Qualifications and Professional History

Qualifications

PhD 2005 University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences

Supervisor: Ian Simmonds Advisor: Jim Bowler

Thesis Title: ‘The weather and climate of Australia at the Last Glacial Maximum’.

Bachelor of Science (Hons) 1993 Monash University. Department of Applied Mathematics.

Supervisor: David Karoly

Honours Thesis Title: ‘Variability of the Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation’.

Professional Society Membership

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) 1999-present

Member of Melbourne Centre committee: 2002-2005

Chair, Melbourne Centre: 2004-2005

Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA) 2000-present

Employment History

October 2003-present

Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, research centre (BMRC), Climate Forecasting Group

Funded by the Indian Ocean Climate Initiative (IOCI) to research shifts in synoptic systems associated

with the rainfall regime change in the mid-1970s.

One day a week, March 2002 – June 2003

Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, research centre (BMRC), Climate Forecasting Group

With Neville Nicholls

· Monthly reports of the seasonal forecast and present conditions in southwest Western Australia

· Modelling experiments and paper on Australia's climate with inland lakes filled

· Polishing last IOCI report

One day a week, March - Dec 2002

Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, research centre (BMRC), Climate Forecasting Group

With Scott Power, looking for decadal signals in the ocean output from the BMRC coupled model

May 1999

The University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences, Meteorology section

Investigating the influence of temporal averaging scale on interactions between Antarctic sea-ice extent and cyclone activity.

Feb 1997 - March 1999

The University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences, Meteorology section

· Modified the Melbourne University atmospheric general circulation model (MUGCM) to trace moisture from source to sink.

· Studied the atmospheric moisture budget using assimilated data. Moisture flux and divergence were calculated, and compared with precipitation and evaporation data. This was first done over China, [1], then Australia.

March 1994 - June 1996

The University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences, Meteorology section

· Assessed the response of the atmosphere to the saturation and desiccation of the land surface in regions of Australia with the MUGCM. [2]

· Statistical analysis of Australian rainfall data to assess the importance of soil moisture on subsequent rain events. [3]

· Wrote the first version of an internal technical document on the use of the global climate model developed at The University of Melbourne. I have updated this annually since.

· Ran computer benchmark tests with atmospheric and ocean mathematical models.

· Started, and continue to chair monthly computer system meetings with the users and IT staff.

Summers and part-time 1993-94

CRC for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, at Monash University

The major modes of atmospheric variability in the Southern Hemisphere were found for the full period of meteorological station pressure records. [4]