Research Positions
November 2015 – current : Research Associate, Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands.
October 2013 – October 2015 : Research Associate, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
September 2011 – September 2013 : Research Associate, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.
Education
PhD: March 2008 – August 2013 (4.5 years FTE) – The Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra Australia.
Thesis : Interactions between large-scale modes of climate variability that influence Australian hydroclimatic regimes (Whan_PhDThesis_2014)
Honours: March – November 2007 – The Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra Australia.
Thesis : What is the relationship between different El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events and the Australian monsoon?
Bachelor of Science (hons) / Bachelor of Psychology – The Australian National University
Service and interests
Reviewed papers for:
- Journal of Climate
- The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Atmospheric Research
- Journal of Mountain Sciences
Previous coordinator for the Victoria R User Group – http://www.meetup.com/Victoria-R-User-Group/
Designer of the ‘Plants of the Shoalhaven’ plant identification tool – https://kiriwhan.shinyapps.io/posr/
Co-author of “meow: the most anticipated R package of 2015″ – http://www.alexchubaty.com/2015/02/09/puRRR.html
Teaching Experience
2008 – 2011 : Tutor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra Australia.
- Weather, Climate, Fire
- Climatology
- Climate Change Science and Policy
- Climate Change Science and Policy Field School to CoP15 in Copenhagen
