Karoly, David John

Positions summary

Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Mathematics 1983-1993; Acting Director (1993-94) and Director (1995-2000) of CRC for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology.

Biography

David Karoly was born in 1955. He graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Science (Hons), and from the University of Reading with a PhD. Between 1983 and 1995, he was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer & Reader in the Monash Department of Mathematics, and was also Acting Director (1993-94) and Director (1995-2000) of the CRC for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology. In 1984-85 Karoly was Visiting Scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, USA, and he became a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 1999, having won its Meisinger Award in 1993. Karoly also won the Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award from the World Meteorological Organization in 1998. At Monash, Karoly was Chair of Meteorology 2001-2002, before leaving to take up an appointment as Williams Chair and Professor of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma.

Papers

Australian Meteorological Society manuscript material 1993-1999 0.36m
Unpublished material and related correspondence accumulated by Professor Karoly in his role as editor, both of the AMS Monograph 'Meteorology of the Southern Hemisphere', and of articles submitted to Australian Meteorological Magazine for a special issue in 1997.

See also
David J Karoly: Williams Chair Professor of Meteorology