Climate

  • Wilma Huneke

    Wilma’s research focuses on the Southern Ocean and its role in a changing climate. Her interests span Southern Ocean dynamics and the global climate impacts of changes around Antarctica. She uses ocean and climate models and has an interest in improving the models to better represent this remote region. Wilma was awarded her PhD from…

  • Anjana Wijayawardhana

    Anjana is a computational statistician specialising in spatial and spatio-temporal modelling, developing statistical tools that reveal patterns in complex environmental data across space and time. As part of SAEF, he will apply these approaches to Antarctic moss ecosystems, beginning with modelling moss surface temperatures to understand how they vary across the landscape and respond to…

  • Jordan Hill

    Jordan Hill is a Research Fellow based at Monash University researching the interactions between ice sheets, climate, and sea level change while developing advanced modelling tools for ice sheet science. His work contributes to strengthening Australia’s climate research capabilities.

  • Lanyu Jia

    Lanyu Jia is a PhD student in Monash University. She investigates ocean-climate interactions in East Antarctica, specifically focusing on how warm water transport affects ice-shelf stability. By utilizing climate models, her research aims to quantify the impact of climate variability on glacial melting and its contribution to future sea-level rise.

  • Elena Disilvestro

    Elena is an Honours student at Monash University studying glaciology. In 2025, she completed a Science/Arts double degree (majoring in Earth Science and Literature). For her project, she’ll be researching how much glaciers on Heard Island have retreated since pre-industrial times, and how much more they will retreat in the future.

  • Anne-Sophie Palermo

    Anne-Sophie (Sophie) Palermo is a PhD student at the University of Wollongong, specialising in palaeoclimatology and coral geochemistry. Her research focuses on reconstructing past ocean climate variability to better understand oceanic processes. With a strong interest in coral reef ecology and nature conservation, Sophie aims to bridge scientific knowledge with environmental stewardship. Her work contributes…

  • Ghyslaine Boschat

    Ghyslaine is a climate scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology whose research focuses on Southern Hemisphere climate variability and change, with recent emphasis on ozone-climate interactions over the polar regions and their effects on surface climate. Her work uses observations and models to understand these processes and improve confidence in projections of how future climate…

  • Saanvi Deobhankar

    Saanvi is a PhD student at Monash University supervised by Dr Ariaan Purich and Professor Julie Arblaster. She is interested in understanding how changes in Antarctic sea ice influences climate variability across Australia and the broader tropics. Her work will focus on examining how variations in sea ice extent affect rainfall and temperature, as well…

  • Andrew Prata

    I am an atmospheric scientist who specialises in satellite remote sensing with a research interest in using inverse methods to quantify cloud and precipitation properties. Before joining SAEF I worked as a postdoc at the Meteorology Department at the University of Reading, the Environmental Simulations Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and the Earth Observation…

  • Dominic Saunderson

    Dominic is a PhD student whose research interests are in ice-climate interactions on timescales of hours to decades. In particular, he is interested in understanding the variability and drivers of surface melt and hydrology. His current work focuses on the Shackleton Ice Shelf in East Antarctica, using a combination of remote sensing and climate reanalysis…