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My research group uses a hierarchy of global climate models to analyse climate variability and change on timescales from seasons to centuries.
- Global climate variability and change
- Climate modelling and dynamics
- Extratropical teleconnections and their role in seasonal-to-decadal climate variability
- Land-ocean-atmosphere feedbacks
- Using machine-learning to improve the efficiency of Earth System Modelling
Funded projects:
My group’sresearch receives fundingsupport from multiple sources. ADiscovery Grant (2020-2024) entitled “Using statistical learning to build better Earth System Models”and anotherfrom Microsoft under the AI for Social Good program,seekto harness the power of big data analytics to improve the efficiency and calibration of physics-based models of Earth's climate. Since 2018my group has also receivedfunding from the to study how satellite radar instruments can be used tomeasure snowfall over land and sea ice regions of Canada's North.From 2013-18 I was a co-investigator on two NSERC networks fundedas part of the Climate Change and Atmospheric Research (CCAR) program: the , and the .
Current positions:
- Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management
- Cross-appointed to the Department of Applied Mathematics
- Member of the governing body for the ݮƵ Climate Institute
- Affiliated member of University of ݮƵ'sComputational Mathematicsprogram
Positions previously held:
- Assistant Professor atUniversity of ݮƵ(2010-2017).
- Research Chair (2010-2012),University of ݮƵ
- Research Associate (2008-2010) at
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2005-2008) at
- PhD (2005) at , UK.
- MSc (2001) at , UK.
- BSc (2000) at , UK.
