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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.

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Education

In 1987 England completed a B.Sc. (Honours Class I and University Medal) at the University of Sydney, Australia, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 1992, holding a Fulbright Scholarship at Princeton University in 1990.

Research and career

After completing his PhD he took up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in Toulouse, France, from 1992-1994. England 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 [1] followed by an ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2010. [2] England established the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales with Professor Andrew Pitman in 2007.

England was an organizer and signatory of the 2007 Bali Declaration by Climate Scientists, [3] and the convening lead author of the Copenhagen Diagnosis [4] 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.

Honors 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 (2015), and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2016). [5] His other awards include:

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