Outreach
Severe storms workshops
I organised the inaugural Science-Industry Workshop on Severe Convective Storms on 3-4 August 2023 at UNSW Sydney. The co-organisers were Dr. Joshua Soderholm and Dr. Joanna Aldridge. We wrote a meeting summary about the workshop for BAMS.
I organised the 2nd Science-Industry Workshop on Severe Convective Storms on 7-8 August 2025 at UNSW Sydney, with the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response. The co-organisers were Dr. Joanna Aldridge and Dr. Danielle Udy.
Reports
I am a signatory on the Kigali Declaration, a statement from the World Climate Research Program (WCRP)’s Open Science Conference 2023 which calls for immediate and equitable climate action; I also contributed to its science supplement.
I contributed to the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes State of Weather and Climate Extremes 2023 report. The full citation is:
Bui, H; Gillett, Z; Neogi, S; Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S; Kim, Y; Alinejadtabrizi, T; Ukkola, A; Aiken,
C; Patel, R; Holbrook, N; Richardson, D; Sengupta, A; King, A; Falster, G; Barnes, M; Reid, K; Poncet, L; Bowden, A; Raupach, T; Earl, N; Johnston, D; Rowe, J; Bhagtani, D; Vincent, C; Huneke, W; Udy, D; Meyer, A; Page, J; Kaplish, A; Wilson, A; Arblaster, J; Alexander, L; Pitman, A 2024, The State of Weather and Climate Extremes 2023, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. https://doi.org/10.26190/92kr-0w80.I contributed to the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes State of Weather and Climate Extremes 2022 report. The full citation is:
Gillett, Z, Shao, Y, Parker, T, Barnes, M, Reid, K, Arblaster, J, Meyer, A, Pitman, A, Yang, D, Raupach, T, Brown, A, Hitchcock, S & El Rafei, M 2023, The State of Weather and Climate Extremes 2022, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. http://doi.org/10.26190/b0az-0920.
Outreach articles
Cross-Sector Collaboration Key to Understanding Hail Risk in Australia, Aon Insights, October 2023.
Hailstorms in a warming climate, Global Water Forum, November 2021.
Articles featuring my work
Warmer with a chance of ice: hailstorms could hit Australian cities harder, UNSW Newsroom, July 2025.
Brace yourself for ‘giant hail’ as storms increase along east coast, Sydney Morning Herald, July 2025.
Millions in firing line as heavier, bigger hail predicted for Australia, 9 News, July 2025.
Bigger hailstones and more hailstorms expected as world heats up, The Guardian online, July 2025.
Giant hail threat increases for Australian cities as climate warms, ABC News online, July 2025.
Bigger, more frequent’ hail forecast for Australian cities, news.com.au, July 2025.
Hailstorm frequency has increased by 40% around Sydney and Perth since 1979, The Guardian, October 2023.
Parking fines not the only thing to worry about in Sydney, Canberra and Perth, SBS News In Depth, October 2023.
Likelihood of hail in Australia has changed substantially over the last four decades, UNSW Newsroom, October 2023.
Hailstorms and climate change: what to expect, Yale Climate Connections, March 2022.
Severe hailstorms are costly and hard to predict, EOS magazine, May 2021.
How will climate change affect hailstorms? UNSW Newsroom, March 2021.
Media interviews
73700 lightning strikes: How the storm that stunned Sydney exploded, Sydney Morning Herald, January 2025.
What are supercell thunderstorms and how dangerous are they?, SBS News, November 2023.
Insurers hit hard as US hailstorms grow more severe, costly in warming climate, S&P Global, August 2023.
Größer und gefährlicher: Der Klimawandel wirkt sich auf Hagelstürme aus (Bigger and more dangerous: Climate change is affecting hailstorms), Deutschlandfunk Forschung aktuell, July 2023.