Professor Scott B. Power – Director, Centre for Applied Climate Sciences, USQ; Adjunct Professor, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University; Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes.

  Professor Scott B. Power, Dip. Ed.
  scott.power@usq.edu.au

Scott was previously a Senior Principal Research Scientist and an International Development Officer in the Bureau of Meteorology, and a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC WGI report and an author of the IPCC Synthesis Report that informed the Paris Agreement. He has published extensively in the international literature on, e.g., climate change, Pacific and Australian climate, El Niño, climate variability and predictability, and applied climate science. He is the former head of climate research and operational climate monitoring and prediction services and the former International Development Manager in the Bureau, and the acting head of Australia’s National Climate Centre. He previously coordinated the Bureau’s participation in the Australian Climate Change Science Program, he led the development of a project to establish and enhance climate prediction services in numerous Pacific Island countries, and he co-led a program on Pacific climate change science that assisted 14 vulnerable countries in the Pacific and Timor-Leste adapt to climate change and to establish climate change services. More recently he was the Bureau lead on the development of the National Environmental Science Program’s Earth System and Climate Change Hub, and he led the development of, and now co-manages, a DFAT-funded project to increase community benefits from Early Warning Systems in the Solomon Islands.