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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.

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.

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.

Full Staff List

Staff member Position
Lisa Bragg Personal Assistant Email Lisa Bragg
Tony Bromley Principal Technician - Atmosphere Email Tony Bromley
Dr Trevor Carey-Smith Climate Scientist Email Dr Trevor Carey-Smith
Dr Steve Chiswell Physical Oceanographer Email Dr Steve Chiswell
Dr Jono Conway Hydrological Forecasting Scientist Email Dr Jono Conway
Dr Sam Dean Principal Scientist - Climate Email Dr Sam Dean
Dr Bruce Dudley Hydrologist Email Dr Bruce Dudley
Nava Fedaeff Manager - Climate, Atmosphere & Hazards Email Nava Fedaeff
Dr Peter Gibson Climate Scientist Email Dr Peter Gibson
Dr James Griffiths Hydrologist Email Dr James Griffiths
Andrew Harper Principal Technician - Climate Email Andrew Harper
Michael Kotkamp Atmospheric Technician Email Michael Kotkamp
Errol Lewthwaite Principal Technician - Climate Email Errol Lewthwaite
Ben Liley Atmospheric Scientist Email Ben Liley
Dr Andrew Lorrey Principal Scientist - Climate and Environmental Applications Email Dr Andrew Lorrey
Gregor Macara Climate Scientist Email Gregor Macara
Ross Martin Principal Technician - Atmosphere Email Ross Martin
Dr Richard McKenzie Emeritus Researcher – Atmospheric Radiation Email Dr Richard McKenzie
Tristan Meyers Analytical Meteorologist/Forecaster Email Tristan Meyers
Dr Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher Principal Scientist - Carbon Chemistry and Modelling Email Dr Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher
Dr Olaf Morgenstern Principal Scientist - Atmosphere and Climate Email Dr Olaf Morgenstern
Sylvia Nichol Atmospheric Scientist Email Sylvia Nichol
Dr Hilary Oliver Principal Scientist - Research Software Engineering Email Dr Hilary Oliver
Dr Rahul Peethambaran Mass Spectrometry Technician Email Dr Rahul Peethambaran
Dr Amir Pirooz NWP/CFD Modeller and Analyst Email Dr Amir Pirooz
Alan Porteous Climate Scientist Email Alan Porteous
Dr Richard Querel Atmospheric Scientist Email Dr Richard Querel
William Quinn Marine Electronics Technician Email William Quinn
Neelesh Rampal Data Scientist Email Neelesh Rampal
Dr Christo Rautenbach Coastal and Estuarine Physical Processes Scientist Email Dr Christo Rautenbach
Dr Graham Rickard Marine Physics Modeller Email Dr Graham Rickard
John Robinson Principal Technician - Atmosphere Email John Robinson
Dr Natalie Robinson Marine Physicist Email Dr Natalie Robinson
Dr Suzanne Rosier Climate Scientist Email Dr Suzanne Rosier
Dr Helen Rouse National Projects Manager - Science Delivery Email Dr Helen Rouse
Hisako Shiona Atmospheric Technician Email Hisako Shiona
Seema Singh Climate Technician Email Seema Singh
Dan Smale Principal Technician - Atmosphere Email Dan Smale
Dr Abha Sood Climate Scientist Email Dr Abha Sood
Dr Tilmann Steinmetz Principal Technician - GIS Data Administration Email Dr Tilmann Steinmetz
Dr Craig Stevens Principal Scientist - Marine Physics Email Dr Craig Stevens
Stephen Stuart Climate Scientist Email Stephen Stuart
James Sturman Principal Technician - Climate and Risk Applications Developer Email James Sturman
Dr Philip Sutton Physical Oceanographer Email Dr Philip Sutton
Dr Andrew Tait Chief Scientist - Climate, Atmosphere and Hazards Email Dr Andrew Tait
Dr Chen Wang Data Scientist Email Dr Chen Wang
Linda Wang Climate Technician Email Linda Wang
Dr Jonny Williams Climate Scientist Email Dr Jonny Williams
Dr Shaun Williams Hazard Analyst Email Dr Shaun Williams
Dr Ed -Yang Yang Meteorologist Email Dr Ed -Yang Yang
Dr Christian Zammit Hydrologist Email Dr Christian Zammit
Dr Guang Zeng Atmospheric Scientist Email Dr Guang Zeng

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