Biographical entry Nicholls, Neville (1950 - )

Summary

Neville Nicholls has worked as a researcher at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology since 1971. He has published numerous studies on climate variability and prediction, including El Nino, and on climate change. He has also published on the history of climate research and climate impacts. Nicholls is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and a member of the American Meteorological Society.

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1970

Career position - Cadet Meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology

1970

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at Monash University

1971 - 1975

Career position - Meteorologist in the Synoptic Research Section of the Bureau of Meteorology

1975 - 1985

Career position - Scientist at the Australian Numerical Research Centre

1980

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1982 - 1986

Career position - Member of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Working Group on Long-Range Weather Forecasting Research

1983

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Melbourne

1985 -

Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist and Group Leader of the Climate Forecasting Group (formerly Climate Group), Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre

1985

Education - Master of Business Administration (MBA) completed at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

1986 - 1989

Career position - Member Australian Meteorology Society (AMS) Committee on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography

1986 - 1990

Career position - Member of the Australian Committee for the World Climate Research Programme

1987 -

Career position - Member Steering Committee of the International Meetings on Statistical Climatology

1987 - 1992

Career position - Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Climatology

1991 - 1992

Career position - Lead Author of the Section C, Supplement to the IPCC First Scientific Assessment Report

1991 - 1994

Career position - Member TOGA Numerical Experimentation Group

1991 - 1997

Career position - Member of the CAS/WMO Group of Rapporteurs on Medium and Long-Range Prediction Research

1993 - 1995

Career position - Convening Lead Author of Chapter 3, Observed climate variability and change, IPCC Second Scientific Assessment

1996 - 2000

Career position - Member of the WCRP/CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group

1997 -

Career position - Editor of the Journal of Climate

1999 -

Career position - Member of the AMS Committee on Meteorology and Oceanography of the Southern Hemisphere

1999

Career position - Scientific Lecturer at the 13th World Meteorological Congress in Geneva, Switzerland

Published resources

Book Sections

• Nicholls, Neville, 'The centennial drought', in Webb, Eric K. (ed.), Windows on Meteorology: Australian Perspective, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 1997, pp. 118-126. Details
• Nicholls, Neville, '"A healthy climate?"', in Webb, Eric K. (ed.), Windows on Meteorology: Australian Perspective, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 1997, pp. 105-117. Details

Journal Articles

• Nicholls, Neville, 'William Stanley Jevons and the climate of Australia', Australian Meteorological Magazine, vol. 47, December 1998, 1998, pp. 285-293. Details

Online Resources

• 'Nicholls, N', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-460097. Details
• Nicholls, Neville, 'William Stanley Jevons and the climate of Australia', 2000, http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/pubs/1998/AMM47.htm. Details

See also

• Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P003289. Details