Fields of Research

Physical oceanography
Atmospheric dynamics
Numerical solution of differential and integral equations
Climate change processes
Climatology
Environmental management
Environmental assessment and monitoring

Research Objectives

Effects of climate change on Australia (excl. social impacts)
Expanding knowledge in the mathematical sciences
Climate change models
Global effects of climate change (excl. Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the South Pacific) (excl. social impacts)
Atmospheric processes and dynamics
Climate variability (excl. social impacts)
Understanding climate change
Assessment and management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems
Fisheries - aquaculture
Fisheries - wild caught
Assessment and management of terrestrial ecosystems

Career Best Publications

Model tropical Atlantic biases underpin diminished Pacific decadal variability; Nature Climate Change
Model under-representation of decadal Pacific trade wind trends and its link to tropical Atlantic bias; Climate Dynamics
Pantropical climate interactions; Science
Tropical climate variability: interactions across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans; Climate Dynamics

Research Publications

A catalogue of marine heatwave metrics and trends for the Australian region; Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science
Assessment and communication of risks to Tasmanian aquaculture and fisheries from marine heatwaves: stakeholder engagement synthesis
CMIP5 intermodel relationships in the baseline Southern Ocean climate system and with future projections; Earth's Future
Coastal Climate Services: A Review of Needs for Coastal, Marine and Offshore Applications
Drivers, dynamics, and persistence of the 2017/2018 Tasman Sea marine heatwave; JGR Oceans
Extremes, Abrupt Changes and Managing Risk; IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
Future projections of marine heatwave hazards to aquaculture and fisheries in Tasmania
Global mean surface temperature response to large‐scale patterns of variability in observations and CMIP5; Geophysical Research Letters
Impacts of marine heatwaves on tropical western and central Pacific Island nations and their communities; Global and Planetary Change
Indo-Pacific climate interactions in the absence of an Indonesian Throughflow; Journal of Climate
Insights from CMIP6 for Australia's future climate; Earth's Future
Leonardo da Vinci's turbulent tank in two dimensions; European Journal of Mechanics B - Fluids
Marine heatwaves in the Tasman Sea: future projections
Marine heatwaves off Western Australia: future projections
Model tropical Atlantic biases underpin diminished Pacific decadal variability; Nature Climate Change
Model under-representation of decadal Pacific trade wind trends and its link to tropical Atlantic bias; Climate Dynamics
On the choice of ensemble mean for estimating the forced signal in the presence of internal variability; Journal of Climate
On the dynamics of swimming linked bodies; European Journal of Mechanics B - Fluids
On the swimming of fish like bodies near free and fixed boundaries; European Journal of Mechanics B - Fluids
Pantropical climate interactions; Science
Robust warming projections despite the recent hiatus; Nature Climate Change
Smooth lattice construction of the Oppenheimer-Snyder spacetime; Physical Review D
SPH particle boundary forces for arbitrary boundaries; Computer Physics Communications
SPH simulations of swimming linked bodies; Journal of Computational Physics
Tropical climate variability: interactions across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans; Climate Dynamics
Tropical western and central Pacific marine heatwave data calculated from gridded sea surface temperature observations and CMIP6; Data in Brief
Understanding the changing nature of marine cold-spells; Geophysical Research Letters

Research Projects

Assessment and communication of risks to Tasmanian aquaculture and fisheries from marine heatwaves; Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPAC)
Marine and coastal climate services for extremes information; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
NESP 2 CLIMATE SYSTEMS HUB CSIRO UMBRELLA AGREEMENT; Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment (DAWE)

Research Candidate Supervision