David Karoly

David J. Karoly
Participating climate change debate at Hawthorn, Australia
Born 1955
Residence Australia, United Kingdom, United States
Nationality Australian
Alma mater University of Melbourne
Monash University
University of Reading
Known for Climate change and climate patterns
Scientific career
Fields Atmospheric sciences
Institutions University of Melbourne, Monash University, University of Oklahoma
Doctoral students John T. Allen

David John Karoly (born 1955) is an Australian atmospheric scientist, currently based at CSIRO.

Education and academic career

In the early 1970s David Karoly enrolled in applied mathematics at Monash University, Melbourne, but later became interested in meteorology.[1] In 1980 he was awarded a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Reading in Reading, England.[2]

After returning to Australia, from 1995 to 2000 Karoly became Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology at Monash University. Between 2003 and 2007 he was Professor of Meteorology in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma (OU).[3] In May 2007 he joined the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne as a Federation Professor.[1]. In 2017 he became Leader of the Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub in the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program.

Contributions

He is an expert in climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, and climate variations due to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).[4]

Karoly has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 2 (on societal impacts) and he is a member of the faculty of the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His work, along with that of the many other lead authors and review editors, contributed to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which was won jointly by the IPCC and Al Gore.[3] He is member of the board of the Climate Change Authority.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Adam Morton: Coming down to earth, in The Age, 16 August 2008
  2. ↑ University of Melbourne: Find and expert, retrieved 27 June 2011
  3. 1 2 University of Melbourne: Profile Archived 2011-06-30 at the Wayback Machine., retrieved 27 June 2011
  4. ↑ ABC: The Drum, retrieved 27 June 2011
  5. ↑ Greg Combet (21 June 2012). "Strong Board appointed for Climate Change Authority". Media Release. Australian Government. Retrieved 20 September 2012.


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