Person

Raupach, Michael (1950 - 2015)

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Born
30 October 1950
Died
10 February 2015
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Occupation
Climate scientist

Summary

Michael Raupach was one of Australia's foremost climate scientists, focusing on the interactions between climate, the carbon cycle and humans. He developed the concept of a carbon budget: the amount of CO2 that is emitted and absorbed in the global ecosystem in the course of one year. His early research was concerned with the processes by which matter and energy, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), moved through tree canopies. His work on the quantification of this CO2 was central to his later research. Raupach became a member of the scientific steering committee of Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle core project of International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) which looked at turbulent fluxes near the land surface, boundary-layer budgeting and water balance at broader scales. In 2001 he helped establish the Global Carbon Project (GCP) international collaborative effort to understand and address issues of climate change. He was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (Working Group 1). After a career of over 35 years at CSIRO, Raupach became Director of the Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University in 2014.

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Chronology

1971
Education - BSc, University of Adelaide
1977 - 1978
Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Meteorology, University of Edinburgh
1979 - ?
Career position - Research Scientist, CSIRO Centre of Environmental Mechanics
1986
Career position - Visiting Lecturer, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, United Kingdom
1987
Award - A. J. Prescott Medal, Australian Society of Soil Science
1991 - 1997
Career position - Program Leader, Atmospheric and Plant Processes, CSIRO Division for Environmental Mechanics
1996 - 1997
Career position - Deputy Head, CSIRO Division for Environmental Mechanics
1997 - 1998
Career position - Program Leader, Environmental Processes and Resources, CSIRO Land and Water
1998 - 2002
Career position - Research Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water
1999 - 2006
Career position - Member, National Committee for Earth System Science, Australian Academy of Science
2000 - 2008
Career position - Founding Co-Chair, Global Carbon Project
2002 - 2004
Career position - Science Leader, CSIRO Earth Observations Centre
2002 - 2015
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
2005 - 2013
Career position - Research Scientist, Marine and Atmospheric Research, CSIRO
2009 - 2010
Career position - Chair, Working Group on Challenges at the Intersection of Carbon, Energy and Water, reporting to Science, Engineering and Innovation Council and the Office of the Chief Scientist of Australia
2009 - 2015
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
2010 - 2015
Award - Fellow, CSIRO
2014 - 2015
Career position - Director, Climate Change Institute, Australian National University
2016
Award (posthumous) - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) (posthumous) for distinguished service to science in Australia and internationally as a leader and researcher into climate change and land systems, and to professional organisations

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Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn

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