Person

Nicholls, Neville (1950 - )

FAA

Born
11 December 1950
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Meteorologist

Summary

Neville Nicholls worked as a researcher at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology from 1971 to 2005. During this time he became internationally recognised for his expertise on climate variability and prediction in the Australasian region. He published extensively in this area, including El NiƱo, and on climate change. Nicholls is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Royal Meteorological Society, and a member of the American Meteorological Society. In 2005 Nicholls became Professorial Fellow in the School of Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University

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Chronology

1970
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), Monash University
1970
Career position - Cadet Meteorologist, Bureau of Meteorology
1971 - 1975
Career position - Meteorologist in the Synoptic Research Section, Bureau of Meteorology
1975 - 1985
Career position - Scientist at the Australian Numerical Metereorology Research Centre
1980
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
1982 - 1986
Career position - Member of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Working Group on Long-Range Weather Forecasting Research
1983
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Melbourne
1985
Education - Master of Business Administration (MBA), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1985 - 2005
Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist and Group Leader of the Climate Forecasting Group (formerly Climate Group), Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre
1986 - 1989
Career position - Member Australian Meteorology Society (AMS) Committee on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography
1986 - 1990
Career position - Member of the Australian Committee for the World Climate Research Programme
1987 -
Career position - Member Steering Committee of the International Meetings on Statistical Climatology
1987
Award - Priestley Medal, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
1987 - 1992
Career position - Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Climatology
1991 - 1992
Career position - Lead Author of the Section C, Supplement to the IPCC First Scientific Assessment Report
1991 - 1994
Career position - Member TOGA Numerical Experimentation Group
1991 - 1997
Career position - Member of the CAS/WMO Group of Rapporteurs on Medium and Long-Range Prediction Research
1993 - 1995
Career position - Convening Lead Author of Chapter 3, Observed climate variability and change, IPCC Second Scientific Assessment
1996 - 2000
Career position - Member of the WCRP/CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group
1997 -
Career position - Editor of the Journal of Climate
1999 -
Career position - Member of the AMS Committee on Meteorology and Oceanography of the Southern Hemisphere
1999
Career position - Scientific Lecturer at the 13th World Meteorological Congress in Geneva, Switzerland
2005
Award - FitzRoy Prize, Royal Meteorological Society
2005
Life event - Retired
2005 - 2014
Career position - Professorial Fellow, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University
2007
Life event - R. H. Clarke Lecturer, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
2010 - 2011
Career position - President, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
2013 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
2014 -
Award - Fellow, American Geophysical Union
2015 -
Career position - Emeritus Professor, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
2016 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
2019
Award - Zillman Medal, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

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Published resources

Book Sections

  • Nicholls, Neville, 'The centennial drought' in Windows on Meteorology: Australian Perspective, Webb, Eric K., ed. (Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 1997), pp. 118-126. Details
  • Nicholls, Neville, '"A healthy climate?"' in Windows on Meteorology: Australian Perspective, Webb, Eric K., ed. (Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 1997), pp. 105-117. Details

Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'AMOS Fellows elected to the Academy [Neville Nicholls and Ian Allison]', BAMOS: bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 29 (2) (2016), 29-30. Details
  • Nicholls, Neville, 'Developments in climatology in Australia: 1946 - 1996', Australian Meteorological Magazine, 46 (1997), 127-35. Details
  • Nicholls, Neville, 'William Stanley Jevons and the climate of Australia', Australian Meteorological Magazine, 47 (December 1998) (1998), 285-293. Details
  • Nicholls, Neville; and Collins, Dean, 'Observed climate change in Australia over the past century', Energy and environment, 17 (1) (2016), 1-12. Details
  • Nichols, Neville; Tapp, Roger; Burrows, Kevin; and Richards, David, 'Historical thermometer exposures in Australia', International journal of climatology, 16 (6) (1996), 705-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199606)16:6<705::AID-JOC30>3.0.CO;2-S. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

Reviews

  • Flannery, Tim, The Weather Makers: the History and Future Impact of Climate Change (2005)
    Nicholls, Neville, Historical Records of Australian Science, 17 (1), (2006), 129-130, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR06003. Details

See also

Helen Morgan and Helen Cohn

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