The Powerhouse Museum
Target Theatre, Powerhouse Museum
Saturday 14 June 2008
9:30am Registration
Session 1: Chair Des Barrett
10.00am Welcome
10.15am Julian Holland (ASHET): The idea of weather: developments in meteorology 1660-1860
11.00am Dr Neville Nicholls (Monash): Using Australian weather observations to detect climate change: problems and possibilities
12.00-1.15pm LUNCH – Own arrangements – suggest the level 1 courtyard Café
Session 2: Chair Julian Holland
1.15pm Richard Whitaker (The Weather Channel): A brief history of the Bureau of Meteorology in New South Wales
1.45pm Barry Hanstrum (BOM): Recent developments in weather forecasting in Australia
2.15pm Emily O’Gorman (ANU): Divided ecology: defining meteorology’s boundaries
2.45-3.15pm TEA
Session 3: Chair Nick Lomb
3.15pm Mike Bailey (Channel 9 News) – Weathering the media
3.45pm Stephen Jones (Powerhouse Museum): The meteorological map: Russell to numerical weather prediction
4.15pm Denis Shephard (National Museum of Australia): Blood in the tropics: investigating the impact of climate on European settlers in north Queensland, 1907 to 1930
