CCRC Team: Postgraduate students
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Francia Avila
PhD Student
Francia is currently studying the impact of CO2 concentrations and land-use change on the global monsoon systems. She is also interested in tropical cyclones, extreme weather and disaster risk reduction.
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Kat Bormann
PhD Student
Kat is interested in the impacts of climate change on catchment hydrology and water resources in the snow-affected catchments within the Murray-Darling Basin. Her research will involve using regional climate and rainfall-runoff modelling tools that are spatially informed by satellite data to assess the range of potential impacts on catchment hydrology associated with future climate change.
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Tim Cowan
PhD Student
Tim is currently studying the large-scale impacts of anthropogenic aerosols on atmospheric-oceanic circulation. He is also interested in understanding how both anthropogenic and volcanic aerosols modulate oceanic heat content, and impact the Asia monsoon.
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Maxwell S. Gonzalez
PhD Student
Maxwell is interested in stability of the Southern Ocean thermohaline circulation. The Oceans, in particular the Southern Ocean, play an important role on much of the Earths climate system.The aim of my PhD Thesis is to assess the variability and predictability of the Southern Ocean-Atmospheric-ice system over the last 100 years and into the next 100 years, with a main focus (but not exclusive) to the ways in which the ocean may respond to the changing climate and its effect on the Australian/Southern Hemispheres climate.
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Khalia Hill
PhD Student
Khalia is interested in Southern Hemisphere rainfall variability linked to large-scale climate modes. There is a particular focus on shifting rainfall patterns over eastern Australia and an emphasis on extreme climate conditions - i.e. drought - linked to multi-decadal variability and/or climate change.
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Karin Kvale
PhD Student
Karin is interested in how biogeochemical feedbacks in the ocean contribute to general system stability. She is currently investigating the relationship between oxygen and the carbon cycle, and the processes associated with abrupt climate change using the UVic model.
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Ian Macadam
PhD Student
Ian is interested in projections of future regional climate conditions. His work is related to improving the scenarios of future climate used in studies of climate change impacts and adaptation options.
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Emily Shaw
PhD Student
Emily's research will investigate seasonal and diurnal variability of carbonate parameters in southern Great Barrier Reef waters. These observations will help characterize the risk of this region to ocean acidification. |
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Alejandro Silva
MSc Student
Alejandro's main research interest is large scale open ocean variability and its impact in climate and climate change. His current project will involve to assess the effects of El Niño Modoki by using data and numerical models. |
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Jessica Trevena
PhD Student
Jessica is currently modelling southern hemisphere rapid climate change and thermohaline circulation, including:
- Antarctic Bottom Water - response to and effect on southern hemisphere climate changes.
- Paleoclimate - relating the southern hemisphere proxy record to current and possible future climate states.
- Atmosphere/ Ocean/ Biological feedbacks - rapid climate change mechanisms.
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Recent PhD submissions
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Faye Cruz
Faye's thesis is titled "Characterization of the physiological feedbacks to increase in leaf-level atmospheric carbon dioxide from global to regional scales".
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Sarah Perkins
Sarah's thesis is titled " Evaluation and 21st century projections of global climate change models at a regional scale over Australia".
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Jan Zika
Jan's thesis is titled "Quantifying ocean mixing from hydrographic data".
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