Keynote speaker: Professor Nathan Bindoff

Nathan Bindoff is Professor of Physical Oceanography at the University of Tasmania, and CSIRO Marine Atmospheric Research, Director of the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing (TPAC), Project Leader of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre's (ACE CRC) Modelling Program, and Project Leader of the Climate Futures for Tasmania Project.

Nathan is a physical oceanographer, specialising in ocean climate and the earth's climate system. He was the coordinating lead author for the ocean chapter in the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report. Nathan and colleagues documented some of the first evidence for changes in the climate change signals in the Indian, North Pacific, South Pacific and Southern Ocean's and shown some of the first evidence of changes in the Earth's hydrological cycle. He has published more than 63 scientific papers and 32 reports.

He established the programs and experiments that determined the total production of Adelie Land Bottom Water formation and its contribution to the Antarctic Bottom Water formation. Nathan has also contributed to the development of some of the largest and highest-resolution model simulations of the oceans. He has been deeply involved in oceanographic data and data management as the chairman of the Data Products Committee for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment and the International Polar Year, and as chairman of the board of the Australian Research Collaboration Service.

In his spare time Nathan has lead nine oceanographic voyages on the Aurora Australis in the Southern Ocean.