Fiona Johnson – The Conversation

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March 3, 2022

As industry lines up to take water from a wild Top End river, trees tell the story of a much drier past

Philippa Higgins, UNSW ; Fiona Johnson, UNSW ; Jonathan Palmer, UNSW , and Martin Sogaard Andersen, UNSW

Tree rings are ‘nature’s weather stations’ and reveal far more of the Daly River’s history than scientific records can.

The Millennium drought had a huge impact on the Murray-Darling river system. suburbanbloke/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons

November 8, 2016

The lessons we need to learn to deal with the ‘creeping disaster’ of drought

Anthony Kiem, University of Newcastle; Fiona Johnson, UNSW , and Seth Westra, University of Adelaide

Droughts are much bigger and slower than other natural disasters that hit Australia - meaning that despite their huge impacts, we still haven’t figured out how best to protect ourselves.

Knowing when and where this is going to happen would be useful. AAP Image/Dan Peled

November 7, 2016

Planning for a rainy day: there’s still lots to learn about Australia’s flood patterns

Fiona Johnson, UNSW ; Christopher J White, University of Tasmania, and Seth Westra, University of Adelaide

Floods are a costly part of Australian life, which means we need to get better at predicting exactly when - and how severely - they are likely to strike in the future.

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