Scientia Professor Matthew England
- 1987 B.Sc. Honours (Class I and the University Medal), The University of Sydney, Australia
- 1992 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), The University of Sydney, Australia
I explore large-scale ocean circulation and its influence on regional - global climate, with a particular focus on the Southern Hemisphere, including Antarctic climate processes. Using ocean and coupled climate models in combination with observations and theoretical approaches, I study what controls ocean currents and how these currents affect climate and climate variability on time-scales of seasons to millennia.
Applications of this work include:
- the circulation and variability of the Southern Ocean and its role in climate and Antarctic ice melt;
- tropical ocean-atmosphere dynamics and teleconnections to polar regions;
- global-scale water-mass formation: mechanisms, variability and stability;
- ocean circulation around the Antarctic margin and warming trends over the Antarctic shelf;
- the Southern Annular Mode and links to regional climate and rainfall; and
- past ocean circulation states and paleoclimate processes.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
| GRANTS SINCE 2011: | List of grants awarded over the past decade | |||
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Special Research Initiative in Antarctic Science SR200100008 |
King, M., L. Armand, D. Lannuzel, M. H. England, et al. |
$20,000,000 |
2021-2023 |
The Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science |
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ARC-Linkage LP200100406 |
Hogg, A., M.H. England, and 13 CI/PI’s |
$1,162,000 |
2020-2023 |
Building Australia's next-generation ocean-sea ice model |
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Australian Antarctic Science Grant Program |
Hogg, A., M. H. England, P. Heil, A. Kiss |
$136,000 |
2020-2021 |
Modelling sea-ice at high resolution Project 4541 |
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ARC-Discovery DP190100494 |
England, M.H., A. Hogg, A. Morrison, P. Spence and S. Griffies |
$582,500 |
2019-2022 |
Risks of rapid ocean warming at the Antarctic continental margin |
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ARC LIEF Grant LE190100021 |
Smith, S., Bernhardt, D., England, M.H., and another 12 CI’s |
$4,320,000 |
2019-2021 |
Sustaining and strengthening merit-based access at NCI |
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ARC Centre of Excellence CE170100023 |
Pitman, A.J., England, M.H., and another 16 CI’s |
$30,050,000 |
2017-2023 |
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes |
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NZ Marsden Fund 17-NIW-005 |
Behrens, E., M. H. England, Hogg, A. and C. Boening |
$100,000 |
2017-2019 |
Southern Ocean fronts - Still an un(re)solved mystery! |
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Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research (CSHOR) |
M.H. England, and S.R. Rintoul |
$500,000 |
2017-2021 |
Southern Ocean dynamics, circulation and water mass formation |
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National Environmental Science Program |
M.H. England and A. Santoso |
$340,000 |
2016-2020 |
Understanding climate variability and change - past, present and future |
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ARC-Linkage LP160100073 |
Hogg, A., M.H. England, and 5 CI/PI’s |
$599,223 |
2016-2020 |
An Australian Consortium for Eddy- Resolving Ocean-Sea Ice Modelling |
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ARC-Discovery DP150101331 |
England, M.H., A. Sen Gupta, A. Santoso, S. McGregor, et al. |
$610,000 |
2015-2017 |
Remote forcing of Pacific Ocean variability and impacts on global climate |
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ARC LIEF LE150100089 |
Pitman, A.J.; and 25 CI’s including England, M H; |
$490,000 |
2015 |
Connecting big data with high performance computing for climate science |
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ARC LIEF LE120100181 |
Botten, L C; and 25 CI’s including England, M H |
$650,000 |
2012 |
Enhanced merit-based access and support at the new NCI peta-scale supercomputing facility |
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ARC-Linkage LP120100224 |
Newell, B., A. Pitman, M.H. England and 3 CIs |
$215,913 |
2012-2014 |
Creating a climate for change: from cognition to consensus |
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ARC Laureate Fellowship FL100100214 |
England, M.H. |
$2,918,382 (ARC) + $1,347,630 (UNSW) |
2011-2015 |
Future risks associated with ocean surface warming: impacts on climate, rainfall, carbon, and circulation |
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ARC Centre of Excellence CE110001028 |
Pitman, A.J., England, M., and another 11 CI’s |
$21,400,000 |
2011-2018 |
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science |
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ARC-Discovery DP110100601 |
Sen Gupta, A., M.H. England, A. and 4 other PI’s |
$300,000 |
2011-2013 |
The changing relationship between the South Asian and Australian Monsoon in a warming world |
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ARC Super Science FS100100054 |
England, M.H., Pitman, A., Sherwood, S., et al. |
$835,200 |
2011-2013 |
Precipitation-groundwater interactions over eastern Australia: climate change impacts at multiple scales |
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ARC-Discovery DP1094784 |
England, M.H., A. Taschetto (APD) |
$264,000 |
2010-2012 |
Modes of Pacific Ocean variability and their relationship to regional Southern Hemisphere climate |
- 2021 ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
- 2020 ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
- 2019 ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
- 2019 James Cook Medal, Royal Society of NSW
- 2017 Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica [US$100,000]
- 2017 Sydney Institute of Marine Science Emerald Award
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- 2016 UK Diamond Jubilee Visiting Fellow
- 2015 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW (FRSN)
- 2014 Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 2012 NSW Scientist of the Year - Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, and Physics
- 2011 Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship
- 2010 Future Justice Prize (for leadership of The Copenhagen Diagnosis) [inaugural]
- 2008 Land & Water Australia Eureka Prize for Water Research
- 2008 Land and Water Australia “Cullen Oration” [inaugural]
- 2008 Banksia Foundation Australian Environmental Researcher of the Year Award
- 2007 Royal Society of Victoria Research Medal
- 2006 Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship
- 2006 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Environmental Research
- 2005 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Priestley Medal
- 2005 CSIRO Flagship Fellowship
- 2004 Australian Academy of Science Frederick White Prize (Earth Sciences)
- 2004 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society RH Clarke Lecture
- 1998 – 2002 Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Fellowship
- 1991 – 1992 Fulbright Scholar (Princeton University)
- 1987 University Medal, University of Sydney
- Southern Ocean water-mass formation, and the global overturning circulation,
- Climate modes of variability [including ENSO, the IPO, the IOD, and the Southern Annular Mode],
- Ocean-ice interactions, and circulation and warming around the Antarctic margin
- Southern Hemisphere coupled ocean-atmosphere-ice-climate dynamics,
- Global ocean ventilation, ocean heat content trends and sea-level rise,
- Coupled climate teleconnections, including inter-basin and tropical-high-latitude teleconnections
- Ocean drivers of climate extremes [including drought and flooding rains].
My Research Supervision
- Ellie Ong (2021 - ; co-supervisors: Andy Hogg, Navid Constantinou, Ed Doddridge)
Dynamics of the Antarctic shelf circulation - Christina Schmidt (2021 - ; co-supervisor: Adele Morrison)
Variability and dynamics of Dense Shelf Water and AABW production - Hannah Dawson (2020 - ; co-supervisors: Adele Morrison and Veronica Tamsitt)
Interbasin connectivity around the Antarctic margin - Julia Neme (2020 - ; co-supervisor: Andy Hogg)
Variability and dynamics of the Weddell Gyre - Maurice Huguenin-Virchaux (2019 - ; co-supervisor: Ryan Holmes)
Recharge and discharge of heat during El Nino / La Nina events - Bryam Orihuela Pinto (2018 - ; co-supervisors Andrea Taschetto and Agus Santoso)
Impacts of a slowdown and variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - Zhi Li (2018 - ; co-supervisor Sjoerd Groeskamp)
Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water formation and dynamics - Rishav Goyal (2017 - ; co-supervisors: Alex Sen Gupta and Martin Jucker)
Dynamics of atmospheric circulation over the extratropical Southern Hemisphere
My Teaching
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