Wilfred Walsh Email & Phone Number

Christchurch, Nz

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

R&D in tools to support biodiversity/conservation/rewilding projects. Try out our beta plant selector tool for New Zealand native plants at rightplant.biospherecapital.com and visit biospherecapital.com for ecological research services. Interested to meet researchers and ecologists in other countries to consider adapting our NZ software elsewhere.

New Zealand

Biosphere Capital is a consultancy with particular expertise in the renewable energy and sustainable development sectors, focusing on project development, project finance, techno-economic analyses and due diligence and technology transfer. During 2007-2012 carbon finance under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism was a strong focus: subsequently project finance for renewable energy across SouthEast Asia.

SERIS conducts research and development for sustainable energy based on solar resources. SERIS collaborates closely with industry: use-inspired basic research is done in joint undertakings with research groups from companies, universities and research institutes.My principal roles at SERIS were to develop capacity in the fields of solar irradiance studies and renewable energy forecasting. I built up a team of researchers and students and guided their research through major research grants, achieving international recognition in the new discipline of Energy Meteorology. The group built a network of meteorological stations and developed world class forecasting tools. This research relied on high time and space resolution models of the atmosphere. For short timescales, spatio-temporal statistics were used, while for longer timescales, full physical models of the atmosphere were generated using numerical weather prediction codes. Machine learning algorithms were used to combine forecasts on different spatial and temporal scales, and to make inferences from multidimensional datasets.

Singapore

At UNSW Asia I was responsible for many aspects of the startup of a new University campus - budgeting, hiring, purchasing, planning IT, as well as the usual tasks of course development, grant management, research and teaching. At UNSW I served for three years as Director of Teaching Laboratories and was engaged in a variety of outreach activities. Advisor to PhD and honours students.

Astrophysics research. Teaching undergraduate courses in astrophysics and physics, as well as interdisciplinary courses that introduce the most remarkable developments in the physical sciences to non-specialist audiences. I ran a popular series of public lectures presenting the work of international experts to the public on topics from cosmology to climate change and philosophy.

My research focused on Antarctic astrophysics and detector development, for which I have an Australian Antarctic Division grant, two PhD students, and a congressional medal. One project looks at how radiative transfer occurs in ISM clouds leading to collapse, while another involves building new high-frequency radio/infrared detectors to exploit the remarkable characteristics of the polar atmosphere, which I also studied directly. The physics and computational techniques I use are generally applied to modeling of atmospheres and oceans by climate change scientists.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Astrophysics

Msc, Physics