Matthew England


Matthew England is an Australian physical oceanographer and climate scientist. he is Scientia Professor of Oceanography at the Centre for Marine Science & Innovation at the University of [New South Wales], Sydney.
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Early life and education

Matthew England completed a B.Sc. at the University of Sydney in 1987, followed by a PhD in 1992, holding a Fulbright Scholarship at Princeton University in 1990.

Research and career

After completing his PhD England took up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in Toulouse, France, from 1992-1994. He then returned to Australia to take up a research scientist position at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, before moving to the University of New South Wales. In 2005 he was awarded an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship followed by an ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2010.
England established the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales with Andrew Pitman in 2007.
England was an organiser and signatory of the 2007 Bali Declaration by Climate Scientists, and the convening lead author of the Copenhagen Diagnosis in 2009, chairing its release in Copenhagen at the UNFCCC COP15 meeting.
England's work relates to the global ocean circulation and its influence on the atmosphere, ice, and climate, with a particular focus on ocean-atmosphere processes in the tropics, the circulation in both the ocean and atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, and coupled ocean-ice-atmosphere feed-backs around Antarctica.

Honours and awards

England was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2014. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
His other awards include: