Dr. Matthew Wheeler is a Principal Research Scientist with the Bureau of Meteorology where he has worked on tropical meteorology, the Australian monsoon, and the Madden-Julian Oscillation. He competed his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado in Boulder and a postdoc in the Advanced Study Program at NCAR. He is currently co-leading projects on northern Australia climate prediction and a cruise of the RV Investigator to Indonesian waters for the Years of Maritime Continent.