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Education:

• University of Melbourne, PhD (Zoology)
• LaTrobe University, MSc (Statistics)
• GCert Mgt (Tech Mgt)
• A.Stat.

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Interests and Research:

Dr Chambers specialises in climate research and its interface with Australian flora and fauna. She is a project leader for the National Ecological Meta Database and the citizen science project ClimateWatch . Other roles include the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility Terrestrial Biodiversity Steering Committee, adviser for the Charles Darwin Climate Change Observatory and lead author on the National Marine Climate Change and Adaptation Report Card. Lynda was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability).

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Publications:

Cannell, B., Chambers, L.E., Wooller, R.D., Bradley, J.S. 2012. Poorer breeding by Little Penguins near Perth, Western Australia is correlated with above average sea surface temperatures and a stronger Leeuwin Current. (in prep).

Chambers, L.E., Dunlop, N., Dann, P., Devney, C., Woehler, E. 2012. Seabirds. In A Marine Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Report Card for Australia 2012 (Eds. E.S. Poloczanska, A.J. Hobday and A.J. Richardson) (in prep)

Chambers, L.E. 2012. Climate as a driver for change in terrestrial and marine species. In: Lunney, D., Hutchings, P (eds). Wildlife and climate change: towards robust conservation strategies for Australian fauna Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman, Australia (in press)

Chambers, L.E., Keatley, M.R., Woehler, E.J., Bargstrom, D.M. 2012. Antarctica. In: Schwartz, M. (ed) Phenology: An integrative environmental science (2nd Ed) Springer (in prep)

Keatley, M.R., Chambers, L.E., Phillips, R. 2012. Australia and New Zealand. In: Schwartz, M. (ed) Phenology: An integrative environmental science (2nd Ed) Springer (in prep)

Catford, J.A., Naiman, R.J., Chambers, L.E., Roberts, J., Douglas, M., Davies, P. 2012. Predicting and managing novel riparian ecosystems in a changing climate. (in prep)

Sidhu, L.A., Dann, P., Chambers, L.E., Catchpole, E.A. 2012. The effects of seasonal ocean temperatures in south-eastern Australia on the survial of first-year Little Penguins Eudyptula minor. (accepted Marine Ecology Progress Series)

Ganendran, L.B., Sidhu, L.A., Catchpole, E.A., Dann, P., Chambers, L.E. 2011. The effect of directional wind components on the survial of Little Penguins Eudyptula minor. Australian New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal 52: C1012-C1030.

Chambers, L.E., Dann, P. 2011. Seabirds and environmental change: understanding the impacts and increasing resilience. online 7/11/2011 http://www.ecosmagazine.com/?paper=EC11093

Gibbs, H., Chambers, L.E., Bennett, A.F. 2011. Temporal and spatial variability in breeding in Australian birds: potential implications for climate change. Emu 111:283-291.

Chambers, L.E. Renwick, L., Dann, P. 2011. Climate, fire and Little Penguins. In:Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions (Eds. K. Richardson, W. Steffen and D. Liverman), Cambridge University Press. pp 275-276.

Chambers, L.E., Congdon, B.C., Devney, C., Dunlop, N., Woehler, E.J., Dann, P. 2011. Observed and predicted impacts of climate on Australian seabirds. Emu 111: 235-251.

Chambers, L.E. 2010. Altered avian seasonal movements in a peri-urban environment: climate related? Emu 110: 48-53.

Huntley, B., Altwegg, R., Barnard, P., Chambers, L.E. et al. 2010. Beyond bioclimatic envelopes: Dynamic species range and abundance modeling in the context of climate change. Ecography 33: 1-6.

Norman, F.I., Chambers, L.E. 2010. Waterfowl counts at Corner Inlet, Victoria: changes in relation to local and distant meteorological variations. Int. J. Biometeorology 54: 269-282.

Chambers, L.E., Barnard, P., Poloczanska, E., Hobday, A., Keatley, M.R., Allsopp, N., Underhill, L.G. 2010. Southern biodiversity and global change: overcoming patchy knowledge. (in preparation)

Chambers, L.E., Keatley, M.R. 2010. Phenology and climate - early Australian botanical records. Australian Journal of Botany 58: 473-484.

Chambers, L.E., Keatley, M.R. 2010. Australian bird phenology: a search for climate signals. Austral Ecology 35: 969-979.

Keatley M.R., Chambers L.E. 2010. Australia. In 'Phenological Research: Methods for environmental and climate change analysis'. (Eds IL Hudson and Keatley M.R). Springer: Dordrecht.

Chambers, L.E., L. Renwick, P. Dann. 2010. Climate, fire and Little Penguins. In: Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change (Ed. W. Steffen), CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. p 82.

Chambers, L.E., L. Renwick, P. Dann. 2010. Victoria's little penguins show limits to adaptation. ECOS 153:19.

Chambers, L.E., Congdon, B.C., Dunlop, N., Dann, P., Devney, C. 2009. Seabirds and Climate Change. In A Marine Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Report Card for Australia 2009 (Eds. E.S. Poloczanska, A.J. Hobday and A.J. Richardson), NCCARF Publication 05/09, ISBN 978-1-921609-03-09.

Chambers, L.E., L. Renwick, P. Dann. 2009. Climate, fire and Little Penguins. Pp. 36 In: A Strategic Assessment of the Vulnerability of Australia's Biodiversity to Climate Change: Technical Synthesis (Eds. W. Steffen, A.A. Burbridge, L. Hughes, R. Kitching, D. Lindenmayer, W. Musgrave, M. Stafford Smith, P.A. Werner) Department of Climate Change, Australia.

Chambers, L.E. 2009. Climate change and birds: a southern hemisphere perspective. CAWCR Research Letters 1: 8-13, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.

Chambers, L.E. 2009. Evidence of climate related shifts in Australian phenology? MODSIM09, Cairns, 13-17 July, 2009.

Cullen, J.M., Chambers, L.E., Dann, P., Coutin, P.C. 2009. Predicting the onset and success of breeding of Little Penguins Eudyptula minor, on Phillip Island from ocean temperatures off south east Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 378:269-278.

Chambers, L.E., Quin, B., Menkhorst, P., Franklin, D.C., Smales, I. 2008. Climate as a driver for breeding in the Helmeted Honeyeater. Emu 108:15-22.

Chambers, L.E., Gibbs, H., Weston, M.A., Ehmke, G.C. 2008. Spatial and temporal variation in breeding in Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles in Australia. Emu 108:115-124.

Chambers, L.E. 2008. Climate change as a threatening process on Australian species. Corella 32(2):43.

Chambers, L.E., Griffiths, G.M. 2008. The changing nature of temperature extremes in Australia and New Zealand. Aust. Met. Mag. 57:13-35.

Chambers, L.E. 2008. Trends in avian migration timing in south Western Australia and their relationship to climate. Emu 108:1-14.

Chambers, L.E. 2007. Observed and projected climate change impacts. State of Australia's Birds 2007: Birds in a Changing Climate. Supplement to Wingspan 17(4).

Chambers, L.E., Gibbs, H., Weston, M.A., Ehmke, G.C. 2007. Climate change and Masked Lapwings: the difficulties of detecting and attributing change. State of Australia's Birds 2007: Birds in a Changing Climate. Supplement to Wingspan 17(4).

Chambers, L.E., Webber, E, Mavromatis, A, Keatley, M.R., Hughes, L. 2007. National Ecological Meta Database. B.M.R.C. Research Report No. 132, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne.

Chambers, L.E. 2006. The heat is on. Wingspan 16(4):28-29.

Chambers, L.E. 2006. Associations between climate change and species in Australia BAMS 87(2):201-206.

Chambers, L.E., and Loyn, R.H. 2006. The influence of climate on numbers of three waterbird species in Western Port, Victoria, 1973-2002. International Journal of Biometeorology 50:292-304.

Chambers, L.E., Hughes, L., and Weston, M.A. 2005. Climate Change and its impact on Australia's avifauna. Emu 105: 1-20.

Li, F., Chambers, L.E., and Nicholls, N. 2005. Relationships between rainfall in the southwest of Western Australia and near-global patterns of sea surface temperature and mean sea level pressure variability. Aust. Met. Mag. 54:23-33.

Griffiths, G.M., Chambers, L.E., Haylock, M.R., et al. 2005. Change in mean temperature as a predictor of extreme temperature change in the Asia-Pacific region. International Journal of Climatology 25: 1301-1330.

Yang, H.C., Chambers, L.E., and Huggins, R.M. 2005. A seasonal decompostion of the estimated size of a penguin population at Phillip Island, Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 53(2): 111-115.

Chambers, L.E. 2005. Migration dates at Eyre Bird Observatory: Links with climate change? Climate Research 29: 157-165.

Nicholls, N., Baek, H.-J., Gosai, A., Chambers, L.E., et al. 2005. The El Nino - Southern Oscillation and daily temperature extremes in east Asia and the west Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters 32: L16714

Power, S., Chambers, L.E., and Haylock, M.R. 2005. The asymmetric response of Australian rainfall to the El Nino - Southern Oscillation. (submitted to Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society)

Dann, P., Carron, M., Chambers, B., Chambers, L.E., et al. 2005. Longevity in Little Penguins Eudyptula minor. Marine Ornithology 33:71-72.

Chambers, L.E., Cullen, M.J., Coutin, P.C., Dann, P. 2005. Ocean temperatures and onset of Little Penguin breeding. (Conference Abstract) New Zealand Journal of Zoology 32: 263-271

Page, C.M., Nicholls, N., Plummer, N., Trewin, B.C., Manton, M.J., Alexander, L., Chambers, L.E., et al. 2004. Data rescue in the South-east Asia and South Pacific region: Challenges and Opportunities. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 85(10):1483-1489.

Yang, H.C., Chambers, L.E., and Huggins, R.M. 2004. A seasonal decompostion of the estimated size of a penguin population at Phillip Island, Australia. Technical Report 2003-4. Department of Statistical Science, La Trobe University.

Chambers, L.E. 2004. The impact of climate on Little Penguin breeding success, BMRC Research Report No. 100, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.

Chambers, L.E. 2004. Delayed breeding in Little Penguins - Evidence of Climate Change? Aust. Met. Mag. 53: 13-19.

Chambers, L.E. 2003. South Australian rainfall variability and trends, BMRC Research Report No. 92, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.

Chambers, L.E., Li, F., Nicholls, N. 2002.Seasonal climate forecasts for south-west Western Australia, BMRC Research Report No. 86, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.

Nicholls, N., Chambers, L., Drosdowsky, W. 2001. Climate variability and predictability for south-west Western Australia. Pp 1-52 in 'Towards Understanding Climate Variability in south western Australia', Research reports on the Second Research Phase of the Indian Ocean Climate Initiative, IOCI October 2001.

Chambers, L.E. 2001. Classifying rainfall districts: a south Western Australian study, Aust. Met. Mag. 50: 91-103.

Drosdowsky, W., Chambers, L.E. 2001. Near global sea surface temperature anomalies as predictors of Australian seasonal rainfall, J. Climate 14:1677-1687.

Manton, M.J., Della-Marta, P.M., Haylock, M.R., Chambers, L.E., et al. 2001. Trends in extreme daily rainfall and temperature in southeast Asia and the South Pacific: 1961-1998, Int. J. Climatology 21:269-284.

Frederiksen, C.S., Zhang, H., Balgovind, R., Nicholls, N., Drosdowsky, W., Chambers, L.E. 2001. Dynamical seasonal forecasts during the 1997/98 ENSO using persisted SSTAs, J. Climate 14: 2675-2695.

Chambers, L.E., Drosdowsky, W. 1999. Australian seasonal rainfall prediction using near global sea surface temperatures. AMOS Bulletin 12(3):51-55.

Nicholls, N., Chambers, L., Haylock, M., Frederiksen, C., Jones, D., Drosdowsky, W. 1999. Climate variability and predictability for south-west Western Australia. Pp 1-52 in 'Towards Understanding Climate Variability in south western Australia', Research reports on the First Phase of the Indian Ocean Climate Initiative, October 1999.

Chambers, L.E. 1999. Is the south-west of Western Australia drying out? Climag Issue 2:10-11.

Drosdowsky, W., Chambers, L.E. 1998. Near global sea surface temperature anomalies as predictors of Australian seasonal rainfall, BMRC Research Report No. 65, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.

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Positions and Committees:

• Project leader National Ecological Meta Database
• Steering Committee ClimateWatch
• Steering Committee National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility Terrestrial Biodiversity
• Science Adviser Charles Darwin Climate Change Observatory
• CAWCR-BoM Social Club Committee
• MC2 Committee