Shayne McGregor

Associate Professor, School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment, Monash university Shayne.McGregor@monash.edu

Biography

Shayne’s research straddles the boundary of theory, observations and modelling and seeks to understand climate variability and change, with a primary focus on the Australasian region. To date, his research has focused on El Nino-Southern Oscillation dynamics and predictability, Pacific Basin decadal variability, Paleo-climate reconstructions, Interbasin connectivity and sea level variability and rise.

articles

A Pacific Ocean atoll photographed from the air

Far from swell: La Niña offers a terrifying glimpse into the future

Severe coastal flooding inundated islands in the Pacific last week, including the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. It’s a taste of things to come.

Featured

Grim warning: Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, the first since the Paris Agreement was ratified almost five years ago, comes with the past six years being the warmest on record.

Environment