Grants and awards

Grants commencing in 2011

Dr Donna Green, Dr Lisa Alexander
NHMRC Health Challenges of Climate Change special initiative funding
Identifying connections between climate, and the health and well-being of Indigenous people in the tropical north of Australia
2011-2013: $350,000.00

Dr Ben I McNeil, Dr Katrin J Meissner, Dr Richard J Matear
ARC Discovery Project
Examining the vulnerability of ocean carbon biogeochemistry in a high CO2 world
2011: 90,000.00
2012: 90,000.00
2013: $90,000.00

Prof Andrew J Pitman, Dr Gabriel Abramowitz, Dr Ray Leuning
ARC Discovery Project
Are proposed land‑based sinks for greenhouse gases resilient to climate change and natural variability?
2011: $100,000.00
2012: $100,000.00
2013: $100,000.00

Dr Alexander R Sen Gupta, Prof Matthew H England, Dr Andrea S Taschetto, Dr Caroline C Ummenhofer, Dr Ashok Karumuri, Dr Krishnan Raghavan, Dr Atul K Sahai
ARC Discovery Project
The changing relationship between the South Asian and Australian Monsoon in a warming world
2011: $100,000.00
2012: $100,000.00
2013: $100,000.00

Grants commencing in 2010

Dr Katrin J Meissner
ARC Future Fellowship
What caused abrupt climate change events in the past and what can they tell us about the future?
2010: $89,744.50
2011: $172,553.50
2012: $167,927.50
2013: $167,717.50
2014: $82,599.00

Prof Matthew H England, Prof Andrew J Pitman, Prof Steven C Sherwood, Dr Jason P Evans, Prof Andy Baker
ARC Super Science Fellowships (3 f’ships)
Precipitation-groundwater interactions over eastern Australia: climate change impacts at multiple scales
2010: $139,200
2011: $278,400
2012: $278,400
2013: $139,200

Dr Lisa Alexander; Prof David J Karoly, Dr Russell Vose, Dr Francis Zwiers
ARC Linkage Project
Transforming our research capacity in the analysis of climate extremes
2010: $47,500
2011: $97,500
2012: $100,000
2013: $50,000
(Plus industry/government contributions)

Dr HV McGregor, Prof CD Woodroffe, Dr SJ Phipps, Dr A Timmermann, Prof AW Tudhope, Dr JN Brown, Dr D Fink and A/Prof A Fedorov
ARC Discovery Project
Untangling the links between El Niño and the changing global climate
2010: $130,000
2011: $130,000
2012: $90,000

Dr WP Sijp
ARC Australian Research Fellowship
The equable climate conundrum: the role of the global ocean in multiple climate regimes
2010: $104,566
2011: $105,566
2012: $104,566
2013: $105,566
2014: $104,566

Prof MH England; Dr AS Taschetto; Dr GA Meehl
ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship
Modes of Pacific Ocean variability and their relationship to regional Southern Hemisphere climate
2010: $68,000
2011: $64,000
2012: $66,000
2013: $66,237

Dr Jason Evans; Prof A. Pitman; Prof M. England; Dr M. McCabe; Prof S. Sherwood; Dr G. Abramowitz; Dr B. McNeil; Dr A. Sen Gupta; Dr L. Alexander and Dr S. J. Phipps
UNSW Major Research Equipment & Infrastructure Scheme
Computational server for analysis of large climate model, satellite and in-situ observational datasets.
2010: $82,800

Dr Gab Abramowitz
UNSW Goldstar Award
Reducing uncertainty in abrupt terrestrial changes via a land surface model evaluation protocol
2010: $40,000

Grants commencing in 2009

Dr Jason Evans
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry – Young Innovators and Scientists Awards
Implementing an irrigation parameterization in a regional climate model for Australian conditions
2009: $20,000

Dr Ben McNeil
Live Earth Australia Grant Funding (The Copenhagen Diagnosis)
2009: $145,000

Prof Andy Pitman
NSW Department of  Environment and Climate Change
Regionalization of extreme rainfall and temperature
$50,000

Dr Caroline Ummenhofer
UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Post Doctoral Research Fellowship
2009: $62,439
2010: $105,640
2011: $108,081
2012: $37,195

Dr Gab Abramowitz
UNSW Goldstar Award
Solutions to critical terrestrial model deficiencies in climate and weather prediction
2009: $40,000

Dr Alex Sen Gupta
UNSW Goldstar Award
Projected changes to the large-scale Southern Hemisphere extratropics and links to regional Australian climate
2009: $40,000

Grants commencing in 2008

Dr Ben McNeil
ARC QEII Fellowship
An Investigation into Oceanic CO2 Variability and its Influence on Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations
2008: $129,806
2009: $123,806
2010: $123,806
2011: $120,000
2012: $120,000

Prof Matthew  England; Dr Willem Sijp
ARC Discovery Project
Coupled ocean-carbon-atmosphere feedbacks in the global climate system
2008 : $145,000
2009 : $135,000
2010 : $135,000

Grants commencing in 2007

Dr Jason Evans
ARC Australian Research Fellowship
Vulnerability of the Murray-Darling basin hydrometeorology to human modification
2007: $143,000
2008: $140,000
2009: $125,000
2010: $125,000
2011: $125,000

Prof AJ Pitman; Dr J Beringer; Prof W Steffen; Dr G Richards; Dr Y Wang
ARC Linkage Project
Reengineering a dynamic vegetation model to explore the stability of Australian terrestrial carbon
2007: $57,883
2008: $63,856
2009: $70,182
(Plus industry/government contributions)

Dr Donna Green
Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility
Climate change impacts in the Torres Strait: Building resilience and planning adaptation strategies
2007/8: $80,000
2008/9: $80,000

Dr Donna Green
The Christensen Fund
International climate impact scoping study for indigenous communities
2007: $41,055

Prof Matthew England
Australian Antarctic Science Grant
2007: $25 196

Dr Willem Sijp
ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship
What controls the shift from a hot house climate to a cold house climate: the Eocene/Oligocene climate transition and greenhouse warming
2007: $81,030
2008: $81,030
2009: $81,030

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