Nicholls, Neville (1950 - )

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 Niño, 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, 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

Related entries

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

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58130478. Details
• 'Nicholls, Neville (1950 - )', Fellows of the Academy, Australian Academy of Science, 2019, https://www.science.org.au/profile/neville-nicholls. Details
• 'Neville Nicholls - Citation at year of election, 2016', Fellows of the Academy, Australian Academy of Science, 2019, https://www.science.org.au/profile/neville-nicholls. Details
• 'Nicholls, N (19501211-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-460097. Details

Resource Sections

• Nicholls, Neville, 'William Stanley Jevons and the climate of Australia', 2000, http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/pubs/1998/AMM47.htm. Details

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

• Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/index_n.html. Details
• Day, David, Weather watchers: 100 years of the Bureau of Meteorology (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2007), 530 pp. Details