astronomy

Janice Lough

Janice Lough is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Janice Lough rather than just read about it. In short: Janice Lough is a climate scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) at James Cook University, researching climate change, and impacts of temperature and elevated CO2 on coral reefs. She was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2022 for her research in climate change, coral reefs, and developing high resolution environmental and growth histories from corals, particularly the Great Barr…

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Janice Lough is a climate scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) at James Cook University, researching climate change, and impacts of temperature and elevated CO2 on coral reefs. She was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2022 for her research in climate change, coral reefs, and developing high resolution environmental and growth histories from corals, particularly the Great Barrier Reef.

Career Lough obtained both her BSc in 1976, and her PhD in 1981 at the University of East Anglia, in the UK. She worked at the University of Arizona, in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, from 1982 to 1986, and subsequently moved to the Australian Institute of Marine Science in 1986. Lough is a climate scientist who has been working on the growth and environmental records from corals over the past several centuries, and positioning these within a historical context. She also studies how climate changes have impacted tropical marine ecosystems already, as significant warming within tropical oceans has been recorded. She reports on the noticeable impacts of this warming with noticeable and observable consequences for current reefs. Lough's career focuses on three areas, developing and interpreting reconstructions of paleo-climates, determining the nature, causes and consequences of climate variability on tropical coral reefs, as well as developing coral calcification histories, based upon coral cores. She has expertise in coral growth, calcification, climate change and the Great Barrier Reef. She is a member of the ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, at James Cook University. Lough's work has been described by the Carbon Brief, the ABC, New York Times, and Australian Geographic, as well as other media outlets, describing the impact of climate change on coral reefs. She has also published in the media on work on the calcification of changing oceans.

Awards 2020 – International Coral Reef Society (ICRS) Fellow award 2022 – Fellow, Australian Academy of Science

Selected publications

Lough, J.M.; Barnes, D.J. (2000). "Environmental controls on growth of the massive coral Porites". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 245 (2): 225–243. Bibcode:2000JEMBE.245..225L. doi:10.1016/S0022-0981(99)00168-9. PMID 10699212. Hobday, Alistair J.; Lough, Janice M. (2011). "Projected climate change in Australian marine and freshwater environments". Marine and Freshwater Research. 62 (9): 1000. Bibcode:2011MFRes..62.1000H. doi:10.1071/MF10302. ISSN 1323-1650. Hughes, T. P.; Baird, A. H.; Bellwood, D. R.; Card, M.; Connolly, S. R.; Folke, C.; Grosberg, R.; Hoegh-Guldberg, O.; Jackson, J. B. C.; Kleypas, J.; Lough, J. M. (15 August 2003). "Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs". Science. 301 (5635): 929–933. Bibcode:2003Sci...301..929H. doi:10.1126/science.1085046. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 12920289. S2CID 1521635.

References

External links Ethos Archived 2 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine Oxford Bibliographies Australian Academy Fellows

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Janice Lough

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Janice Lough claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Janice Lough before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Janice Lough ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Janice Lough

In research: Janice Lough appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Janice Lough in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Janice Lough is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic staff of James Cook University, Alumni of the University of East Anglia, Australian climatologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Janice Lough outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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