ARC Future Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences; Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australian National University
My research focuses on how the Earth’s climate has behaved over the last millennium, and what that tells us about the climate changes we are seeing now. The past climate records that I develop come from corals, caves and ice cores, and I combine these with climate model data to study climate changes.
My research is supported by a Future Fellowship and Discovery Projects from the Australian Research Council. I'm also a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and I'm actively involved in a number of the international reconstruction teams for the Past Global Changes 2k projects.
Arctic ice loss is worrying, but the giant stirring in the South could be even worse
Jul 12, 2019 09:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
A record start to summer ice melt in Greenland this year has drawn attention to the northern ice sheet. We will have to wait to see if 2019 continues to break ice-melt records, but in the rapidly warming Arctic the...
Jul 03, 2019 20:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Greenland has been in the news a bit lately. From Huskies seemingly walking on water, to temperatures soaring to 20℃ above average for the time of year, to predictions of the vast ice sheet being lost entirely, what is...
El Niño has rapidly become stronger and stranger, according to coral records
May 07, 2019 03:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The pattern of El Niño has changed dramatically in recent years, according to the first seasonal record distinguishing different types of El Niño events over the last 400 years. A new category of El...
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