Education and Training

Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, February 2016 (expected)                                                                                

Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia B.Sc., Energy Studies. 1^st Class Honors, November 2011

Curtin University, Western Australia B.Com., Marketing and Public Relations, 1998

Professional Experience

WA Government Office of Energy, Perth, Western Australia Research Officer 2011

Localeclothing.com.au, Perth, Western Australia Founder 2006 – 2008  

WebSpy Ltd, Perth, Western Australia and Seattle, Washington Product Manager  1998 – 2006

Louthean Publishing, Perth, Western Australia Sales and Marketing Coordinator     1995 – 1998

Publications 

Andrys J., T J. Lyons, and J Kala. ” Evaluation of a WRF Ensemble using GCM Boundary Conditions to Quantify Mean and Extreme Climate for the Southwest of Western Australia (1970-1999).” International Journal of Climatology (submitted July 2015)

Andrys J., Thomas J. Lyons, and Jatin Kala. “Multidecadal Evaluation of WRF Downscaling Capabilities over Western Australia in Simulating Rainfall and Temperature Extremes.” Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology54.2 (2015): 370-394.

Andrys J., T.J. Lyons, J. Kala. 2015. Using Relative Entropy to Quantify Changes in Regional Climate Simulations. 95^thAmerican Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix USA (January 2015)

Andrys J., T.J. Lyons, J. Kala. 2014. Using high performance computing to detect future changes in rainfall and temperature extremes. International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, New Orleans USA (November 2014)

Kala, J., Andrys, J., Lyons, T. J., Foster, I. J., & Evans, B. J. 2014. Sensitivity of WRF to driving data and physics options on a seasonal time-scale for the southwest of Western Australia. Climate Dynamics, 1-27. doi 10.1007/s00382-014-2160-2

Andrys, J., Lyons, T. J., Kala, J., 2013: Modelling Regional Climate in the South West of Western Australia (SWWA) to Detect Future Changes in Rainfall and Temperature Extremes, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union , December, San Francisco, USA.

Andrys, J., Lyons, T. J., Kala, J., 2013: Modelling Regional Climate in the South West of Western Australia (SWWA) to Detect Future Changes in Rainfall and Temperature Extremes, 93^rd Annual Meeting, American Meteorological Society, February, Atlanta, USA.

Lyons, T.J., J. Kala, J. Andrys and I.J. Foster, 2013: Sensitivity of energy resources to model parameterisation. 2nd International Conference, Energy and Meteorology, Weather and Climate for the Energy Industry, June, Toulouse, France.

 

Awards and Scholarships

Grains Research and Development Corporation Scholarship                 2013

Australian Postgraduate Award                                                                     2012

Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence                  2010

Luke Pen Award                                                                                                2010

MuENSA Prize for Management of Aquatic Systems                                2010

Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence                  2009

MuENSA Prize for Ecology                                                                             2009

Technology Summary

Languages: R, NCL, Shell

Systems: Linux, Windows, MacOS

Software: MS Office Suite, Weather Research and Forecast Model, The Air Pollution Model

Other: LaTeX