Personal: Date of Birth: 18 July 1950
Current Position: Principal Research Scientist, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC), Melbourne.
 

Education: B.Sc.(Hons.), University of Melbourne, 1972
M.Sc., University of Melbourne, 1973
Dip., Meteorology, Central Training School, Bureau of Meteorology, 1973.
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1979.

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE.

Tropical convection and its interaction with larger scale circulations, precipitation forecasting and verification, monsoon meteorology, tropical cyclones, synoptic scale weather systems including cold fronts and cut-off lows, interannual variability including the Southern Oscillation and seasonal prediction. Techniques used include observational analysis, theoretical analysis and numerical simulation. Design and implementation of major field experiments: One of the lead organisers and researchers in the Australian Monsoon Experiment (AMEX), 1986-87. Participant in the International Organization of the Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA-COARE), 1992-93.

Very recent work has focussed on development of statistically-based seasonal forecast models for operational use in developing countries: specifically Indonesia and south-east India.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

1969 - 1976: Cadet Meteorologist/ Meteorologist, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne.
1976 - 1979: Graduate Research Assistant, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA.
1979 - 1982: Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Melbourne.
1982 - present: Meteorologist/ Principal Research Scientist, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC), and its predecessor organisation, the Research and Development Branch of the Bureau of Meteorology.
 

AWARDS, HONOURS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
1987. American Meteorological Society: The Editor's Award - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
1989: Federal Republic of Germany: Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship.
1981-82. Branch Committee, Australian Branch Royal Meteorological Society
1982 Honorary Secretary, Australian Branch Royal Meteorological Society
1983-84 Visiting Scientist, Colorado State University, USA.
1983 Visiting Lecturer, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1989-90 Visiting Scientist (Humboldt Fellow) Free University Berlin, Federal Republic Germany.
1991-94 American Meteorological Society Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones.
1993 - present. Associate, Department of Mathematics, Monash University.
1985 - present. Visiting Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Monash University.
1995 - 1999. WMO CAS Steering Committee for Project M1: Research Initiative on East Asian Monsoon.
1996 - 2001 WCRP CLIVAR Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel.
1996 - 1999 Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
2000 - present. Chair WMO CAS Steering Committee for Project M2: Long-term Asian/African Monsoon Studies
2000 - present. WMO/CAS Working Group on Tropical Meteorology Research Program
2000 - present. Executive Committee: International Panel for the East Asian Monsoon.
2001. Chair, International Organising Committee: WMO Second International Workshop on Monsoon Studies, New Delhi, India.

GRANTS

1986: Department of Science, Bilateral Science and Technology Agreement -- $ 12,000 .
1992-94: Australian Research Council (Joint with D.J. Karoly): $ 79, 800.
1992-94: International travel funded under NSF Grant ATM-9115950
1999-2001: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Project LWR 2/96/215. $102,550.

INVITATIONS: Invited Keynote papers:

1980: ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Symposium, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
1982: Invited series of lectures, UNESCO/ICTP Workshop on Monsoon Dynamics, Dacca, Bangladesh.
1983: FGGE Seminar on Tropical Meteorology, Tallahassee, USA.
1984: Lecture tour of several cities in China, State Meteorological Administration, People's Republic China.
1985: WMO/CAS International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones, Bangkok, Thailand.
1986: American Meteorological Society, 2nd International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, Wellington, New Zealand.
1987: Series of lectures, ICTP/TWAS Workshop on Dynamics of Tropical Cyclones, Visakhapatnam, India
1988. Australian Branch Royal Meteorological Society, International Conference on Tropical Meteorology, Brisbane, Australia.
1989: International Conference on the Greenhouse Effect and Coastal Area of Bangladesh, Dacca, Bangladesh.
1991-92: Several planning meetings for the TOGA Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE), USA
1992: Japan-Indonesia Science and Technology Forum, International Symposium on Equatorial Atmosphere Observations over Indonesia. Jakarta, Indonesia.
1993 Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 30th Anniversary Symposium, Fort Collins, USA.
1994: TOGA/WGNE Monsoon Experimental Group, International Conference on Monsoon Variability and Prediction, Trieste, Italy.
1995: ASEAN-Australia Economic Co-operation Program Major International Symposium on "The Seas of South East Asia -- The Key to Regional Climate Patterns". Lombok, Indonesia.
1997: World Meteorological Organization, First International Workshop on Monsoons, Denpasar, Indonesia
 

Invited Chapters in the following books:

1987: Monsoon Meteorology, Oxford University Press.
1995: Global Perspectives on Tropical Cyclones, World Meteorological Organization
1998: Meteorology of the Southern Hemisphere, American Meteorological Society
2002: The East Asian Monsoon, World Scientific Publishing

Students Supervised (at Monash University)

G. Garden, MSc, 1988.
K. McInnes, PhD., 1991.
A. Wain, MSc, 1993.
G. Tyrrell, MSc, 1995..
T.H. Thuan Nguyen, MSc, 1999.
D. Kirono, Ph.D., 2001
M.Williams, PhD, current
M.Prabowo, Ph.D, current