One of Australia's leading atmosphere scientists, CSIRO's Dr Mike Raupach, has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science – one of the highest honours for individual contributions to science awarded in Australia.
Dr Raupach's election follows a 30-year career with CSIRO during which he has built a reputation as a world-renowned expert in atmospheric turbulence and the global carbon cycle. He currently leads the Continental Biogeochemical Cycles Research Team at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.
Dr Raupach's major research interests include:
- The movement and storage of heat, water and carbon in landscapes, at local, continental and global scales
- Global and continental change, especially the effects of climate and human land use on the terrestrial cycles of water, heat, carbon and nutrients
- The global carbon cycle, with a focus on the effects of human activity on the cycle's natural dynamics
- Model-data synthesis (the combination of models and data to enable each to 'learn' from the other) to better understand global change and manage natural resources
- Fluid mechanics of turbulent flows, especially over rough surfaces (for example, wind over vegetation)
He was a contributing author of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Working Group 1 report in 2007, and has been Co-chair of the Global Carbon Project (GCP) – a joint international project on the global carbon cycle, since 2001.
CSIRO Chief Executive, Dr Megan Clark, said: "On behalf of everyone at CSIRO I offer Michael our heartiest congratulations for his achievement and contribution."
The Fellowship of the Academy consists of about 400 of Australia's leading experts in the physical and biological sciences and their applications. Each year 16 scientists, judged by their peers to have made an exceptional contribution to knowledge in their field, are elected as Fellows of the Academy.
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