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BAMOS
Mar 2017
AMOS 2017 in the media
Chermelle Engel and Andrew King from the University of Melbourne, and Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick from the University of New South Wales, participated in a national online media briefing about Black Saturday and Great Barrier Reef bleaching, conducted by the Australian Science Media Centre.
We issued media releases on Great Barrier Reef bleaching (Andrew King), reconstructing southeastern Australia’s climate back to 1788 (Linden Ashcroft), climate change and heatwaves (Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick), predicting ‘fire tornadoes’ (Rick McRae), and global cooperation to reduce disasters (Gordon McBean).
My earlier Jenga block analogy comes courtesy of Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Andrew King and Matthew Hale in an article in The Conversation whose title summed up the story: "Climate change doubled the likelihood of the New South Wales heatwave".
Conference presenters received at least 30 mentions in the Australian media, including News Corp papers across the country, ABC radio and SBS TV. AMOS conference delegates are terrific tweeters, causing #AMOS2017 to trend in both Australia and New Zealand.
Roll the credits
AMOS and the Meteorological Society of New Zealand jointly organised the conference in conjunction with the Australian/New Zealand Climate Forum.
Jeanette Dargaville deserves huge plaudits for her highly professional event organisation skills, which she undertook in addition to her duties as AMOS Executive Officer. Clem Davis and Bob Cechet led Canberra logistics and Mary Voice made innumerable contributions. The science committee comprised John Taylor, Andy Hogg, Nicholas Engerer and Michael Martens.
Conference sponsors were the Bureau of Meteorology, Vaisala, NIWA, NCI, CSIRO and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science. The ANZ Climate Forum provided funds to support students. As well as the sponsors, the exhibition included AMOS, Scientell, Thomson Environmental Systems, NCI and the Fenner School of Environment & Society.
Scenes from the AMOS/MSNZ conference in Canberra. Images: Paul Holper.