SOCCO's Sandy Thomalla to help shape the IPCC’s 7th assessment on climate change
Dr. Nicolette Chang
Staff
CSIR media release: CSIR ocean expert to serve on seventh Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The CSIR’s Dr Sandy Thomalla has been selected as a first author on the seventh assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Thomalla is a career oceanographer who currently leads the CSIR-hosted Southern Ocean Carbon-Climate Observatory (SOCCO). She joins fellow first authors from across the globe in a four-year voluntary process of compiling the world’s most influential and respected climate policy document.
“Governments around the world use the IPCC document as a support tool for mitigation and adaptation policy implementation,” says Thomalla.
Thomalla will co-author a section on the science of Earth system changes, which falls under chapter four of the first working group of the panel. Although Thomalla must be highly impartial in synthesising and collating the latest and highest quality research into the report, she will draw on her own expertise in ocean and climate science.