Katrin Meissner (scientist)

Katrin Juliane Meissner is a German and Australian physical oceanographer and climate scientist.[1]

Katrin Meissner
NationalityGerman, Australian
Alma materEcole Centrale de Lille
Scientific career
FieldsOcean and climate change research
InstitutionsUniversity of New South Wales

Meissner completed an engineering degree at the Ecole Centrale de Lille in 1995, a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies, at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France in 1996, and a Doctor of Physics (PhD) at the Universität Bremen, Germany in 1999. In 2000, she received the Annette Barthelt Prize for outstanding research in the field of marine science.

Career

Meissner became an Assistant Professor at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Canada, in 2002. In 2009, she moved to the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Her relocation from a tenure-track position in Victoria was in part due to the long term issues of reduced funding for climate change science across Canada.[2]

In 2010, she was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. She is currently the Director of the Climate Change Research Centre.[3]

In 2015, she was one of the featured scientists in Joe Duggan's project about emotions in the work of scientists focused on climate change.[4]

In June 2018, she was a co-author of a paper[5] in Nature Geoscience which posited that current model-based climate projections could be greatly underestimating the rate of warming.[6]

Research interests

Meissner researches abrupt climate change events, and thresholds and feedbacks in the climate system using Earth System Climate Models together with palaeoclimate records to increase understanding of the basic mechanisms of climate variability and climate change, particularly in the context of terrestrial biogeochemical cycles and ocean circulation.

The work of her and her team developed model studies on rapid climate changes in Australia.[7]

Positions held

Meissner currently holds the following positions:

Selected publications
  • Fischer, H.; Meissner, K.J.; Mix, A. C.; Abram, N.J.; Austermann, J.; Brovkin, V.; Capron, E.; Colombaroli, D.; Daniau, A.-L.; Dyez, K.A.; Felis, T.; Finkelstein, S.A.; Jaccard, S.L.; McClymont, E.L.; Rovere, A.; Sutter, J.; Wolff, E.W.; Affolter, S.; Bakker, P.; Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A.; Barbante, C.; Caley, T.; Carlson, A.E.; Churakova (Sidorova), O.; Cortese, G.; Cumming, B.F.; Davis, B.A.D.; de Vernal, A.; Emile-Geay, J.; Fritz, S.C.; Gierz, P.; Gottschalk, J.; Holloway, M.D.; Joos, F.; Kucera, M.; Loutre, M.-F.; Lunt, D.J.; Marcisz, K.; Marlon, J.R.; Martinez, P.; Masson-Delmotte, V.; Nehrbass-Ahles, C.; Otto-Bliesner, B.; Raible, C.C.; Risebrobakken, B.; Sánchez Goñi, M.F.; Saleem Arrigo, J.; Sarnthein, M.; Sjolte, J.; Stocker, T.F.; Velasquez Alvárez, P.A.; Tinner, W.; Valdes, P.J.; Vogel, H.; Wanner, H.; Yan, Q.; Yu, Z.; Ziegler, M.; Zhou L. (2018). "Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond" (PDF). Nature Geoscience. 11 (7): 474–485. Bibcode:2018NatGe..11..474F. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0146-0.
  • Menviel, L.; Spence, P.; Yu, J.; Chamberlain, M.A.; Matear, R.J.; Meissner, K.J.; England M.H. (2018). "Southern Hemisphere westerlies as a driver of the early deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise". Nature Communications. 9 (1): 2503. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04876-4. PMC 6021399. PMID 29950652.
  • Meissner, K.J.; Bralower, T.J. (2017). "Palaeoclimate: Volcanism caused ancient global warming". Nature. 548 (7669): 531–533. Bibcode:2017Natur.548..531M. doi:10.1038/548531a. PMID 28858315.
  • Meissner, K.J. (2015). "Palaeoclimate: The dynamics of cold events". Nature Geoscience. 8 (12): 904–906. Bibcode:2015NatGe...8..904M. doi:10.1038/ngeo2564.
  • Alexander, K.; Meissner, K.J.; Bralower, T.J. (2015). "Sudden spreading of corrosive bottom water during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum". Nature Geoscience. 8 (6): 458–461. Bibcode:2015NatGe...8..458A. doi:10.1038/ngeo2430.
  • Meissner, K.J.; Lippmann, T.; Sen Gupta, A. (2012). "Large-scale stress factors affecting coral reefs: open ocean sea surface temperature and surface seawater aragonite saturation over the next 400 years". Coral Reefs. 31 (2): 309–319. Bibcode:2012CorRe..31..309M. doi:10.1007/s00338-011-0866-8.
  • Avis, C.A.A.; Weaver, A.J.; Meissner, K.J. (2011). "Evolution of high-latitude wetlands in response to permafrost thaw". Nature Geoscience. 4 (7): 444–448. doi:10.1038/ngeo1160.
  • Eby, M.; Montenegro, A.; Archer, D.; Meissner, K.J. (2009). "Lifetime of anthropogenic climate change: Millennial time-scales of potential CO2 and surface temperature perturbations". Journal of Climate. 22 (7): 2501–2511. doi:10.1038/ngeo1160.
  • Meissner, K.J.; Weaver, A.J.; Matthews, H.D.; Cox, P.M. (2003). "The role of land-surface dynamics in glacial inception: a study with the UVic Earth System Model". Climate Dynamics. 21 (7–8): 515–537. doi:10.1007/s00382-003-0352-2.

References
  1. "Katrin Meissner".
  2. Munro, Margaret (17 February 2009). "Scientists leaving Canada as climate funding dries up". Victoria Times Colonist. p. A5.
  3. "Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) | Science".
  4. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Sarah (2015-09-23). "How should we feel about climate change? | Inside Story". Inside Story. ISSN 1837-0497. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  5. Fischer, Hubertus; Meissner, Katrin J.; Zhou, Liping (25 June 2018). "Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond" (PDF). Nature Geoscience. 11 (7): 474–485. Bibcode:2018NatGe..11..474F. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0146-0.
  6. Holder, Michael (9 July 2018). "Hot topic: Will Theresa May challenge Donald Trump on climate change?". Business Green. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  7. Pittock, A. Barrie (2013). Climate Change: The Science, Impacts and Solutions (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 93. ISBN 9780643094840.
  8. "People at the UVic Climate Modelling Group".
  9. "Directory of People | College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences | Oregon State University".
  10. "PAGES Executive Committee (EXCOM) Meeting".
  11. "Scientific Steering Committee (SSC)".
  12. "Editorial board - Environmental Research Letters - IOPscience".
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