PIARN seminar and webinar: Adapting agriculture management to cope with high intensity rainfall

Upcoming seminar on climate change adaptation for agriculture at University of Melbourne! Check it out or attend virtually.

PIARN Webinar and seminar: Adapting agriculture management to cope with high intensity rainfall

Presented by

Jim Salinger, Stanford University and NCCARF

and Holger Meinke, Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture

on behalf PIARN and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF).


Date: Thursday 15 March, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm, followed by refreshments

Venue: Theatre 1, 207 Bouverie St (building 379), Parkville, University of Melbourne, and available remotely via live online webinar

Cost: Free

RSVP: To attend either the webinar or seminar please register online by 9 March


Although Australia is among the driest continents, global warming will manifest in more variable rainfall and increased extreme events.

This is already having massive impacts on agriculture. Three days of extreme rainfall events in Tasmania in 2011 destroyed vegetable crops and wine grapes, and spread disease.

In this seminar, Professors Salinger and Meinke outline a new project to improve early warning systems and risk management of the increasing flood threat. This will enable farmers to adapt cropping systems, and produce methods that will have applications throughout Australia’s flood-prone farmland.

For more information and to register visit the PIARN website.