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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2017-09-12 human Elizabeth Daniels and Helen Cohn updated 2025-01-21 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005875b.htm person Coughlan Michael J. AACR2 Meteorologist Climate scientist Michael Coughlan has made significant contributions to Australian and global meteorology and climate science. Beginning his career as a trainee weather forecaster for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology Michael Coughlan went on to work on two of four World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) projects in the 1990s. He served as Program Manager for The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) in the United States of America and as the Foundation Director of the International Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change Project (CLIVAR) in Germany. In 1997 Michael Coughlan became Director of the World Climate Change Department with the World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland, before returning to Australia in 2003 to head the Australian National Climate Centre within the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Coughlan was active in the Royal Meteorological Society Australian Branch, serving as Treasurer from 1983 to 1986. 1983 1986 Career position - Treasurer, Royal Meteorological Society Australian Branch March 1990 June 1995 Career position - Program Manager for The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A. July 1995 July 1997 Career position - Director, International Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change Project (CLIVAR), Hamburg, Germany 1997 2002 Career position - Director, World Climate Change Department, World Meteorological Organization 2003 2012 Career position - Senior Meteorologist (later Chief Climatologist) and Head, Australian National Climate Centre, Bureau of Meteorology 2012 2012 Life event - Retired Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Commonwealth of Australia (1955 - )

Senior Meteorologist (later Chief climatologist) and Head, Australian National Climate Centre 2003 - 2012

 Royal Meteorological Society Australian Branch (1973 - 1987)

Treasurer 1983 - 1986

 'Coughlan, Michael J.', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Coughlan, Michael J. Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: Associates - Dr Michael Coughlan Associates - Dr Michael Coughlan Climate-Insight Resource: LaSallian Alumni: Dr Michael Coughlan LaSallian Alumni: Dr Michael Coughlan La Salle District of Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea 2016 Book Section: Monitoring drought in Australia Coughlan, Michael J. Monitoring drought in Australia New York Routledge 1987 Planning for drought: toward a reduction of societal vulnerability Wilhite, Donald, A.; Easterling, William E.; and Wood, Deborah A. 14