Biography

Dr Anthony Kiem is a hydroclimatologist and lecturer in the Environmental and Climate Change Research Group (ECCRG) within the Faculty of Science at the University of Newcastle. His major research focus is on understanding the drivers and impacts of climate variability and change in the Asia-Pacific region. Of particular interest are hydrological extremes and how these may change in the future. Anthony has extensive experience in characterising impacts of climate variability and change, seasonal/interannual forecasting, extreme event (e.g. flood, drought, bushfire etc.) risk analysis, hydrological modelling, stochastic modelling, and water resources management.

In addition to the research mentioned above, Anthony has also been involved in a wide range of consulting projects where insights into the impacts of climate variability and change are used to enable stakeholders from a range of public and private sector organisations to better assess their climate related risk - which therefore enables more informed climate adaptation and mitigation strategies to be developed.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Newcastle, 2003
• Diploma in Education, University of Newcastle, 1997
• Bachelor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle, 1996

Research

Research keywords

• climate change
• climate variability
• climatology
• extreme event (flood, drought, bushfire) risk
• hydroclimatology
• hydrology
• statistics and stochastic modelling
• water resources management

Research expertise

• Climatology, hydrology, climate variability and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region
• Extensive experience in understanding the multi-temporal drivers of Australia's climate and characterising their associated impacts
• Climate forecasting on seasonal, annual, multi-year and multi-decadal timescales
• Experienced in quantifying extreme event (e.g. flood, drought, bushfire) risk and vulnerability
• Experienced in analysing and interpreting climate model output and utilising this information, combined with spatial and temporal downscaling techniques, to assess possible regional (and large-scale) impacts of climate change
• Experienced in stochastic data generation and familiar with a variety of different approaches
• Have utilised a variety of different hydrological models including the University of Yamanashi Distributed Hydrological Model (YHyM) (which I was also a developer of), TOPMODEL, VIC, REALM, IQQM
• Experienced in handling large datasets, meeting deadlines, working on several projects at one time, and presenting/communicating results and information (orally and in writing)
• Knowledge of the Victorian Department of Sustainability & Environment (DSE), Hunter Water Corporation, Southern Rural Water and Sydney Catchment Authority reservoir operations, drought/flood management procedures and experienced in working with similar organisations

Collaboration

Characterising impacts of climate variability and change, seasonal/interannual forecasting, extreme event (e.g. flood, drought, bushfire etc.) risk analysis, hydrological modelling, stochastic modelling, water resources management.

Languages

• English

Fields of Research

Centres and Groups

Centre

• Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIER)

Group

• Environmental and Climate Change Research Group

Administrative

Administrative expertise

• Project management
• student supervision

Teaching

Teaching keywords

• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• climate variability and change
• climatology
• hydrology
• statistics

Teaching expertise

• Climatology, hydrology, impacts and modelling of climate variability and climate change, extreme event risk quantification
• Statistics and stochastic modelling
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Courses

• GEOS1040 - Earth's Dynamic Systems
• GEOS2040 - Energy and the Environment
• GEOS2070 - Climatology & Soils
• GEOS2161 - GIS & Remote Sensing
• ENVS3205 - Climate Change & Resource Management
• GEOS3280 - Global Change
• GEOS4410 - Earth Science Honours
• GEOS4420 - Earth Science Honours
• GEOS4430 - Earth Science Honours
• GEOS4440 - Earth Science Honours