About Me
My name is Penelope (Penny) Maher and I am a climate scientist. I am a post-doc at the University of Exeter, England.
I am part of the ParaCon grant that aims to significantly improve the representation of convection across model scales from 1-100km. In this position I am working with Geoff Vallis and John Thuburn, with support from the Met Office. At present, I am involved in a project to building a reduced complexity version of the UM. Within this project, I am implementing the simple Betts-Miller convection scheme.
I have a PhD from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia which I completed at the Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) in 2014 under the supervision of Steven Sherwood.
I am a climate scientist and model developer, specialising in idealised models. My primary research interest is in understanding interactions between convection and global circulation in nature and in climate models.
Recent Publications
In April 2018 my paper looking at the impact of convection schemes on model rainfall was published in GRL.
Our publication on the climate model framework Isca is now available. More information on Isca can be found on our model website.
Recent Blogs and Activities
I founded and co-organise the Women in Climate (WiC) Network, see our women in climate website for more details.
I co-founded an Australian charity that aims to provide scholarhsips to undergraduate STEM students at UNSW. See our grow STEM website for more details.
I like writing journal articles in LaTeX. But managing revisions and working out changes between revisions is not easy. So I wrote a shell package to help.
Read my blog: Writing a journal article in LaTeX with colour coded personalised track changes. »
Popular Blogs
I am in the process of writing a multi-blog post on academia, motivation, work life balance and managing stress. The first entry on work life balance in academia asks the question: Is work life balance in academia the problem or am I the problem?
Read my blog: A balanced scientist »
I wrote a blog reflecting on my experience as a PhD student. To say the last few months were hard is an understatement.
Read my blog: Reflections on a PhD »
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