CCRC Team: Affiliated staff
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Professor Mike Archer
Mike's research interests include paloeclimatic processes, past climate change, past mass extinction events, innovative conservation strategies, zoology, palaeontology, geology, geochronology, functional anatomy of mammals, innovative renewable energy and ongoing projects to bring extinct animals back to life vis somatic nuclear transplantation.
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Dr Olivier Arzel
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Olivier explores large-scale physical oceanography, ocean-atmosphere-sea ice feedbacks. Using climate models of various complexity, Olivier Arzel studies the stability and variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and wind-driven ocean circulation on interdecadal time scales, as well as the climate change in polar regions. This latter includes in particular the impact of changes in freshwater input into the Arctic Ocean on deep mixing in the North Atlantic over the 20th and 21st centuries. |
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Professor Andy Baker
Andy’s research interests include karst hydrology and geochemistry; the paleoclimate reconstructions from cave stalagmites; isotope geochemistry; the characterisation of organic matter in rivers, groundwaters and engineered systems, including potable and recycled water; and surface and groundwater quality monitoring.
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Dr Mark Baird
ARC Australian Research Fellow
Mark develops coupled physical-biological models of aquatic ecosystems. His particular interest is in the formulation of the biological component, and the parameterisation of physical processes which set quantifiable limits to organisms. For example, the grazing rate of zooplankton on phytoplankton is limited by the rate at which these organisms encounter in a fluid. Mark has worked on waters off the south east Australian coast, central Chile, Great Australian Bight and Torres Strait.
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Dr Dale Dominey-Howes
Senior Academic
Dr Dale-Dominey Howes is an expert in risk assessment, emergency management and planning for extreme hazards including environmental and climate extremes.
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Dr Frank Drost
The University of Melbourne
Frank is interested in climate modelling, evaluations and simulations; analysis of model and observational data, particularly with respect to aspects, changes and variability of Southern Hemisphere circulation patterns; Paleoclimatology; and the climate of New Zealand and Australia.
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Dr Mark Holzer
Senior Lecturer
Mark is interested in atmospheric science, oceanography, and climate. His recent research has focused on tracers and new diagnostic methods for understanding and quantifying transport in geophysical fluids.
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Professor Jane McAdam
Senior Lecturer
Professor Jane McAdam is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Faculty of Law and Director of the International Refugee and Migration Law Project at the Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law. She is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Her research examines the extent to which States have obligations to protect people displaced by climate change under international refugee law, international human rights law, and international law on statelessness. In particular, she is examining legal and policy responses to migration arising from slow-onset impacts of climate change in the Pacific, including relocation.
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Dr Matthew McCabe
Senior Lecturer
Matthew is a Senior Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Prior to this appointment, Matthew was a Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the USA where he was involved in research related to hyperspectral, aerosol and cryospheric remote sensing. From 2003-2006, Matthew pursued in hydrometeorological remote sensing, land surface modeling and field validation at Princeton University. My primary research interests are in applying remote sensing approaches to improve knowledge of the Earth System, focusing predominantly on water and energy cycles at the land surface, but broadly interested in all applications encompassing terrestrial, atmospheric and oceanic components.
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Dr Scott Mooney
Senior Lecturer
Dr Scott Mooney is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences where his research foci includes reconstruction of past climates, particularly those of the post-glacial period. Recently Scott has been investigating the relationship between climate and fire events in eastern Australia. |
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Dr Michael Molitor
Professorial Visiting Fellow
Michael Molitor has a PhD from Cambridge University, England and was a Ford Foundation post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. He has also held academic appointments at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University.
He is the founder of CarbonShift Ltd, an Australian company with a focus on helping companies develop, implement and communicate strategies to respond to the challenge of a climate system modified by human activity. CarbonShift, which is based in Sydney, has partnered with PricewaterhouseCoopers to deliver corporate carbon management strategies that both protect and enhance shareholder value.
Before entering the business world, Michael was a leading earth systems academic for 10 years. Dr Molitor was a member of the faculty at the University of California, San Diego and the Climate Research Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He also served as an external advisor to BP on the development of the company's climate change strategy and attended most of the United Nations negotiations on climate change since 1991. |
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Professor Frank Muller
Professorial Visiting Fellow
Professor Muller is an expert in climate change and sustainable development policy, with a 32-year career within governments, universities and the community sector in Australia and the United States. He previously headed climate change policy in the NSW Cabinet Office and has advised the Clinton Administration, US State governments and several developing countries. |
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Dr Robin Robertson
Lecturer, ADFA
Tidal effects on the oceans, ice, and climate are the focus of Robins research. This includes tidal mixing in the Indonesian Seas, which affects the Indonesian Throughflow and the Leeuwin and Eastern Australian Currents off Australia, and in the Antarctic Seas, which affects deep water production and the global thermohaline circulation.
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Dr Oleg Saenko
Senior Visiting
Fellow
Dr Oleg Saenko is a Research Scientist with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis of Environment Canada. His research interests relate to the ocean's role in climate. This includes the meridional overturning circulation, its stability and driving mechanisms; processes setting the distribution of large-scale potential vorticity in the ocean; the energetics of ocean circulation and heat transport; climate variability and change.
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Dr Scott Sisson
Senior Lecturer
Scott has research interests in the statistical analysis of extreme environmental processes. Such processes include extreme rainfall, wind speeds, hurricaines and earthquakes etc. The adoption of Bayesian inferential tools coupled with sets of models that hold asymptotically for the extremes of general processes, results in powerful predictive and inferential methods for future extreme events. Scott also has research interests in biostatistics and Bayesian methodology and inference.
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Professor Ashish Sharma
Professor
Professor Ashish Sharma is in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and is an expert on the subjects of Engineering Hydrology, Water Resources Systems Analysis, Risk and Reliability Analysis and Stochastic Hydrology.
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Dr Milton Speer
Visiting Research Fellow
Milton is a meteorologist with over 10 years experience in applied mesoscale modelling research and extensive experience as a trained weather forecaster before that. His research interests cover a variety of fields in weather and climate, particularly focusing on southeast Australia and include severe weather and air quality modelling, mesoscale and synoptic scale meteorology, extratropical climate, and climate variability and change, in collaboration with atmospheric groups at universities and government institutions in Australia, the USA, Korea and China.
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Chinese Academy of Sciences visits CCRC
07 May 2012
A delegation from the Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment Research For Temperate East Asia (RCE-TEA), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science recently visited the CCRC/CoECSS. |
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Willem's mystery interval study awarded CCRC prize
27 April 2012
Willem Huiskamp’s Honours research project on the “Mystery Interval” during the last deglaciation has won the 2011 Silicon Graphics Prize for Climate Research Using High Performance Computing. |
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Detailed study reveals workings of major oceanic pathway
16 April 2012
Researchers from the UNSW Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) and CSIRO have used a state-of-the-art ocean model to conduct the first detailed investigation of oceanic water flow between the Pacific and Indian Oceans via the south of Australia. |
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