Climate

  • Julie Arblaster

    Julie’s research uses climate models as tools to investigate mechanisms of recent and future climate change. She moved to the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University in February 2016 after more than a decade at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Her research interests include climate extremes, decadal variability and the role of…

  • Jodie Smith

    Dr Jodie Smith is an environmental scientist with experience in marine and coastal environments spanning the entire continent from the tropical north, temperate south and Antarctica. Jodie studied at UNSW, completing an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science and a PhD in geochemistry in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences. She joined Geoscience Australia…

  • Jane Rumble

    Jane Rumble joined the Polar Regions Department in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 2003, and has been Head of the Department since January 2007. In this role, Jane leads on all Antarctic issues for the UK Government, including as Head of the UK Delegation to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) and UK Commissioner…

  • Andrew Grant

    Andrew Grant is widely recognised as a carbon market leader, having pioneered much of the development of carbon markets in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Andrew is an award-winning entrepreneur (winning the Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of the year – Cleantech) and being rated within the top ten industry leaders for carbon…

  • Nancy Bertler

    Professor Nancy Bertler has led 13 major field campaigns to investigate past change using Antarctic ice cores, including the 9-nation Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution Programme (RICE). She is a Professor at the Antarctic Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington, a Principal Scientist at GNS Science, and the Director of the Antarctic Science Platform at…

  • Nerida Wilson

    Nerida is a research scientist at the Western Australia Museum, Perth and manages its Molecular Systematic Unit. Her research interests focus on understanding and describing the extent of biological diversity present on Earth and resolving evolutionary relationships among those taxa. She is passionate about taxonomy and systematics as the foundational discipline that underpins biological science.

  • Steven Chown

    Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor Steven Chown FAA is an award-winning biologist and one of the most highly cited researchers working on Antarctic environmental science and policy. He has represented the science community in the Antarctic Treaty System in a variety of roles, notably as President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) (2016-2021), as SCAR’s…

  • Sharon Robinson

    Sharon researches how Antarctic plants respond to climate change. She uses radiocarbon signatures left behind in the atmosphere by nuclear testing to date mosses and track environmental change around the coast of Antarctica. Her group identifies the sunscreens that plants make to protect themselves from elevated UV-B radiation resulting from ozone depletion. She is currently…

  • Kerrie Wilson

    Professor Kerrie Wilson is the Chief Scientist of the Queensland Government and a Chief Investigator with SAEF. Prior to this she was the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Sustainability and Research Integrity) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and SAEF’s Deputy Director of Career Development. Kerrie joined QUT in January 2019 and was the Executive Director of the…

  • Andrew Mackintosh

    Professor Andrew Mackintosh is Head of the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment. Prior to his appointment at Monash in 2019, he was the Director of the Antarctic Research Centre as well as Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences within the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). He served…

  • Michael Bode

    Michael is SAEF’s Deputy Director of Capability Development, based at the Queensland University of Technology. Michael’s research program in SAEF focused on the conservation of Antarctic biodiversity, and specifically on how the unusual structures and dynamics of Antarctic governance affect what conservation science can achieve. Michael is a mathematician, and he is therefore also interested…