David Karoly

David Karoly
Dr David Karoly, participating climate change debate at Hawthorn, Australia

David John Karoly (born 1955) is an Australian scientist and academic. He is an expert in climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and climate variations due to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation.[1]

Karoly has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 2 (awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Al Gore) and is a member of the faculty of the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne.[2]

Education and academic career

In the early 1970s David Karoly enrolled in applied mathematics at Monash University, Melbourne, but later became interested in meteorology.[3] In 1980 he was awarded a doctorate in Meteorology from the University of Reading.[4]

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.[2] Since May 2007 he joined the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne.[3]

References

  1. ^ ABC: The Drum, retrieved 27 June 2011
  2. ^ a b University of Melbourne: Profile, retrieved 27 June 2011
  3. ^ a b Adam Morton: Coming down to earth, in The Age, 16 August 2008
  4. ^ University of Melbourne: Find and expert, retrieved 27 June 2011

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