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Helen Cleugh

Helen Cleugh

Atmospheric scientist

Helen A. Cleugh FTSE is a New Zealand atmospheric scientist.[1] She is currently the Chief Research Scientist in Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) (Oceans and Atmosphere) where she leads the Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub.[2]

Cleugh's research focuses on observing and predicting atmospheric, climate and marine systems and determining how they interact with human activities.[2]

Career

Cleugh grew up on a farm in Central Otago in New Zealand, and earned a BSc with Honours at the University of Otago in 1981.[3][4] Cleugh received her doctorate in Geography in 1987 from the University of British Columbia, and was a lecturer at Macquarie University School of Earth Sciences in Sydney from 1987 to 1994.[5] Cleugh has been a Scientist with the CSIRO since 1994[6] where she has been working Earth systems research capabilities and climate modeling.[7]

Her research concentration is on interactions between climate and land surfaces, with a focus on the amount of carbon dioxide is taken up by ecosystems.[8]

Cleugh was the Deputy Director of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR) from 2007 to 2009.[7] She then went on to lead CMAR Climate and Atmosphere Theme where in collaboration with CAWCR, her team developed a long-term observation study on aerosols to predict the future trends of Australia's rainfall.[6] Speaking of the work she leads at CSIRO in developing climate models, in 2014 she said:

Because we’ve developed it here in Australia, it does as good as job as we can of representing factors that are important for Australia such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation-type phenomena, as well as representing Australian ecosystems and the oceanic systems that are around Australia.[8]

Honours and awards

Cleugh was an Erskine Fellow at the Geographical Department in the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2002.[9]

References

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    "Cleugh, Helen - People and organisations". trove.nla.gov.au. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
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    "Dr Helen Cleugh". csiro.au. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
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    CSIRO (26 October 2017). "How life on the land shaped an Australian climate leader". ECOS. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
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    Cleugh, Helen (1981). Evaporation Estimates for Irrigated Pasture in the Maniototo (Bachelors with Honours thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/11188.
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    "Helen Cleugh". LinkedIn. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
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    "Meet Helen Cleugh - monday:m@il - 30 March 2009". csiro.au. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
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    "GREENHOUSE 2015". greenhouse2015.com. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
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    Bianca, Nogrady (4 March 2014). "Helen Cleugh: Making a statement about climate". ECOS Magazine. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
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    "Meet Helen Cleugh - monday:m@il - 30 March 2009". csiro.au. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  10. [10]
    "Dr Helen Cleugh – Atmospheric scientist". Applied. Retrieved 24 October 2019.

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