CCRC Team: Affiliated staff
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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A/Prof Jeremy Bailey
Jeremy is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics. His research is in the area of remote sensing and radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres. While much of this work relates to the atmospheres of other planets, he also has significant projects relating to measurements in the Earth atmosphere relevant to climate change. He has developed a new type of spectrometer for the measurement of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane, and has a prototype instrument currently taking regular measurements from UNSW campus.
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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 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 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.
More information and contact details for Dr Mark Holzer.
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Professor Jane McAdam
Jane is a Scientia Professor and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Faculty of Law. She is also the Director of the International Refugee and Migration Law Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. She holds external appointments as a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington DC and a Research Associate of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. 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, her work examines 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 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 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 Krishna K. Shrestha
Senior Lecturer
Krishna is currently Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, UNSW. Prior to this appointment, Krishna was Program Director at the Urban and Regional Planning and Policy at the University of Sydney. He has degrees in Environmental Geography (PhD, Sydney), Environmental Management (MEEM, UTS), Anthropology (MA 1st yr, TU Nepal) and Forestry (BSc, TU Nepal). Krishna’s core interest is in socio-environmental justice in climate change adaptation, environmental governance and development planning practice. His current work –– mostly in Australia, Nepal and India –– analyses the political ecology of community-based natural resource management and fairness in climate adaptation, both in rural and urban contexts. He uses grounded analysis of socio-ecological dynamics through a multi-scale and multi-actor perspective where the role of unequal power relations in constituting a politicised environment is a central theme. His research gives particular attention to the ways in which problems of environment and development are linked to systems of social hierarchy and political and economic control, which affect poor and minority groups. He is the recipient of the Endeavour Research Fellowship in 2011 by the Australian Government.
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Adjuncts and Visiting Fellows
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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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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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Vincent Rossi
Vincent’s multidisciplinary research sits at the interface of Physical and Biological Oceanography. Using data and numerical models at multiple spatio-temporal scales, he investigates some processes that affect the ocean’s role in climate, namely the interplay between atmospheric forcing, oceanic circulation and plankton productivity (“biological” carbon pump). His main interests include the influence of physical processes on marine ecosystems, especially in Eastern Boundary Upwelling zones and around Australia, and the transport of tracers in the ocean. Additional research lines focus on the biological impacts of mesoscale eddies using Lyapunov and other Lagrangian applied techniques.
Dr. Vincent Rossi is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the “Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems” (IFISC) in the Balearic Islands.
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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 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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Dr Caroline Ummenhofer
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Caroline focuses on large-scale Southern Hemisphere modes of climate variability on seasonal to interannual timescales. She is particularly interested in Indian Ocean variability, the Indian Ocean dipoles (tropical and subtropical), extratropical ocean-atmosphere interactions, and the Southern Annular Mode. She also investigates Australian rainfall variability and extremes on seasonal to interannual timescales and how to apply this for improved seasonal forecasting to aid agricultural and water management decisions.
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Announcing the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014
06 May 2013
To mark the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by the great scientist and explorer Sir Douglas Mawson, Professor Chris Turney and Dr Chris Fogwill of the CCRC are leading a privately-funded voyage of discovery to the Antarctic during the Austral summer of 2013-2014. |
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New website will let you Adrift away
24 April 2013
Dr Erik Van Sebille along with David Fuchs and Jack Murray has created a new website, Adrift, which allows visitors to track the path of flotsam for the next 10 years from almost any place by the ocean. |
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The Copenhagen Diagnosis
On 25th November 2009 members of The Climate Change Research Centre, as part of a group of 26 international climate scientists, were part of a major international release of a new report synthesizing the latest climate research to emerge since the last IPCC Assessment Report of 2007.
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The Big Engine 2: oceans and weather
Federation Fellow and 2008 Eureka Prize winner, Professor Matthew England of CCRC, on the latest research into the role oceans play on weather.
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The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers
Co-authored by Professor Steven Sherwood and Professor Matt England of CCRC, this Academy of Science report aims to summarise and clarify the current understanding of the science of climate change for non-specialist readers.
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The Big Engine 1: oceans and weather
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New insights into the climate of the past 2,000 years
A comprehensive new scientific study has revealed fresh insights into the climate of the past 2,000 years, providing further evidence that the 20th century warming was not a natural phenomenon. After 1900, increasing temperatures reversed a previous long-term cooling trend. This 20th Century warming has occurred simultaneously in all regions except Antarctica.
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The dynamics of the global ocean circulation
The ocean is far from a stagnant body of water. Instead, it is constantly in motion, at speeds from a few centimetres per second to two metres per second in the most vigorous currents.
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Leave the ocean garbage alone: we need to stop polluting first
Recent plans to clean plastics from the five massive ocean garbage patches could do more damage to the environment than leaving the plastic right where it is.
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Charting the garbage patches of the sea
Just how much plastic is there floating around in our oceans? Dr Erik van Sebille from UNSW's Climate Change Research Centre has completed a study of ocean "garbage patches", and has found that in some regions the amount of plastic outweighs that of marine life.
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