Cleugh grew up on a farm in
Central Otago in New Zealand, and earned a BSc with Honours at the
University of Otago in 1981. Cleugh received her doctorate in Geography in 1987 from the
University of British Columbia, and was a lecturer at
Macquarie University School of Earth Sciences in Sydney from 1987 to 1994. Cleugh has been a Scientist with the CSIRO since 1994 where she has been working Earth systems research capabilities and climate modeling. Her research concentration is on interactions between climate and land surfaces, with a focus on the amount of
carbon dioxide is taken up by ecosystems. Cleugh was the Deputy Director of the
Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR) from 2007 to 2009. •
AMOS R.H. Clarke Lecture, 2018 • Fellow of the
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE), 2019 ==References==