Professor
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Professor
School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences (SEALS)
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- ProfessorSchool of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences (SEALS)
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am a paleoclimatologist who has made substantial advances in understanding civilisations most serious threats: global climate change, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, and human-climate-environment impacts. I study the climate of the past to better understand present day climate This research improves our ability to forecast climate change and addresses key questions on the origins of natural climate variations. Current projects include:
Past climate and environmental impacts on Great Barrier Reef paleoecology (ARC Discovery Project DP200100206)
El Niño in a changing climate: novel long-term perspectives from Pacific corals and model simulations (ARC Future Fellowship FT40100286)
Past Global changes (PAGES) 2k Network: "a long-running initiative studying past global changes of the last 2000 years" (http://pastglobalchanges.org/science/wg/2k-network/intro)
I also have an active interest in climate science communication, including art-science collaborative projects:
Global Challenges - Next generation sustainable crafting
Global Challenges - Energy Efficient Art (https://www.uow.edu.au/global-challenges/making-future-industries/energy-efficient-art/)
Past climate and environmental impacts on Great Barrier Reef paleoecology (ARC Discovery Project DP200100206)
El Niño in a changing climate: novel long-term perspectives from Pacific corals and model simulations (ARC Future Fellowship FT40100286)
Past Global changes (PAGES) 2k Network: "a long-running initiative studying past global changes of the last 2000 years" (http://pastglobalchanges.org/science/wg/2k-network/intro)
I also have an active interest in climate science communication, including art-science collaborative projects:
Global Challenges - Next generation sustainable crafting
Global Challenges - Energy Efficient Art (https://www.uow.edu.au/global-challenges/making-future-industries/energy-efficient-art/)
FUNDING
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PROJECT GRANT
Unravelling sea level, climate and coral reef responses to global change
Australian Research Council31 Dec 2025 - 30 Dec 2028
People funded by this grant: McGregor H
PROJECT GRANT
Mean sea surface temperature and hydrological change in the sub-tropical Pacific across glacial cycles of the past 500,000 years
Australian and New Zealand International Ocean Discovery Program Consortium (ANZIC-IODP)18 Jul 2025 - 30 Jul 2026
People funded by this grant: McGregor H
OTHER RESEARCH PROJECT
Pilot research on stalagmites from Rambutyo Island, Papua New Guinea
University of Wollongong18 Sep 2023 - 17 Sep 2023
People funded by this grant: Kimbrough A
INFRASTRUCTURE
Australian Membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) - 2023-24
Australian Research Council1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2024
People funded by this grant: McGregor H, McGregor H
PROGRAMME
Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future
Australian Research Council14 Jun 2021 - 14 Jun 2030
People funded by this grant: Robinson AM S, Robinson AM S, McGregor H, Kaye S, Cressie N
INFRASTRUCTURE
Australian Membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program
Australian Research Council1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2022
People funded by this grant: McGregor H, McGregor H
PROJECT GRANT
Indonesian Throughflow temperature, oceanography and monsoon influence over the Holocene
Australian and New Zealand International Ocean Discovery Program Consortium (ANZIC-IODP)1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2021
People funded by this grant: McGregor H
OTHER GRANT
Pacific Ocean and Australian Monsoon interactions over the past millennium
University of Wollongong1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
People funded by this grant: McGregor H, McGregor H
OTHER RESEARCH PROJECT
Global Challenges: Next Generation Sustainable Crafting (Research Project)
UOW Global Challenges1 Jul 2019 - 31 Dec 2021
Next generation sustainable crafting investigates how art can instigate ‘transformative change’ through technological and scientific literacy to promote environmental sustainability. United Nations report (2019) defines transformative change as “a fundamental, system-wide reorganization across technological, economic and social factors, including paradigms, goals and values”. The project will: (1) create and showcase artworks that respond to emerging ecological sustainability trends in creative industries; (2) advance method for eco-friendly synthesis of graphene; (3) engage the creative and STEM communities in sustainable making, climate science data, advanced materials and DIY electronics through traditional crafting techniques; and (4) evaluate the impact of sustainable crafting through qualitative visual ethnography methods, and capture the narrative of enacting change.
PROJECT GRANT
Blue Futures: Managing and planning for coastal change
University of Wollongong1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
People funded by this grant: Warner R, Kennedy J, Gibbons B, Kerr G, Brennan-Horley C
INFRASTRUCTURE
Eaton 93PR UPS unit, PowerShield UPS unit, Transformer unit
University of Wollongong1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019
People funded by this grant: McGregor H, Kelso C
SEED FUNDING
Linkage of past climate and environment to Great Barrier Reef ecology
University of Wollongong1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019
People funded by this grant: McGregor H
INFRASTRUCTURE
A Kiel IV Carbonate Preparation Device for carbon and oxygen isotope ratio analyses in Earth, Biological and Environmental Sciences
University of Wollongong1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2018
People funded by this grant: McGregor H, Cohen T, Bradstock R, Davis A, Woodroffe C
SEED FUNDING
Great Barrier Reef ocean temperatures and ecological change in context
University of Wollongong1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2018
People funded by this grant: McGregor H
PROJECT GRANT
South Pacific climate over the past millennium from unique artificial island seascapes in the Solomon Islands
University of Wollongong1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2017
People funded by this grant: McGregor H
INFRASTRUCTURE
The Phenom XL: a bench-top scanning electron microscope for geoscience, designed for rapid analysis in a multi-user environment
University of Wollongong1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2017
People funded by this grant: Tanner D, Cohen T, Jacobs Z, Woodroffe C, McGregor H
INFRASTRUCTURE
Australian Membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program
Australian Research Council1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2020
People funded by this grant: McGregor H, McGregor H, Sloss C
OTHER GRANT
Metal-free hotplate set+ PFA cleaning station etc
University of Wollongong1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2016
People funded by this grant: Codilean A, Flentje P, Cohen T, Murray-Wallace C, McGregor H
OTHER GRANT
Change Week
University of Wollongong1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2015
People funded by this grant: McGregor H, Takacs G, Horton K
SEED FUNDING
Investigate the use of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma (ICP) atomic emission etc
University of Wollongong1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2015
People funded by this grant: McGregor H
INFRASTRUCTURE
Australian Membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program
Australian Research Council1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2015
People funded by this grant: Sloss C, Sloss C
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
El Nino in a changing climate: novel long-term perspectives from Pacific corals and model simulations
Australian Research Council1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2018
People funded by this grant: McGregor H