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Climate Adaptation -
Science and Policy Initiative (CASPI)

Climate change and rural health

Speakers

Professor Ian Enting is a Professorial Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems and an Adjunct Research Fellow, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. From 1980 to 2004 he worked at CSIRO Atmospheric Research on carbon cycle modelling, including membership of the experts group on the Brazilian Proposal for the Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technical Advice for the Framework Convention on Climate Change. Ian was a lead author for the CO2 and the Carbon Cycle chapter of the Special Report on Radiative Forcing of Climate for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1992-1994).

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Professor Jim Falk is Director of acsis. His PhD is in theoretical physics, and over the last 25 years he has specialised in the study of the nature, impact and management of science and technology in their social contexts. His research has focussed particularly on issues associated with globalisation, technological change and the environment, nuclear technology, arms races and militarisation, and information and communication technology in their social settings. He is the author or co-author of over 100 scholarly papers and 5 books.

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Professor David Karoly is a new Federation Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences. He is active in research in climate change science, particulalry on detection and attribution of climate change. He was a lead author of the chapter “Assessment of observed changes and responses in natural and managed systems” in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report "Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" and a member of the core writing team for the IPCC AR4 Synthesis Report.

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Associate Professor Kevin Walsh is a Reader in Meteorology in the School of Earth Sciences, with an active research program examining the links between tropical cyclones, climate change and climate variability. Before coming to the University of Melbourne, he was Deputy Group Leader of the CSIRO Marine and Research Climate Impacts Group. Kevin is a node coordinator for the ARC Network for Earth System Science, and is the current President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.

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