Climate Science

Scott Wales Computational Modelling Support University of Mebourne Phone: Email:     Biography Scott Wales supports the researchers at ARCCSS who work with the Unified Model, the atmospheric component of the ACCESS model. He helps researchers to understand, run and modify the model, and works with our partner institutions to …

Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick University of NSW SYDNEY Australia Phone: Email: Researcher ID: D-2608-2012       Biography Sarah’s work focuses on Australian climate extremes. Her work explores observed trends in droughts and heat waves and estimating the uncertainty associated with observations. Sarah is also working on determining the natural and human …

Alvin Stone Media and Communications Manager ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science University of New South Wales Phone: Email:       Biography Alvin worked as an editor with Fairfax Community News and then News Local for over a decade before moving across to media communications. As a …

Dr Hamish Clarke Former PhD Student University of Wollongong, Office of Environment and Heritage Email: Supervisors: Andrew Pitman, Jason Evans   Thesis Title Projecting fire weather using regional climate model Biography Hamish is interested in the interplay between rising carbon dioxide levels and vegetation growth, and its influence on bush fire risk. …

Mitchell Black PhD Student The University of Melbourne School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia Phone: Email: Researcher ID: A-7622-2013 Supervisors: David Karoly, Todd Lane, Lisa Alexander     Thesis Title Distinguishing natural and anthropogenic influences on extreme weather in Australia Biography

Dr Sophie Lewis Associate Investigator ANU Research School of Earth Sciences The Australian National University Phone: Email: Researcher ID: H-4968-2011     BSc (First Class Honours), Monash University (2006) PhD, Earth Sciences, Australian National University (2011)     Biography Sophie Lewis uses climate models, observations and palaeoclimate records to provide a long-term perspective on …

Dr Laurie Menviel Research Associate CCRC Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia, Email:       Biography Laurie studies climate carbon cycle interactions using models of intermediate complexity. She is particularly interested in the impact of abrupt changes in ocean circulation on the global carbon cycle. …

Dr Daniel Argueso Research Associate CCRC, University of New South Wales Email:     Biography Daniel investigates regional climate modeling and the study of climate change at regional scales. He uses regional models to generate high-resolution projections of climate change and explore its implications on precipitation and temperature, particularly in …

Dr Stephanie Waterman Associate Investigator University of British Columbia University of New South Wales Email: Researcher ID: A-5672-2012       Biography Stephanie is a physical oceanographer with research interests in ocean dynamics, specifically scale interactions in the oceanic circulation and the implications of these interactions for the large-scale circulation. She …

Kane Stone PhD student The University of Melbourne Earth science building (McCoy building), University of Melbourne Email: Supervisors: David Karoly, Robyn Schofield, Kathryn Emmerson     Thesis Title Investigating variability and trends in stratospheric ozone using observations and modelling Biography Kane is investigating how ozone levels over Australia will respond to current and …