Dr Fogwill will visit several key areas of Antarctica to collect valuable new data |
CCRC researcher wins a Future Fellowship
01 August 2012
Dr Chris Fogwill has just been awarded a Future Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (ARC), whose aim is to attract and retain the best and brightest mid-career researchers for Australia.
Dr Fogwill won his Fellowship with a proposal to study changes in the Antarctic Ice Sheets, with the goal to increase the understanding of the drivers of these changes and their long-term impacts.
The Future Fellowship will allow Dr Fogwill to visit several key areas of Antarctica over the next four years to conduct local surveys, obtaining valuable new data. Within the Future Fellowship, Dr Fogwill will combine sophisticated new observational techniques with high resolution atmosphere, ocean and ice sheet modelling studies.
The combination of models and observations allows us to get a better handle on the effects of past variations in climate on the Antarctic ice sheets. The goal is then to reduce uncertainty in predictions of the response of modern ice-sheets. This will help better constrain potential global sea level rise under global warming.
The CCRC congratulates Dr Fogwill with his Future Fellowship for his outstanding and exciting research project.
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Announcing the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014
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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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