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, University of Leeds, UK
1977
Career position - Research Fellow in the Computer Group of the Department of Mathematics, University of Salford, UK
1977 - 1982
Career position - Lecturer in Geography, University of Liverpool, UK
1982 - 1986
Career position - Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, UK
1986 - 1988
Career position - Reader in the Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, UK
1988
Award - Gill Award, Royal Geographical Society
1988
Career position - Personal Chair in the Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, UK
1988
Life event - Settled in Australia
1989 - 1997
Career position - Chairman, National Committee on Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Australian Academy of Science
1989 - 1997
Career position - Member, Australian National Greenhouse Advisory Committee
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, 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

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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

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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