BAMOS
Sep 2018
Contents
4 President’s report
5 High Impact Weather Workshop
3
6 News
8 Research Report Winner—Ronni King
9 The 2010/2011 Ningaloo Niño
10 Should we talk about the weather?
12
Preparing for the future: confronting
climate change on the coast
14
Climate Change Communication
Research Hub
16 The Bureau’s Instagram
18
Sydney rainfall and sea temperature
from the mid-20th century
20 Charts of the Past with Blair Trewin
21
Research corner with Damien Irving
22 Seasonal Snaps
25 Calendar and JSHESS contents
Belinda Campbell
Editor
This issue has inadvertently become a science communications
super edition, featuring a variety of communication-focussed
activities across the AMOS sciences. It is fantastic to see so
many initiatives in this space turning research, data and science
into meaningful information for different audiences. This issue
features articles spanning tailored user engagement, broad
outreach through mainstream media, social media channels and
collaborations with government and community.
On the topic of communication, the BAMOS team have been
reflecting on your feedback and suggestions from the survey in
June. In response to this we are pleased to present a few changes
to this issue.
The first is a new layout for the ‘News’ section which now
combines short features and brief snippets summarising news and
announcements of note from around the country and the world.
The second change is the addition of a new section ‘Seasonal
Snaps’ featuring photographs from the most recent season across
the AMOS sciences. ‘Seasonal Snaps’ will feature photographs
from the AMOS Instagram account over the season, collating and
documenting some of the conditions observed across Australia.
Details of how to get involved are available on pages 22 and 23 of
the issue. Happy snapping!
We are continuing to use the survey results and other suggestions
in planning for the December issue and intend to feature a few
changes in that issue too—stay tuned.
We hope you enjoy reading this issue and look forward to your
contributions and ideas for the December issue and beyond.
ISSN 1035-6576
Editor: Belinda Campbell
Editors-in-Chief: Damien Irving, Linden Ashcroft
Assistant Editors: Diana Greenslade, Melissa Lyne and Blair Trewin
Design: Jeanette Dargaville
Publisher: AMOS, GPO Box 1289, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia
Submission deadline for next issue: 23 November 2018
Contact and submit pieces: [email protected] Submission
guidelines available online and at the end of this issue.
Image: Stunning September sky in western Victoria. Source: B Campbell
Cover image: Sunshine through the clouds on the slopes of Mt Selwyn
Snow Fields, NSW. Photograph courtesy of Hester Viola.
Other images in this publication: Photographs without a specified
source are obtained via the ‘pexels’ website and hyperlinked to the
original image online.