Curriculum Vitae
Dr Geoff Love
1124 Francis Hammond Parkway
Alexandria, VA 22302
Home Phone: +1 571-970-0098
Mobile:+1 207 414 6237 (US) and +61 414 404 055 (Australia)
Email: meteo.geoff@gmail.com
COUNTRY
OF
CITIZENSHIP
I have a long
experience
in the strategic management of organisations charged
with the delivery
of high
community
Australia,
and holder
of aquality,
US “Green
card”. relevant, weather, climate and
hydrological services.
I have in-depth knowledge of the observing, data management, and service
delivery technologies to be employed, the technologists needed, the management
support and community liaison required to achieve results the governments will
support in the long term.
I have experience in both developed and developing countries with volunteers,
donors, recipients of development aid and end-users of the services.
I have managed small and large service review projects and advised governments
at ministerial level on strategic directions and agency heads on options for
implementation at agency level.
The attached detailed curriculum vitae describes both my experience and
qualifications.
I am responding to the American Meteorological Society’s call for volunteers to
assist the IEDRO Site Survey Team work I have some relevant experience in
hydrological and meteorological data recovery.
Dr Geoff Love
Alexandria, VA
24 October 2015
WORK EXPERIENCE
“Pro Bono” Contributor to the American Meteorological Society,
consultant to the World Bank and volunteer assisting the less fortunate
US and Australia
01/2013 - present
I am currently a member of the American Meteorological Society’s Commission on
the Weather and Climate Enterprise. I am active in the committees focused on
international activities and in particular those working to improve global weather and
climate services.
The World Bank programs I have been asked to contribute to are aimed at
improving weather, climate and/or hydrological services targeted towards disaster
risk reduction in specific developing countries. The expertise I bring is both systems
focused and management focused. From a systems perspective the challenge is to
integrate local data with data from international sources to produce locally relevant,
high-value services. From a management perspective, assisting the further
development of local leadership, management and technical capacity is key.
I also work as a volunteer for a church-run foodbank at the Our Lady Queen of
Peace church in Arlington, VA, USA and for the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre
(an NGO) foodbank located in Footscray, VIC, Australia.
Director, World Meteorological Organization
09/2008 – 12/2012
Geneva, Switzerland
Director D2 Level
Director, Weather and Disaster Risk Reduction Services Department
As Director, Weather and Disaster Risk Reduction Services, I managed six
Divisions: Disaster Risk Reduction; Aeronautical Meteorology; Marine Meteorology
and Oceanography; Tropical Cyclone; Public Weather Services; and, Global Data
Processing and Forecasting. These Divisions dealt with a number of key
applications of meteorology and related sciences in ways that will effectively serve
user communities.
The job was as diverse as the Divisions within in the Department, with key aspects
of the job including: the provision of guidance to the research community on
priorities driven by operational services; working with advanced centres to assist
the flow of technologies and knowledge to developing countries; working with
developing country national meteorological services to improve data collection, data
management and service provision, working with funding agencies to develop and
implement nationally focused and regionally focused capacity building projects;
providing secretariat support to the work of three technical commissions (the WMO
technical commissions of: Aeronautical Meteorology; and, Basic Systems, and the
WMO-UNESCO Joint Commission on Oceanography and Marine Meteorology);
and generally providing leadership and management oversight to the multi-national
staff within the Department.
In 2010 and 2011 I was the WMO Secretariat’s manager of the High Level
Taskforce for the Global Framework for Climate Services. In this role I worked
closely with the Taskforce’s co-chairs to establish a structure for their report
(“Climate Knowledge for Action: A Global Framework for Climate Services”), played
a significant part in drafting the report and assisted in the stakeholder liaison
process, including working with donor countries for support to obtain support for the
activity. This Report has provided the basis for the intergovernmental agreement to
the implementation of the Framework that was secured at the Extraordinary World
Meteorological Congress in October 2012.
I also worked closely with research specialists in meteorology and the public health
sector to produce the WHO-WMO Atlas on Health and Climate.
CEO, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
08/2003 - 08/2008
Melbourne, Australia
SES Band 3
Director Meteorology
As Director of Meteorology I reported to the Minister for Environment and was
responsible for the administration of the Meteorology Act 1955, and for those
aspects of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997, the Public
Service Act 1999 and the Water Act 2007 that were relevant to the administration of
the Bureau of Meteorology. I supervised around 2000 staff. When I became the
CEO the Bureau had an annual budget of around 200M AUD, this grew to around
300M AUD over the five years I was CEO, as the Government funded additional
responsibilities including in the hydrology sector (450M AUD over ten years),
tsunami warning (40M AUD per year for 3 years to establish a network then staff
and operational costs thereafter), space weather (operation of the Ionospheric
Prediction Service 4.3M AUD per year) and tidal prediction (operation of the
National Tidal Facility – 3.4M AUD per year).
I was responsible for strategic and tactical planning for the organisation. I advised
the government on matters relating to weather (including disaster mitigation for all
weather related disasters, tsunamis, and emergency response where meteorology
plays a part), climate (including climate change), water resources (including the
development of a national water information system), oceanography (including tidal
forecasting, developing tsunami warning systems for the southwest Pacific and
Indian Oceans, and operational ocean analysis and forecasting) and space
weather.
I oversaw the work of the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC). BMRC
provided the underpinning scientific research for all of the Bureau’s operational
activities. In 2006 I initiated discussions with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific
and Research Organisation (CSIRO) that led to the amalgamation of BMRC and
elements of the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Science Division to form the
Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR) in a successful
effort to improve national capability in climate and weather modelling through the
consolidation of the efforts of the two closely related groups and the adoption , by
CAWCR, of the UK Meteorological Office global modelling system.
I supervised the operation of an observing system that comprised around 50 upper
air stations including four in Antarctica and a number on remote tropical islands,
some 500 automatic weather stations, and 6000 volunteer rainfall observers and
drove a process of strategic review and re-prioritisation of the resources within the
composite network of satellite-, aircraft-, surface-based radar, automatic weather
station- and human-observed meteorological parameters. I funded data rescue
operations in the South West Pacific and worked closely with the WMO in these
activities.
As a public service the Bureau was very effective in providing vital information to
the Australia and international communities. For example, in 2008 the Bureau's
web site averaged around 1.2 billion hits per month (with usage still growing
exponentially on an annual basis), providing a level of public access to, and usage
of data and products not matched by any other public sector agency in Australia.
Public surveys consistently revealed that the Bureau's services were held in
extremely high regard nationally.
While Director of Meteorology I served as a member of the WMO's Executive
Council (2003 -2008) and of the IPCC’s Bureau (2003-2008). I also served on
CSIRO’s Oceans Flagship Advisory Committee and participated, as Agency Head,
in a number of Ministerial Advisory Committees.
Executive Secretary, IPCC
05/2002 – 08/2003
Geneva, Switzerland
Director D2 level
Secretary Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
As Secretary of the IPCC my task was to coordinate the activities around the
preparation of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. In this role I organised the
documentation around three plenary meetings and prepared the detailed reports
describing decisions taken and future activities to be undertaken.
I worked closely with the Chair of the IPCC, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, to set up the
structure of the AR4, to arrange scoping meetings and to obtain high quality input
from scientists from the developing world. During this period, when work pressures
were intense, I worked closely with the IPCC technical support unit based in the UK
to assist in the management of the preparation of an IPCC Technical Paper on
Climate Change and Water. I prepared the budget for the IPCC and worked with
donor nations to ensure the necessary financial support for the work of the IPCC.
I prepared and delivered technical papers on climate change at a variety of
international symposia and represented the IPCC at UN FCCC Conferences of the
Parties (CoPs).
Australian Bureau of Meteorology
7/1997 - 5/2002
Melbourne, Australia
SES Band 2
Deputy Director (variously DD (Services) and DD(Research and Systems))
As the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's Deputy Director I had two roles: (1) To
serve as the Director of Meteorology’s deputy including regularly acting in his
position and representing him in a variety of for a; (2) Usually to direct the Services
Division of the Bureau. The Services Division included responsibilities for the
provision of all weather, climate, hydrological and oceanographic services. Under
my control were the Bureau's seven regional offices, the National Climate Centre,
the National Meteorological and Oceanographic Centre (incorporating the role as a
World Meteorological Centre (WMC - Melbourne)) the Bureau's Hydrology Unit which had responsibility for operating a stream gauging network and providing
nation-wide flood forecasting services, and the Bureau’s commercial unit.
Occasionally I also served as the Deputy Director responsible for the Research and
Systems Division which included oversight responsibilities for the research centre,
the observing systems, and the computing infrastructure.
While employed as the Deputy Director I served as vice-president (1996-2000) then
president (2000-2001) of the WMO's Commission for Basic Systems (CBS).
Superintendent, National Meteorological
and Oceanographic Center
1/1987 - 6/1997
Melbourne, Australia
As the head of Australia's National Meteorological and Oceanographic
Centre(NMOC) (which also serves as WMC Melbourne in the WMO's Basic
System) my task was to lead and direct the staff responsible for implementing and
operating the models that generated the range of products that WMC Melbourne is
called on to supply nationally and internationally.
I had three periods away from NMOC during my decade there:
(1) In 1991, for 12 months, I was seconded to the Industry Commission (an
Australian Government funded economic think-tank) as the science adviser to the
Government’s (first) Inquiry into the “Costs and Benefits of Reducing Greenhouse
Gas Emissions”. An Inquiry that accepted the reality of climate warming but also
recognised the difficulties in assessing costs and benefits of greenhouse gas
reduction, and, as a result, argued for a “least regrets” approach - which formed
the basis of Government Policy for the next decade;
(2) In 1995-96 I was seconded to the Department of the Environment where I
worked for 18 months as the Executive Secretary to the Commission of Inquiry into
the East Coast Armaments Complex, for Point Wilson, Victoria. I managed a full
environmental assessment and community consultation process which formed the
basis for developing a detailed and comprehensive report that included a viable
project proposal; and,
(3) In late 1996 and early 1997 I spent six-months assisting Prof Ralph Slatyer in
undertaking a study of the Bureau of Meteorology’s ability to generate additional
resources through commercial and cost recovery activities. This study identified
both actual opportunities for limited increases and real impediments to substantial
increases.
While head of NMOC, for seven years I also served as an associate editor of the
Australian Meteorological Magazine (AMM) and published a number of refereed
articles in the AMM and in international journals.
Australian Bureau of Meteorology
10/1976 – 12/1986
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Meteorologist Class 1 to Class 4
Forecaster (1977-78), Senior Forecaster (1982-83) then Regional Director (19841987)
I worked as a forecaster (both public weather and aviation) in the Darwin Regional
Forecasting Centre (RFC) / Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre (RSMC) in
1977 and 1978.
I commenced my PhD studies at Colorado State University in January 1979 and
successfully defended my Ph’d thesis in January 1982.
I returned to Darwin in 1982 and was, promoted to the level of senior forecaster,
supervising the forecast office and managing the process of issuing warnings for
tropical cyclones, severe bushfire conditions floods and the like.
In 1984 I was promoted to the position of Regional Director (Northern Territory) and
became heavily engaged in upgrading the tropical analysis program of the RSMC
from an entirely manual one to a computer-based one.
During my years in Darwin I received a six-month Japanese Government research
fellowship (1982-83) to work at the Meteorological Satellite Centre (MSC) in Kiyose,
Japan. At the MSC I worked on the operational, satellite-based, sea surface
temperature analysis activities as well as spent some time working with the group
responsible for operation of the imaging system.
During my last three years in Darwin and my first year in Melbourne I completed an
MBA degree, as an external student of Deakin University.
WMO, IPCC and GEO Activities as an Australian “Expert”
Member, WMO Executive Council, 2003 – 2008.
Chairman, WMO, Panel of Experts on Polar Meteorology 2008.
Chairman, WMO Executive Council, Panel of Experts on Antarctic Meteorology,
2007 – 2008.
Member Executive Committee (ExCom), Group on Earth Observation (GEO), 2007
– 2008.
Vice-chairman Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group
II.
President, WMO, Commission for Basic Systems (CBS), 2000-2002.
Vice-President, WMO Commission for Basic Systems (CBS), 1996-2000.
Member, WMO CBS Working Groups on Data Processing and Data Management,
1988- 2002.
Chairman, WMO CBS Working Group on Data Management, 1988-1996.
EDUCATION
Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Master of Business Administration. 02/1989
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Doctor of Philosophy (Atmospheric Sciences) 03/1982
La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Master of Science (Physics) 03/1976
La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Bachelor of Science (Honours) 03/1973