David Etheridge

David Etheridge is a principal research scientist with the Climate, Atmosphere & Ocean Interactions Research Program, CSIRO Environment, in Aspendale, Victoria, Australia. He is also a Project Leader of the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership in Hobart, Tasmania. His research involves the long term changes in greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting compounds. It has been used in all IPCC Assessment Reports on The Science of Climate Change, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion and the CSIRO-BoM State of the Climate reports, and he is a contributing author of these reports. He has led ten field programs on the polar ice sheets, researching atmospheric composition change, climate change, and ice sheet dynamics. He is also investigating the possible impact on atmospheric chemistry and climate of emissions from energy technologies, such as unconventional gas, geological storage of CO2 and hydrogen fuels.