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Shayne McGregor Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 2009 - Doctor of Philosophy (Climate Variability), Department of
Environment and Geography, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia
Thesis: Mechanisms forcing interdecadal variability of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. - 2006 - Master (honors) degree (First Class), Department of
Physical Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Thesis: Interdecadal sea surface temperature variability in the tropical Pacific Ocean: the role of equatorial and off-equatorial wind stress forcing, oceanic Rossby waves, and the coupled system. - 2003 - Bachelor of Environmental Science (Atmospheric Science), Department of Physical Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Research Interests
- ENSO dynamics
- Decadal-scale climate variability
- Climate predictability
Scientific Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2009 – December 2010
- Teaching Assistant (casual), Department of Physical Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. March 2004 – June 2008
- Guest Lecturer, Department of Physical Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. October 2006 and 2007
Refereed Publicationss
- Holbrook, N.J., I.D. Goodwin, S. McGregor, E. Molina and S. Power: ENSO to multi-decadal time scale changes in East Australian Current transports and Fort Denison sea level: Oceanic Rossby waves as the connecting mechanism. Deep Sea Research, in press.
- McGregor, S., and A. Timmermann, 2011: The effect of explosive tropical volcanism on ENSO. J. Climate, 24, 2178 – 2191, doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3990.1.
- Timmermann, A., S. McGregor, and F.-F. Jin, 2010: Wind Effects on Past and Future Regional Sea Level Trends in the Southern Indo-Pacific. J. Climate, 23, 4429 – 4437, doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3519.1.
- McGregor, S., N.J. Holbrook, and S.B. Power, 2009a: The response of a stochastically forced ENSO model to observed off-equatorial wind-stress forcing. J. Climate, 22, 2512 – 2525.
- McGregor, S., A. Sen Gupta, N.J. Holbrook, and S.B. Power, 2009b: The role of extra-tropical to tropical Pacific Ocean exchanges in the variability of ENSO in CCSM3. J. Climate, 22, 5839 – 5853.
- McGregor, S., A. Timmermann, and O. Timm, 2010: A Unified Proxy for ENSO variability since 1650. Climate of the Past, 6, 1 – 17.
- McGregor, S., N.J. Holbrook, and S.B. Power, 2008: Interdecadal sea surface temperature variability in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Part II: the role of equatorial/offequatorial wind stresses in a hybrid coupled model. J. Climate, 21, 4242 – 4256, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2057.1.
- McGregor, S., N.J. Holbrook, and S.B. Power, 2007: Interdecadal sea surface temperature variability in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Part I: the role of off-equatorial wind stresses and oceanic Rossby waves. J. Climate, 20, 2643 – 2658.
- McGregor, S., N.J. Holbrook, and S.B. Power, 2004: On the dynamics of interdecadal thermocline depth and sea surface temperature variability in the low to mid-latitude Pacific Ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, 10.1029/2004GL021241.