Scientific Officer

Reporting to the Director, the primary tasks of the IMOS Scientific officer are:

• to support the development of science plans through the nodes
• to promote the use and applications of IMOS data
• to raise awareness and links with stakeholders
• to assist the director in IMOS advocation.

While working on her PhD at CSIRO and the University of Tasmania, Katy has been working on and off for the IMOS office since prior to the first Annual Planning Meeting. She has provided continuing scientific support to IMOS including the design and implementation of the new website structure, and IMOS promotional material.

Prior to starting her PhD, Katy worked as a staff scientist with the International CLIVAR Project Office at the University of Southampton, UK. Her primary tasks included staff support for the CLIVAR Pacific and Global Synthesis and Observations Panels, links with the biogeochemistry community, the website, and data Management activities within CLIVAR.

For her PhD, Katy has focused on the long term changes and variability in the East Australian Current, and what is driving those changes. The primary inspiration for this work was the Maria Island coast station timeseries, which has now been enhanced as an IMOS National Reference Station.

Outside work, Katy’s interests include sailing, cycling and snowboarding. She is also a keen traveller, and has successfully managed to combine her studies with seeing a bit of the world.

• PhD. Quantitative Marine Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia (2009)
• M.Sc. Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Canada, (2002)
• B.Sc. (Hons), Marine Sciences, University of Southampton, UK (1998)

Hill, K.L., S.R. Rintoul, P.R. Oke and K. Ridgway (in submission) Rapid Response of the East Australian Current to remote wind forcing: the role of barotropic/baroclinic interactions. submitted to Journal of Marine Research.

Hill, K.L., T. Moltmann, R. Proctor, S. Allen (2009) Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System. Meteorology Technology International. Vol 1. 114-120.  

Ridgway, K. and Hill, K. (2009) The East Australian Current. In A Marine Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Report Card for Australia 2009 (Eds. E.S. Poloczanska, A.J. Hobday and A.J. Richardson), NCCARF Publication 05/09, ISBN 978-1-921609-03-9.

Feng, M., Weller, E. and Hill, K. (2009) The Leeuwin Current. In A Marine Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Report Card for Australia 2009 (Eds. E.S. Poloczanska, A.J. Hobday and A.J. Richardson), NCCARF Publication 05/09, ISBN 978-1-921609-03-9.

Hill, K.L, Rintoul, S.R., Ridgway, K.R. and Oke, P.R (in submission) Decadal changes in the South Pacific Western Boundary Current system revealed in observations and ocean state estimates. (submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research)

Hill, K. L., S. R. Rintoul, R. Coleman, and K. R. Ridgway (2008). Wind forced low frequency variability of the East Australia Current, Geophysical Research Letters 35, L08602, doi:10.1029/2007GL032912.

Hill, K.L., A.J. Weaver, H. Freeland & A. Bychkov (2003). Evidence of change in the Sea of Ohotsk: Implications for the North Pacific. Atmosphere Ocean 41(1) pp 49-63.

Challenor, P.G., P. Cipollini, D. Cromwell, K.L . Hill, G. D. Quartly, I. S Robinson (2003) Characteristics of mid-latitude Rossby wave propagation from multiple satellite datasets. International Journal of Remote Sensing. Volume 25(7-8) pp 1297-1302.

Hill, K.L., I.S. Robinson & P. Cipollini (2000) Propagation characteristics of extratropical planetary waves observed in the ATSR global sea surface temperature record. Journal of Geophysical Research 105(C9) pp 21927 - 21945.

 

• Variability in the East Australian Current and western boundary current systems.
• Oceanic teleconnections.