Full Name Peter Whetton Name Penny Whetton | Occupation Climatologist Nationality Australian | |
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Dr penny whetton on ipcc and risk management
Penelope Whetton (born 5 January 1958) is a climatologist and an expert in regional climate change projections due to global warming and in the impacts of those changes. Her primary scientific focus has been Australia.
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- Dr penny whetton on ipcc and risk management
- Csiro s penny whetton talks bout long term weather predictions with extreme weather heroes
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Csiro s penny whetton talks bout long term weather predictions with extreme weather heroes
Early life
Whetton was born in Melbourne, Victoria. She holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours), majoring in Physics, and an Honours year in Meteorology, from the University of Melbourne. She received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the same university in 1986.
Career
Whetton started her career in the late 1980s as a researcher in the Department of Geography at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria.
In 1989, she joined the Atmospheric Research division of CSIRO (later becoming CMAR CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research). Whetton became a research leader in 1999 and a research program leader in 2009.
She was one of the lead authors of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Whetton has been an invited speaker at various climate change conferences such as the Aspen Change Institute, Four Degrees Or More? Australia in a Hot World at the University of Melbourne in 2011, and the Greenhouse 2011: The Science of Climate Change conference.
Whetton has published numerous scientific journal articles on climate change as well as a contribution to more popular publications.
Personal life
Whetton lives in Footscray, Victoria with her spouse Janet Rice, a Greens Senator and former Mayor of Maribyrnong, and their two sons. In 2003, Whetton underwent gender affirmation surgery.