Person

Coughlan, Michael J.

Occupation
Climate scientist and Meteorologist

Summary

Michael Coughlan has made significant contributions to Australian and global meteorology and climate science. Beginning his career as a trainee weather forecaster for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology Michael Coughlan went on to work on two of four World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) projects in the 1990s. He served as Program Manager for The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) in the United States of America and as the Foundation Director of the International Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change Project (CLIVAR) in Germany. In 1997 Michael Coughlan became Director of the World Climate Change Department with the World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland, before returning to Australia in 2003 to head the Australian National Climate Centre within the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Coughlan was active in the Royal Meteorological Society Australian Branch, serving as Treasurer from 1983 to 1986.

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Chronology

1983 - 1986
Career position - Treasurer, Royal Meteorological Society Australian Branch
March 1990 - June 1995
Career position - Program Manager for The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A.
July 1995 - July 1997
Career position - Director, International Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change Project (CLIVAR), Hamburg, Germany
1997 - 2002
Career position - Director, World Climate Change Department, World Meteorological Organization
2003 - 2012
Career position - Senior Meteorologist (later Chief Climatologist) and Head, Australian National Climate Centre, Bureau of Meteorology
2012
Life event - Retired

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Published resources

Book Sections

  • Coughlan, Michael J., 'Monitoring drought in Australia' in Planning for drought: toward a reduction of societal vulnerability, Wilhite, Donald, A.; Easterling, William E.; and Wood, Deborah A., eds (New York: Routledge, 1987), p. 14. Details

Resources

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