Dr Tessa Vance - Palaeoclimatologist

Affiliation with Antarctic Science Foundation

Ambassador for ASF on Antarctica Flights Season 2021/22

More About Tessa

Dr Tessa Vance develops high resolution palaeoclimate records with a view to understanding long-term climate change. She has a particular interest in developing rainfall and drought records for Australia and the SE Pacific region over the last 2000 years, and in understanding the underlying climate processes that cause rainfall variability.

She has worked for the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in a research capacity since mid-2010.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Current research involves a co-funded project with the University of Newcastle using palaeoclimate records of rainfall and drought to reconstruct catchment inflows for eastern Australia. This project will provide sounder statistics for extreme events for eastern Australian water catchment authorities.

Selected Publications

Vance, T., J. Roberts, C. Plummer, A. Kiem, T. van Ommen, (2014): Interdecadal Pacific variability and Australian mega-droughts over the last millennium. Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2014GL062447

Neukom, R., J. Gergis, D. Karoly, H. Wanner, M. Curran, J. Elbert, F. Gonzalez-Rouco, B. Linsley, A. Moy, I. Mundo, C. Raible, E. Steig, T. van Ommen, T. Vance, R. Villalba. J. Zinke, D. Frank, (2014): Inter-hemispheric temperature variability over the past millennium. Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2174

Vance, T., A. Davidson, P. Thomson, M. Levasseur, M. Lizotte, M. Curran, G. Jones, (2013): Rapid DMSP production by an Antarctic phytoplankton community exposed to natural surface irradiances in late spring. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, doi: 10.3354/ame01670