Climate Forecasting Group

Education:

·         BSc, Monash University, 1970

·         MSc, University of Melbourne,1979

·         PhD, University of Melbourne, 1983

·         MBA, RMIT, 1986

·         Grade 6 (Honours) Theory of Music, AMEB, 2001

·         Group Leader & Senior Principal Research Scientist

Research  

·         Some quotes about climate

·         Meteorological anniversaries in 2004

·         Climatic outlooks: from revolutionary science to orthodoxy

·         William Stanley Jevons and the climate of Australia

·         Climate & culture connections in Australia

·         Cognitive illusions, heuristics, and climate prediction

·         The insignificance of significance testing

·         El Niño: "drought and flooding rains"

·         Climate Change presentation

·         APN presentation

Doing Climate Research on the Internet

    This is a MS Powerpoint presentation, with hyperlinks to sites that allow the user to use other people’s data, software & computers (with their blessing) to investigate climate variations and trends.   Please download and use this presentation as you wish. You need to run it as a Slideshow in Powerpoint for the links to work. A html version is here.

PhD Students supervised

·         Simon Torok, 1996. University of Melbourne. Thesis title: The development of a high quality historical temperature data base for Australia. Co-supervised by Ian Simmonds.

·         Tahl Kestin, 2000. Monash University. Thesis title: Variations of Australian climate and extremes. Co-supervised by David Karoly.

·         Blair Trewin, 2002. University of Melbourne. Thesis title: Extreme temperature events in Australia. Co-supervised by Ian Simmonds.

Publications