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BAMOS Dec 2020
Bulletin December 2020
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New AMOS Award
In honour of Dr Penny Whetton ' s contributions throughout her long and distinguished career , AMOS created a new award , which starts this year : the Penny Whetton Memorial Lecture . Penny had a distinguished 25-year career at CSIRO as an international leader in the science of regional climate change projections .
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Media coverage of State of the Climate reports Understanding how the State of the Climate reports are represented in the media is an important step to helping improve engagement between scientists and the media on this critical topic . The Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub analysed the coverage of the past decade of reports in Australian newspapers .
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The hermit of the Murray : ' The Possum '
Dick Whitaker explores one of the most intriguing stories of the Australian bush . David James Jones — better known as ' The Possum '— lived as a recluse along the Murray River for more than 50 years . When ' The Possum ' died in 1982 , the weather may have been partly responsible . 1982 was an infamous year in the meteorological history of Australia .
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Seasonal snaps
In this section we showcase some extraordinary clouds and weather phenomena from the past season in Melbourne and Sydney .
If you ' re reading this , please send through your summer snaps for the next edition of BAMOS !