Current Research

International

  • Lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001 (Chapter 8);
  • Lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007 (Chapter 8);
  • Chair, World Climate Research Program's committee on Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) Science Steering Committee;
  • Co-chair World Climate Research Program's Project for the Intercomparison of Land surface Parameterization Schemes;
  • Science steering committee of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program's terrestrial committees (BAHC and iLEAPS);
  • 105 C1 and 17 B1 publications, plus an A2 book and a teaching text. Most journal papers are in premier international journals such as J. Climate, J. Hydrometeorology, Global Change Biology, J. Geophysical Research, Climate Dynamics and Geophysical Research Letters;
  • Over 1400 citations, four papers with more than 50 citations, and a further three with over 100 citations including the highest cited paper in Australian geosciences in 1999;
  • Interviews for National Swedish Radio, 11th January 2007 on drought in Australia (Nils Horner),  Radio New Zealand interview on bush fires and climate change (12th December, 2006), interview for BBC world service on Australian droughts;
  • Keynote, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Perugia, July 2007;
  • Elected member of the American Meteorological Society; 
  • Member of the American Geophysical Union, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, International Association of Hydrological Sciences;
  • reviewer for J. Climate, J. Geophys. Res., Water Res. Res., Aust. Meteorol. Mag., Climate Dynamics, Hydrology and Earth System Science, J. Hydrology, Global Planetary Change and Quart. J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., Earth Interactions, Water Res. Res. and the J. Atmos. Sci.;
  • Reviewer proposals for Australian Research Council, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the NOAA Global Environmental Change programme, and the Presidential Faculty Fellows Program program. Regular examiner of Honours, Masters and PhD theses;
  • Editor of J. Climate;
  • Associate Editor, Annals of the Association of American Geographers and Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, American Geophysical Union Index Committee, International Journal of Climatology;

           

National

 

  • $5.5 million in external research grants, via Discovery, Linkage and ARC Network schemes. A further $1.755 million in infrastructure funding (LIEF etc) and $280,000 in internal funding.;
  • Convenor of the ARC Research Network;
  • appointee to PMSEIC, Regional Climate Change (March, 2007);
  • member of the Australian Community Climate and Earth system Simulator initiative;
  • Member, Academy of Science's national committee for Earth System Science;
  • Technical advisor to the Climate change and its impacts on water supply and demand in Sydney's greater metropolitan region (NSW Cabinet Office);
  • National Representative to the International Geosphere Biosphere program;
  • AusAID's technical advisory group for sea level rise in the Pacific;
  • Board of Risk Frontiers [Insurance Industry funded research centre];
  • Advisory board, Upper Parramatta Catchment Trust and Ku-ring-gay Environmental Trust;
  • member of the NSW Greenhouse gas inventory task force for the EPA;
  • Regular invitee for keynote presentations: 2006
 
  •  on environmental health, climate change and sustainability, 21-22 November, 2006. "An overview of the climate change situation".
  • 37th Public Health Association of Australia Annual Conf. 25-27 Sept. 2006, Sydney, "Advances in the science of climate change: new projections for Australia"
  • British Council INYS workshop "Abrupt climate change: is it just a northern hemisphere phenomenon?:, 19th February-March 1st 2006. "Abrupt change in land-atmosphere systems"
  • 17th Australia New Zealand climate forum, September 5th - 7th, 2006, Australian National University. New approaches to evaluating climate models over Australia.
  • International Geography Union Congress, Brisbane, "Earth System Science: can geographers help avoid the pitfalls?"
  • international symposium National conference roles

 
  • Scientific organizing committee for a joint workshop organized by Global Carbon Project (GCP), ARC Network for Earth System Science Network-Australia (ARCNESS) and Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES), Earth System Feedbacks: Vulnerability of the Carbon Cycle to Drought and Fire, Canberra, Australia, 5-8(9) June 2006.
  • Organizing committee of Greenhouse 2005, Melbourne, November, 2005.