Profile

Hamish McGowan

• Chief Investigator
• The University of Queensland

Professor Hamish McGowan is a Geographer and Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences with research interests in: Severe weather (thunderstorms, bushfire meteorology), Earth surface – atmosphere energy and trace gas exchanges, Aeolian processes (meteorological controls on wind erosion, dust transport and the impacts on regional and global climate dynamics), Palaeoclimate reconstructions, Mountain meteorology and hydroclimate. He leads the Weather and Climate Science Research Alliance https://sites.google.com/view/uqaorg/home

Hamish received his PhD from the University of Canterbury in 1995. His research interests are in the fields of:

• Meteorological hazards
• Earth surface – atmosphere interactions and energetics
• The Weather and Climates of Alpine and Mountainous Regions
• Long Range Dust Transport and Climate Impacts
• Climate dynamics
• Palaeoclimate reconstruction