CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Kevin Walsh

Business Address: School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia.

Telephone: (61-3) 8344-6523, Fax (61-3) 8344-7761

e-mail address: kevin.walsh@unimelb.edu.au

home page: http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/%7Ekwalsh/

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

1994 Ph.D. in Meteorology, University of Melbourne

1983 S.M. in Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of

Technology.

1980 A.B. majoring in Physics, Harvard University.

1977-78 University of Toronto

1972-76 High schools in Australia and Canada

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2005- Associate Professor and Reader, University of Melbourne

2002-2004 Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne School of Earth Sciences

2002- Honorary Fellow, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

2001-2002 Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

1996-2001 Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

1994-1996 Research Scientist, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

1986-1994 Experimental Scientist, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

1983-86 Scientist, Meteorological and Environmental

Planning Ltd., Markham, Ontario, Canada.

1981-83 Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

PRIZES AND AWARDS

2003 Sherman Eureka Prize for Environmental Research: Climate Impact Group, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

UNIVERSITY LECTURING EXPERIENCE

2005- Associate Professor and Reader, University of Melbourne

2002-2004 Senior Lecturer in Meteorology, University of Melbourne

1999-2002 Visiting Senior Lecturer in Meteorology, University of Melbourne

Subjects taught: 625-103 The Atmosphere and Oceans

625-227 Weather and Climate Systems

625-228 Atmospheric Environment Processes

625-332 Climate: Mechanisms and Variability

Honours short course: Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction

1997, 1998 Topics in Meteorology - lectures to honours students at Melbourne University

RESEARCH SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE

11 honours students (completed) and 3 Ph.D. students (ongoing)

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

1983- Member of the American Meteorological Society

1987- Member of the Australian Meteorological and

Oceanographic Society

1997- Committee Member, Australian Meteorological and

Oceanographic Society (Melbourne Centre)

1998- Victorian Coordinator, The Planetary Society

1999- Member, American Geophysical Union

2002-2003 Chair, Melbourne Chapter of Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

2004-2005 Vice-chair, Melbourne Chapter of Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

2004-2005 Vice President, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

2006- President, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

EDITORIAL AND OTHER POSITIONS

1996-2003 Book review editor, Australian Meteorological Magazine

2003 Editor, Special Issue of Natural Hazards, Community Risk in Cairns, Volume 30 (2).

2004- Associate editor, Australian Meteorological Magazine

2005- Node coordinator, ARC Network for Earth System Science

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

2000 AMOS conference, Melbourne (Organizing Committee)

2003 Conference on climate Impacts on Australia’s Natural Resources, Surfers Paradise (organizing committee)

GRANTS OBTAINED (since 2002)

Enviromission Ltd., May 2005: $37,000

Australian Greenhouse Office (with PB Associates): $8,900

University of Melbourne Award for Joint Funding Projects., Dec. 2004: $14,500

ARC Network Grant (A. Pitman), Aug. 2004: $1,950,000 (K. Walsh, Physical Impacts node coordinator)

STI Public Awareness grant, Feb. 2004: $3,880

CSIRO/U.Melb. collaborative scheme, Dec. 2003: $9,200

Northern Territory Climate Change Project (with CSIRO), Nov. 2003: $1,800

Cape Grim PhD half scholarship, Jan. 2003: $33,000.

Early Career Researcher’s Grant, Nov. 2002: $38,000.

Coast-to-coast organizing committee, Nov. 2002: $2,000 – Theme Champion’s Award, Climate Change in the Coastal Region