He is an agricultural climatologist with extensive experience in climate change impact assessment and adaptation, management of climate variability as well as digital agriculture. Anthony has a passion for science communication, regularly engaging with regional media.

Anthony Clark has 25+ years of professional experience spanning scientific research and development, Government and policy as well private sector consulting.  His focus areas have been agriculture, environment, climate, and key regional issues like drought. He has a depth of experience operating on the science policy interface, with a focus on applied outcomes driven research. Over the course of his career, he has had the opportunity to build on his technical skills, developing core capabilities to be a senior leader of technical teams, particularly in a Government environment.

Select publications

DPI (2024), NSW Drought in a changing climate, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries, Authors: Clark, A.J, Wurtzel, J, Zhu, E. and Broadfoot, K.

Clark, A.J., McGowen, I.M., Crean , J.J., Lines-Kelly, R. and Wang, B. (2017) Stage 1 Enhanced Drought Information System, NSW Combined Drought Indicator: Technical Report, NSW Department of Primary Industries.

Clark, A., R. Nottage, D. Hansford (eds.), 2012: Impacts of Climate Change on Land-based Sectors and Adaptation Options. Stakeholder Report. Ministry of Primary Industries, Wellington, 74 pp.

Clark, A., B. Mullan, A. Porteous, 2011: Scenarios of Regional Drought under Climate Change. NIWA Client Report WLG2012-32. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, 135 pp.

Clark, A,.J (2007) Simplified models of the grazing system for climate change impact assessment, PhD Thesis, Australian National university.

Clark, A.J (1998) Risk management for climate, agriculture and policy, Bureau of Resource Sciences, department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries, Commonwealth of Australia.