Karoly, David John (1955 - )

Summary

David Karoly is an internationally recognised expert in climate change and climate variability. As an expert in greenhouse climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and yearly climate variations resulting from the El Nino events, he was intensely involved in preparation of the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). After a period as Director of the CRC for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology nd as Professor of Meteorology at Monash University Karoly joined the School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, in May 2007. He is a member of the Climate Change Authority in Australia, the Science Advisory Panel to the Australian Climate Commission, the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, and the Joint Scientific Committee, which supervises the World Climate Research Programme.

Details

"David Karoly is internationally recognised as a world leader in climate dynamics and climate change science. In his early research, he carried out pioneering studies that provided the theoretical basis for understanding observed linkages between climate anomalies at large distances across the globe. He identified, for the first time, the links between El Niño-Southern Oscillation events and variations of the Southern Hemisphere circulation. His research has led the development of methods for the detection and attribution of climate change, most recently for extreme climate events. David is also an international leader in the public communication of climate science." [from https://www.science.org.au/profile/david-karoly 28/4/2022]

Chronology

c. 1976

Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc (Hons)) completed at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria

1980

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Reading, UK

c. 1981

Award - Meteorology Prize received from the University of Reading for session 1980-1981

1981 - 1983

Career position - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Numerical Meteorology Research Centre (ANMRC) at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

1983 - 2001

Career position - Lecturer then Senior Lecturer and Reader in Mathematics at Monash University

December 1984 - June 1985

Career position - Scientific Visitor at The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, USA

August 1988 - July 1989

Career position - Visiting Research Scientist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University, USA

1993

Award - Meisinger Award received from the American Meteorological Society

July 1993 - September 1994

Career position - Acting Professor and Interim Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology at Monash University (fifteen months)

1994 - 1995

Career position - Visiting Scientist at the Hadley Centre, Meteorological Office in Bracknell, UK (nine months)

1995 - 2000

Career position - Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, and Professorial Fellow at Monash University

1996 -

Career position - Member of the Australian Academy of Sciences National Committee for Climate and Global Change

1998 -

Career position - Member of the Medical and Scientific Committee of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria

1998 -

Career position - Member of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) / Climate Variability Research Program (CLIVAR) Working Group on Climate Change Detection

1998

Award - Norbert Gerbier-Munn International Award, World Meteorological Organization

1999 -

Career position - Chair of the Course Advisory Committee of the Grad. Dip. Met. at the Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre

1999 -

Award - Fellow of the American Meteorological Society

1999

Life event - R. H. Clarke Lecturer, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

2000 -

Career position - Member of the Australian Antarctic Sciences Advisory Committee

2001 - 2002

Career position - Head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Monash University

2001 - 2022

Career position - Professor of Meteorology at Monash University

2003 - 2007

Career position - Williams Chair of Meteorology, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

2007 -

Award - ARC Federation Fellow

2007 - 2018

Career position - Professor, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne

2008 - 2009

Career position - Chairman, Premier of Victoria's Climate Change Reference Group

2011 -

Career position - Member, Scientific Advisory Panel, Australian Climate Commission

2013 -

Award - Fellow, Australian Meteorological and Oceanograhic Society

2014

Award - Morton Medal, Australian Oceanograpahic and Meteorological Society

2015

Award - Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Excellence in Scientific Research

2018 -

Career position - Leader, Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub, National Environmental Science Program, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

2018 -

Career position - Honorary Professor, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne

2018

Career position - Member, National Climate Science Advisory Committee

2019 -

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science

Related entries

Published resources

Articles

• Gergis J.; Gallant A.; Braganza K.; Karoly D.; Allen K.; Cullen L.; D'Arrigo, R.; Goodwin, I.; Grierson, P.; and McGregor, S., 'On the long-term context of the 1997-2009 'Big Dry' in South-Eastern Australia: insights from a 206-year multi-proxy rainfall reconstruction.', Climatic Change, 111 (3-4) (2012), 923-44, http://climatehistory.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Gergis_Climatic_Change_2011.pdf. Details

Books

• Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, Accounting for nature: a scientific method for constructing environmental asset condition accounts (Sydney: Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, 2016), 32 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Ashcroft, Londen, 'David Karoly "retires"', BAMOS: bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 35 (1) (2022), 10. Details
• Gergis, Joelle, 'A mentor and friend (transcript of speech from event) [on the retirement of David Karoly]', BAMOS: bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 35 (1) (2022), 11-2. Details

Resources

• 'Karoly, David John (1955-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473549. Details

See also

• Robson, Alexandra K.; Production Manager and Editor eds, Who's who in Australia 2019 (Southbank, Vic.: AAP Directories, 2018), 1788 pp. Details