Climate

  • Helen Shea

    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…

  • Weilin Yang

    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,…

  • Steph McLennan

    Dr McLennan has extensive experience as a geoscientist working on a range of projects, including geomorphic mapping of Antarctic ice-free areas. She has worked with the Australian Antarctic Program conducting remote fieldwork throughout the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Her previous contributions to SAEF included mapping and characterising the physical terrestrial environment in Antarctica to understand…

  • Ryan North

    Ryan North is a Research Fellow at Monash University investigating changes to the Antarctic Ice Sheet and its outlet glaciers. Ryan’s work aims to improve our understanding of how the ice sheet thickness and extent has changed in past to better inform how it might change in the future. He has extensive multidisciplinary experience in…

  • Levan Tielidze

    I completed my PhD at the Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. I use remote sensing and in situ methods to study modern glaciers in linkage to ongoing climate change. My research interests also include reconstructing the dynamics of past glaciers through the tools of glacial geomorphology and cosmogenic nuclide dating. In…

  • Isabelle Rose Onley

    I am an early career researcher interested in developing adaptive management strategies for species and ecosystems under climate change. My research to date has combined a variety of disciplines, including genetics, morphology, field ecology and environmental monitoring to develop improved conservation strategies in a changing climate, with a particular focus on translocation. I also have…

  • Reka-Hajnalka Fülöp

    Dr. Fülöp is a researcher refining in-situ cosmogenic 14C analytical technique and applying several cosmogenic radionuclides such as 10Be, 26Al, and 14C to the study of Earth surface processes and reconstructing Quaternary paleoclimate. At ANSTO she has established and manages the in-situ 14C extraction laboratory as well as undertakes work in ANSTO’s 10Be and 26Al…

  • Jacinda O’Connor

    Jacinda is a PhD student whose research interests are in Antarctic ice mass change and palaeo-climatology. Jacinda’s current project is exploring relative sea level variability in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet using cosmogenic nuclides at Denman Glacier and the nearby Bunger Hills, and a far-field location in Victoria, to determine whether ice mass was increasing…

  • Francesco Ricci

    I completed my PhD at the University of Melbourne where I studied population structure and ecophysiology of microbes living in symbiosis with tropical Scleractinian corals. Following my PhD, I developed an interest in understanding how life adapts to extreme environments such as the deep sea, hypersaline lakes and polar systems. I currently work on a…

  • Jacinta Holloway-Brown

    Dr Jacinta Holloway-Brown is a lecturer in the School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at University of Adelaide, South Australia. Her research is about working with imperfect data and models to better monitor the environment. She develops hybrid approaches of statistical methodology and machine learning, working across mathematical and biological disciplines on environmental problems. Jacinta…