PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Kevin Walsh

Business Address: School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia.

      Telephone: (61-3) 8344-6523, Fax (61-3) 8344-7761

      e-mail address: kevin.walsh@unimelb.edu.au

      home page: https://sites.google.com/site/kevinjewalsh/

      Skype: kevin.james.edward.walsh

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

      1994 Ph.D. in Meteorology, University of Melbourne

      1983 S.M. in Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

      1980 A.B. majoring in Physics, Harvard University

      1977-78 University of Toronto

      1972-76 High schools in Australia and Canada

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

      2019- Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne

      2017-2019       Professor, University of Melbourne

      2005-2016  Associate Professor and Reader, University of Melbourne

      2002-2004  Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne School of Earth Sciences

      2002-         Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

      2001-2002 Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

      1996-2001  Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

      1994-1996 Research Scientist, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

      1986-1994 Experimental Scientist, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

      1983-1986  Scientist,   Meteorological   and   Environmental Planning Ltd., Markham, Ontario, Canada.

      1981-1983  Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of

           Technology

PRIZES AND AWARDS

       2010           CSIRO Look Out Award, Climate Change in Australia writing team

       2010           Princeton University/GFDL Visiting Scientist Program

       2003           Sherman Eureka Prize for Environmental Research: Climate Impact Group, CSIRO Atmospheric Research

UNIVERSITY LECTURING EXPERIENCE

      Subjects taught in 2018:

                        ATOC20001 Weather and Climate Systems

                        ATOC30003 Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction

                        ERTH20001 Dangerous Earth (contributor)

                        UNIB20001 Climate Change II (coordinator)

                        ATOC10001 The Wonders of the Weather

      Subjects taught in other years:

                        Honours/Masters short course: Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction and Climate

                        625-103 The Atmosphere and Oceans

                        ATOC20002 Atmospheric Environment Processes                    

                        ATOC90008 Current Topics in Atmospheric Science

RESEARCH SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE

       Completed students: 17 honours students, 8 Masters students and 13 Ph.D. students

      Current PhD students:

            Sandra Richard: Characteristics of diurnal rainfall over Malaysia

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE

      2016-2018 Deputy Head of Department, School of Earth Sciences

      2011-2018 Faculty of Science Academic Programs Committee

      2007-2018 Coordinator, graduate coursework program, School of Earth Sciences

      2005-2018 Honours and Masters coordinator, School of Earth Sciences

      2006 Faculty of Science working group, The Melbourne Model

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

      2006-2008 President, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

      2004-2005 Vice President, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

      1998- Member, American Geophysical Union

      1998-2010 Victorian Coordinator, The Planetary Society

      1997-2010 Committee Member, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (Melbourne Centre)

      1987- Member of the Australian Meteorological and  Oceanographic Society

      1983-2022 Member of the American Meteorological Society

EDITORIAL AND OTHER POSITIONS

      2011-2015 Editor, Journal of Climate

      2011-2015 Co-chair, U.S. CLIVAR Working Group on Hurricanes

      2010- Associate investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science

      2005-2010 Node coordinator, ARC Network for Earth System Science

      2004- Associate editor, Australian Meteorological Magazine

      2003 Editor, Special Issue of Natural Hazards, Community Risk in Cairns, Volume 30 (2).

      1996-2003 Book review editor, Australian Meteorological Magazine

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

      2009 AMS/AMOS Southern Hemisphere Meteorology Conference, Melbourne (Co-chair, Scientific Program Committee)

      2003 Conference on climate Impacts on Australia’s Natural Resources, Surfers Paradise (Organizing Committee)

      2000 AMOS conference, Melbourne (Organizing Committee)

GRANTS OBTAINED (since 2002)

NESP- Extreme weather projects. July 2019, $95,567.

RPI Bermuda -- What is the maximum seasonal tropical cyclone damage potential in the Atlantic? February 2018, USD 36,800.

RPI Bermuda – How unusual was the 2005 hurricane season in the Atlantic? September 2016, USD 42,500.

NESP – Extreme weather projections. September 2015, $217,500 (U. Melb. component)

ARC Discovery – From tropical cyclone world to real world (led by K. Walsh), November 2014, $378,100

ARC Discovery -- Coupling tropical cyclone and climate physics with ocean waves (led by A. Babanin, Swinburne University), November 2012: $330,000

The Pacific-Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning program – Storm surge risk in the South Pacific, June 2012: $36,000

The Pacific-Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning program – Regional downscaling (phase 2), May 2012: $10,000

          PACCSAP –Storm surge in the South Pacific (led by K. McInnes, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research), March 2012: $38,000

          PACCSAP – Downscaling of South Pacific climate (led by J. Katzfey, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research), March 2012: $10,000

          U.S. National Science Foundation – Tropical cyclones and climate: a model intercomparison project (led by S. Camargo, Columbia University), December 2011: US$699,620

          Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust – Prediction of extreme events (led by Jinyu Sheng, Dalhousie U., with numerous collaborators), February 2010: $2,000,000

          Pacific Climate Change Science Program – regional downscaling, February 2010: $60,000

          Pacific Climate Change Science Program grant, June 2009: $80,000

          Woodside Petroleum Consulting Grant, Dec. 2008: $15,000

          CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship collaboration fund, May 2008: $194,000

          AIR consulting grant, April 2008: $6,000

          Melbourne Research Grant Scheme, December 2006: $23,000

          Australian Greenhouse Office (with Cumulus Consulting), March 2006: $7,980

          Enviromission Ltd., May 2005: $37,000

          Australian Greenhouse Office (with PB Associates), Jan. 2005: $8,900

          University of Melbourne Award for Joint Funding Projects., Dec. 2004: $14,500

          ARC Network Grant (A. Pitman), Aug. 2004: $1,950,000 (K. Walsh, Physical Impacts node coordinator)

          STI Public Awareness grant, Feb. 2004: $3,880

          CSIRO/U.Melb. collaborative scheme, Dec. 2003: $9,200

          Northern Territory Climate Change Project (with CSIRO), Nov. 2003: $1,800

          Cape Grim PhD half scholarship, Jan. 2003: $33,000.

          Early Career Researcher’s Grant, Nov. 2002: $38,000.

          Coast-to-coast organizing committee, Nov. 2002: $2,000 – Theme Champion’s Award, Climate Change in the Coastal Region