Along with a presentation by Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Minister for Climate Change and Water (invited), 17 top Australian climate scientists will cover a diverse range of climate change issues with particular relevance for Australians including:

Antarctica

The Great Barrier Reef

Coastal waters Ecosystems

Ocean climates

Our atmosphere and

The land-earth climate system

An important outcome of this symposium will be a publication of a book entitled Climate Change Monitoring and Strategy. Scheduled publication date is Feb/March 2009 by the University of Sydney Press.

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