Projects
Projects
Our projects are guided by a simple, but focused strategy: demystify climate change by presenting localised climate information to as many people as possible, as often as possible. Their impact-focus ensures they are grounded in practical application, remaining focused on assisting Australians to better understand climate change, how it is going to impact them, and what solutions are available.
Television Weather Presenters as Climate Communicators
Climate Communicators partners with Australian weather presenters to include climate graphics in their segments as a way of localising climate information to improve climate literacy.
Changing Climates: Community Newspapers as Climate Educators
In partnership with Leader Community News, the MCCCRH delivers localised climate graphics and climate journalism across the publication's 25 mastheads in metropolitan Melbourne.
Climatepulse: Climate explainers in the palm of your hand
In partnership with Weatherzone, Climatepulse develops and delivers accessible climate explainer videos for broadcast on Weatherzone's app, website and socials.
Sonifying Climate Change in Australia
Can sound help us better understand climate change? Working in collaboration with researchers from Penn State University, our sonification project plots data from extreme weather events such as cyclones, and turns it into unique soundtracks, effectively allowing us to hear these events in an entirely new way.
Visualising the Power of Renewables
In collaboration with the City of Monash, the MCCCRH has tested a range of visually-focused renewable messages with council residents to understand the motivations and barriers for households to install renewable energy in the home.
Cli-Fi: Climate Fiction & Climate Change
Climate fictions are an important way of communicating climate science to non-specialist audiences and are currently being explored within the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics.
Monash University Interactive Simple Climate Model
The MSCM is a web-based interface that allows users to explore the physical simulation of the climate system with a real global climate model, providing simulations to external forcings, such as the doubling of CO2 concentrations very realistically.