Dr Kathleen McInnes

Kathleen McInnes is a Post-retirement Fellow at CSIRO Environment. Prior to her retirement, she led the CSIRO High-resolution Climate, Ocean and Extremes group of the Climate Intelligence Program. Her work deals with how climate change will affect severe weather and coastal extreme sea levels with a focus on Australia and Pacific small islands. She developed climate projections for impact and adaptation assessments to assist local government manage and adapt to climate change. Her contribution to this work was awarded Eureka awards in 2003 and 2009. She has published over 200 refereed publications, reports and articles and has been a lead author on several reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in the area of sea level, extreme weather and compound events. She also served as a co-chair of the World Climate Research Program Grand Challenge on Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts. In 2017 she became a Fellow of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and in 2020 she was awarded the CSIRO Medal for Lifetime Achievement.