Panel: Climate risk
11.35am | Monday 25 November
Peter is a climate scientist and climate modeller at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). Peter’s work focuses on how different types of extreme weather events will respond to a warming world. To do so, Peter mostly works with physics-based climate models that run on supercomputers. More recently, he is working on using generative AI to improve the spatial resolution of climate change projections, making them more relevant for climate adaptation purposes. Peter is currently a Principal Investigator on a Smart Ideas Fund (MBIE) and a Marsden project (Royal Society Te Apārangi).
Prior to joining NIWA, Peter was a postdoctoral research scientist in the United States, holding positions at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego. His PhD was in Climate Science from the University of New South Wales, Australia.