UNSW Leaders in Science

Professor Matt England
Co-Director, Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)

Mathews Building, Room 457
Phone: +61 2 9385 7065 - Fax: +61 2 9385 7123 - Email: M.England@unsw.edu.au

Career profilePublicationsSupervision & teachingFunding

Supervision & teaching

Lecturer and course coordinator

MSCI-3001       Physical Oceanography, 1996 - 2005.
MSCI-5004       Oceano­graphic Processes, 1996 - 2005.
GENB-5001      The Marine Environment, 2003 - 2005.
MATH-3261     Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics, 2001 - present.
CHEM-7300     Fundamental Knowledge in Physical Science, 2001-2002.

Lecturer

MSCI-3501       Fundamentals of Climate Change, 2007 - .
SESC-9751       Introduction to Environmental Science, 2000 - 2005.
MSCI-2001       Introductory Marine Science, 1998 - 2005.
IEST-5002        Tools for environmental management, 2000 - 2005.
MSCI-2051       Coral reef: environment and ecology, 2000 - 2005.

Undergraduate research project supervision

Fifteen Honours students supervised since 1997 (two awarded the Uni­versity Medal, eleven awarded First Class Honours, two gained Second Class Honours, Level I).

Tina Donaldson (2006)
The 20th century cooling and freshening of Antarctic Intermediate Water (Hons I)

Khalia Hill (2005)
Extremes in Tasmanian rainfall and links to the Southern Annular Mode (Hons I)

Michael Bates (2004)
The effect of enhanced Antarctic meltwater on global ocean circulation and climate  (Hons I)

Stephanie Dupre (2004)
Latitude shifts in Southern Ocean westerly winds and their impact on global climate  (Hons I)

Elizabeth Smith (2003) 
A box-model study of the global thermohaline circulation (Hons I) 

Caroline Ummenhofer (2003), University of Wales
Interannual rainfall extremes over SWWA  linked to South Indian Ocean variability (Hons I) 

Danielle Williams (2002)
Variations in the size and occurrence of yellowfin tuna in eastern Australian waters (Hons I) 

Sophie Bestley (2001) 
Oceanic transport of Southern Rock Lobster larvae (Hons I and University Medal)  

Douglas Hazell, (2000)
Radioactive tracer dispersion in the South Pacific using a global eddy-resolving model (Hons I) 

Stephanie Moore (2000) 
Jervis Bay circulation and its role in determining phytoplankton structure (Hons I) 

Jaclyn Brown (1999)
El-Niño/Southern Oscillation forcing by westerly wind bursts (Hons I and University Medal) 

Agus Santoso (1999)
Circulation in Jervis Bay driven by atmospheric cooling (Hons II, Level I) 

Leanne Xerri (1998)
Southern Ocean climate variability in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model (Hons II, Level I) 

Sarah Howe (1997)
Stability and variability of deep circulation in the Antarctic region (Hons I)

Postgradu­ate research student supervision

Jaclyn Brown, PhD student, (APA funded), completed 2005.
Simple and coupled models of the Indian Ocean dipole and ENSO interactions

Agus Santoso, PhD student, (International PhD), completed 2005.
Southern Ocean climate variability in coupled models and observations

Willem Sijp, PhD student, (APA funded), completed 2005.
Climate response to large-scale topographic and hydrological perturbations

Alex Sen Gupta, PhD student, (IPRS funded), completed 2006.
Decadal to multi-century global ocean ventilation processes

Caroline Ummenhofer, PhD student, (IPRS funded), since July 2004
Climate response to large-scale topographic and hydrological perturbations

Khalia Hill, PhD student, (APA funded), since 2006
Interannual - decadal extremes in Australian rainfall

Jessica Trevena, PhD student, (APA funded), since 2006
Paleoclimate modelling

Maxwell Gonzales, PhD student, since 2006
Stability of the Southern Ocean thermohaline circulation

Invitations to teach externally

The Latin American Ocean Modelling Summer School, Concepcion, Chile, 2000.
The University of Sydney, Marine Science III, 1996 - 1999.
The University of Sydney, Introductory Marine Science, 1995-1999.
The Third Australian Climate Research Graduate Summer School, 1997
Ocean Tracers course, University of Louvain (UCL), Unité ASTR, Belgium, 1997.
The Second Australian Climate Research Graduate Summer School, 1995.
Climate modelling course, University of Louvain (UCL), Unité ASTR, Belgium, 1994.

Academic Committees

Chair, UNSW Marine Science Academic Committee, since 2003.
Bachelor of Marine Science Advisory Committee, Joint Program in Marine Science, University of Tasmania and CSIRO, since 2005.
Various internal and external PhD and Honours examining committees
UNSW School of Mathematics Research Committee
Review Committees: MSCI2001, GENS0501. Founding committees: CHEM7300, MATH2280