Person
Henderson-Sellers, Ann (1952 - )
FTSE
- Born
- 7 March 1952
Sheffield, England - Occupation
- Climate scientist, Geographer and University Administrator
Summary
Ann Henderson-Sellers is an earth systems scientist widely respected for her research into the description and prediction of the influence of land cover and land-use change on climate and human systems. She has made significant contributions to the study of climate change through her participation in policy and assessment organisations, including the World Meteorological organisation and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Between 1996 and 1998 Henderson-Sellers was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before becoming Director of the Climatic Impacts Centre and Professor of Physical Geography at the School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University.
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Chronology
- 1976 - 1977
- Career position - Research Fellow in the Department of Fuel and Combustion Science at the University of Leeds, UK
- 1977
- Career position - Research Fellow in the Computer Group of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Salford, UK
- 1977 - 1982
- Career position - Lecturer in Geography at the University of Liverpool, UK
- 1982 - 1986
- Career position - Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool, UK
- 1986 - 1988
- Career position - Reader in the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool, UK
- 1988
- Award - Gill Award received from the Royal Geographical Society
- 1988
- Life event - Settled in Australia
- 1988
- Career position - Personal Chair in the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool, UK
- 1989 - 1997
- Career position - Member, Australian National Greenhouse Advisory Committee
- 1989 - 1997
- Career position - Chairman, National Committee on Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Australian Academy of Science
- 1990
- Award - R.H. Clarke Lecturer, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
- 1991 - 1993
- Career position - Member, International Commission for Climate, International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
- 1991 - 1998
- Career position - Member, Advisory Board, Centre for Resource and Environment Studies, Australian National University
- 1992 -
- Career position - Leader, WMO Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes
- 1992 - 1997
- Career position - Leader, Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment (MECCA) Analysis Team
- 1993 - 1994
- Career position - Chairman of the Government Advisory Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Technology
- 1993 - 1995
- Career position - President, International Commission for Climate, International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
- 1993 - 1996
- Career position - Director of the Climatic Impacts Centre, Macquarie University
- 1993 - 1996
- Career position - Affiliate Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- 1993 - 1996
- Career position - Professor of Physical Geography, Macquarie University
- 1995
- Career position - Convening Lead Author, Sixth Assessment Report, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC)
- 1996 - 1998
- Career position - Deputy Vice-Chancellor (research and development) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- 1998 - 2005
- Career position - Director, Environment Division, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
- 2000
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal for service to Australian society in meteorology
- 2003 - 2009
- Career position - Member, National Committee on Earth System Science, Australian Academy of Science
- 2006 -
- Career position - Member, SAT Board, Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
- 2006 - 2007
- Career position - Director, Joint Planning Staff, World Climate Research Program
- 2012
- Award - Morton Medal, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Related entries
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Books
- Bhathal, Ragbir, Profiles, Australian women scientists (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1999), 191 pp. Details
- Henderson-Sellers, Ann and Blong, Russell, The Greenhouse Effect: Living in a Warmer Australia (Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1989), 212 pp. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q522528. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/49286181. Details
- 'Henderson-Sellers, A (1952-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1142124. Details
See also
- Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Handbook 2001 (Victoria: Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 2001), 271 pp. Details
- Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/index_h.html. Details
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
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Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 31 January 2023