Dr Philip Kokic: applying statistics to climate risk problems

Dr Philip Kokic has over 25 years' experience as a statistician working on a diverse range of applied topics including statistical analysis of survey data, risk modelling and econometric analysis.

Climate Impacts on Water

The Climate Impacts on Water team carries out research to predict climate variability and climate change impacts on streamflow characteristics and water availability.

Catchment Hydrology

The Catchment Hydrology team is researching catchment-scale and regional-scale hydrological processes in relation to changes in land cover and climate.

Dr Russell Wise: decision-focused approaches to enabling climate adaptation

Dr Russell Wise is a Sustainability Economist who is working on understanding how communities in Australia and overseas can adapt to climate change.

National Action on Climate Change

Preventing food and water shortages, managing more intense natural disasters and their economic fallout, and avoiding climate-driven extinctions, are among critical topics that will be discussed by those attending the Australian 2012 National Climate Change Adaptation conference in Albert Park, Melbourne from 26-28 June.

Dr Mark Howden: helping primary industries adapt to climate change

Dr Mark Howden an expert on the topic of climate change and agriculture in Australia. He leads the Adaptive Primary Industries, Enterprises and Communities research theme in CSIRO's Climate Adaptation Flagship.

Dr Ryan McAllister: community adaptation and resilience

Dr Ryan McAllister studies community adaptation and resilience, exploring how our natural and built environments interact with human behaviour.

Jim West

A systems modeller, Mr Jim West research is to model and quantify the physical inputs and outputs which characterise different systems of the physical economy.

Dr Onil Banerjee: generating knowledge to support evidence-based policy and decision making

Dr Onil Banerjee’s primary research areas include economy-wide analysis of international development and natural resource policy, livelihood assessment frameworks and ecosystem service valuation.

International collaboration in environmental science

CSIRO works with industry leaders around the world to solve environmental challenges related to our changing world.

East Asia Summit

Researchers and policy makers from East Asia and Australia will meet to shared insights about from case studies across the East Asian region which focus on urban sustainability and adaptation to climate change urban areas

Planet Under Pressure 2012

Scientists from around the globe are meeting in London in March to discuss ‘solutions, at all scales, to move societies on to a sustainable pathway’.

CAF Working Paper 11: The Impact of Climate Change on the Climatology of Tropical Cyclones in the Australian Region

This 26 page report presents results from CSIRO’s Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM). An analysis of outputs from CCAM shows that the model is able to simulate the spatial characteristics of tropical cyclone (TC) occurrence in the Australian region.

Australian science joins global effort to transform food system

A major transformation in the food system is needed to address future threats to food security according to experts from some of the world’s leading science organisations.

Giant water wall discovered riding the ocean currents (Podcast 14 Mar 2012)

Deep-diving ocean 'gliders' have revealed a 200-metre tall, 40 kilometre wide wall of undiluted Bass Strait water travelling hundreds of kilometres to the Indian Ocean.

Vineyard records link early grape ripening to climate change

By using decades of vineyard records, scientists have for the first time been able to attribute early ripening of wine grapes to climate warming and declines in soil water content.

Dr Yun Li: developing new statistical methods to understand climate change and variability

Dr Yun Li is an environmental statistician with many years of experience applying statistical methods to model and understand patterns in our changing climate.

Plant Industry Researchers

Plant Industry researchers promote profitable and sustainable agrifood, fibre and horticultural industries, developing new plant products and improving natural resource management.

Australian science joins global effort to transform food system

On a planet with sufficient food for all, a billion people go hungry, while millions are suffering from chronic disease due to over-consumption.

Annual Survey of Australian Attitudes to Climate Change

Most Australians believe that the climate is changing but are confused about policy options to deal with it.

Climate change is hot on the tail of fish (Podcast 12 Dec 2011)

Marine life may need to relocate faster than land species as a result of climate warming, according to new research published in 'Science'. (7:49)

Marine report card provides a benchmark for climate impacts (Vodcast 27 Nov 09) (Podcast 27 Nov 2009)

The first-ever Australian benchmark of climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and options for adaptation is the work of more than 70 marine scientists. (4:23)

Farmers versus famine: tackling global food insecurity (Podcast 12 Apr 2011)

CSIRO is working with farmers and government departments to research practical options to respond and adapt to climate change. (5:08)

CSIRO’s role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report (Podcast 09 Feb 2007)

Dr Penny Whetton from CSIRO’s Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) discusses CSIRO’s role in this latest report in this podcast. (3:55)

The effect of climate and weather on our oceans (Podcast 20 Feb 2007)

In this six-and-a-half-minute podcast, the former Chief of CSIRO’s Marine and Atmospheric Research division, Dr Greg Ayers discusses the topic of his 2007 Malcolm McIntosh Lecture – the complex relationship between oceans, climate and weather. (6:32)