| Institution |
Department |
Areas of Interest |
| Australian National University |
Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies |
Analysis of spatial and temporal variability of climate,
bioclimatic modelling, climatic hazards, impacts and adaptation
response to climate change impacts on water resources, coasts and
flooding. |
| Division of Archaeology and Natural History |
Sedimentary and Palynological analysis of medium-term
climatic change in relation to human settlement. |
| Department of Geography |
Past global climate change, climate variability and change
and global climate modelling |
| National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health |
Health impacts. |
| Research School of Biological Sciences |
Global change, ecosystems, environmental biology, including
bioclimatic modelling. |
| Research School of Earth Sciences |
Climate change on both human and geological timescales, sea
level change, biological-climate interactions, paleoclimatology,
El Niño and drought |
| Charles Darwin University Northern Territory |
School of Biological and Environmental Sciences |
Climate change impacts on tropical ecosystems, modelling |
| Curtin University of Technology |
Remote Sensing and Satellite Research Group, School of
Physical Sciences |
Application of remotely sensed data to numerical models of
Earth systems such as global climate and environmental systems,
the hydrologic cycle and the carbon cycle |
| Deakin University |
School of Architecture and Building |
External and internal climatic influences on built
environments. |
| Flinders University of South Australia |
Flinders Institute for Atmospheric and Marine Science |
Global warming, natural climate variability, ocean
circulation, air-sea interaction |
| National Tidal Facility (until October 2003) |
Sea level/climate monitoring. |
| Griffith University |
Faculty of Environmental Sciences |
Climate change impacts on soil erosion. Air pollution
monitoring and modelling. Greenhouse modelling. |
| James Cook University of North Queensland |
Australian Institute for Tropical Architecture |
Climate responsive design of built environments in the
tropics. |
| Centre for Disaster Studies |
Social impacts of extreme tropical weather events. |
| School of Engineering |
Coastal impacts of tropical extreme weather; building design
and assessment of risk in high wind regions. |
| School of Tropical Environment Studies and Geography |
Palaeoclimates, palaeoenvironments and palynology. |
| CRC for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management |
Climate change impacts on rare marsupials. |
| Macquarie University |
Climatic Impacts Centre |
Climate impacts and response strategies, human and physical
aspects of climate, climate variability and change, urban
climates, global climate modelling, climate policy. |
| Department of Physical Geography, School of Earth
Sciences |
Global and regional climate modelling, climate impacts on
health, building climatology, applied meteorology,
bioclimatology, oceanatmosphere interaction, climate modelling
and climate change, impact of land cover change on global
climate |
| Natural Hazards Reduction Centre |
Relationship between natural disasters and climate
variability/change, impact of global warming on crops. |
| Monash University |
Centre for Dynamical Meteorology and Oceanography |
Urban climatology and air pollution studies, arctic
climatology, land/atmosphere interaction, climate variability and
change, stratospheric dynamics and ozone clouds and radiation,
mesoscale processes, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid
dynamics |
| Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Wind studies, adaptation in building design |
| School of Geography and Environmental Science |
Global and regional climate change, palaeoenvironments,
arctic climate response to global warming, climatology |
| CRC for Catchment Hydrology (also Melbourne University) |
Hydrological cycle monitoring and modelling, climate
variability |
| Murdoch University |
Australian Centre for Renewable Energy |
Applications, response strategies |
| School of Environmental Science |
Climate and hydrological modelling, land atmosphere
interaction, climate impacts and applications |
| Institute for Science and Technology Policy |
Climate change response strategies for natural ecosystems
reserve management, transport systems. |
| School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
Atmospheric composition in tropical Australia. |
| Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information
Systems |
Meteorological modelling and data analysis. |
| University of Adelaide |
Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Thermal comfort, response strategies. |
| Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics |
Climate dynamics, gravity waves, radar and optical remote
sensing and dynamics. |
| Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies |
Climate change impact on coasts. |
| University of Melbourne |
Centre for Environmental Applied Hydrology |
Hydrological monitoring, modelling |
| School of Earth Sciences |
Global climate modelling, climate monitoring and data
analysis, natural climate variability, climate trends,
paleo-environmental record |
| University of New South Wales |
Department of Water Engineering |
Drought prediction. |
| Building Research Centre, and the Solar Architecture Research
Unit |
Applications, response strategies in building design |
| School of Biological Science |
Biological-climate interaction, modelling. |
| School of Mathematics |
Atmospheric, oceanic and soil - moisture modelling, numerical
weather prediction. |
| School of Physics |
Atmospheric aerosols: climatic impacts, satellite
observations, remote sensing, chemical and physical
modelling. |
| University of Newcastle |
Department of Geography and Environmental Science |
Air pollution, urban climate and meteorology, climate change,
applied climatology, quaternary palaeoclimatology. |
| University of New England |
Department of Geography and Environmental Science |
Coastal climate change, ocean-atmosphere influences. |
| University of Queensland |
School of Architecture and Planning |
Climate applications. |
| Department of Botany |
Climate change impacts on forests. |
| Department of Geographical Sciences and Planning |
ENSO rainfall forecasting, drought, radar storm climatology,
biometeorology Climate and mortality. Climate impacts of land
cover change. |
| Department of Mathematics |
Modelling |
| University of Sydney |
Coral Reef Research Institute |
Climate impacts |
| Division of Geography |
Impact of and response strategies to climate change in
coastal environments. Global warming. |
| Ocean Technology Group |
Mitigation of carbon dioxide. |
| University of Tasmania |
Cooperative Research Centre for the Antarctic Climate and
Ecosystems (Antarctic CRC) |
Climate modelling, radiation, Antarctic and Southern Ocean
science, sea-ice monitoring and climatology, ecosystem dynamics,
impacts and adaptation |
| Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies
(IASOS) |
Antarctic and Southern Ocean science, ultraviolet radiation
in high southern latitudes, climatology |
| Department of Geography and Environmental Studies |
Radiation climatology studies: mapping of surface radiation
from satellite data, estimation of ultraviolet radiation in the
Southern Hemisphere. Air quality levels |
| University of Technology, Sydney |
Institute for Sustainable Futures |
Development of greenhouse response strategies |
| University of Western Australia |
Department of Microbiology |
Climate impacts on vectorborne disease |
| University of Western Sydney |
School of Agriculture and Rural Development |
Climate risk management and decision support systems for
cropping |
| School of Science, Food and Horticulture |
Climate change impacts |
| University of Wollongong |
Quaternary Environments Change Research Centre |
Quaternary environmental change |
| Department of Chemistry |
Surface-atmosphere trace gas exchange, solar radiation,
isotopic measurement of greenhouse gases |
| School of Geosciences |
Climate data applications to bushfire management |
