Tasmania's New Regional Director [Ted Phillips]

In his 27 years with the Bureau, Ted has obtained a wide and varied experience in many facets of meteorology.

Early in his career he worked briefly as an aviation forecaster at Eagle Farm airport and for a short period at the. Tasmanian Regional Office, then returned to Brisbane for 10 years forecasting in the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre.

The greater part of his career has been spent working in a variety of Head Office sections—Special Studies, Water Studies, Observations Standards and Practice, Networks, Codes and Traffic, the National Meteorological Analysis Centre and for the last year in Co-ordination and Planning, along with field offices for Hibal forecasting at Mildura and for Maralinga operations. From 1964–67 Ted was OIC at Woomera where in addition to providing meteorological services for rocketing distinguished himself as a googly bowler for the Senior Mess Cricket Team. For the greater part of 1974 he was in the Vic RO supervising the RFC.

Overseas conferences include a visit in 1970 to Geneva with John Lillywhite (then ADS) for the WMO Fifth Session of the Commission for Synoptic Meteorology Systems (CBS). He is currently a member of the WMO Technical Committee of CBS.

He has been active in encouraging youth activities as secretary and president of scout groups at Woomera and Waverly, in coaching the junior cricket team at Woomera and his current interest is in Little Athletics where his two children are keen competitors.

Bureau of Meteorology