Tasmania, Australia
The Science Director • plays a leading role in the provision of scientific vision, leadership and direction to CSIRO's Oceans and Atmosphere domain whilst ensuring CSIRO remains scientifically competitive; • develops and implements strategic capability plans for people and scientific infrastructure ensuring appropriate evolution and matching of Ocean and Atmosphere capability with CSIRO science directions; • manages key scientific relationships and alliances with external partners to ensure optimal positioning, organisational alignment and science delivery in the national interest.
BLUElink Project Leader (CSIRO): short-term ocean forecasting and reanalysis. The products from the BLUElink system provide both analyses and daily forecasts out to 7 days for a range of surface oceanographic variables, including SST, surface current, surface salinity and sea level elevation. These products support improvement to regional climate forecasts, ship routeing to achieve greater fuel savings, improvement to maritime rescue and safety capabilities, and the identification of changes in coastal water temperatures, salinity and currents that directly influence reefs, aquaculture and all forms of marine life. In addition to ocean forecasting, the BLUElink team also performs multi-year ocean reanalyses which provide time series of ocean conditions for the last 20 years (1993 to present).
eReefs, which commenced in January 2012, is a collaborative project that will contribute to the protection and preservation of the iconic Great Barrier Reef. It forms the first step in building comprehensive coastal information systems for Australia. Using the latest technologies to collate data, and new and integrated modelling, eReefs will produce powerful visualisation, communication and reporting tools. It will provide for the Reef information akin to that provided by the Bureau of Meteorology for weather. This information will benefit government agencies, Reef managers, policy makers, researchers, industry and local communities.
Ocean Observations, Ocean Forecasting, Ocean Variability