Hot Seat with David Karoly

David Karoly recently commenced as Senior Climate Scientist leading the National Environmental Science Programme Earth System and Climate Change (ESCC) Hub, based in  CSIRO. He is also an honorary Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is an internationally recognised expert on climate change and climate variability. 

• Professor Karoly is a member of the National Climate Science Advisory Committee. During 2012-2017, he was a member of the Climate Change Authority, which provides advice to the Australian government on responding to climate change, including targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He was involved in the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001, 2007 and 2014 in several different roles. He was awarded the 2015 Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Scientific Excellence in Earth Sciences.
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  From 2007 to February 2018, David Karoly was Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Melbourne and in the A.R.C. Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science. From 2003 to 2007, he held the Williams Chair in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma.