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.

Professional Areas

Fields of Research

Current

Current Roles

Team Member, Indian and Pacific Climate Interactions
Ocean and climate processes
The Centre for Southern Hemispheric Oceans Research (CSHOR), Project Leader
Indo-Pacific Interbasin Exchange
Team Member, Climate Science to Ensure Pacific Tuna Access
Western and Central Pacific Ocean circulation
Co-Chief-Editor EGU Ocean Science
Editorial Board
Co-Chair GOOS Co-Design programme - an Ocean Decade project
Developing "ocean exemplars" multi-disciplinary, multi-user system requirements
Chair, IAPSO Ship-based CTD/O2 operations, calibration, and processing procedures Best Practise Study Group
Coordinate internationally consistent and endorsed best practice procedure and freely accessible, curated code database
University of Tasmania’s Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies
Adjunct Academic Staff
University of Queensland, School of Environment
Honorary Professor

Academic Qualifications

1998

PhD
University of Tasmania

Professional Experiences

2013-August

Chief Scientist
East Australian Current, RV Southern Surveyor
2019-Present

National Representative
The Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP)
2012-April

Chief Scientist
East Australian Current, RV Southern Surveyor
2021-2024

National Representative,
Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR)
2019-2021

Research Team Leader, Ocean Dynamics
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
2017-2021

Theme Leader
CSIRO Decadal Forecasting Project, Observations and ocean processes
2018-2021

Project Leader, Ocean knowledge for climate decisions
National Environment Science Programme, Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub
2017-2020

Project Leader
Centre for Southern Hemisphere Ocean Research, Indian-Pacific interbasin exchange
2011-2021

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
2012-2016

Research Group Leader, Ocean Processes and Carbon
CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere
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

2024--

Invited Speaker
GOOS Co-Design Programme, Boundary Current Exemplar Meeting, September 9-12 Cape Town South Africa (remote attendance)
2024--

Invited Speaker
University of Queensland, School of Environment seminar series
2024--

Presenter, Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation – Indian Ocean Region
Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), Australian National University (ANU) Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions (ICEDS)
2023--

The CSIRO Medal for Lifetime Achievement
CSIRO
2023--

Invited Speaker
16th Australia-China Symposium, Marine sciences for sustainable development, Australian Academy of Science
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

Ship Time for -2026

Marine National Facility, RV Investigator, The Pacific Ocean physical, biogeochemical and biological environmental diversity: Tropics to Pole evolution (P-TROPOE)
2021-present

Australian Research Council Discovery Project, Unravelling Ocean mixing and air-sea forcing along the Indo-Pacific exchange
June-2024

Marine National Facility, RV Investigator, Linking East Australian Current dynamics and submarine canyon geomorphology to marine ecosystem hotspots
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

Member, Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrograhpic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP)
2019-Present

Ocean Science, Editor and Co-Chief-Editor since 2023
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
2011-2014

Member, International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP) Scientific Steering Group (SSG)
2007-2011

Co-Chair, CLIVAR International Global Synthesis and Observation Panel (GSOP)
2009-2014

Member, Marine National Facility Science Advisory Committee
2004-2006

Member, CLIVAR International Global Synthesis and Observation Panel (GSOP)