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Briefing Note 407 [December 2019]
Australia needs a national crisis plan, and not just for bushfires
Briefing Note 406 [December 2019]
November 2019: Sunshine Coast Hailstorm
Briefing Note 405 [November 2019]
Australia’s 2020 Cyber Security Strategy
Briefing Note 404 [November 2019]
Natural Catastrophes Greatest Risk for East Asia and the Pacific
Briefing Note 403 [November 2019]
California Fire and Power
Briefing Note 402 [October 2019]
Coastal flooding and coral bleaching: what the latest IPCC Special Report means for Australia
Briefing Note 401 [September 2019]
History of early season bushfires in NSW and Queensland
Briefing Note 400 [August 2019]
Death Benefits
Briefing Note 399 [July 2019]
Using catastrophe loss models to improve decision making in disaster management
Briefing Note 398 [July 2019]
The 14 July 2019 Mw 6.6 Offshore Broome and Mw 7.3 Halmahera Earthquakes
Briefing Note 397 [July 2019]
The 4-5 July 2019 M 6.4 and 7.1 Ridgecrest, California Earthquakes
Briefing Note 396 [June 2019]
Darwin shaken by a deep Mw 7.3 earthquake in the Banda Sea
Briefing Note 395 [June 2019]
The need for transparency in climate services
Briefing Note 394 [April 2019]
Australia’s largest hailstorm disaster
Briefing Note 393 [April 2019]
APRA’s increased pressure on major financial institutions to manage the financial risks of climate change
Briefing Note 392 [March 2019]
Why are we not taking climate change more seriously?
Briefing Note 391 [March 2019]
‘Change now or pay later’: RBA’s stark warning on climate change
Briefing Note 390 [March 2019]
Cyber Attack on the Australian Parliament and the Lessons Learned
Briefing Note 389 [February 2019]
Townsville 2019 flood – insights from the field
Briefing Note 388 [February 2019]
To build or not build: that is the Townsville question
Briefing Note 387 [February 2019]
Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls, 1970 to 2018
Briefing Note 386 [January 2019]
Disclosure of climate-related financial risk
Briefing Note 385 [January 2019]
CPS 234: Will you comply? Information Security standard for APRA regulated organisations
Briefing Note 384 [January 2019]
Extreme weather tops global risks
Briefing Note 383 [January 2019]
Analysis of fatalities attributed to Hurricane Florence in the US.
Briefing Note 382 [December 2018]
Queensland bushfires 2018
Briefing Note 381 [November 2018]
Sydney Harbour beach erosion – actions of the sea or stormwater runoff?
Briefing Note 380 [November 2018]
Key Conclusions of the U.S. National Climate Assessment 2018
Briefing Note 379 [November 2018]
The 2018 Lake Muir Earthquakes
Briefing Note 378 [November 2018]
Mystery of the cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies
Briefing Note 377 [October 2018]
The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming: The Great Divider
Briefing Note 376 [October 2018]
The 28 September Mw 7.5 Sulawesi Earthquake
Briefing Note 375 [September 2018]
Parameters of the Carr Fire Tornado, California, 26 July 2018
Briefing Note 374 [August 2018]
Abrupt climate change in the Anthropocene
Briefing Note 373 [July 2018]
Risk Frontiers’ new earthquake model shows reduced losses for Australia
Briefing Note 372 [July 2018]
Fight over PG&E’s liability in Wine Country fires is just beginning
Briefing 371 [July 2018]
Why isn’t the bond market more worried about climate change?
Briefing Note 370 [July 2018]
A global slowdown of tropical-cyclone translation speed and implications for flooding
Briefing Note 369 [June 2018]
Cyclopters: Drones of the future
Briefing Note 368 [June 2018]
Climate change may lead to bigger atmospheric rivers
Briefing Note 367 [May 2018]
Thwaites and Pine Island Glaciers of Antartica and the Prospect of Rapid Sea Rise
Briefing Note 366 [March 2018]
FS-ISAC 2018 Cybersecurity Trends
Briefing Note 365 [February 2018]
Why is Roman concrete more durable than modern concrete?
Briefing Note 364 [February 2018]
Updated GNS Central New Zealand Earthquake Forecast
Briefing Note 363 [January 2018]
Flood Deaths in the Northern Territory
Briefing Note 362 [January 2018]
Hawaii False Alarm Hints at Thin Line Between Mishap and Nuclear War
Briefing Note 361 [January 2018]
The heat is on: but we’ve been there before
Briefing Note 360 [December 2017]
Scars left by Australia’s undersea landslides reveal future tsunami potential
Briefing Note 359 [December 2017]
Forecast of Increased Earthquakes due to Slowing of Earth’s Rotation
Briefing Note 358 [November 2017]
Changes in Earthquake Hazard Levels in the draft Geoscience Australia National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA18)
Briefing Note 357 [November 2017]
The Mw 7.1 Puebla, Mexico Earthquake of 19 September 2017 – the anniversary of the Mw 8.0 Michoacan earthquake of 1985.
Briefing Note 356 [October 2017]
It doesn’t always take superstorms to get supersurges
Briefing Note 355 [October 2017]
Have we increased our vulnerability to big floods
Briefing Note 354 [September 2017]
Could Sydney be the next Houston?
Briefing Note 353 [September 2017]
Hurricane Irma Meteorological Information
Briefing Note 352 [July 2017]
Earth’s rotation affects the wide world of sports
Briefing Note 351 [July 2017]
Weather-related Natural Disasters: Should we be concerned about a reversion to the mean?
Briefing Note 350 [July 2017]
‘Astounding’: Shifting storms under climate change to worsen coastal perils
Briefing Note 349 [July 2017]
The country’s flood insurance program is sinking. Rescuing it won’t be easy.
Briefing Note 348 [July 2017]
The Grenfell Tower fire of June 14 and the role of Composite Sandwich Panel Cladding
Briefing Note 347 [June 2017]
The Great Hawkesbury Flood turns 150 today
Briefing Note 346 [June 2017]
Floodplain manager skillsets are key to effectively growing community engagement practice in disaster resilience
Briefing Note 345 [June 2017]
A new way to detect tsunamis: cargo ships
Briefing Note 344 [May 2017]
Disaster Risk Management: Insights from US Experience
Briefing Note 343 [April 2017]
When Rising Seas Transform Risk into Certainty
Briefing Note 342 [April 2017]
The 2017 Lismore Flood – Insights from the field
Briefing Note 341 [April 2017]
Damage overview of Severe Tropical Cyclone Debbie in North Queensland
Briefing Note 340 [April 2017]
Flood Risk Perceptions of Lismore Businesses
Briefing Note 339 [March 2017]
Twitter can predict hurricane damage as well as emergency agencies
Briefing Note 338 [February 2017]
Building evidence for risk-based insurance
Briefing Note 337 [January 2017]
Crowds are wise enough to know when other people will get it wrong
Briefing Note 336 [January 2017]
Solving the Puzzle of Hurricane History
Briefing Note 335 [December 2016]
The Mw 7.8 November 14, 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake: Briefing 5
Briefing Note 334 [December 2016]
The Mw 7.9 Taron, PNG Earthquake of 17 December 2016
Briefing Note 333 [December 2016]
Mw 7.8 November 14, 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake, Briefing No.4
Briefing Note 332 [November 2016]
The Mw 7.8 November 14, 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake, Briefing No. 3
Briefing Note 331 [November 2016]
The Mw 7.8 November 14, 2016 Hanmer Springs Earthquake. Briefing No.2
Briefing Note 330 [November 2016]
The Mw 7.8 14 November Hanmer Springs Earthquake, Briefing No. 1
Briefing Note 329 [October 2016]
The 2016 Central Italy Earthquake Secquence
Briefing Note 328 [October 2016]
Insurance against Extreme Events: Pairing Short-Term Incentives with Long-Term Strategies
Briefing Note 327 [October 2016]
UK National Flood Resilience Review
Briefing Note 326 [September 2016]
China is covering its northern plains with wind turbines
Briefing Note 325 [September 2016]
Flameproof houses – scheme that cost homeowners millions in ruins
Briefing Note 324 [September 2016]
Court orders on Byron Bay’s coastal wars
Briefing Note 323 [August 2016]
Brexit and the power of wishful thinking
Briefing Note 322 [July 2016]
Montserrat’s Unexpected Life
Briefing Note 321 [June 2016]
A Toxic Legacy from Firefighting Foams
Briefing Note 320 [June 2016]
Whew
Briefing Note 319 [June 2016]
Coastal impacts of the June 2016 East Coast storm for Sydney
Briefing Note 318 [May 2016]
The Mw 6.0 Northern Territory earthquake of May 2016
Briefing Note 317 [May 2016]
New Orleans: 11 years after Katrina
Briefing Note 316 [April 2016]
Implications of changes to El Nino Southern Oscillation for coastal vulnerability in NSW
Briefing Note 315 [April 2016]
Briefing Note 315Role of Composite Sandwich Panel Cladding in Recent Hi-Rise Building Fires
Briefing Note 314 [March 2016]
Tasmanian energy Crisis – Resilience Case Study
Briefing Note 313 [March 2016]
Big Data, Big Computers, Big Trouble
Briefing Note 312 [March 2, 2016]
March 2, 2016 Earthquake off Sumatra and Breakup of the Australia-India Plate
Briefing Note 311 [February 2016]
Introducing logic into title-race predictions 311
Briefing Note 310 [February 2016]
Gravitational Waves Detected, as Einstein Predicted
Briefing Note 309 [February 2016]
The 5 February 2016 Tainan, Taiwan Earthquake
Briefing Note 308 [February 2016]
World Economic Forums 2016 Global Risks Report
Briefing Note 307 [January 2016]
Jakarta Bombing teaches us the importance of crisis communication in a digital age
Briefing Note 306 [December 2015]
Flood evacuation: never fun, sometimes necessary, always problematic