Moninya Roughan

Moninya Roughan is a professor of Oceanography at the University of New South Wales Australia,[1] one of three first female professors in the school of mathematics and statistics with Frances Kuo and Catherine Greenhill[2] and one of the first two first female Oceanography professors in Australia with Katrin Meissner.[3] Roughan is a physical oceanographer working on the dynamics of coastal ocean currents, in particular on physical forcing mechanisms, together with nutrient enrichment processes and their biological impact[4][5][6] The work involves observations and numerical models.. Her work has helped the understanding of the oceanography of the East Australian Current[7] and its effects on the waters of the continental shelf.[8]

Early life and education

Roughan grew up in Ku-ring-gai Council area of Sydney Australia, a granddaughter of Winsome Andrew, one of Australia's award winning and first female architects, and great grand daughter of Captain E. H. Andrew, first master of the wool clipper Cromdale.

She attended Loreto College, Normanhurst where she was Barry House Music captain.[9]

She earned a BSc (Honours Class 1) in Oceanography at the University of New South Wales in 1998[1] and a PhD in Oceanography at the University of New South Wales in 2002.[1]

Career

During 2017–2019, Roughan worked in industry, most recently as Head of Research Partnerships for the NZ Meteorological Service.[10]

Roughan was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and Professor in 2019.[2]

Research interests and impact

Roughan's work has been funded by the Australia Research Council, Australian Federal and State Government programs, the New Zealand Ministry of Business Industry and Education, the US Office of Naval Research. She also undertakes contracted research and consultancy.[11]

Since 2006, Roughan has taken a key roll in the design, deployment and ongoing development of one of the most comprehensive ocean observing systems in the southern hemisphere through her involvement in Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System.  She has served on the NSW-IMOS leadership team since inception, including serving as leader and deputy leader of NSW IMOS node from 2007–2013 and a continuing member of the National Coastal Mooring Network Steering Committee. She leads the NSW-IMOS moorings sub-facility responsible for the continued deployment and maintenance of up to 10 oceanographic moorings along the coast of SE Australia. She continues to lead the science driving the deployment of ocean gliders and radar along the length of the East Australian Current. In recognition of her contribution to ocean observing she was invited to join the scientific programme committee for Ocean Obs2019, a once per decade conference on Ocean Observing.[12]

Roughan was inaugural director of the Moana Project 2017–2020 an $11.5M MBIE funded project to investigate Marine heatwaves and ocean dynamics around New Zealand.[13][14][15][16]

Research cruises

Roughan has led research voyages aboard several of Australia's Marine National Facility research vessels.[11] She has also participated in scientific cruises to the Antarctic: Antarctic Astrolabe 2000 and in the Tasman Sea on the Southern Surveyor ST 02/2006 (Sydney–Noumea).[17]

Prizes, honours and awards

  • 2016, Seeyle Fellowship, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand[18]
  • 2015, China High End Foreign Experts Award, ECNU, Shanghai, China[19]
  • 2004, International PODS symposium Invited participant Colorado, USA
  • 2002, American Geophysical Union Student Prize in Physical Oceanography USA
  • 1998, Australian Post Graduate Award 3 year Scholarship UNSW, Australia
  • 1996, Sam Cracknell Memorial Scholarship UNSW, Australia
  • 1990, Royal Australian Navy Officer Cadet Scholarship (Australian Defence Force Academy)

Selected publications
  • Youstina Elzahaby; Amandine Schaeffer; Moninya Roughan; Sébastien Delaux (7 September 2021). "Oceanic Circulation Drives the Deepest and Longest Marine Heatwaves in the East Australian Current System". Geophysical Research Letters. 48 (17). doi:10.1029/2021GL094785. ISSN 0094-8276. Wikidata Q108595668.
  • Steefan Contractor; Moninya Roughan (3 May 2021). "Efficacy of Feedforward and LSTM Neural Networks at Predicting and Gap Filling Coastal Ocean Timeseries: Oxygen, Nutrients, and Temperature". Frontiers in Marine Science. 8. doi:10.3389/FMARS.2021.637759. ISSN 2296-7745. Wikidata Q108595707.
  • Christopher E Ordoñez; John A. Barth; Moninya Roughan (1 May 2021). "Boundary Ocean Observation Network for the Global South". Marine Technology Society Journal. 55 (3): 80–81. doi:10.4031/MTSJ.55.3.30. ISSN 0025-3324. Wikidata Q108595722.

References
  1. "Professor Moninya Roughan". UNSW Sydney. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  2. "School Staff promoted to Professor". UNSW Sydney – Faculty of Science. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  3. "Meet The Professors 2020 - President and Vice-Chancellor - UNSW Australia". www.president.unsw.edu.au. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  4. "UNSW Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab". www.oceanography.unsw.edu.au. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  5. Paulina Cetina-Heredia; Moninya Roughan; Geoffrey Liggins; Melinda A Coleman; Andrew Jeffs (1 February 2019). "Mesoscale circulation determines broad spatio-temporal settlement patterns of lobster". PLOS ONE. 14 (2): e0211722. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0211722. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6358102. PMID 30707747. Wikidata Q61804536.
  6. Paulina Cetina-Heredia; Erik van Sebille; Richard J. Matear; Moninya Roughan (February 2018). "Nitrate Sources, Supply, and Phytoplankton Growth in the Great Australian Bight: An Eulerian-Lagrangian Modeling Approach". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 123 (2): 759–772. doi:10.1002/2017JC013542. ISSN 2169-9275. Wikidata Q58318857.
  7. Colette Kerry; Moninya Roughan; Brian Powell (23 October 2018). "Observation Impact in a Regional Reanalysis of the East Australian Current System". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. doi:10.1029/2017JC013685. ISSN 2169-9275. Wikidata Q59138614.
  8. Matthew R. Archer; Moninya Roughan; Shane R. Keating; Amandine Schaeffer (November 2017). "On the Variability of the East Australian Current: Jet Structure, Meandering, and Influence on Shelf Circulation". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 122 (11): 8464–8481. doi:10.1002/2017JC013097. ISSN 2169-9275. Wikidata Q59138616.
  9. "120 Inspirational Loreto Women". Issuu. Loreto Normanhust. November 2017. pp. 60–61. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  10. "Tiro Moana Sensor presented at OceanObs'19 conference in Hawaii". Moana Project. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  11. CSIRO. "Research Advisory Committee". mnf.csiro.au. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  12. Desai, Kruti. "Organizing Committees". OceanObs19. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  13. "Dr Moninya Roughan". Moana Project. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  14. "$11.5 million project to revolutionise ocean forecasting". Scoop News. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  15. "Single". Fisheries Inshore New Zealand. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  16. "$11.5 million project to revolutionise ocean forecasting launches". Moana Project. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  17. "Data Trawler – Survey Details". CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  18. Jamie, Morton (29 August 2016). "Ocean between NZ and Australia a climate change 'hotspot'". NZ Herald. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  19. "Moninya Roughan selected for fellowship in China". UNSW Faculty of Science. 11 February 2015. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
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