GES Staff Profile Dr. Jason Beringer, Associate Professor
BSc.(Hons.) 1992 Monash University
PhD 1999 Monash University
Graduate Certificate in Higher Education 2004 Monash University
Research | Teaching | Publications | Grants | Personal | Climate Group
Research and Teaching Interests
Summary : Primary areas of interest include micrometeorology, boundary layer climatology, land/atmosphere interactions, land surface modelling, remote sensing and global change (earth systems science). In particular, I am interested in the detection of changes in the environment and vegetation and its influence on surface energy and trace gas exchanges and ecosystem processes. These include vegetation and ecosystem change, urban change, and land/water interfaces.
Micrometeorology: Fundamental understanding of the interactions between the surface and atmosphere can only come about through rigorous measurement and modelling programs. I use various micrometeorological techniques to measure exchanges of heat, water and carbon dioxide from the surface. Future research may include measurements of CO2 isotope and isoprene fluxes. I am establishing a long-term energy and CO2 flux-monitoring site in the old growth Mountain Ash forest in Kinglake to investigate long-term carbon and water budgets in natural ecosystems.
Climate change: An over arching interest in global change and earth system interactions. Primary the links between the biosphere and climate change. Both physical and biogeochemical changes in the landscape will feedback to affect the carbon cycle and greenhouse gas emissions. Through micrometeorological techniques we can measure the sources and sinks of carbon in systems.
Land-atmosphere interactions: The land surface is vital in driving climate on multiple scales. Changes in vegetation type, soil parameters, and land/water interfaces are likely to feedback to alter climate. Current research includes investigating the interactions between fire, vegetation and climate. I also utilise land surface models and remote sensing in teaching and research.
Awards
2006 Faculty of Arts Inaugural Early Career Researcher Award
- 2005 Monash University Research award (Time release fellowship for 12 months) $50,000
- 2004 Nomination for the Australian awards for University Teaching
- 2003 Monash University awards for teaching excellence (Special commendation)
- 2003 Faculty Teaching Award (Arts)
- 2002 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for critical thinking - shortlisted
- 2001 Great Australia Science Show - Fresh Science - national selection to present at Melbourne conference
Centre Professional Memberships
- International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP): Integrated Land-Ecosystem-Atmosphere Process study (ILEAPS) member
- EUFIRELAB, a wall-less Laboratory for Wildland Fire Sciences and Technologies in the Euro-Mediterranean Region (International Science Committee), 2005-
- Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
- American Meteorological Society
- American Geophysical Union
- Institute of Australian Geographers
- International Association for Urban Climate