Milton Speer

Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney

My PhD is in Meteorology (which includes climate).

I am a Visiting Fellow in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

First as an operational meteorologist with the Bureau of Meteorology I developed experience in extremes of weather and climate and followed that on with research that spanned and linked the techniques of numerical weather prediction and traditional synoptic meteorology to provide new insights, for example, into severe storms, tornadoes, East Coast Coast Lows and southerly busters.

Over the last 30 years my research has expanded into the extremes relating to climate change and variability.
This research is wide ranging from meteorological aspects of dust storms, heavy rainfall, floods and attribution of climate drivers.

I have a long history of outreach to the community through comments in the media about meteorological aspects of extreme events and climate change and more recently in The Conversation.

Experience

2019–present

Visiting Fellow, Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
2006–2021

Visiting Fellow, Climate Change Research Centre, The University of New South Wales
1978–2005

Meteorologist, Bureau of Meteorology Melbourne and Sydney
1975–1977

Mathematican, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Canberra, Australia

Education

2000

University of New England, NSW, Graduate Diploma in Management
1998

The University of New South Wales, PhD
1978

Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology Melbourne, Diploma in Meteorology
1974

The University of New South Wales, B.Sc

Publications

2021

, see Profile (University of Technology Sydney)

Professional Memberships

Fellow, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Member, American Meteorological Society