Principal Research Scientist. Xuebin ZHANG

Biography of Dr. Xuebin ZHANG (CSIRO, Australia)

Dr. Xuebin Zhang is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Environment and leads CSIRO’s sea-level rise research. He obtained his Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Washington (U.S.) and completed his postdoctoral training at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (U.S.). In 2010, he joined CSIRO as a tenured sea-level scientist and has been actively working on sea-level rise, climate change and variability, ocean and climate modelling, and ocean–cryosphere interactions.

Sea-level rise, identified as a WCRP Grand Challenge, is an urgent issue for society, requiring both understanding and action for adaptation and mitigation. His research is strategically targeted to address this critical need by providing better and more reliable sea-level rise information. He has led CSIRO’s efforts to develop regional sea-level projections on both global and regional scales, positioning CSIRO as the sole entity in Australia with the expertise to produce process-based sea-level projections. The future sea-level projection products he has developed have been utilized by over 20 countries, including Australia, Southeast Asian countries, and Pacific Island nations. Within Australia, these projections have been adopted as the national benchmark dataset and are used by Commonwealth, state, and local governments and end-users in policy making, adaptation planning, and resilience building, resulting in tangible social, environmental, and economic benefits.

He also played a pioneering role in producing the first-ever high-resolution sea-level projections globally achieving a remarkable resolution of approximately 10 kilometers. This novel work involved dynamically downscaling global climate model simulations and producing high-resolution sea-level fingerprints from land ice melt using an unstructured global mesh grid. Building on his global ocean downscaling experience, he then advanced into regional ocean downscaling by conceiving and leading the Australian Regional Ocean Downscaling (AUSROD) framework. This portable framework provides finer, more flexible, and cost-effective ocean climate products. Dr. Zhang is an active member of the WCRP Ocean-CORDEX Taskforce, coordinating best practices for ocean downscaling applications globally.

Dr. Zhang’s expertise is also sought beyond the climate and ocean sectors, extending into engineering, legal, health, and insurance domains. As a trusted national advisor on sea-level rise, he has advanced sea-level science, and most importantly helped strengthen climate resilience through informed action to sea-level rise across sectors and regions, both nationally and internationally.

He has published ~70 articles in leading professional journals, including 12 in the Nature and Science publishing groups. His total citation count is ~6,000 (h-index: 39) according to Google Scholar. He is also highly active in academic supervision, having supervised three postdoctoral fellows, seven Ph.D. students, and four Honours students during his time at CSIRO. Notably, his first PhD student became a full professor in sea level science (2022).

The international recognition of Dr. Zhang’s scientific contributions is evident through his nomination as an Ocean Science President Candidate of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS, ~6,700 members from ~50 countries), and his service on esteemed international advisory panels, such as the Pacific Panel of the Climate Variability, Predictability and Change (CLIVAR) Program (2017–2021). He was invited to deliver plenary talks at two leading international sea-level conferences: WCRP/IOC Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts Conference (New York, 2017), focusing on high-resolution sea-level projections; and WCRP Sea Level Conference (Singapore, 2022), presenting a synthesis of progress and remaining gaps in regional sea-level projections. Moreover, he has actively convened ~10 sea-level sessions at national and international conferences, including the AOGS and the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) annual meetings.

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张学斌博士（澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织CSIRO）简介

张学斌博士是CSIRO环境部门的首席研究科学家，领导CSIRO的海平面上升研究。他于美国华盛顿大学获得海洋学博士学位，并在美国斯克里普斯海洋研究所完成博士后研究。2010年，他加入CSIRO，成为一名终身制海平面科学家，一直积极从事海平面上升、气候变化及其变率、海洋和气候建模以及海洋-冰冻圈相互作用等方面的研究。

海平面上升已被世界气候研究计划（WCRP）列为一项重大挑战，是当今社会面临的紧迫问题，需要我们深入了解并采取行动进行适应和减缓。他的研究旨在通过提供更准确、更可靠的海平面上升信息来满足这一关键需求。他领导了澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）在全球和区域尺度上开展的区域海平面预测工作，使CSIRO成为澳大利亚唯一拥有基于过程的海平面预测专业知识的机构。他开发的未来海平面预测产品已被包括澳大利亚、东南亚国家和太平洋岛国在内的20多个国家采用。在澳大利亚，这些预测已被采纳为国家基准数据集，并被联邦、州和地方政府以及最终用户用于政策制定、适应规划和韧性建设，从而带来了切实可见的社会、环境和经济效益。

他还率先在全球范围内制作了首个高分辨率海平面预测，实现了约10公里的惊人分辨率。这项创新性工作涉及动态降尺度全球气候模型模拟，并利用非结构化全球网格从陆地冰川融化中生成高分辨率海平面特征。凭借其在全球海洋降尺度方面的经验，张博士进一步拓展至区域海洋降尺度领域，构思并领导了澳大利亚区域海洋降尺度（AUSROD）框架的构建。这一可移植框架能够提供更精细、更灵活、更经济高效的海洋气候产品。张博士是世界海洋研究计划（WCRP）海洋-CORDEX工作组的积极成员，负责协调全球海洋降尺度应用的最佳实践。

张博士的专业知识不仅应用于气候和海洋领域，还延伸至工程、法律、健康和保险等其他领域。作为一位备受信赖的国家级海平面上升问题顾问，他推动了海平面科学的发展，更重要的是，他通过采取科学有效的行动，帮助各部门和地区在国家和国际层面增强应对海平面上升的气候韧性。

他已在顶尖专业期刊上发表了约70篇文章，其中包括12篇发表在《自然》和《科学》出版集团旗下的期刊上。根据谷歌学术的数据，他的论文总引用量约为6000次（h指数：39）。张博士在学术指导方面也十分活跃，在澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）任职期间，他指导了三名博士后研究员、七名博士生和四名荣誉学士学生。值得一提的是，他的第一位博士生已于2022年晋升为海平面科学领域的正教授。

张博士的科学贡献获得了国际认可，他被提名为亚洲大洋洲地球科学学会（AOGS，拥有来自约50个国家的约6700名会员）海洋科学主席候选人，并在多个享有盛誉的国际咨询机构任职，例如太平洋气候变率、可预测性和变化小组（CLIVAR）（2017-2021）。他曾受邀在两场重要的国际海平面会议上发表全体会议演讲：世界气候研究计划/政府间海洋学委员会区域海平面变化和沿海影响会议（纽约，2017），重点讨论高分辨率海平面预测；张博士在2022年新加坡世界海平面研究计划（WCRP）海平面会议上发表了报告，总结了区域海平面预测的进展和尚存差距。此外，他还积极组织了约10场国内外海平面专题研讨会，包括澳大利亚地质学会（AOGS）年会和澳大利亚气象与海洋学会（AMOS）年会。

张博士还经常受邀为《自然》和《科学》等顶尖期刊审稿，并为国内外政府机构和资助机构提供专家咨询。他曾接受国内外主流媒体的采访，包括《华盛顿邮报》、法新社、《独立报》、澳大利亚联合通讯社、澳大利亚广播公司（ABC）和《悉尼先驱晨报》。