BAMOS
Dec 2018
Contents
4
3
President’s report
6 News
8 Vale Dr. Angus McEwan FAA FTSE
10 Vale Dr. Grant Carleton Edwards
12 AMOS Awards 2018
15 Two new AMOS Fellows elected
16 Regional updates
20 WeatheX
21
Delivering the 2018 Victorian State of
the Environment Report
22 Remote sensing workshop
24 Science Meets Business 2018
26 Women in STEMM leadership
28 An urban-centric view of the weather
32 A voyage on RV Investigator
34
Southern Ocean voyage creates
insights into cloud formation and
future research opportunities
36 Charts of the Past with Blair Trewin
37 Research corner with Damien Irving
38 Seasonal Snaps
40 Calendar and JSHESS Contents
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: 22 February 2019
Contact and submit pieces: [email protected]. Submission
guidelines are available online and at the end of this issue.
Image: Cirrus clouds on a sunny spring day. Source: B Campbell
Cover image: Sunset over fields in western Victoria. Source: B Campbell
Other images in this publication: Photographs without a specified
source are obtained via the ‘pexels’ website and hyperlinked to the
original image online.
Belinda Campbell
Editor
As 2018 comes to a close we present a bumper issue of
BAMOS, celebrating a number of our AMOS members and their
contributions to the AMOS sciences. This issue is packed with Award
announcements, new roles for AMOS members (including two new
AMOS Fellows), as well as two very special pieces acknowledging
the life-long contributions of two eminent scientists in the AMOS
community.
Adventure is certainly another theme in this issue, with tales from
wide and far, particularly in the form of journeys and scientific
research on the RV Investigator and the Antarctic expedition of the
Homeward Bound Women in STEMM leadership program.
It is also fantastic to have the opportunity to highlight the many
activities and events that have occurred around Australia related
to the AMOS sciences over the past few months. No doubt you
will enjoy reading the event reports, workshop summaries and
conference highlights throughout the issue.
We are continuing to use the survey results and other suggestions
in improving BAMOS with each issue and we hope you enjoy the
“Science summary” section in this issue, which highlights a recently
published journal article. The research topic in this issue presents
some fascinating insights into cloud formation (read it on page 34).
Thank you to those who have provided feedback on the recent
additions to BAMOS following the survey results, in particular the
new “News” and “Seasonal snaps” sections. You may have noticed
that the AMOS Social Media channels posted stories from the
September issue of BAMOS in the weeks following its launch.
We hope this activity will help to raise awareness of BAMOS and
extend the reach of the publication further. As always, we welcome
your contributions to the Bulletin and please also encourage your
peers, colleagues and friends to subscribe to BAMOS or share the
Social Media posts to help raise awareness.
On behalf of the BAMOS Editorial team, we hope you enjoy this
holiday reading pack and wish all BAMOS readers a wonderful
festive season and fantastic year ahead in 2019.