Paul Zika : Italian works

Paul Zika : Italian works Catalogue of exhibition held at Plimsoll Gallery Centre for the Arts, Victoria Dock, Hobart The work in this exhibition was produced in Italy while the artist was on study leave from the University of Tasmania. The artist's project was assisted by the Australia Council, the Federal Government's arts advisory bod

Landscape : some interpretations

Landscape : some interpretations Catalogue of an exhibition held October 26-November 14, 1981 at the Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Mt Nelson. Exhibition coordinator: Paul Zik

The total look : locating furniture

The total look : locating furniture Howard Arkley, James Kutasi, Tom Risley, Fred Cress, Mark Douglass, Deborah Halpern, Fiona Gunn, Wendy Lewin, Caroline Williams' Exhibition at Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, August-Sept. 1991

Paul Zika (Art Forum)

The primary objective of the Study Leave period last year was to initiate a new body of studio-based research into an ongoing analysis of pictorial space. Following a major survey of artistic output over the last twenty years in early 2009, Zika undertook a major review of that work and potential sites for new field trip study in Europe. The research employs a radical fusion of surface and form, drawing upon various decorative systems within architectural interiors – particularly where the synthesis of architecture, sculpture, painting and applied art are combined in a united scenography. So the field trips concentrated on Baroque, Rococo, Art Nouveau and Islamic sites in Vienna, Budapest, Berlin, St Petersburg, Granada, Cordoba, Valencia and Rome. Paul Zika has been teaching at the Tasmanian School of Art since 1979, and has regular solo exhibitions in Melbourne

Changes in ocean vertical heat transport with global warming

Heat transport between the surface and deep ocean strongly influences transient climate change. Mechanisms setting this transport are investigated using coupled climate models and by projecting ocean circulation into the temperature-depth diagram. In this diagram, a “cold cell” cools the deep ocean through the downwelling of Antarctic waters and upwelling of warmer waters and is balanced by warming due to a “warm cell,” coincident with the interhemispheric overturning and previously linked to wind and haline forcing. With anthropogenic warming, the cold cell collapses while the warm cell continues to warm the deep ocean. Simulations with increasingly strong warm cells, set by their mean Southern Hemisphere winds, exhibit increasing deep-ocean warming in response to the same anthropogenic forcing. It is argued that the partition between components of the circulation which cool and warm the deep ocean in the preindustrial climate is a key determinant of ocean vertical heat transport with global warming