the dynamics of large-scale atmospheric circulation in the Southern Hemisphere and its variability. He is also recognised as a world leader in the detection and attribution of climate change, particularly at regional scales. Recently, he has been studying the impacts of climate change on weather extremes and their impacts on human and natural systems. Prof Karoly is a member of the Climate Change Authority, established in 2012 as an independent body that provides expert advice on the operation of Australia’s carbon price, emissions reduction targets and other Australian Government climate change mitigation initiatives. In 2013, he became a member of the Scientific Steering Committee for the World Meteorological Organization/United Nations Environment Programme Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2014. During 2011-2012, he was a member of the Joint Scientific Committee that provides scientific oversight to the World Climate Research Programme. From 2008-2009 he was Chair of the Premier of Victoria’s Climate Change Reference Group. He is also a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. Prof Karoly was involved, through several different roles, in the preparation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report and was a Review Editor for a chapter in the IPCC 5th Assessment Report. Recent awards received include the 2014 Morton Medal of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society for “leadership in meteorology, oceanography, climate and related fields, particularly through education and the development of young scientists” and the 2015 Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Scientific Excellence for “excellence and leadership in scientific research in the Earth sciences”.
A/Prof Todd Lane Research program: The Effects of Tropical Convection on Australia’s Climate Associate Professor Todd Lane was awarded his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Monash University in 2000, having completed his bachelor’s degree in 1997. He was a postdoctoral fellow with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA) from 2000-2002 and a staff scientist from 2003-2005. He joined the University of Melbourne in 2005, where he is now Associate Professor and Reader in the School of Earth Sciences. Between 2010-2014 he was an ARC Future Fellow.
Mesoscale Processes from 2012-2015. He has received awards from the American Meteorological Society, the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and NASA.
Prof Michael Reeder Research program: Drivers of Spatial and Temporal Climate Variability in Extra-tropical Australia Professor Michael Reeder completed a PhD in Applied Mathematics at Monash University before holding postdoctoral positions at the University of Munich (Germany) and the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (USA). He subsequently returned to Monash University as a member of staff, rising through the ranks to professor. Prof Reeder has also held long-term visiting positions at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA), the State University of New York at Albany (USA), the University of Reading (UK) and the University of Leeds (UK). Prof. Reeder’s research is focused principally on weather-producing systems. However, he has published on a wide variety of topics, including fronts, tropopause folding, extra-tropical cyclones, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, Rossby waves, tropical cyclones, gravity waves, solitary waves, convection, boundary layers and bushfires. He has been the principal supervisor for more than 34 graduate students. Prof Reeder is a past President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and a winner of the Distinguished Research Award from the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and the Loewe Prize from the Royal Meteorological Society, Australian Branch.
Prof Michael Roderick Research program: The Role of Land Surface Forcing and Feedbacks for Regional Climate
A/Prof Lane’s primary research focus is on cloud processes. He is internationally recognised as an expert on the generation of atmospheric waves and turbulence by thunderstorms and has made important contributions to many other aspects of mesoscale meteorology, convective cloud dynamics, and high-resolution atmospheric modelling. His work within the Centre is focused on convection in the Maritime Continent, and he is using state-of-the-art cloud models to determine the processes that govern the diurnal cycle and variability of clouds and precipitation in this region.
Professor Michael Roderick graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Surveying from the Queensland University of Technology in 1984 and subsequently worked as a surveyor across northern Australia until 1990. He completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Geographic Information Systems at the University of Queensland in 1990. After working with the Department of Agriculture in Perth (1991-1993) he joined Curtin University. He was a lecturer at the School of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, from 1993-1996 and completed a PhD in satellite remote sensing and environmental modelling at Curtin University in 1994. He joined the Australian National University as a research fellow in 1996 and currently holds a joint appointment as a professor between the Research School of Earth Sciences and the Research School of Biology.
He was the 2014-2015 President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and was Chair of the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on
Prof Roderick’s principal research interests are in environmental physics, climate science, ecohydrology (including plant-water relations), remote sensing and
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