Executive Curriculum vitae: Prof. Steven Sherwood Qualifications: Ph.D. Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Dec. 1995. M. S. Engineering Physics, University of California, San Diego, 1991. B. S. Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. Current Position: Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, U. New South Wales 01/2009 – present Selected Previous Positions: Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA 07/2007 – 12/2008 Associate Professor, Yale University 07/2005 – 06/2007 Assistant Professor, Yale University 01/2001 – 06/2005 Selected Prizes, Awards & Honours: Clarence Leroy Meisinger award, American Meteorological Society, 2005. CAREER award, National Science Foundation, 2002. Selected Research Capacity Building & Discipline Leadership: Director, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW (since 06/2012) Convenor, AGU Chapman Conference on Water Vapor in the Climate System, Hawaii, Oct. 2008. Editor, Research Letters in Physics, 2007-­‐2009; Geophysical Research Letters, 2012-­‐ Selected National/International Advisory Roles, Panels & Committees: Lead Author, IPCC Fifth Climate Change Assessment (to be published in 2013). Contributing author, IPCC Fourth Climate Change Assessment: The Physical Science Basis, 2007. National Academy of Sciences author panel, “Climate Science: Questions and Answers”, 2010. Lead author, NOAA CCSP Synthesis Product 1.1, “Temperature trends in the lower atmosphere—steps for understanding and reconciling differences”, April 2006. US National Academies workshop on assessing progress on the US Climate Change Science Program, Sept. 2006. Summary of Peer Reviewed Grant Funding: ARC Centre of Excellence in Climate System Science (with A. Pitman and 10 other CIs) awarded 2010. ARC SuperScience Fellowship (with M. England and three other CIs) awarded 2010. Australian Solar Institute (with M. Kay and three other CIs) awarded 2011 ARC Linkage (with J. Evans and L. Alexander) awarded 2012 UNSW Goldstar awards 2011, 2012. Prior grant funding from US agencies (NSF, NOAA, NASA), 2000-­‐2008. Top Ten Career Publications: 1.
Sherwood, S. C. and M. Huber, 2010. An adaptability limit to global warming due to heat stress, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., doi:10.107/pnas.0913352107. 2.
Sherwood, S. C., R. Roca, T. Weckwerth and N. Andronova, 2010. Tropospheric water vapor, convection and climate. Rev. Geophys., 48, doi:10.1029/2009RG000301. 3.
Sherwood, S. C., E. R. Kursinski and W. G. Read, 2006. A distribution law for free tropospheric relative humidity, J. Climate, 19, 6267-­‐6277. 4.
Sherwood, S. C., J. R. Lanzante and C. Meyer, 2005. Radiosonde daytime biases and late 20th century warming, Science, 309, 1556-­‐1559. 5.
Sherwood, S. C., 2002, A microphysical connection among biomass burning, cumulus clouds, and stratospheric moisture. Science, 295, 1271-­‐1275. 6.
Sherwood. S. C. and Dessler, A. E., 2001. A model for transport across the tropical tropopause. J. Atmospheric Sciences, 58, 765-­‐779. 7.
Sherwood, S. C. and Dessler, A. E., 2000. On the control of stratospheric humidity. Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 2513-­‐2516. 8.
Sherwood, S. C., 2000. A stratospheric “drain” over the maritime continent. Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 677-­‐680. 9.
Sherwood, S. C., 1999. Convective precursors and predictability in the tropical Western Pacific. Monthly Weather Review, 127, 2977-­‐2991. 10. Sherwood, S. C., Maintenance of the free-­‐tropospheric tropical water vapor distribution, Part II: Simulation by large-­‐scale advection. Journal of Climate, Vol. 9, No. 11, 1996, pp 2919-­‐2934