Summary
Dr. Will Howard is a research scientist currently at the Office of the Chief Scientist in Canberra and a visiting fellow at Australian National University.
He works on marine climate change, with particular emphasis on ocean acidification and its impacts on the past, current, and future ocean. He is particularly interested in the ocean carbon cycle and the responses of marine ecosystems to climate change. His work focuses on the insights into climate change that can be inferred from ocean sediment records as a baseline for pre-industrial conditions and as a tool for understanding the impacts of large-magnitude climate changes of the scale anticipated in the coming centuries. His expertise is in palaeoecology and low-temperature isotopic geochemistry.
Dr. Howard has a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from Brown University in the US. He was a U.S. Department of Energy Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, a lecturer in oceanography at the Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, and a researcher at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart until 2010.
Experience
- Assistant Director, Office of the Chief Scientist 2010 – present
Education
- Brown University, PhD, Geological Sciences, 1992
Research Areas
- Oceanography (0405)
- Earth Sciences (04)
- Marine Geoscience (040305)
Available for
- Multidisciplinary Research Collaboration
- Career Opportunities