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Professor Nathan Bindoff
Nathan Bindoff is Professor of Physical Oceanography at the University of Tasmania, and CSIRO Marine Research Laboratories, Director of the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing, and Project Leader of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre's Modelling Program. He specialises in ocean climate and the earth's climate system. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, and chair of the Data Products Committee for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment and the International Polar Year. |
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Professor Matthew England
Matthew England is an ARC Laureate Fellow and joint Director of the University of New South Wales Climate Change Research Centre. He specialises in the physics of the ocean and climate system. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and CSIRO Flagship Fellow, winner of the Royal Society of Victoria Research Medal, two Eureka Prizes, the AMOS Priestley Medal and the Australian Academy of Science Frederick White Prize. He is currently co-chair of the CLIVAR Southern Ocean panel, and was a Contributing Author and Reviewer for the IPCC Second and Third Assessment Reports. |
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Professor Dave Griggs
Dave Griggs is CEO ClimateWorks Australia, Director Monash Sustainability Institute and Professor Monash University. Previously he was Director of the Hadley Centre for Climate Change, widely acknowledged as the world’s leading centre for climate change research, and Head of the IPCC scientific assessment unit. Dave is a past vice-chair of the World Climate Research Programme. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), a member of the Australian Council of Environmental Deans and Directors and a member of the Climate Institute Strategic Council. |
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Professor Ann Henderson-Sellers
Ann Henderson-Sellers is a highly cited author of over 500 publications on climate and climatic change. Prior to holding her current position as an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at Macquarie University, she was Director of the United Nations’ World Climate Research Programme and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of RMIT. Ann is an elected Fellow of Australia’s Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and was awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia for Service to Australian Society in 2003. |
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Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is Professor Marine Studies and Director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. He specialises in the impact of climate change on biological systems and is particularly well-known for his work on the impacts of ocean warming on coral reef ecosystems. His work on coral bleaching was recognized in 1999 with the Eureka prize for Research. He is currently Queensland Smart State Premier's Fellow, and holds positions as reviewing editor at Science Magazine and Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 30 ("Oceans") of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. |
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Professor Lesley Hughes
Lesley Hughes is an ecologist at Macquarie University who researches the impacts of climate change on Australian species and ecosystems. She was a Lead Author for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and is continuing in this role for the Fifth Assessment Report. She is a former Chair of the NSW Scientific Committee and former co-convenor of the ARC Earth System Science Network. She currently co-convenes the Terrestrial Biodiversity Network for the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF), is a member of the Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Board, and is one of the six federal Climate Commissioners. |
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Professor Roger Jones
Roger Jones is recognised internationally for his work on climate risk. He has recently joined the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University, after thirteen years at CSIRO, to work on the integration of climate and policy risks for decision-making. He has trained as an earth scientist and has worked in restoration ecology; as a museum exhibition curator and technical writer; and as a researcher on past climates, hydrology and the risks of future climate change. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. |
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Professor David Karoly
David Karoly is an ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Meteorology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is an internationally recognised expert in climate change and climate variability, including greenhouse climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and interannual climate variations due to El Niño–Southern Oscillation. He was heavily involved in preparation of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, in several different roles. He is a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and, in 2008, was Chair of the Premier of Victoria's Climate Change Reference Group. |
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Professor Tony McMichael
Tony McMichael is an epidemiologist at the Australia National University, where he heads a research program on the health risks and impacts of climate change at community, national and international levels. He also holds an Australian Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council. He has contributed to the scientific work of the IPCC since 1993, including chairing the team assessing health risks. He is a senior advisor to the World Health Organization in its implementation of international research, risk assessment and policy development on climate change risks to wellbeing, health and survival. |
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Professor Neville Nicholls
Neville Nicholls has spent 40 years in climate research and is an ARC Professorial Fellow at Monash University. His research has included using the El Niño - Southern Oscillation to predict climate variations; documenting climate impacts on agriculture, human health and ecosystems; developing data sets for monitoring climate; and investigating changes in extremes, including tropical cyclones. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the recent IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters. He is President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and an editor of the journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. |
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Professor Jean Palutikof
Jean Palutikof is Director of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) at Griffith University. Her research interests focus on climate change impacts and the application of climatic data to economic and planning issues, with a speciality in changes in extreme events and their impacts. Prior to this position she managed the production of the second volume (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability) of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, and prior to that was the Director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK. She was a Lead Author for the IPCC Second and Third Assessment Reports. |
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Professor Andy Pitman
Andy Pitman is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science. He is a member of the Academy of Science's National Committee for Earth System Science, a member of the Science Steering Committee for the International Geosphere Biosphere Program's iLEAPS committee and the World Climate Research Programme's GLASS steering committee. He is also a member of the New South Wales Ministerial Council on Climate Change. He was a lead author on the IPCC Third and Fourth Assessment Reports. |
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Professor Will Steffen
Will Steffen is Executive Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute and Professor, the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. He is also a Climate Commissioner and is a member of the ACT Climate Change Council. Previously he was Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, one of the four international global change research programmes. |
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Professor Chris Turney
Chris Turney is an ARC Laureate Fellow at the University of New South Wales. Chris specialises in reconstructing past climates from natural archives and in using them to understand the causes of extreme climate changes. He is on the international science steering committee for Past Global Changes (PAGES) and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and the Royal Geographical Society. He is a recipient of the Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal by the International Union for Quaternary Research, the Philip Leverhulme Prize, and the Geological Society of London's Bigsby Medal. |
