Moninya Roughan
Moninya Roughan is a professor of Oceanography at the University of New South Wales Australia,. Roughan is the head of the Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab and is an authority on the oceanography of the East Australian Current. She has led major projects for industry, government, the Australian Research Council and the New Zealand Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment. She has held leadership roles in Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System since 2007. Roughan researches the dynamics of the coastal ocean and their interaction with the western boundary current. She is an expert in marine heatwaves, the coastal ocean circulation, nutrient enrichment processes and their biological impact She is primarily focussed on the East Australian Current its effects on the waters of the continental shelf. The work involves the use of observations and numerical models. Early life and education Roughan grew up in Ku-ring-gai Council area of Sydney Australia, a granddaughter of Winsome Andrew, one of Australia's award winning and first female architects, and great grand daughter of Captain E. H. Andrew, first master of the wool clipper Cromdale. She attended Loreto College, Normanhurst where she was Barry House Music captain. She earned a BSc (Honours Class 1) in Oceanography