The Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) is a research initiative established in 2007 at the
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensiv ...
. It is the lead node of the
Australian Research Council
The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the primary non-medical research funding agency of the Australian Government, distributing more than in grants each year. The Council was established by the ''Australian Research Council Act 2001'', ...
's Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX), and formerly led the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS) from 2011 to 2018.
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History
The CCRC was established in 2007 at the University of New South Wales.
The foundation directors of the CCRC were the Australian Research Council (ARC)
Federation Fellow Professor
Matthew England
Matthew England is a physical oceanographer and climate scientist. He is currently Scientia Professor of Ocean & Climate Dynamics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Education
In 1987 England completed a B.Sc. (Honours Cl ...
, who established the Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory in 2005, and Professor
Andrew Pitman, the director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes.
The Centre led the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science from 2011 until its 7-year funding ended on 30 June 2018.
Organisation and description
The director of the centre is Professor
Katrin Meissner
Katrin Meissner (german: Katrin Meißner, born 17 January 1973) is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who won three medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The fifteen-year-old triumphed with the GDR women's relay ...
.
The CCRC is the University of New South Wales lead node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (2017-2025).
The centre's research falls into ten broad categories:
* Climate
* Oceanography
* Atmospheric Science
* Ecosystems
* Carbon Cycle
* Terrestrial Processes
* Climate Impacts
* Energy Policy
* Climate Model Evaluation
* Palaeoclimatology
References
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University of New South Wales
Environmental research institutes
Research organisations in Australia