Helen Cleugh

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Helen A. Cleugh FTSE is an atmospheric scientist.[1] She is currently the Chief Research Scientist in Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) (Oceans and Atmosphere) where she leads the Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub.[2]

Cleugh's research focuses on observing and predicting atmospheric, climate and marine systems and determining how they interact with human activities.[2]

Career[]

Cleugh received her doctorate in Geography in 1987 from the University of British Columbia, and was a lecturer at Macquarie University School of Earth Sciences in Sydney from 1987 to 1994.[3] Cleugh has been a Scientist with the CSIRO since 1994[4] where she has been working Earth systems research capabilities and climate modeling.[5]

Her research concentration is on interactions between climate and land surfaces, with a focus on the amount of carbon dioxide is taken up by ecosystems.[6]

Cleugh was the Deputy Director of the (CAWCR) from 2007 to 2009.[5] She then went on to lead CMAR Climate and Atmosphere Theme where in collaboration with CAWCR, her team developed a long-term observation study on aerosols to predict the future trends of Australia's rainfall.[4] Speaking of the work she leads at CSIRO in developing climate models, in 2014 she said:

Because we’ve developed it here in Australia, it does as good as job as we can of representing factors that are important for Australia such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation-type phenomena, as well as representing Australian ecosystems and the oceanic systems that are around Australia.[6]

Honours and awards[]

Cleugh was an Erskine Fellow at the Geographical Department in the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2002.[7]

  • AMOS R.H. Clarke Lecture, 2018
  • Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE), 2019[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "Cleugh, Helen - People and organisations". trove.nla.gov.au. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Dr Helen Cleugh". csiro.au. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Helen Cleugh". LinkedIn. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Meet Helen Cleugh - monday:m@il - 30 March 2009". csiro.au. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  5. ^ a b "GREENHOUSE 2015". greenhouse2015.com. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  6. ^ a b Bianca, Nogrady (4 March 2014). "Helen Cleugh: Making a statement about climate". ECOS Magazine. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  7. ^ "Meet Helen Cleugh - monday:m@il - 30 March 2009". csiro.au. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  8. ^ "Dr Helen Cleugh – Atmospheric scientist". Applied. Retrieved 2019-10-24.

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