Welcome to my home page at the School of Earth Sciences, where
I am an honorary research fellow with the Atmospheric Sciences
section, collaborating with
Prof. Ian Simmonds.
My day job is with the Bureau of Meteorology in the National
Climate Centre, where I am a Senior Climatologist doing all kinds of
stuff (often, it feels, all in the one
day!) - including advice on EL Nino and drought,
SILO, and now the vastly
improved WATL (weather and climate for agriculture),
Model Verification
and lots of World Met. Organization (WMO - the weather part of the United Nations) work, such as the 7th
Global Climate System Review, the Status of the Global Climate , and the Lead Centre for Long Range Forecast Verification.
Previously I worked at the CRC for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, where I studied ensemble forecasting and its verification with Jorgen Fredrikson
from CSIRO Atmospheric Research,
as well as continuing my work on
sea ice/climate relationships
that formed a large part of my PhD. At the same time I was putting in the hard yakka
on Interdecadal Pacific Oscillations with Scott Power.
I'm also the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of
the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS). Go on.
Send us an
article..
In my spare time I'm building an interactive weather machine to enable
perfect, year round windsurfing. Rest
assured, I am testing it as regularly as possible. You can check my Port Phillip winds page to see if I'm cranking it up right now...
Not that theres much spare time left, now that we have The Boy...
Heres some very outdated web pages I dabbled with at Melb Uni...
including the BAY WINDS
travelling to W.A pages
- we still ride to work as often as possible.
