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CCRC Team: Affiliated staff

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.

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. Click here for more information and contact details for Dr Olivier Arzel.

Professor Michael Banner Emeritus Professor Michael researches fundamental and applied research in air-sea interaction processes, with a strong focus on understanding surface processes and the coupling between aqueous and atmospheric systems. Of particular interest is the role of wave breaking on air-sea momentum, dissolved gas and sea spray, and forecast model development for severe sea states. Michael is also an Adjunct Senior Scientist in the Oceanography Division at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, New York. More information and contact details for Professor Michael Banner.

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. More information and contact details for Dr Mark Baird.

Dr Peter Blennerhassett Senior Lecturer Peter is interested in the stability properties of fluid motion, the transition to turbulent fluid flow and nonlinear dynamical systems. More information and contact details for Dr Peter Blennerhassett.

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.

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. More information and contact details for Dr Frank Drost.

Dr Philippe Estrade Post Doctoral Research Fellow Philippe models wakes generated by oceanic current flowing around islands, headlands or reefs. He also studies wake response to stochastic turbulence in the upstream flow. More information and contact details for Dr Philippe Estrade.

Dr Gary Froyland Senior Lecturer Gary is interested in developing and applying techniques from nonlinear dynamical systems to the analysis of ocean circulation and transport. More information and contact details for Dr Gary Froyland.

Dr Jane McAdam Senior Lecturer Dr Jane McAdam is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Director of the Climate Change Refugees and International Law Project at the Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law. 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. More information and contact details for Dr Jane McAdam.

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. More information and contact details for Dr Matthew McCabe.

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. More information and contact details for Dr Scott Mooney.

Professor Jason Middleton Professor Jason Middleton has been undertaking coastal and regional oceanography research at UNSW since 1980, using a combination of observations, analytical theory and numerical modelling. He has led numerous research cruises on a variety of vessels, including RV Sprightly, RV Franklin and RV Southern Surveyor, with applications as far afield as the Great Barrier Reef and Antarctica. Recent oceanography research through the School of Mathematics and Statistics is associated with Coral and Tasman Sea physical oceanography, including East Australian Current, and the impacts of the physical environment on marine biota. Recent research into wind shear and atmospheric wakes has been undertaken through the Department of Aviation. His research is, and has been, generously supported by the Australian Research Council. More information and contact details for Professor Jason Middleton.

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 companys climate change strategy and attended most of the United Nations negotiations on climate change since 1991.

Russel Morison Professional Scientific Officer Russel works in the areas of meteorology and atmospheric modelling. More information and contact details for Russel Morison.

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. More information and contact details for Professor Frank Muller.

Greg Nippard Professional Scientific Officer Greg Nippard provides technical support for the CEDL group, such as field deployments and the development of oceanographic and meterological instruments/logging systems. More information and contact details for Greg Nippard.

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. More information and contact details for Dr Robin Roberston.

Dr Moninya Roughan Lecturer Moninya explores observational studies of: wind driven upwelling in the Californian Current Topographic upwelling in the East Australian Currrent Flow around headlands and small scale upwelling, larval transport, retention and dispersion Ocean Observing Systems Circulation around coral reefs Dispersion and flushing in shallow estuaries. More information and contact details for Dr Moninya Roughan.

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. More information and contact details for Dr Scott Sisson.

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. More information and contact details for Professor Ashish Sharma.

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. More information and contact details for Dr Milton Speer.

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