Matthew England

Matthew England is an Australian physical oceanographer and climate scientist. As of 2023^[update] he is Scientia Professor of Oceanography at the Centre for Marine Science & Innovation at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Matthew England
Matthew England in 2015
Occupation(s)	physical oceanographer climate scientist
Years active	1990s–

Early life and education

Matthew England completed a B.Sc. (Honours Class I and University Medal) at the University of Sydney in 1987, followed by a PhD in 1992,^[1] holding a Fulbright Scholarship at Princeton University in 1990.^{[citation needed]}

Research and career

After completing his PhD England took up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in Toulouse, France, from 1992-1994. He then returned to Australia to take up a research scientist position at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, before moving to the University of New South Wales. In 2005 he was awarded an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship^[2] followed by an ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2010.^[3]

England established the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales with Andrew Pitman in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

England was an organiser and signatory of the 2007 Bali Declaration by Climate Scientists,^[4] and the convening lead author of the Copenhagen Diagnosis^[5] in 2009, chairing its release in Copenhagen at the UNFCCC COP15 meeting.^{[citation needed]}

England's work relates to the global ocean circulation and its influence on the atmosphere, ice, and climate, with a particular focus on ocean-atmosphere processes in the tropics, the circulation in both the ocean and atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, and coupled ocean-ice-atmosphere feed-backs around Antarctica.^{[citation needed]}

Honours and awards

England was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2014.^{[citation needed]} He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (2015), and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2016).^[6]

His other awards include:

• Jaeger Medal (2023) awarded by the Australian Academy of Science^[7]
• ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)^{[citation needed]}
• James Cook Medal (2019) awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales^[8]
• Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica (2017) awarded by the Tinker-Muse foundation^[9]
• Sydney Institute of Marine Science Emerald Award (2017)^{[citation needed]}
• UK Diamond Jubilee Visiting Fellow (2016)^{[citation needed]}
• New South Wales Premier's Prize for Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Physics, 2012^[10]
• Australian Laureate Fellowship, 2010, awarded by the Australian Research Council^[11]
• Future Justice Prize (2010)^[12]
• Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Water Research (2008)^{[citation needed]}
• Banksia Foundation Australian Environmental Researcher of the Year Award (2008)^{[citation needed]}
• Royal Society of Victoria Research Medal (2007)^{[citation needed]}
• Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Environmental Research (2006)^{[citation needed]}
• Federation Fellowship (2005) awarded by the Australian Research Council (2005)^{[citation needed]}
• Priestley Medal (2005), awarded by the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society^[13]
• Flagship Fellow, 2005, awarded by CSIRO^{[citation needed]}
• Frederick White Prize, 2004 awarded by the Australian Academy of Science^[14]
• RH Clarke Lecture, 2004, awarded by the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society^[15]
• QEII Fellowship, 1998, awarded by the Australian Research Council^{[citation needed]}
• Fulbright Scholarship (1990) Princeton University^{[citation needed]}
• University Medal, 1987, awarded by The University of Sydney^{[citation needed]}