CURRICULUM VITAE of Stephanie J. Jacobs DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: 16 May 1989 Melbourne, Australia CONTACT INFORMATION: Telephone from Australia: 0407 919 905 Telephone from overseas: +61 407 919 905 Email: stephanie.jacobs@monash.edu Mailing address: 2/30 Edmund St Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia 3068 EDUCATION: B.Sc. (2010) University of Melbourne (major in Atmosphere and Ocean Science) M.Sc. (2012) University of Melbourne (Earth Sciences) (with Distinction) Currently a PhD candidate at Monash University MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS TITLE: It s getting hot in here, or is it? A meteorological analysis of apparent temperature in Australia including stress due to airborne pollution and pollen PUBLICATIONS: Peer-reviewed article: Jacobs SJ, Pezza AB, Barras V, Bye J, Vihma T (2013) An analysis of the meteorological variables leading to apparent temperature in Australia: present climate, trends, and global warming simulations. Global and Planetary Change 107:145 156 Peer-reviewed article: Jacobs SJ, Pezza AB, Barras V, Bye J (2014) A new bio-comfort perspective for Melbourne based on heat stress, air pollution and pollen. International Journal of Biometeorology 58:263 275 Peer-reviewed article: Jacobs SJ, Vihma T, Pezza AB (2015) Heat stress during the Black Saturday event in Melbourne, Australia. International Journal of Biometeorology 59:759 70 1
Journalistic article: Bad luck Brisbane: muggy cities will feel future heat even more. The Conversation published January 5 2015 Conference report: 19 th International Congress on Biometeorology, Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Feb 2012), pp. 6-7. MEDIA: Interviewed for Radio Adelaide segment Feeling the Heat, Jan 11 2015 https://radio.adelaide.edu.au/feeling-the-heat-2/ HONOURS AND SOCIETIES: Awarded, William P. Lowry Graduate Student Prize for best student presentation in the area of biometeorology/bioclimatology at the International Conference on Urban Climate in Toulouse France, 2015 Awarded, Best student poster with short talk for the Co-operative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities Annual Conference 2014 Awarded, $1000 grant to attend Spatial Synoptic Classification workshop in Umea, Sweden 2014. Awarded, Best Student Poster at the 2013 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference Awarded, Master of Science National Scholarship $10,000, University of Melbourne 2011 Nominated by the University of Melbourne for Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, Victorian Regional Award for top performing student Graduate Ambassador for University of Melbourne Graduate School of Science Member, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Member, International Society of Biometeorology Member, American Meteorological Society Member, Australian Science Communicators Member, Organising Committee, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science Victorian Postgraduate Symposium 2012, 2014, 2015 Member, Organising Committee, Australian Meteorolgical and Oceanographic Society Early Career Researcher event Student volunteer, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference Melbourne 2013 Guest panelist and speaker, Women in Science Breakfast at St Leonard s College 2013 POSTGRADUATE COURSES AND WORKSHOPS: Advanced Dynamical Meteorology (First Class Honours, 88, taught at Monash University) Climate Analysis and Modelling (First Class Honours, 85) Atmosphere Ocean Interaction and Climate (First Class Honours, 83) Statistics for Research Workers (First Class Honours, 82) 2
Statistical Inferences in Climate Dynamics (Second Class Honours A, 78, taught at Monash University) Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence Winter School Workshop 2012 Science Communication Workshop run by econnect 2015 Public Speaking Workshop Leadership Workshop Software Carpentry Bootcamp 2012, 2013, 2015 CONFERENCES: Oral presentation, Mitigating urban heat during heatwaves in Melbourne, Australia at 2016 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference, Melbourne, Australia (February 2016) Oral presentation, First steps toward a comparison of modelled thermal comfort during a heatwave in Melbourne, Australia at 2015 International Conference on Urban Climate, Toulouse, France (July 2015) Oral presentation, First steps toward a comparison of modelled thermal comfort during a heatwave in Melbourne, Australia at 2015 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference, Brisbane, Australia (July 2015) Poster presentation and short talk, Mitigating the urban heat island to improve human thermal comfort at 2014 Co-operative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia (October 2014) Oral presentation, It s getting hot in here or is it? at 2014 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference, Hobart, Australia (February 2014) Poster presentation, Heat stress during the Black Saturday event at 2014 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference, Hobart, Australia (February 2014) Poster presentation, How comfortable do you feel? at 2013 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference, Melbourne, Australia (February 2013) Oral presentation, A new bio-comfort perspective for Australia based on heat stress, air pollution and pollen at 10th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Nouméa, New Caledonia (April 2012). Attended 19th International Congress of Biometeorology, Auckland, New Zealand (December 2011). EMPLOYMENT AND INTERNSHIPS: 3
Digitising Umkehr data for the Ozone department at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne (February to May, August to November 2013) Paid internship with Dr Timo Vihma, senior research scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute Helsinki (June 2013) Tutor for undergraduate subject Climate Change at Monash University (semester 2, 2015) Tutor for undergraduate subject Natural Environments at the University of Melbourne (semester 1 and 2, 2013) Teaching aide for undergraduate subjects at the University of Melbourne: The Global Environment (semester 1, 2012, 2013) Atmosphere Environment Processes (semester 2, 2012, 2013) Dangerous Earth (semester 2, 2012) Weather and Climate Systems (semester 1, 2013) SKILLS: Programming languages: Python NCAR Command Language (NCL) Matlab GrADS Unix Commands Microsoft Office REFFERENCES: Dr. Ailie Gallant, Senior Lecturer, Department of Eart, Atmosphere and Environment, Faculty of Science, Monash University. Dr Gallant is my PhD supervisor. email: ailie.gallant@monash.edu +61-3-9905 3216 Assoc. Prof. Kevin Walsh, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne. Professor Walsh is the Honours/Master s coordinator in the Department of Earth Sciences email: kevin.walsh@unimelb.edu.au phone: +61-3-8344-6523 Dr Steve Rhodes, Ozone Network Custodian at Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Dr Rhodes is my supervisor at the Bureau of Meteorology 4
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