BAMOS
Jun 2018
Awards
Uwe Radok Award Winner—
Nicola Maher
About the award About the winner
Dr Uwe Radok was one of Australia’s pioneers in meteorological
and glaciological research. Becoming Head of the Department
of Meteorology at the University of Melbourne in 1960, he
played a leading role in the development of Australian Antarctic
meteorology and glaciology. A meltwater lake in the Prince
Charles Mountains in Antarctica has been named the Radok
Lake after him. Dr Nicola Maher wrote her dissertation “Natural drivers of
interannual to decadal variations in surface climate” at the
University of New South Wales. Nicola’s research resulted in
six journal publications. Nicola was awarded an Alexander von
Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship to undertake research at the
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), an internationally
renowned institute for climate research.
In appreciation of Uwe Radok’s achievements, AMOS makes
an annual award for the best PhD thesis for the preceding two
years in the fields of meteorology, oceanography, glaciology or
climatology awarded in Australia. A summary of Nicola’s research is presented in the following
pages.
Dr Nicola Maher presenting at the AMOS Conference in 2018
after receiving the Uwe Radok Award for her PhD.
Image: Nicola Maher
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