eastern coast of Australia in February 2022 - Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Theoretical and Applied Climatology - Record-breaking extreme rainfall impacted Australia’s east coast from February to April 2022, causing severe flooding across the region. To explore the...
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Ted Scott @climate-ted.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Do you have the sense that summers feel different than when you were younger? That they start quickly, and remain intense until the fall? You’re not wrong. (thread)
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Kim Reid @drkimclimate.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
You can set your watch to autumn headlines declaring a catastrophic El Niño or La Niña. In this article, I throw a bucket of cold water on the heated headlines and reflect on why autumn forecasts of Nino3.4 are to be read with caution. theconversation.com/why-the-phra...
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Why the phrase “Super El Nino” makes Australian climate scientists roll their eyes
Media reports have suggested a “super” El Niño is looming. The problem is, these autumn forecasts are notoriously unreliable.
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
New APRA insurance vulnerability report shows 25% of Aus households may have no home insurance by 2050; one million households more than today. That’s ~40,000 households losing insurance protection every year for 25 years. Biggest cause: more climate change extremes www.apra.gov.au/mind-gap-an-...
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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This work (led by our PhD student Aditya Deshmukh) shows that if a series of recent extreme East Coast Lows (off Australia's east coast) were to occur in a warmer climate they would not produce higher peak wave heights - good news for the region agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Extreme Coastal Waves Due To Australian East Coast Lows in a Warming Climate
Extreme coastal waves from 12 historically significant East Coast Lows simulated in a warming climate Modest decrease in nearshore wave height, wave period and cumulative wave power projected alo...
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Acacia Pepler @acaciapepler.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
After a busy week of inspiring science and socialising in nipaluna/Hobart, it's nice to finally rest on the couch with the cats. #AMOS2026 was fantastic as always, one of my favourite weeks of the year! @amosupdates.bsky.social
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Acacia Pepler @acaciapepler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
It took a loooooong time but it's finally out! We argue that the winter storm track isn't actually "shifting south". Rather, the cool season drying in southeast Australia is linked to a weakening of the northern edge (while the core stays put & intensifies). link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Is the Australian storm track shifting south? - Climate Dynamics
Climate Dynamics - Cool season rainfall has declined in recent decades in many areas of the southern hemisphere subtropics and midlatitudes including parts of southern Australia. This has been...
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Tim Raupach @timraupach.com · 16/02/2026
Great to be in sunny Hobart in lutruwita/Tasmania for the @amosupdates.bsky.social 2026 meeting. Here’s the gorgeous view from kunanyi/Mt Wellington yesterday. The very apt #AMOS2026 conference theme is “southern skies, southern oceans: science on the edge”.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.
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Acacia Pepler @acaciapepler.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
If you're interested in how extratropical lows are changing in Australia as the world warms, there's a short summary of some recent research on the BoM website: www.bom.gov.au/news-and-med...
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
And I made a little web app where you can go and download monthly precipitation time series data from your location of choice (as long as it's in Australia) wateriso-aus.shinyapps.io/apic/
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Australian precipitation isotope calculator
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"Observations show that across the globe, the heaviest daily rainfall events are averaging about 8 or 9 per cent more rain today than before the pre-industrial era" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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As the world warms, extreme rain events are coming hard and fast
When it comes to extreme rainfall, it's hard for climate scientists to say what's natural and what's caused by climate change, but they do know the most extreme events are dropping more rain, more oft...
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Acacia Pepler @acaciapepler.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
One small highlight of 2025: I managed to read 133 books, my highest total since 2016 (not counting all the books read to children). Mostly SFF of course! I suspect I'll read fewer next year, as it feels like time to reread LotR.
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Acacia Pepler @acaciapepler.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Given how much money we have to pay journals to publish papers, you would think they could at least manage to hire support staff with reading comprehension or customer support who actually answer emails *grumble mutter whinge*
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 27/12/2025
Looking for postdoc positions in the UK studying weather extremes? Two jobs with deadline 4th Jan: Historical windstorms, working with two insurance companies: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Storylines of extreme events, as part of a European collaboration: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Scientist in Historical Windstorms:Whiteknights Reading UK
Full time, fixed term contract (up to 36 months)
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Wrote this ages ago, still relevant www.scientificamerican.com/blog/hot-pla...
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Why I Won't Debate Science
Once you put established facts about the world up for argument, you’ve already lost
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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Exciting news 🎉 Our CCRC scientist Andréa Taschetto and team have just released “Meteorology and Climate of the Southern Hemisphere” book, an updated edition of David Karoly’s 1998 monograph, published by Cambridge University Press. + Available at lnkd.in/g4SFsM9k www.cambridge.org/au/universit...
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Meteorology and Climate of the Southern Hemisphere | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
What's NCAR? and 8 ways it has helped you www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🚨New paper CCRC scientist Andrea Taschetto and team have published a comprehensive review of ENSO impacts in Australia in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com. This is an important and long-overdue synthesis, building on foundational studies such as McBride & Nicholls (1983). ++
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Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on Australia
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) profoundly affects Australian weather, climate, ecosystems and socio-economic sectors. This Review presents...
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Navid C @navidcy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Not every day we get 35 x 10⁶ AUD for ocean research. rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D... Excellent job from Our Future Oceans team! 🌊 Congrats @profmattengland.bsky.social, @adele-morrison.bsky.social, @andyhogg.bsky.social, @janzika.bsky.social, @nicolamaher.bsky.social and many more!!!
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Research Management System - Scheme Round Statistics for Approved Applications - ARC Centres of Excellence 2026 round 1
RMS is the ARC's Research Management System, a web-based system used by eligible researchers to prepare and submit research proposals and assessments under the ARC National Competitive Grants Program ...
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Watch to the end. Mother Nature is not messing around
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🌊 Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain 👉 28% rainfall increase (vs ERA5’s 8%) 👉 Storm rain intensity up 👉 ~2,300 Gt/yr extra freshwater in 2023 👉 Ocean “cooling by evaporation” up 10–15% One of Earth’s key climate buffers is shifting. theconversation.com/storms-in-th...
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Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global
The Southern Ocean is the engine room of global heat and carbon uptake – and it’s changing faster and more dramatically than we thought.
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Martin Jucker @drjucker.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
New review led by @ariaan.bsky.social on climate effects of the Southern Annular Mode, the most important mode of climate variability in the Southern Hemisphere. Read it in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com at doi.org/10.1038/s430... 🧪 #academicsky #climate #climatechange
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Southern Annular Mode dynamics, projections and impacts in a changing climate - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) has shifted towards its positive phase owing to ozone depletion and increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. This Review discusses the dynamics, trends and projections...
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Acacia Pepler @acaciapepler.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
It's always nice as a scientist to see datasets you developed years ago are still being used to do useful things. But when planning future research it's hard to decide when it's valuable to update old datasets/analyses using new models etc, vs moving on and doing something new (thus higher impact).
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Martin Jucker @drjucker.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
In the latest edition of the Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, I am taking another look at this year's Sudden Stratospheric Warming. I think it had more of an impact than I thought it would back in September. viewer.joomag.com/bamos-vol-38...
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BAMOS Vol 38 Q4 Nov 2025 BAMOS Vol 38 Q4 Nov 2025 | Page 6
The Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society BAMOS Vol 38 Q4 Nov 2025 Highlights include: - Another Sudden Stratospheric Warming in 2025; - 2025 ACCESS Community Workshop:...
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Damien Irving @drclimate.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
New research from our team! We identify places where the hottest temperature on record is not particularly severe compared to what is possible (a.k.a "soft records"). rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Acacia Pepler @acaciapepler.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Ahhhh, the relief when you've been anxiously waiting the reviews of a paper for 6 months and they finally come back as minor revisions. Having this paper completely finished with by the end of the year will be an excellent Christmas present!
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly. Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help! 🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
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“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
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Acacia Pepler @acaciapepler.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
One thing I've been working on for the last year or so is trying to better understand how strong winds and heavy rainfall interact to cause enhanced impacts on Australians, and which datasets we need to use to identify them properly. Read about my new paper here: nesp2climate.com.au/gone-with-th...
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Gone with the wind… and the rain - NESP 2 climate
When a location experiences both extreme wind and extreme rainfall around the same time, the likelihood of fallen trees, power outages, and damage to houses...
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Graeme Cumming @gscumming.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Note from an irritated editor: AI is starting to infiltrate peer review, or at least it looks a lot like it. If you’re planning to use an LLM to review someone else’s work for a journal, rather just don’t accept the review invitation. It’s easy.
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a penguin holding a brain with the words hey you dropped this
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Insurance Australia Group (IAG) Severe Weather in a Changing Climate report www.iag.com.au/severe-weath... “The report complements Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (2025) … together with anticipated impacts for the finance & insurance industry.” Key Planning Recommendations are given
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Acacia Pepler @acaciapepler.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Just had my first encounter with a review generated by ChatGPT instead of a person and I am horrified. As the other reviewer of the paper I naturally put in a complaint to the journal, the authors deserve better. Another for the list of reasons why never to submit to an Elsevier journal!
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The thing I want most from social media is for people to share things that I might want to read or watch that otherwise I wouldn’t read or watch, whether news, commentary, books, movies, tv, games to play, whatever. Bluesky does this. /4
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 03/10/2025
Dear computer boffins please stop trying to fix problems I don’t have | First Dog on the Moon
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Dear computer boffins please stop trying to fix problems I don’t have | First Dog on the Moon
I don’t want AI in anything and certainly not everything please stop asking * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
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Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Last chance to register for free online attendance at the #AusYCSEC Young Coastal Scientists & Engineers Conference! Come along to hear lots of exciting coastal research happening across Australasia... plus a special new data announcement from Geoscience Aus in the opening session! 🤩🌊📷🛰️
Registration poster for AusYCSEC
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
BoM Research Report 116 on the Climate Hazard Information developed for use in (the National) Climate Risk Assessment. [All the science behind the data and projections used in the NCRA] www.bom.gov.au/research/pub...
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