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Biography
Dr Will Howard is Lead Scientist at the Commonwealth Government Climate Change Authority, working across climate science and adaptation, climate policy, negative emissions and other issues.
He got a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from Brown University in the USA, was a U.S. Department of Energy Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, a lecturer in oceanography at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole USA, a researcher at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre.
He worked at the Office of the Chief Scientist in Canberra from 2010 to 2017, serving as Head of Science there in 2016-17.
In 2013-14, he initiated the Sedimentary Basin Management Initiative at University of Melbourne School of Earth Sciences, an integrated approach to understanding and managing sedimentary basins.
He is a member of the National Committee for Earth System Science.
He continues to research marine climate change, with particular emphasis on ocean acidification and its impacts on the past, current, and future ocean, through affiliation at Australian National University.
Qualifications
PhD
Education/Academic qualification
Geological Sciences, PhD, Late Quaternary Paleoceanography of the Southern Ocean, Brown University
Award Date: 26 May 1992
External Scholarly Memberships and Affiliations
Lead Scientist, Climate Change Authority
18 Jul 2022 → …
Member, Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Earth System Science
22 May 2021 → …
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Navigating stakeholder heterogeneity in carbon dioxide removal governance
Malakar, Y., Brent, K., Bester, A., Gardner, J., Howard, W. & Lenton, A., 2025, In: Nature Reviews Clean Technology. 1, 1, p. 95-105 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The FORCIS database: A global census of planktonic Foraminifera from ocean waters
Chaabane, S., de Garidel-Thoron, T., Giraud, X., Schiebel, R., Beaugrand, G., Brummer, G. J., Casajus, N., Greco, M., Grigoratou, M., Howa, H., Jonkers, L., Kucera, M., Kuroyanagi, A., Meilland, J., Monteiro, F., Mortyn, G., Almogi-Labin, A., Asahi, H., Avnaim-Katav, S. & Bassinot, F. & 27 others, , 2023, In: Scientific data. 10, 1, 16 p., 354.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Varied contribution of the Southern Ocean to deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise
Moy, A. D., Palmer, M. R., Howard, W. R., Bijma, J., Cooper, M. J., Calvo, E., Pelejero, C., Gagan, M. K. & Chalk, T. B., 1 Dec 2019, In: Nature Geoscience. 12, 12, p. 1006-1011 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access17 Citations (Scopus) -
Microstructural shell strength of the Subantarctic pteropod Limacina helicina antarctica
Teniswood, C. M. H., Roberts, D., Howard, W. R., Bray, S. G. & Bradby, J. E., 1 Sept 2016, In: Polar Biology. 39, 9, p. 1643-1652 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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First records of winter sea ice concentration in the southwest Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean
Ferry, A. J., Crosta, X., Quilty, P. G., Fink, D., Howard, W. & Armand, L. K., 1 Nov 2015, In: Paleoceanography. 30, 11, p. 1525-1539 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access34 Citations (Scopus)