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 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 is a first year 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,…
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 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…
Joshna Baskar completed a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Environmental Science, at Monash University in December 2023. Throughout 2023, Joshna volunteered at SAEF, inspired by a lecture series by Professor Steven Chown that emphasised the urgency of action towards climate change and biodiversity loss. She assisted in extracting location information from Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)…
Dr Mardi McNeil is an Earth scientist who maps and characterises Australia’s seafloor environments to support evidence-based management of marine natural assets. Managing Australia’s unique environment doesn’t end at the coastline. As a marine geoscientist at Geoscience Australia, Mardi works with bathymetry maps and seabed rock and sediment information to advise government, industry and academic…
Zhaoyang is a PhD Candidate at Monash University who is interested in the precipitation processes over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. His research topic is currently focused on the precipitation trends at Macquarie Island.
Pirunthan Keerthinathan is a PhD researcher at the QUT Centre for Robotics, specialising in remote sensing and machine learning. His research focuses on vegetation detection through semantic segmentation using drone and satellite imagery, with experience in multispectral, hyperspectral, and LiDAR data. As part of SAEF, he will contribute to advancing automated vegetation mapping techniques in…
Daniel is a glaciologist who engages in computational research of ice-sheet and ice-ocean interaction behaviour. I am primarily interested in understanding current and near-future behaviour of Antarctic ice streams and making use of novel methods in ice-dynamical simulation, ice-ocean coupling, and assimilation of satellite-based data into ice-sheet models in order to improve reliability of projections…
Rob’s research addresses the causes and pace of polar ice-sheet change, and the contributions of polar ice sheets to global sea levels. Presently he is leading initiatives to acquire new geophysical data across West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier (International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration) and to build a 3-D age-depth model across Antarctica from the internal stratigraphy sounded by ice-penetrating radar (AntArchitecture)….
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