I am currently a Research and DECRA Fellow, in the Climate and Fluid Physics Group at the Australian National University, Canberra.
I am also a Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and a CIRES Research Affiliate at the University of Colorado at Boulder,
My previous position was as a CIRES Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder working primarily with Jennifer Kay and Antonietta Capotondi on variability in the Pacific Ocean and it's global impacts in both the recent past and future projections.
I currently work with single model initial-condition large ensembles (SMILEs). My work with large ensembles includes:
- I was previously in charge of coordinating the Max Planck Institute Grand Ensemble and led the overview publication. which can be accessed here: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019MS001639
- Being an editor on a special issue entitled Large Ensemble Climate Model Simulations: Exploring Natural Variability, Change Signals and Impacts https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/special_issue1037.html
- I currently help to lead the SMILE initiative, which is run by a team of early career scientists. We organise conference sessions and webinars. More information can be found here: https://large-ensemble.github.io/
I completed my PhD entitled: Natural drivers of Interannual to Decadal Variations in Surface Climate in September 2016
at the Climate Change Research Centre and the CoE Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science under the supervision of Professor Matthew England and Dr. Alex Sen Gupta.
My email is: [email protected]
If you are interested in my research you can check out a recent podcast I recorded with Katinka Bellomo from The Climate Academy. We talk about climate science, large ensembles, the challenges of moving across the world for a postdoc and why one might choose to do it a second time, as well as bushfires in Australia, and play the fun facts game at the end.
https://anchor.fm/the-climate-academy/episodes/S1Ep--9-Nicola-Maher-Large-Ensembles-from-Australia-to-the-US-through-Germany-em8eri/a-a3q07as
You can access a full recording of my seminar entitled The role of model-to-model differences and internal variability in causing uncertainty in climate projections here as part of the SMILE webinar series:
https://large-ensemble.github.io/webinars/archive/
You can also find a recording of my NCAR Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory seminar entitled Using large ensembles to investigate ENSO teleconnections and future projections here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyjtf3h7jLg
https://twitter.com/Nicola__Maher
