Roger Stone is Emeritus Professor of Climate Science and Director of the Centre for Applied Climate Sciences at the University of Southern Queensland, holding a PhD in Regional Climate Systems from the University of Queensland and an Honours degree and Diploma in Applied Science from RMIT and UQ; he began his career as an aviation meteorologist before earning his doctorate and moving into climatology and climate applications for agriculture, holding leadership roles at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO’s Division of Tropical Crops and Pastures, the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, and the Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence, and from 2007 to 2017 directing both the International Centre for Applied Climate Sciences and the Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments; Professor Stone has worked closely with the WMO for over 30 years—serving as President of the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM) from 2014 to 2018, Vice-President of the Services Commission (SERCOM) in 2019, Task Team Chair for the World Weather Research Programme, and executive member of the WMO Standing Committee on Services to Agriculture as well as expert teams for the Commission for Climatology—and his climate systems modelling and decision-support research, particularly for drought preparedness and agricultural planning, has appeared in leading journals including Nature, Journal of Climate, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Meteorological Society, and he has secured over AUD 80 million in external research grants.
Homepage: https://staffprofile.unisq.edu.au/profile/roger-stone
