BAMOS March 2017
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News
Three new AMOS Fellows
Neville Nicholls , AMOS Awards Committee
The election of three new AMOS Fellows was announced at the Conference Dinner at the Annual AMOS Conference in February 2017 . The new Fellows are Dr Kathleen McInnes , Dr Graeme Pearman and Professor Michael Reeder . Only a small number of AMOS Members are elected to be Fellows of the Society and the essential criterion for election is that the member “ has made major contributions to the AMOS disciplines over a number of years ”. The process of appointing new Fellows is a multi-stage election process involving the AMOS Awards Committee and the existing AMOS Fellows . Brief bios of our new Fellows , and their main contributions to the AMOS disciplines follow .
Dr Kathleen McInnes
Kathy is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO where she leads the research group “ Sea level , waves , and coastal extremes ”. Her research has ranged from studies of the dynamics of storms , the generation of coastal ocean waves and storm surges , sea level rise , to the impacts of extremes . She has been a major contributor to CSIRO ’ s reports on Australian climate change , and on the potential impacts of change on coasts in all six states and several island nations in our region . Kathy is an acknowledged expert on extreme weather and coastal impacts , and served as a Lead Author for two major IPCC reports .
Dr Graeme Pearman OAM , FAA , FTSE
Graeme has made highly original contributions to several important areas of Australian atmospheric science since the 1970s . Beginning with his groundbreaking role in introducing atmospheric chemistry into the CSIRO Division of Meteorological Physics and his key part in establishment of the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station in the late 1970s , and subsequently as Chief of the Division of Atmospheric Research ( 1992 – 2002 ), he has long provided national scientific leadership across a wide span of the AMOS disciplines . He has often been described as the “ father ” of climate change science in Australia . Graeme served as Vice-President and President of AMOS in the early 1990s .
Professor Michael Reeder
Michael has been a leading figure in Australian meteorology for the last three decades . He has maintained an active and innovative research career , combined with rigorous teaching at Monash University where he has been a professor since 2003 . He was President of AMOS in 2004 / 5 . Michael is internationally recognized as an expert in dynamical meteorology and his research has substantially advanced our understanding of Australian weather phenomena including the morning glory , frontal systems , atmospheric gravity waves , fire weather , Rossby waves , and tropical-extratropical interactions . He has taught a wide range of undergraduate meteorology and mathematics courses and supervised 34 graduate students and 25 honours students .