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  • Bureau of Meteorology 1971-2002
    • 1981-1984 - Officer in Charge of the Facilities and Information Section
    • 1984-1992 - Senior Operational Forecaster at the Sydney Regional Forecasting Centre
    • 1992-2002 - NSW Manager of the Special Services Unit
  • Weather presenter (and Consulting Meteorologist) on The Weather Channel and radio Vega FM
  • Australia Day Achievement Award 1984
  • Initiated the development of precipitation charts now used throughout print and electronic media
  • Co-author or editor of six (to nine - sources vary) books about the weather, and has written thirteen published mathematical papers
  • "In 1972, he developed a manual of aviation forecasting in NSW, which is a reference that is still widely used by forecasters today. But another important piece of research was his work on sea surface temperatures and rainfall around Australia, which was published in 1978. It was this early attempt to reconcile rainfall with sea surface temperatures that lead to further research, and our current understanding of ENSO, which has now become a mainstream area of science and a division on its own in climatology."
  • 1999-2001 - worked w/ World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) as rapporteur for Committee of Agricultural Meteorology

Publications

  • Colls, Keith, Whitaker, Richard (2001). The Australian Weather Book. Sydney, Australia: Reed New Holland. pp. pp. 216. ISBN 1 876334 68 1. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Whitaker, Richard (2004). Firewise, Fire-Safe: How to Survive a Bushfire. Sydney, Australia: Reed New Holland. pp. pp. ?. ISBN 1 877069 16 7. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  • Whitaker, Richard (2005). Australia's Natural Disasters. Sydney, Australia: Reed New Holland. pp. pp. 239. ISBN 1 877069 04 3. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  • Whitaker, Richard (2008). Disasters Events and Moments that Changed the World. Sydney, Australia: Reed New Holland. pp. pp. 272. ISBN 1 741105 63 3. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)


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