Nasim is a research fellow in atmospheric science at Monash University, with a strong interest in how shallow convective clouds and their associated precipitation interact with aerosols over the Southern Ocean. Her research investigates how these interactions contribute to persistent biases in radiation and precipitation in climate models over the Southern Hemisphere. During her PhD,…
Arathy Kurup is a PhD candidate at Monash University whose research focuses on the remote sensing of clouds over the Southern Ocean. She combines satellite observations and advanced data analysis to enhance understanding of cloud properties in this climatically critical region.
Alena Kimbrough is an early career researcher who studies the response of large interhemispheric hydrological systems to extreme warm periods and glacial-interglacial climate. Using stalagmites from the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool, she reconstructs high-resolution rainfall and local vegetation records. Alena’s field sites in Indonesia, are at the intersection of major atmospheric convection systems, including the ITCZ…
Hugo is a PhD candidate undertaking research in geochemistry and paleoclimatology, understanding the impacts of human and climatic forces on coastal and marine environments through time. His research incorporates geochemical proxies from carbonate records to reconstruct past conditions. Hugo is working to refine novel geochemical methods and contribute to the broader understanding of how environmental…
Andrew Clarke is a polar ecologist who worked at the British Antarctic Survey from 1970 to 2010. His fieldwork was based mostly at South Georgia (1970 – 1982), Signy Island (1984 – 1994) and Rothera (1997 – 2009), though he also worked at McMurdo, Palmer and in Svalbard, and undertook numerous oceanographic cruises. At Signy…
Elio Campitelli is a postdoctoral research fellow based at Monash University. They completed a PhD in atmospheric sciences at the University of Buenos Aires in 2024. In their Masters and PhD research, they studied the zonally asymmetric circulation of the Southern Hemisphere and its relationship with the Southern Annular Mode and El Niño-Southern Oscillation. They…
Dr Emma Cooper has primarily been trained as a (palaeo)glaciologist, with research interests that span the broad-scale interactions between ice sheets, glaciers, and climate across a range of timescales. Emma recently finished her PhD at Royal Holloway as part of the London NERC Doctoral Training Partnership in the UK. Her PhD focused on understanding the…
Helen Shea is a PhD student based at Monash University. Helen completed a Bachelor of Science at Monash majoring in atmospheric science and went on to complete Honours looking at the climate influences on sea salt variability at Mount Brown South, East Antarctica. Helen’s PhD project will investigate the role of the atmosphere and oceans…
Dr Weilin Yang is a glaciologist who obtained her PhD at the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University in January 2023 (supervised by Prof Gengnian Liu). During her PhD research, she has focused on modelling and analysing the long-term evolution of paleoglaciers and their climatic driving mechanisms, using a combination of numerical modelling,…
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