J.R. Hunter, PhD, BSc (Hons)
John Hunter works as an oceanographer at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems
Cooperative Research Centre, which is based in the University of Tasmania. His
current interests are the sea-level rise induced by climate change, and the
response of Antarctic Ice Shelves to global warming. His interest in sea-level
rise was initially stimulated in the mid-1990s by his work (with others) on the
historic sea-level mark at the Isle of the Dead, Port Arthur, which indicated
where sea level was in 1841. This was one of the first such marks struck
anywhere in the world for the scientific investigation of sea level. Recent
work has involved investigations of sea-level rise in Australia, the U.S., and
in the Indian Ocean and Pacific regions, and the way in which this rise
increases the frequency of flooding events. He has a keen interest in seeing
that the science of climate change is accurately communicated, not distorted
by the so-called "climate skeptics" and is appropriately incorporated into
public policy.
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