Dr Andrew Tait
Chief Scientist - Climate, Atmosphere and Hazards
Andrew is Chief Scientist - Climate, Atmosphere and Hazards. His research areas of interest are climate change impacts and implications, adaptation to climate change, spatial modelling of climate, and sector and business applications of climate data. Andrew is a lead author of the Australasia chapter of the IPCC Fifth Assessment WGII Report, a member of the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl) executive, co-chair of the WMO Focus Area on 'Climate Services for Societal Benefits', and the chair of the Pacific Islands Climate Services Panel. He was seconded to MPI in 2017 to contribute to the Primary Sector Science Roadmap and seconded to DOC from 2017-2019 to interact with researchers, managers, operations staff and the policy team to improve the understanding and use of climate data and information throughout the Department.
Dr Andrew Lorrey
Principal Scientist - Climate and Environmental Applications
Drew joined NIWA in 2007 and uses a diverse background in climate science, environmental science and geology to improve understanding of the global climate system. He leads the NIWA Climate Present and Past project that has achieved hundreds of scientific outputs since 2009, including a dendroclimatology lab and ancient kauri archive based at NIWA. Drew is a co-lead of the Southern Hemisphere Assessment of PalaeoEnvironments (SHAPE) focus group supported by the International Quaternary Union (INQUA). Drew’s current research focuses on integrating different lines of surface climate evidence in modern analog models to establish how Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation processes contributed to past climate variability and change.
Dr Olaf Morgenstern
Principal Scientist - Atmosphere and Climate
Olaf holds a PhD in meteorology and worked in the UK and Germany on the development of atmospheric chemistry and chemistry-climate models. He is leading the NIWA Climate Variability and Change Programme, which focusses on using global and regional climate models and a hydrology model to predict climate globally and for the New Zealand region, ranging from seasonal to centennial timescales. He is leading the Earth System Modelling and Predictions programme for the Deep South National Science Challenge, which is tasked with developing and exploiting the New Zealand Earth System Model and to downscale these results. He is a Lead Author of the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is representing NIWA in the Unified Model Global Model Configuration Group, is on the Science Management Group of the UK Chemistry and Aerosols (UKCA) project as its only overseas member, and is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI). He has been involved in the past three WMO Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion, in 2010 as a Lead Author.
| Staff member | Job Title | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Staff member Alan Porteous | Job Title Climate Scientist | Contact Email |
| Staff member Amir Pirooz | Job Title NWP/CFD Modeller and Analyst | Contact Email |
| Staff member Andrew Harper | Job Title Principal Technician - Climate | Contact Email |
| Staff member Andrew Tait | Job Title Chief Scientist - Climate, Atmosphere and Hazards | Contact Email |
| Staff member Beata Bukosa | Job Title Atmospheric Modeller | Contact Email |
| Staff member Chris Brandolino | Job Title Principal Scientist - Forecasting and Media | Contact Email |
| Staff member Christian Stiegler | Job Title Greenhouse Gas Emissions Scientist | Contact Email |
| Staff member Craig Stevens | Job Title Principal Scientist - Marine Physics | Contact Email |
| Staff member Darcel Rickard | Job Title Maori Organisational Development Manager | Contact Email |
| Staff member Denise Fernandez | Job Title Physical Oceanographer | Contact Email |
| Staff member Graham Rickard | Job Title Marine Physics Modeller | Contact Email |
| Staff member Gregor Macara | Job Title Climate Scientist | Contact Email |
| Staff member Hannah Marley | Job Title Climate Applications Scientist | Contact Email |
| Staff member Hilary Oliver | Job Title Principal Scientist - Research Software Engineering | Contact Email |
| Staff member James Sturman | Job Title Principal Technician - Climate and Risk Applications Developer | Contact Email |
| Staff member Keith Michael | Job Title Emeritus Scientist | Contact Email |
| Staff member Luke Wang | Job Title Climate Data Technician | Contact Email |
| Staff member Michael Kotkamp | Job Title Atmospheric Technician | Contact Email |
| Staff member Natalie Robinson | Job Title Marine Physicist | Contact Email |
| Staff member Nicolas Fauchereau | Job Title Principal Scientist- Climate & Analytics | Contact Email |
| Staff member Olaf Morgenstern | Job Title Principal Scientist - Atmosphere and Climate | Contact Email |
| Staff member Philip Sutton | Job Title Physical Oceanographer | Contact Email |
| Staff member Richard McKenzie | Job Title Emeritus Researcher – Atmospheric Radiation | Contact Email |
| Staff member Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher | Job Title Principal Scientist - Carbon Chemistry and Modelling | Contact Email |
| Staff member Shaun Williams | Job Title Natural Hazards Scientist | Contact Email |
| Staff member Trevor Carey-Smith | Job Title Climate Scientist | Contact Email |