Ian Goodwin is Associate Professor of Climate Risk at Macquarie University. He has 25 years consulting and research experience in the field of environmental geoscience, coastal geoscience, high-resolution paleoclimatology and paleoceanography, and climate change in Australasian, Antarctica and South-West Pacific region. Ian also has a background in Antarctic glaciology, logistics and environmental assessment, including environmental hazard definition and management within Australia and overseas, specifically in South Pacific Islands and Antarctica. Ian is an international expert on sea-level change and coastal response, wave climatology, longshore sediment transport, and large-scale coastal behaviour. His work is unique; he has developed an integrated approach to researching earth system archives using ice cores, corals and sediments; earth system processes using the sedimentary and instrumental records; regional climate change; and the modelling, prediction and management of hydrological and coastal change. Ian has also managed international scientific research programs on global change, for SCAR, IGBP and UNESCO, is currently Co-Chairman of the international Scientific Committee On Antarctic Research (SCAR), International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition; member of the Antarctic Research Assessment Committee (Physical Sciences) for Australia; member of the Australian Academy of Sciences, National Committee on Antarctic Research; and Australian Representative to UNESCO, Scientific Commission on Snow and Ice. In addition, Ian is widely published, and was awarded an ABC/Australian Academy of Sciences Science Media Fellowship in 2005 that he has used to research, and present science on national radio, TV and print media on climate change, Antarctica and coasts.

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