Exciting ideas about 'why' come to Euroa

Ideas that help people understand why the world is like it is will soon be regularly expounded in Euroa.

David Karoly.

The Euroa Environment Public Lecture Series begins early in February with the first guest speaker being Professor David Karoly.

Prof Karoly is a Professor of Meteorology and an ARC Federation Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences.

He is an expert in climate change science and was involved, through several different roles, in the preparation of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in 2007.

Prof Karoly is active in research on climate variability and climate change, including greenhouse climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and inter-annual climate variations due to El Niño Southern Oscillation.

Recently, he has been studying the impacts of climate change on weather extremes and their impacts on human and natural systems.

He will speak on Saturday, February 7, at 11:00am in what will be the first of the new lecture series at the town’s Four Mill in Kirkland Ave.

News of the new lecture series came today from Euroa’s Prof Kate Auty, who is the 2014 Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne and before that was the Victorian Government Commissioner for Environment Sustainability.

She said: “We have Bob Welsh on 11 April, will have the MDBA and Ian Lunt, Drs for the environment, Indigenous Cultural heritage, Winsome McCaughey about local government and some others who were are lining up.”

The Four Horsemen of the Twenty
First Century Apocalypse.

Prof Auty will be in Shepparton on Wednesday at the SheppartonArt Museum (SAM) to talk with artist Penny Byrne about what motivated her to create her four-piece sculpture, “The Four Horsemen of the Twenty First Century Apocalypse”.

Wednesday evening’s program starts at 7:30 for 8:00pm and has been organized in partnership between the Friends of SAM and the Shepparton-based group, Slap Tomorrow.

Those keen to attend on Wednesday night should book by phoning SAM at 5832 9861.