Scientia Professor Matthew England
- 1987听 B.Sc. Honours (Class I and the University Medal), The University of Sydney, Australia
 - 1992听 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), The University of Sydney, Australia
 
I explore large-scale ocean circulation and its influence on regional - global climate, with a particular focus on the Southern Hemisphere, including Antarctic climate processes. Using ocean and coupled climate models in combination with observations and theoretical approaches, I study what controls ocean currents and how these currents affect climate and climate variability on time-scales of seasons to millennia.
Applications of this work include:
- the circulation and variability of the Southern Ocean and its role in climate and Antarctic ice melt;
 - tropical ocean-atmosphere dynamics and teleconnections to polar regions;
 - global-scale water-mass formation: mechanisms, variability and stability;听
 - ocean circulation around the Antarctic margin and warming trends over the Antarctic shelf;听
 - the Southern Annular Mode and links to regional climate and rainfall; and听
 - past ocean circulation states and paleoclimate processes.
 
- Publications
 - Media
 - Grants
 - Awards
 - Research Activities
 - Engagement
 - Teaching and Supervision
 
| GRANTS SINCE 2011: | 听 听 List of grants awarded over the past decade | |||
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			 Special Research Initiative in Antarctic Science SR200100008  | 
			
			 King, M., L. Armand, D. Lannuzel, M. H. England, et al.  | 
			
			 $20,000,000  | 
			
			 2021-2023  | 
			
			 The Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science  | 
		
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			 ARC-Linkage LP200100406  | 
			
			 Hogg, A., M.H. England, and 13 CI/PI鈥檚  | 
			
			 $1,162,000  | 
			
			 2020-2023  | 
			
			 Building Australia's next-generation ocean-sea ice model  | 
		
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			 Australian Antarctic Science Grant Program  | 
			
			 Hogg, A., M. H. England, P. Heil, A. Kiss  | 
			
			 $136,000  | 
			
			 2020-2021  | 
			
			 Modelling sea-ice at high resolution Project 4541  | 
		
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			 ARC-Discovery DP190100494  | 
			
			 England, M.H., A. Hogg, A. Morrison, P. Spence and S. Griffies  | 
			
			 $582,500  | 
			
			 2019-2022  | 
			
			 Risks of rapid ocean warming at the Antarctic continental margin  | 
		
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			 ARC LIEF Grant LE190100021  | 
			
			 Smith, S., Bernhardt, D., England, M.H., and another 12 CI鈥檚  | 
			
			 $4,320,000  | 
			
			 2019-2021  | 
			
			 Sustaining and strengthening merit-based access at NCI  | 
		
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			 ARC Centre of Excellence CE170100023  | 
			
			 Pitman, A.J., England, M.H., and another 16 CI鈥檚  | 
			
			 $30,050,000 听  | 
			
			 2017-2023  | 
			
			 ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes  | 
		
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			 NZ Marsden Fund 17-NIW-005  | 
			
			 Behrens, E., M. H. England, Hogg, A. and C. Boening  | 
			
			 $100,000  | 
			
			 2017-2019  | 
			
			 Southern Ocean fronts - Still an un(re)solved mystery!  | 
		
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			 Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research (CSHOR)  | 
			
			 M.H. England, and S.R. Rintoul  | 
			
			 $500,000  | 
			
			 2017-2021  | 
			
			 Southern Ocean dynamics, circulation and water mass formation  | 
		
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			 National Environmental Science Program  | 
			
			 M.H. England and A. Santoso  | 
			
			 $340,000  | 
			
			 2016-2020  | 
			
			 Understanding climate variability and change - past, present and future  | 
		
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			 ARC-Linkage LP160100073  | 
			
			 Hogg, A., M.H. England, and 5 CI/PI鈥檚  | 
			
			 $599,223  | 
			
			 2016-2020  | 
			
			 An Australian Consortium for Eddy- Resolving Ocean-Sea Ice Modelling  | 
		
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			 ARC-Discovery DP150101331  | 
			
			 England, M.H., 听听A. Sen Gupta, A. Santoso, S. McGregor, et al.  | 
			
			 $610,000  | 
			
			 2015-2017  | 
			
			 Remote forcing of Pacific Ocean variability and impacts on global climate  | 
		
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			 ARC LIEF LE150100089  | 
			
			 Pitman, A.J.; and 25 CI鈥檚 including England, M H;  | 
			
			 $490,000  | 
			
			 2015  | 
			
			 Connecting big data with high performance computing for climate science  | 
		
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			 ARC LIEF LE120100181 听  | 
			
			 Botten, L C; and 25 CI鈥檚 including England, M H  | 
			
			 $650,000  | 
			
			 2012  | 
			
			 Enhanced merit-based access and support at the new NCI peta-scale supercomputing facility  | 
		
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			 ARC-Linkage LP120100224  | 
			
			 Newell, B., A. Pitman, M.H. England and 3 CIs  | 
			
			 $215,913  | 
			
			 2012-2014  | 
			
			 Creating a climate for change: from cognition to consensus  | 
		
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			 ARC Laureate Fellowship FL100100214  | 
			
			 England, M.H.  | 
			
			 听听 $2,918,382 (ARC) + $1,347,630 (黑料网大事记)  | 
			
			 2011-2015  | 
			
			 Future risks associated with ocean surface warming: impacts on climate, rainfall, carbon, and circulation  | 
		
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			 ARC Centre of Excellence CE110001028  | 
			
			 Pitman, A.J., England, M., and another 11 CI鈥檚  | 
			
			 $21,400,000  | 
			
			 2011-2018  | 
			
			 ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science  | 
		
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			 ARC-Discovery DP110100601  | 
			
			 Sen Gupta, A., M.H. England, A. and 4 other PI鈥檚  | 
			
			 $300,000  | 
			
			 2011-2013  | 
			
			 The changing relationship between the South Asian and Australian Monsoon in a warming world  | 
		
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			 ARC Super Science听 FS100100054  | 
			
			 England, M.H., Pitman, A., Sherwood, S., et al.  | 
			
			 $835,200  | 
			
			 2011-2013  | 
			
			 Precipitation-groundwater interactions over eastern Australia: climate change impacts at multiple scales  | 
		
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			 ARC-Discovery DP1094784  | 
			
			 England, M.H., A. Taschetto (APD)  | 
			
			 $264,000  | 
			
			 2010-2012  | 
			
			 Modes of Pacific Ocean variability and their relationship to regional Southern Hemisphere climate  | 
		
- 2021 ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
 - 2020 ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
 - 2019 ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
 - 2019 James Cook Medal, Royal Society of NSW
 - 2017 Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica [US$100,000]
 - 2017 Sydney Institute of Marine Science Emerald Award
 - 2016 Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
 - 2016 UK Diamond Jubilee Visiting Fellow
 - 2015 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW (FRSN)
 - 2014 Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
 - 2012 NSW Scientist of the Year - Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, and Physics
 - 2011 Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship听
 - 2010 Future Justice Prize (for leadership of The Copenhagen Diagnosis) [inaugural]
 - 2008 Land & Water Australia Eureka Prize for Water Research
 - 2008 Land and Water Australia 鈥淐ullen Oration鈥 [inaugural]
 - 2008 Banksia Foundation Australian Environmental Researcher of the Year Award
 - 2007 Royal Society of Victoria Research Medal
 - 2006 Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship听
 - 2006 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Environmental Research
 - 2005 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Priestley Medal
 - 2005 CSIRO Flagship Fellowship
 - 2004 Australian Academy of Science Frederick White Prize (Earth Sciences)
 - 2004 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society RH Clarke Lecture
 - 1998 鈥 2002 Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Fellowship
 - 1991 鈥 1992 Fulbright Scholar (Princeton University)
 - 1987 University Medal, University of Sydney
 
- Southern Ocean water-mass formation, and the global overturning circulation,
 - Climate modes of variability [including ENSO, the IPO, the IOD, and the Southern Annular Mode],
 - Ocean-ice interactions, and circulation and warming around the Antarctic margin
 - Southern Hemisphere coupled ocean-atmosphere-ice-climate dynamics,
 - Global ocean ventilation, ocean heat content trends and sea-level rise,
 - Coupled climate teleconnections, including inter-basin and tropical-high-latitude telecon颅nections
 - Ocean drivers of climate extremes [including drought and flooding rains].
 
My Research Supervision
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- Ellie Ong (2021 - ; co-supervisors: Andy Hogg, Navid Constantinou, Ed Doddridge)
Dynamics of the Antarctic shelf circulation - Christina Schmidt (2021 - ; co-supervisor: Adele Morrison)
Variability and dynamics of Dense Shelf Water and AABW production - Hannah Dawson (2020 - ; co-supervisors: Adele Morrison and Veronica Tamsitt)
Interbasin connectivity around the Antarctic margin - Julia Neme (2020 - ; co-supervisor: Andy Hogg)
Variability and dynamics of the Weddell Gyre - Maurice Huguenin-Virchaux (2019 - ; co-supervisor: Ryan Holmes)
Recharge and discharge of heat during El Nino / La Nina events - Bryam Orihuela Pinto (2018 - ; co-supervisors Andrea Taschetto and Agus Santoso)
Impacts of a slowdown and variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - Zhi Li (2018 - ; co-supervisor Sjoerd Groeskamp)
Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water formation and dynamics - Rishav Goyal (2017 - ; co-supervisors: Alex Sen Gupta and Martin Jucker)
Dynamics of atmospheric circulation over the extratropical Southern Hemisphere 
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My Teaching
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