National Committee for Earth System Science
The Committee covers the science needed to understand weather and climate, how it is changing, and how it will change in the future, including data, process-based understanding and modelling.
The National Committee for Earth System Science aims to:
- provide strategic evidence-based advice on Earth system science to the Academy and other bodies as required
- support scientific literacy and excellence in Earth system science by engaging with researchers, professionals and relevant national organisations
- liaise with relevant international bodies, ensuring Australian involvement in international activities
- promote interdisciplinary collaboration and take a multi-disciplinary approach in providing advice to the Academy
- provide strategies, recommendations, and implementation priorities for improving Earth System models and climate projections and predictions
The core objectives of the committee derive from the NCESS Plan 2010 To live within Earth’s limits: An Australian plan to develop a science of the whole Earth system. Other broad aims include communication and reporting of Earth system science, advocacy for the funding needs of the ESS community, championing the ESS agenda and promoting Australian connections to international Earth system science.
The NCESS plan encompasses the development of a broader cross-academy approach to Earth system science in Australia that meshes with the Future Earth initiative of the International Science Council (ISC).
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Members
- Chair: Professor Andy Pitman FAA
- University of New South Wales, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science
- Research expertise: Terrestrial processes in global and regional climate modelling, model evaluation and earth systems approach
- Committee member: Professor Julie Arblaster
- Monash University, School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment
- Research expertise: Climate variability, climate extremes, climate modelling, climate change, and stratospheric ozone.
- Committee member: Dr Will Howard
- Lead Scientist, Australian Climate Change Authority
- Research expertise: Earth science, climate change science, environmental science, marine biology, environmental policy.
- Committee member: Dr Jan David Zika
- University of NSW, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Associate Professor
- Research expertise: Climate change processes, physical oceanography, applied mathematics, applied statistics.
- Committee member: Dr Claire Vincent
- The University of Melbourne, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Research expertise: Tropical variability, extreme rainfall, wind energy meterology.
- Committee member: Dr Pep Canadell
- CSIRO Environment, Chief Research Scientist
- Research expertise: Climate change, greenhouse gases, carbon pools, decarbonisation, ecosystem collapses, biogeochemical cycles.
- Committee member: Dr Chloe Mackallah
- CSIRO Environment, Climate Data Scientist
- Research expertise: Climate data engineering, data governance and infrastructure.
- Committee member: Dr Christoph Rudiger
- Bureau of Meteroology, Team Leader
- Research expertise: Investigating climate extremes, earth observation data, water science, developing tools for a sustainable future.
- Committee member: Dr Felicity McCormack
- Monash University, School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment, Senior Research Fellow.
- Research expertise: ARC DECRA Fellow in Antarctic research, Chief investigator on the ARC Special Research Initiative Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future.
- Committee member: Dr Negin Nazarian
- University of New South Wales Sydney, Scientia Senior Lecturer
- Research expertise: Urban climatology, leads the Climate Resilient Cities research lab.
- Observer: Dr John Finnigan FAA
- CSIRO, Director of Centre for Complex Systems Science
- Research expertise: Climate, earth sciences, atmospheric physics, turbulance.
