Awards
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The AMOS Science Outreach Award recognises AMOS outreach ambassadors who inspire other AMOS members to undertake science engagement activities . The award additionally recognises those who engage with the public , politicians , schools , businesses and communities , to educate and inform these groups on topics associated with AMOS .
The 2020 AMOS Science Outreach Award was awarded to Dr Linden Ashcroft of Melbourne University . Linden uses her expertise in historical and future climate change to educate the broader public through dozens of TV , radio and newspaper interviews . This includes her extensive radio work with the Einstein A-go-go program on 3RRR where she has a semiregular slot explaining and discussing recent STEM stories . Linden ’ s outreach helps inform public opinion on past and future climate change through her expertise when speaking about these topics . Linden ’ s clear and easy-to-understand article “ Letter to a weather station ” was published in a collection of the best Australian science writing of 2019 . In early 2019 , Linden was recognised by Science and Technology Australia as a Superstar of STEM , a program established to create a critical mass of outstanding Australian female scientists and technologists as role models for young women . Linden ’ s effective communication and passion for her research has energised efforts to harness the power of citizen scientists in helping to transcribe old weather records . This vital work that Linden pioneered allows climate scientists to extend the record of Australian meteorological observations well back into the 19th century .
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Dr Helen Cleugh and Professor Nathan Bindoff are our 2020 AMOS Fellows
Dr Helen Cleugh is a senior principal research scientist and the inaugural Director of the CSIRO Climate Science Centre . She is a research leader , mentor and research manager in atmospheric and climate science in Australia — and has been for more than 30 years . She made major contributions to atmospheric boundary layer research . Helen was instrumental in establishing the global FluxNet and its Australian component , OzFlux , a network of towers around Australia that continuously measure the exchange ( flux ) of carbon dioxide , water vapour and energy between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere , as part of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network ( TERN ). As the inaugural Deputy Director of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research ( CAWCR ) collaboration between CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology , she provided strong support for the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator ( ACCESS ). She also co-chaired the Australian Climate Change Science Programme ( ACCSP ) and led the National Environmental Science Program ( NESP ) Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub . Helen has held several national and international science advisory positions — including her current role as vice-chair of the World Climate Research Programme Joint Scientific Committee . She has mentored many early and mid-career scientists and was a key supporter for the establishment of the CSIRO Aspendale Women ’ s Network .
Professor Nathan Bindoff heads the Ocean and Cryosphere Centre at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies ( IMAS ) at the University of Tasmania . As an international leader in physical oceanography and climate , his work focuses on the role of the ocean in climate , the detection and attribution of climate change and the impacts of ocean and climate variability on a wide range of different sectors . He was a leader in the observation of , and methods for , interpreting ocean warming in response to anthropogenic climate change , the use of largescale ocean salinity changes to document observed changes in large-scale rainfall patterns and documenting the decline in oxygen content of the oceans . Through the Climate Futures program , Nathan led the production of regional climate change projections for south-east Australia which were applied in many sectors including wine . He was a Coordinating Lead Author in both the fourth and fifth IPCC Assessments . He led the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing ( TPAC ), was a key researcher in the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC and was a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science ( CLEX ) and the National Environmental Science Program ( NESP ) Earth System and Climate Change Hub . Nathan is currently the Program Leader for the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership . He has collaborated widely with international researchers and supervised more than 30 PhD students .
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