Professional history

• since May 2009:
  UNSW Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC), Sydney
  
  
• January 2008 - April 2009:
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems and the CCRC, UNSW, Sydney
  
  
• 2004 - 2007:
  PhD at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, on
  "Southern Hemisphere Regional Precipitation and Climate Variability: Extremes, Trends, and Predictability"
  
  
• 2000 - 2003:
  B.Sc. Joint Honours Oceanography / Marine Biology at the School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom
  

Selected further research experience

• March 2006:
  research cruise on "RV Tangaroa" from New Zealand to undertake hydrographic survey of the Macquarie Ridge and the Solander Trough
  
  
• January - March 2004:
  Canadian Center for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Meteorological Service of Canada, at the University of Victoria, Canada:
  project to improve treatments of heat and moisture exchange over open water (leads) in sea-ice in a single-column atmosphere-sea ice model
  
  
• August - September 2003:
  Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany:
  biogeochemical analyses of sea-ice samples from the White Sea, Russia
  

Recent awards

• Oct. 2008:     UNSW Goldstar Award
  
• Aug. 2008:     Eureka Prize for Water Research and Innovation by the Australian Museum
  

Memberships

• since 2008:     American Meteorological Society (AMS)
  
• since 2007:     European Geophysical Union (EGU)
  
• since 2005:     Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS)
  
• since 2001:     American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  

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