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Dr Bernadette Sloyan

Pronouns: she,her,hers

Senior Principal Research Scientist

https://people.csiro.au/S/B/Bernadette-Sloyan.aspx

Biography

Dr. Bernadette Sloyan is a Senior Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO Environment working in ocean dynamics and its impacts on climate and the marine ecosystem. Her scientific interests are documenting and understanding the oceans circulation and variability. Her work has elucidated the importance of key ocean processes including ocean mixing and air-sea interactions in the Southern, Pacific and Indian Oceans. She is a co-chief-editor of the EGU Ocean Science (OS) journal.

Current Roles

  • Indian and Pacific Climate Interactions Team Member
    Ocean and climate processes

  • The Centre for Southern Hemispheric Oceans Research (CSHOR), Project Leader
    Indo-Pacific Interbasin Exchange

  • EGU Ocean Science Co-Chief-Editor
    Editorial Board

  • University of Tasmania’s Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies
    Adjunct Academic Staff

Academic Qualifications

  • 1998

    PhD
    University of Tasmania

Professional Experiences

  • 2013-August

    Chief Scientist
    East Australian Current, RV Southern Surveyor

  • 2021-Present

    National Representative,
    Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR)

  • 2019-Present

    National Representative
    The Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP)

  • 2012-April

    Chief Scientist
    East Australian Current, RV Southern Surveyor

  • 2011-2022

    Project leader
    IMOS Deep Water Mooring Arrays

  • 2015-2020

    Co-Chair, Ocean Observations Physical and Climate (OOPC) panel
    Sponsored by GCOS, GOOC and WCRP

  • 2012-September

    Chief Scientist
    Timor Passage and Ombai Strait, RV Southern Surveyor

  • 2014-April

    Chief Scientist
    Timor Passage and Ombai Strait, RV Solander

  • 2018-April

    Chief Scientist
    East Australian Current, RV Investigator

  • 2016-November

    Chief Scientist
    East Australian Current, RV Investigator

  • 2016-April-May

    Chief Scientist
    GO-SHIP section P15S, RV Investigator

  • 2015-May

    Chief Scientist
    East Australian Current, RV Investigator

  • 2015-October

    Chief Scientist
    Timor Passage and Ombai Strait, RV Solander

  • 2011-June

    Chief Scientist
    Timor Passage and Ombai Strait, RV Solander

Achievements and Awards

  • 2023--

    The CSIRO Medal for Lifetime Achievement
    CSIRO

  • 2019--

    Invited Speaker
    IUGG, Montreal Canada

  • 2017--

    Invited Speaker
    IAPSO Symposium

  • 2014--

    Invited Speaker
    American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

  • 2014--

    Research Spotlight
    American Geophysical Union

Grants

  • Awarded-2024

    Ship time, Marine National Facility, RV Investigator

  • 2021-present

    Australian Research Council Discovery Project, Unravelling Ocean mixing and air-sea forcing along the Indo-Pacific exchange

  • 2010-2022

    14 projects have been award sea-time through competitive proposal processes

Community and Corporate Citizenship

  • 2023-Present

    Chair, IAPSO Best Practice Study Group on ship based CTD/O₂ operations, calibration, and processing procedures

  • 2019-Present

    Ocean Science, Editor

  • 2019-2021

    IMOS Facility Leader, Deep Water Moorings

  • 2009-Present

    Sub-facility Leader, IMOS Australian Bluewater Observing System (ABOS), Deepwater Arrays,

  • 2009-Present

    Co-Chair, Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrograhpic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP)

  • 2015-2020

    Chair, Ocean Observations Physics and Climate (OOPC) panel

  • 2013-Present

    Member National Committee for Earth System Science, The Australian Academy of Science

  • 2014-Present

    Member of the Ocean Observations Panel for Climate

  • 2009-2014

    Member, Marine National Facility Science Advisory Committee