Dr Adele Morrison studies how our changing climate will affect the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. She uses her knowledge of ocean physics, combined with supercomputers, to develop models and make projections of this critically important region. Dr Morrison’s work has involved predicting how ocean circulation will respond to climate change, including the consequences of oceanic changes for the global carbon cycle and Southern Ocean ecosystems.
She also studies how the coastal waters around Antarctica will be altered under future climate scenarios, which has implications for the future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, and the consequent rate of global sea level rise. Dr Morrison has made a substantial contribution to the development of Australia’s capability to model Antarctic oceanography and is a leader of the Australian ocean-sea ice modelling community.
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