Joëlle’s research focuses on providing a long-term historical context for assessing recently observed climate variability and extremes. She is the Director of Climate History Australia, a landmark initiative to reconstruct past climate variability and extremes to improve future climate change risk.. Her current research interests include:

• Climate variability and change in Australia, Australasia and the Southern Hemisphere
• Historical climatology
• Australian climate history
• Climate reconstructions of the last 1,000 years
• Palaeoclimate data–climate model comparisons of the last 1,000 years
• Citizen science for recovering historical weather observations

See the Publications page for more details.