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.
Details
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
Related entries
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
- Associates - Dr Michael Coughlan, Climate-Insight, http://www.climate-insight.com/Associates.html. Details
- LaSallian Alumni: Dr Michael Coughlan, La Salle District of Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea, 15 April 2016, http://www.delasalle.org.au/blog/lasallian-alumni--dr-michael-coughlan. Details
Elizabeth Daniels and Helen Cohn
Created: 12 September 2017, Last modified: 20 December 2022