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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Congratulations to Mike on submitting his PhD thesis, “Linking Southern Hemisphere Circulation to Antarctic Sea Ice Variability and Extremes”! His research explores how atmospheric circulation patterns influenced Antarctic sea ice variability, including the extreme 2016 sea ice decline.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Researchers from our centre are participating in the CMIP Community Workshop 2026 in Kyoto. Prof. Lisa, Prof. @jasonpevans.bsky.social, Research Fellow Joaquin, and former fellows @pal14himadri.bsky.social & Loan are engaging with the global community on CMIP6 insights and the future of CMIP7.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A recent study by Huazhen,Andréa,Christine,and Ghyslaine classifies CMIP6 large ensembles into weaker, unchanged, and stronger ENSO futures. El Niño rainfall varies by pathway, but Dec–May La Niña rainfall increases across all scenarios. Congrats! Full read: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🚨New paper This new study by Ying Lung Liu, Lisa Alexander and @jasonpevans.bsky.social disentangles ENSO and IOD influences on Australian spring climate, showing ENSO’s dominant role and underscoring the need for large ensembles for robust attribution. Full Paper: doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...

The correlation between (a, c, e) rainfall and (b, d, f) surface temperature simulated by CCAM and the NINO3.4 from CTRL for (a, b) CTRL, (c, d) (noENSO) and (e, f) noIOD runs. Stipples indicate grids where correlations are significant at the 1% level based on
Student’s t-test. A 1% significance level is chosen because the large number of events in the 10-member ensemble results in very small critical values for higher significance levels.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Congrats to Michael Eabry et al. on their paper showing how synoptically varying sub-monthly episodes, SAM phase transition (cf. Zonal Wave 3 activity) and ocean/ice-cover preconditioning were important for the 2016 Antarctic sea-ice decline. Read more: doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Many congratulations to Thomas Schmaltz, chosen as one of 18 outstanding Australians to receive the prestigious John Monash Scholarship! This award will support his PhD in Glaciology abroad, exploring how our planet’s frozen frontiers are changing. So proud of you, Tom!

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

CCRC’s Lisa and Loan found that regional precipitation datasets are systematically drier than global ones, a puzzling bias that remains after testing multiple explanations. This raises new questions about how rainfall is represented across scales. Read more: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Excited to welcome Sam Dahl to the CCRC! He joins us from the University of Arizona, where he completed his BSc and MSc in Atmospheric Science. Sam’s PhD, supervised by Lisa Alexander, will explore sub-hourly extreme rainfall prediction using convective-permitting models over Australia.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Huge congratulations to Xinyue Zhang on submitting her PhD thesis! 🎉 Her research shows how dryland vegetation responds to climate change, with most areas continuing to green while some face desertification. This highlights the crucial role of sustainable land management. We are so proud!

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Marine heatwaves are more than skin-deep. A new paper "Lifting the Lid on Marine Heatwaves", led by CCRC’s @neilmalan.bsky.social & Alex Sen Gupta, sets a framework for subsurface heatwaves and how extremes at depth impact ecosystems in a changing climate. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

🌏 This week, @jasonpevans.bsky.social and Andrea from CCRC are attending the Pan-CLIVAR meeting in Bali 🇮🇩 Jason is representing two major international climate research programs: GEWEX and CORDEX, and Andrea is a co-chair of the CLIVAR Pacific Regional Panel and a member of the Tropical ++

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🎉 Huge congratulations to Tanya, who submitted the final revised version of her PhD thesis last week! An incredible milestone marking years of dedication, hard work, and perseverance. We are so proud to celebrate this achievement with her — onwards to the next chapter!

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Happy World Ocean Day from the UNESCO-IOC Global Ocean Oxygen Network working group #GO2NE and the Global Ocean Oxygen Decade at the onset of the UN Ocean Conference #UNOC3! Stay tuned for outcomes of the annual GO2NE in-person meeting, finishing today.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Huge thanks to all participants for their awesome presentations at last week's PG review at CCRC! 👏 Congrats to Jamie for winning the Best Presentation Award! 🎉 Your hard work truly shone through! 🏆 #CCRCPGReview #ProudMoment

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Being able to see the Antarctic landscape and wildlife with my own eyes left me speechless at times, while clumsy penguins often left me smiling. This Antarctic research voyage was truly unique, fascinating and really impressive. Thank you @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social l for the opportunity!

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Big congratulations to Prof Lisa Alexander for her EGU award lecture! Honoured for global leadership in climate extremes, observations & the CLIMDEX project. Catch her session here, 29 Apr, 19:00–22:00 (CEST) : meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

CCRC’s PhD student Christina Schmidt @christinaocean.bsky.social is onboard RSV Nuyina, and they have just crossed the halfway mark of the Denman Marine Voyage: “We had an intense and exciting last 3 weeks near the Denman Glacier, the fastest retreating glacier in East Antarctica. #Antarctica

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Last week, CCRC scientists @jasonpevans.bsky.social, Alex Sen Gupta, and Andrea Taschetto joined the ICSHMO 2025 Conference in Cape Town. The conference featured the soft launch of the book 'Meteorology and Climate of the Southern Hemisphere Monograph (3rd ed.),' co-edited by Andrea.

Jason Evans, Alex Sen Gupta, and Andrea Taschetto.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A huge congratulations to CCRC's @christinaocean.bsky.social on submitting her PhD thesis this week! 👏 🎊 👏 🎊 👏 . Christina’s PhD Thesis introduces "Antarctic Bottom Water Formation and Dynamics in a Changing Climate." Well done, Christina! 🎓 🔗 @ccrc.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

First week aboard the research icebreaker Nuyina! An update from PhD student @christinaocean.bsky.social: On March 1st, we set sail from Hobart, marking the start of the Denman Marine Voyage to Antarctica. After months of preparation, it's incredible to finally be at sea.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Steven Sherwood and the students (Qin Jiang, Linyuan Sun, and Chang Xu @changxu54.bsky.social) attended the CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel 5th Annual Workshop.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

PhD: Future Drought Projections 🌍 Join a 3.5-year ARC-funded PhD at UNSW CCRC to reduce drought uncertainty. Supervised by Dr. Ukkola, Prof. Pitman & Dr. Hoffmann (BoM). Open to all, full stipend. 📩 Apply by 30 Mar 2025: Send CV, transcript & refs to Prof Pitman (a.pitman@unsw.edu.au).

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

CCRC shows strong presence at the Scientific Steering Group meeting of @gewex.bsky.social. Andy Pitman, @drjucker.bsky.social, and @jasonpevans.bsky.social are at the meeting in Wellington, NZ, to discuss the future direction of international research on the global hydrological cycle.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Did you know that CCRC hosts the Climate and Weather Node of the NSW Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre (BNHRC)? The Node delivers an MPhil program in climate and weather, and conducts essential research within BNHRC. More details next year. Until then, Merry Christmas 🎄

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🏆 We are proud to announce that CCRC students Jon Page and Jiachen Lu have been awarded the UNSW Dean's Awards for Outstanding PhD Theses 2024! 🌟 Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition of your exceptional research. #PhDThesis #AcademicExcellence

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

EOY Christmas Party! Congratulations to Xinyue Zhang for the CCRC Prize for Best Student Paper, Katie Quail for the CCRC Prize for Science Communication and Outreach, and Sibyl Cheng for the John Church Student Culture Prize!

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

CCRC’s @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social scientists and students are attending the "Australian Antarctic Research Conference - An emergency summit for Antarctica’s future" They are presenting the latest findings, discussing and engaging with more than 500 Antarctic scientists and calling for action 🇦🇶🐧🌊

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🔊New paper by Gabriel Pontes and Laurie Menviel in @natureportfolio.bsky.social Geoscience: Their study shows that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is already weakening due to the melting of Greenland ice-sheet and Arctic glaciers. Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/d0z6S 🌊

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Congratulations to all 👏 A UNSW team from CCRC, UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response, and UNSW Water Research Centre has been awarded an ARC linkage grant to work with the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and the NSW State Emergency Service on a project ++

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

It was great to see our students present their latest research on themes like dynamics in climate extremes, high-resolution modelling, and net zero at the 2024 annual workshop, jointly hosted by ARC Centres for Climate Extremes and ARC Centres for 21st Century Weather in Hunter Valley.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Kudos to CCRC students Ying Lung Liu, Himadri Saini, Matt Grant, Tanya Patel, and Camille Mora for presenting their researtch at UNSW’s Climate Risk & Response ECR workshop on topics spanning from large scale climate drivers to drought trends, severe storms,and climate justice!

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Congrats to Katrin Meissner for securing the Minderoo Foundation project on humid heat waves. Collaborating with Louise Slater, Nerilie Abram, and experts like Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Sanaa Hobeichi, Negin Nazarian, and Yuming Guo, they’ll build a global early warning system using AI/ML.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Today we were delighted to welcome Mayor Philipa Veitch to the Climate Change Research Centre!

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

Join tomorrow's event "Powering Clean Energy on Country" to here from our PhD student Katie Quail and three other speakers. They will discuss opportunities and challenges of a rapidly evolving and growing clean energy sector, and its impact on Country and community. Time and link to register below

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

CCRC students and staff participated in GEWEX in Japan to discuss water resources, extremes, and climate sensitivity. Highlights included Mengyuan Mu's insightful talk on biophysical feedbacks regulating temperature extremes during Australia's Tinderbox Drought and Black Summer bushfires.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Other ECRs attend a winter school on sea level rise by @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social and @antarctic.bsky.social with lectures on how ice sheets, sea ice, ocean and land movement impact sea level in the past and future. The excursion to Maria Island was one of the many highlights.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

A week of learning, developing new skills and meeting ECRs from other Australian Universities: Many of our PhD students are participating in the winter school on "Weather and Climate Interactions" organised by the Centres of Excellence CLEX and 21st century weather.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

New research co-authored by Alex Sen Gupta highlights the potential threat of drifting fish aggregating devices to endangered sea turtles 🐢🐢🐢in the Pacific. Computer simulations show locations of likely interactions between these floating devices with critical turtle habitats.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

New paper by @midwayxie.bsky.social with CCRC co-authors Hannah Dawson & @christinaocean.bsky.social: Waters subducting into the deep ocean near Antarctica can sequester CO2 for centuries. By analysing how long these waters stay in the euphotic zone we found that light is limiting CO2 fixation.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

Congratulations to @mauricehuguenin.bsky.social and Jon Page who had their graduation ceremony today 👏👏👏

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Some of our researchers are currently attending the EGU 2024 conference in Vienna. We wish them all the best with their research presentations. Happy conferencing everyone 🥳🎉

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

Today we are celebrating Isabelle Greco who just defended their master thesis 🥳 Congratulations, all the best for your future and enjoy the special cake!

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

We had a fantastics session with engaging discussions on climate change with year 11 students from Pymble Ladies’ College. Starting with an introduction and visualisation of the required PV we need to be CO2 neutral, a few PhD students gave a glimpse into their research and answered questions.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

🚨 Paper alert: @mauricehuguenin.bsky.social last PhD chapter is published! They isolated the footprint of ENSO on West Antarctica in an ocean model and found that El Niño increases cross-shelf flow of warm Circumpolar Deep Water. This has the potential to increase basal melting of ice shelves.

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Thrilled to share a few highlights from our team's outstanding presentations at the 30th Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 2024 conference in Nurrawal country, Canberra! It was great to see our PhDs and academics present their work across various themes. #AMOS2024

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

There is a lot more to the #MISO voyage than watching icebergs: 🖥️ constantly monitoring the real-time data from the CTD 🫧 deploying Deep and Biogeochemistry Argo floats which will measure Antarctic waters for the next months and relay data via satellite @antarctic.bsky.social

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Julia Neme is "In the land of frozen giants": After the first sighting of an iceberg at 60°S, many more in all shapes and sizes crossed their path on the way towards Antarctica on the #MISO voyage. Read all about Julia's once-in-a-lifetime journey aappartnership.org.au/in-the-land-...

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UNSW Climate Change Research Centre @ccrc.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

How warm, salty, and oxygenated is the water? On any marine research voyage lowering a CTD instrument (standing for Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) through the water column provides the answer. During the MISO voyage 100 CTD casts are planned which can be up to 4.5 hours long when it's 4500 m deep.

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