My Expertise
Climate change; climate; carbon; vegetation-climate interactions; extreme weather.
Fields of Research (FoR)
Climate Change ProcessesSEO tags
Biography
I am the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. This Centre, hosted by UNSW, started in 2017 and runs to 2024.
Full details of the Centre can be found at https://climateextremes.org.au/ or more specifically https://climateextremes.org.au/member-profile/?memberID=8
My Qualifications
Undergraduate 1982-85 Liverpool University B.Sc. (Hons) Physical Geography
Postgraduate 1985-88 Liverpool University...view more
I am the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. This Centre, hosted by UNSW, started in 2017 and runs to 2024.
Full details of the Centre can be found at https://climateextremes.org.au/ or more specifically https://climateextremes.org.au/member-profile/?memberID=8
My Qualifications
Undergraduate 1982-85 Liverpool University B.Sc. (Hons) Physical Geography
Postgraduate 1985-88 Liverpool University Ph.D The Development and implementation of a new land surface scheme for use in general circulation models.
Postgraduate 2000-01 Macquarie University Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Leadership (Higher Education)
My Awards
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2004 |
AMOS Priestly Medal for excellence in Atmospheric Science Research |
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2007 |
Nobel Peace Prize (IPCC, shared with all other IPCC Lead Authors) |
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2009 |
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Medal |
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2010 |
Winner, Future Justice Prize, Copenhagen Diagnosis |
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2010 |
Winner, NSW Scientist of the Year (Environment, Water & Climate Change) |
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2012 |
The Atmospheric Science Librarians International “best book” in meteorology / climatology / atmospheric sciences for The Future of the World’s Climate |
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2012 |
Outstanding Academic Title awarded by the American Library Association's Choice publication for Copenhagen Diagnosis |
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2015 |
Elected Fellow of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society |
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2015 |
Actuaries Institute of Australia Taylor Fry Prize (shared) |
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2016 |
Elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society |
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2017 & 2018 |
Eureka Prize, CSIRO Eureka Prize for Scientific leadership (shortlist) |
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2019 |
Awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) |
| 2021 | Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science |
My Research Activities
Multiple. See https://climateextremes.org.au/member-profile/?memberID=8
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
Climate science, land surface processes, land-related extremes, climate modelling. Land processes can relate to hydrology, vegetation processes, or the role of the land surface in influencing weather and climate extremes. I'm interested in how land surface processes might be used to manage some extremes.
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0604-3274