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BAMOS
Dec 2017
Bulletin December 2017
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Regional centre reports
The folk at the Melbourne Centre have been busy, organising a
packed workshop on urban climate and keeping the Priestley
Cup competition fierce. Meanwhile the Tasmanian and ACT
Centres update us on their successful events throughout 2017.
Page 18
Australian Wind-Waves
Symposium
The Third Australian Wind-Waves Symposium took place
in Perth in October. The organisers catch us up on what has
happened since the first Symposium in 2010.
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Outreach science
Richard Whitaker (right) shares his experience of taking science
to the streets, and his thoughts on how AMOS can engage
more with the community. Image: The Australian Navy (HMAS
Parramatta).
Page 38
March 1950 rains
Blair Trewin talks us through one of the wettest weeks in one
of Australia’s wettest years. Image: Stan Bourke, Peter Coughlin
and Rodney Short during the Winton flood, 1950, State Library
of Queensland.