CURRICULUM
VITAE – Kevin Walsh
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name:
Business Address:
Telephone: (61-3) 8344-6523, Fax (61-3) 8344-7761
e-mail address:
home page: http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/%7Ekwalsh/
Skype: kevin.james.edward.walsh
ACADEMIC
EDUCATION
1994 Ph.D. in Meteorology,
1983 S.M. in Meteorology, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
1980 A.B. majoring in Physics, Harvard
University
1977-78
1972-76 High schools in
EMPLOYMENT
HISTORY
2005- Associate
Professor and Reader,
2002-2004 Senior Lecturer,
2002- Visiting
Scientist, 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
1983-1986
Scientist, Meteorological and
Environmental
Planning Ltd.,
1981-1983
Research Assistant, Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2010 CSIRO Look Out Award, Climate
Change in Australia writing team
2010 Princeton University/GFDL Visiting Scientist Program
2003 Sherman Eureka Prize for Environmental Research: Climate
Impact Group, CSIRO Atmospheric Research
UNIVERSITY
LECTURING EXPERIENCE
2005- Associate
Professor and Reader,
2002-2004 Senior
Lecturer in Meteorology,
1999-2002 Visiting Senior
Lecturer in Meteorology,
1997, 1998 Topics in Meteorology - lectures to honours students at
Melbourne University
Subjects taught in 2012:
ATOC20001 Weather and
Climate Systems
ATOC30003 Atmosphere-Ocean
Interaction
ERTH20001 Dangerous
Earth (contributor)
EVSC20004 Blue Planet: An
Introduction to Marine Environments (contributor)
UNIB20001 Climate Change
II (coordinator)
Subjects taught in other years:
Honours/Masters short
course: Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction and Climate
625-103 The Atmosphere
and Oceans
ATOC20002 Atmospheric
Environment Processes
RESEARCH
SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE
Completed students: 13 honours students, 1
Masters student and 4 Ph.D. students
Current PhD students:
Surendra Rauniyar: Investigating the
diurnal variation of tropical precipitation
Jun Chen: Rainfall in tropical
cyclones
Tristan Shepherd: Dynamics and
evolution of tropical cyclones
Andy Taylor: Sea level forecasting
UNIVERSITY
ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE
2011- Faculty of Science Academic Programs
Committee
2007- Coordinator, graduate coursework
program, School of Earth Sciences
2005- Honours and Masters coordinator, School of Earth Sciences
2006 Faculty of Science working group, The
Melbourne Model
MEMBERSHIP OF
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
2006-2008 President, Australian
Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
2004-2005 Vice
President, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
1998- Member, American Geophysical Union
1998-2010 Victorian Coordinator,
The Planetary Society
1997-2010 Committee Member, Australian
Meteorological and
Oceanographic Society (
1987- Member of the Australian
Meteorological and
Oceanographic Society
1983- Member of the American
Meteorological Society
EDITORIAL AND OTHER
POSITIONS
2011- Editor, Journal of Climate
2011- Co-chair, U.S. CLIVAR working group
on hurricanes
2010- Associate investigator, ARC Centre
of Excellence for Climate System Science
2005-2010 Node coordinator,
ARC Network for Earth System Science
2004- Associate editor, Australian
Meteorological Magazine
2003 Editor, Special
Issue of Natural Hazards, Community Risk in
1996-2003 Book review editor, Australian
Meteorological Magazine
CONFERENCE
ORGANIZATION
2009 AMS/AMOS Southern Hemisphere
Meteorology Conference, Melbourne (Co-chair, Scientific Program Committee)
2003 Conference on climate Impacts on
Australia’s Natural Resources, Surfers Paradise (Organizing Committee)
2000 AMOS conference, Melbourne
(Organizing Committee)
GRANTS OBTAINED
(since 2002)
U.S. National
Science Foundation – Tropical cyclones and climate: a model intercomparison
project (led by S. Camargo, Columbia University), December 2011: US$699,620
Lloyd’s Register
Educational Trust – Prediction of extreme events (with numerous collaborators),
February 2010: $2,000,000
Pacific Climate
Change Science Program – regional downscaling, February 2010: $60,000
Pacific Climate
Change Science Program grant, June 2009: $80,000
Woodside Petroleum
Consulting Grant, Dec. 2008: $15,000
CSIRO Climate
Adaptation Flagship collaboration fund, May 2008: $194,000
AIR consulting
grant, April 2008: $6,000
Australian
Greenhouse Office (with Cumulus Consulting), March 2006: $7,980
Enviromission Ltd., May 2005:
$37,000
Australian Greenhouse
Office (with PB Associates), Jan. 2005: $8,900
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
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