Background
Dr Benjamin Henley is a Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on understanding climate variability and climate change and their impacts in the Southern Hemisphere, using multi-proxy palaeoclimate records, observations and climate model simulations. He is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Domain Editor at WIREs Climate Change, Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and a consultant in hydrology and climate. Dr Henley engages with schools, businesses, local councils, state government organisations and community groups to build understanding of climate change. He is a contributing author of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report (AR6), recipient of Engineers Australia’s G.N. Alexander Award (2016), an AIPS Young Tall Poppy Award (2020), and the SAFES Award for Excellence (2024). He was the instigator of the Victorian Drought Risk Inference Project (VicDRIP), originator of the Tripole Index (TPI) for the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, and a Chief Investigator with SAEF.
