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2018 RSES PhD field trip to the Northern Territory, Australia »
This September, 17 research students from the Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES) had the incredible opportunity to explore the geology and cultural history of the Northern Territory. We spent two weeks driving through northern and central Australia, travelling over 4000 km in total! This trip provided an...
The Frontiers of Microbialite Research »
It is 110 years since Kalkowsky published his definitive paper on the association of stromatolites and oolites in the Buntsandstein surrounding the Hartz Mountains of Germany. While Malcolm Walter considered that by 1976 this work was “of historical interest only”, our introduction (with Dr L Moore) of the term “...
Using the NanoSIMS to quantify the effect of sector zoning on trace element uptake in zircon »
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The Miocene is the Future »
To better understand and predict future climate change we often to look to past periods of global warmth as analogues and testbeds for models. The Miocene (23 to 5 million years ago) is probably the best analogue for the range of carbon dioxide concentrations, warming, sea level rise, and ice volume losses that...
An extended record of Indian Ocean Dipole variability from Indonesian Corals »
The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is an ocean-atmosphere climate oscillation within the Indian Ocean basin and one of Australasia’s key climate drivers that influences the distribution of rainfall across the region. Future projections of IOD activity suggests that extreme positive IOD events may become more frequent...
Volcanoes, Iron, and Phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean »
Phytoplankton in the ocean supply half of the oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere. Iron supply limits the growth of phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean as well as elsewhere in the global ocean. Situated entirely within the anemic Southern Ocean, Australia’s only active volcanoes, Heard and McDonald islands on the...
Isotopic Anomalies in the Mediterranean Sea record »
In this seminar I will give an overview of my PhD research, specifically the isotopic anomolies from an eastern Mediterranean sediment core and the implications for the reconstruction of past sea levels.
You can’t handle the tooth: three stories on improving our understanding of the isotopic variation in archaeological samples »
Isotopic analysis of human remains has become a key scientific technique employed to gather direct evidence of the diet and mobility of past populations. Geographical variation in the isotopic values for two elements, oxygen and strontium, provide a basis for measuring human mobility between regions with differing...
