BAMOS
March2017
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AMOS Award winners 2016
Uwe Radok Award: Tim Cowan
Tim Cowan’s PhD was awarded by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and carried out under the supervision of Professor Matthew England at the Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW, and Dr Wenju Cai at CSIRO. Dr Cowan’s thesis “The impact of anthropogenic aerosols on the large-scale atmosphere and ocean circulation patterns” represents a significant contribution to the understanding of the climate impacts of aerosols. His work spanned the impacts of aerosols on monsoon trends, oceanic heat transport and the global meridional overturning circulation, and warming and cooling patterns in tropical and sub-tropical oceans. All of which was presented in five first authored papers included in an impressively well written, coherent, and beautifully presented thesis.
Morton Medal: John Church
John Church’s research output over almost 40 years has led to a significant advancement of the science of oceanography and climate, especially in the topic of sea-level change. During this long career he has mentored students and young scientists who have gone on to make significant scientific contributions themselves. His international reputation and research management skills are perhaps best exemplified by his coordinating lead author role for two of the IPCC Assessment Reports, his leadership role in the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, and his work as chair of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme. At CSIRO he held many leadership positions and he built CSIRO's sea level capability into a world-leading sea level research group.
Early Career Researcher Award: Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick is at the Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW where she is the recipient of an ARC DECRA Award. During her PhD she published 10 papers primarily on heat waves. This research effort has continued in her six years post-PhD and she has now published 38 refereed papers embracing the modelling of heat waves, their causes and their impact — past, present and future, as well as authoring seven book or report chapters. She has received awards for her promotion of climate science through the media, with some 50 contributions to radio, newspapers, television and web news. Sarah supervises three PhD students and contributes to AMOS through committee service and chairing sessions at AMOS National conferences.
Gibbs Medal: Jeff Callaghan
Jeffrey Callaghan served with the Bureau of Meteorology from 1965 to 2008 including 13 years as Head of the Severe Weather Section. He undertook three expeditions to Antarctica and tours of duty on Willis Island, Cairns, Mount Isa, Townsville, Rockhampton and Brisbane. Since retiring in 2008 he has continued research into tropical cyclones and other severe weather and has been a consultant for WMO and the Bureau as well as for industry. He was awarded the AMOS Christopher Taylor Award (2008) and has twice received the Queensland Bureau of Meteorology Outstanding Service Award (1997, 2007). He has run training workshops on tropical cyclones and twice acted as rapporteur on tropical cyclone formation for the WMO International Workshops on Tropical Cyclones.
Neville Nicholls. AMOS Awards Committee
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