Moninya Roughan
Moninya Roughan is a professor of Oceanography at the University of New South Wales Australia,[1]. Roughan is the head of the Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab [2] and is an authority on the oceanography of the East Australian Current.[3] She has led major projects for industry, government, the Australian Research Council and the New Zealand Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment. She has held leadership roles in Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System since 2007.
Roughan researches the dynamics of the coastal ocean and their interaction with the western boundary current. She is an expert in marine heatwaves, the coastal ocean circulation, nutrient enrichment processes and their biological impact[4][5][6] She is primarily focussed on the East Australian Current its effects on the waters of the continental shelf.[7] The work involves the use of observations and numerical models.[8]
Early life and education[]
Roughan grew up in Ku-ring-gai Council area of Sydney Australia, a granddaughter of Winsome Andrew, one of Australia's award winning and first female architects, and great grand daughter of Captain E. H. Andrew, first master of the wool clipper Cromdale.[citation needed]
She attended Loreto College, Normanhurst where she was Barry House Music captain.[9]
She earned a BSc (Honours Class 1) in Oceanography at the University of New South Wales in 1998[1] and a PhD in Oceanography at the University of New South Wales in 2002.[1]
Career[]
During 2017–2019, Roughan worked in industry, most recently as Head of Research Partnerships for the NZ Meteorological Service.[10]
Roughan was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and Professor in 2019.[11] One of three first female professors in the school of mathematics and statistics at UNSW with Frances Kuo and Catherine Greenhill[11] and one of the first two first female Oceanography professors in Australia with Katrin Meissner.[12]
Research interests and impact[]
Roughan's work has been funded by the Australia Research Council, Australian Federal and State Government programs, the New Zealand Ministry of Business Industry and Education, the US Office of Naval Research. She also undertakes contracted research and consultancy.[13]
Since 2006, Roughan has taken a key roll in the design, deployment and ongoing development of one of the most comprehensive ocean observing systems in the southern hemisphere through her involvement in Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System. She has served on the NSW-IMOS leadership team since inception, including serving as leader and deputy leader of NSW IMOS node from 2007–2013 and a continuing member of the National Coastal Mooring Network Steering Committee. She leads the NSW-IMOS moorings sub-facility responsible for the continued deployment and maintenance of up to 10 oceanographic moorings along the coast of SE Australia. She continues to lead the science driving the deployment of ocean gliders and radar along the length of the East Australian Current. In recognition of her contribution to ocean observing she was invited to join the scientific programme committee for Ocean Obs2019, a once per decade conference on Ocean Observing.[14]
Roughan was inaugural director of the Moana Project 2017–2020 an $11.5M MBIE funded project to investigate Marine heatwaves and ocean dynamics around New Zealand.[15][16][17][18]
Research cruises[]
Roughan has led research voyages aboard several of Australia's Marine National Facility research vessels including the RV Investigator IN2015 V03 (Brisbane- Sydney) [19] and the RV Southern Surveyor ST 02/2006 (Sydney–Noumea).[20]
She has also participated in two scientific cruises to the Antarctic: Antarctic Astrolabe 2000[21] and the RV Aurora Australis Australis (icebreaker)|RV Aurora Australis.
Roughan was aboard the Aurora Australis on its first winter voyage to the Antarctic, a seven-week expedition to explore, the Mertz Glacier Polynya, when a fire broke out in the engine room while the ship was deep within the ice. [22][23]
Roughan has served on the Australian Marine National Facility Research Advisory Committee since 2017.[24]
Prizes, honours and awards[]
[citation needed]
- 2016, Seeyle Fellowship, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand[25]
- 2015, China High End Foreign Experts Award, ECNU, Shanghai, China[26]
- 2004, International PODS symposium Invited participant Colorado, USA
- 2002, American Geophysical Union Student Prize in Physical Oceanography USA
- 1998, Australian Post Graduate Award 3 year Scholarship UNSW, Australia
- 1996, Sam Cracknell Memorial Scholarship UNSW, Australia
- 1990, Royal Australian Navy Officer Cadet Scholarship (Australian Defence Force Academy)
Selected publications[]
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- Moninya Roughan (2004). "On the East Australian Current: Variability, encroachment, and upwelling". Journal of Geophysical Research. 109 (C7). Bibcode:2004JGRC..109.7003R. doi:10.1029/2003JC001833. ISSN 0148-0227. Wikidata Q59138663.
- Youstina Elzahaby; Amandine Schaeffer; Moninya Roughan; Sébastien Delaux (7 September 2021). "Oceanic Circulation Drives the Deepest and Longest Marine Heatwaves in the East Australian Current System". Geophysical Research Letters. 48 (17). Bibcode:2021GeoRL..4894785E. doi:10.1029/2021GL094785. ISSN 0094-8276. Wikidata Q108595668.
- Paulina Cetina-Heredia; Moninya Roughan; Erik van Sebille; Ming Feng; Melinda A Coleman (13 August 2015). "Strengthened currents override the effect of warming on lobster larval dispersal and survival". Global Change Biology. 21 (12): 4377–4386. doi:10.1111/GCB.13063. ISSN 1354-1013. PMID 26268457. Wikidata Q30987037.
- Moninya Roughan; Helen S. Macdonald; Mark E. Baird; Tim M. Glasby (March 2011). "Modelling coastal connectivity in a Western Boundary Current: Seasonal and inter-annual variability". Deep-Sea Research. Part 2: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 58 (5): 628–644. doi:10.1016/J.DSR2.2010.06.004. ISSN 0967-0645. Wikidata Q56763862.
- Moninya Roughan; Amandine Schaeffer; Iain M. Suthers (2015), Sustained Ocean Observing along the Coast of Southeastern Australia, pp. 76–98, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-802022-7.00006-7, Wikidata Q59138630
- Colette Kerry; Brian Powell; Moninya Roughan; Peter Oke (26 October 2016). "Development and evaluation of a high-resolution reanalysis of the East Australian Current region using the Regional Ocean Modelling System (ROMS 3.4) and Incremental Strong-Constraint 4-Dimensional Variational (IS4D-Var) data assimilation". Geoscientific Model Development. 9 (10): 3779–3801. doi:10.5194/GMD-9-3779-2016. ISSN 1991-959X. Wikidata Q57895059.
- Steefan Contractor; Moninya Roughan (3 May 2021). "Efficacy of Feedforward and LSTM Neural Networks at Predicting and Gap Filling Coastal Ocean Timeseries: Oxygen, Nutrients, and Temperature". Frontiers in Marine Science. 8. doi:10.3389/FMARS.2021.637759. ISSN 2296-7745. Wikidata Q108595707.
References[]
- ^ a b c "Professor Moninya Roughan". UNSW Sydney. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "UNSW Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab". www.oceanography.unsw.edu.au. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Colette Kerry; Moninya Roughan; Brian Powell (23 October 2018). "Observation Impact in a Regional Reanalysis of the East Australian Current System". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. doi:10.1029/2017JC013685. ISSN 2169-9275. Wikidata Q59138614.
- ^ "UNSW Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab". www.oceanography.unsw.edu.au. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Paulina Cetina-Heredia; Moninya Roughan; Geoffrey Liggins; Melinda A Coleman; Andrew Jeffs (1 February 2019). "Mesoscale circulation determines broad spatio-temporal settlement patterns of lobster". PLOS One. 14 (2): e0211722. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0211722. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6358102. PMID 30707747. Wikidata Q61804536.
- ^ Paulina Cetina-Heredia; Erik van Sebille; Richard J. Matear; Moninya Roughan (February 2018). "Nitrate Sources, Supply, and Phytoplankton Growth in the Great Australian Bight: An Eulerian-Lagrangian Modeling Approach". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 123 (2): 759–772. doi:10.1002/2017JC013542. ISSN 2169-9275. Wikidata Q58318857.
- ^ Matthew R. Archer; Moninya Roughan; Shane R. Keating; Amandine Schaeffer (November 2017). "On the Variability of the East Australian Current: Jet Structure, Meandering, and Influence on Shelf Circulation". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 122 (11): 8464–8481. doi:10.1002/2017JC013097. ISSN 2169-9275. Wikidata Q59138616.
- ^ Colette Kerry; Moninya Roughan; Brian Powell (23 October 2018). "Observation Impact in a Regional Reanalysis of the East Australian Current System". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. doi:10.1029/2017JC013685. ISSN 2169-9275. Wikidata Q59138614.
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- ^ a b "School Staff promoted to Professor". UNSW Sydney – Faculty of Science. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
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