Centre for Palynology and Palaeoecology

Members

Staff

Heather Builth
Bruno David
Tim Denham
Peter Kershaw
Merna McKenzie
Ursula Pietrzak
Kale Sniderman
Barbara Wagstaff

Postgraduate students

Current:

Brown, J. The Origins, Development and Environmental History of Caledonia Fen, Bennison Plains Victoria. PhD. With Meredith Orr

Johnston, R. A high resolution, multi-proxy, environmental reconstruction of the Last Glacial  Maximum to Holocene from Tower Hill, western Victoria, Australia. PhD

Lancellotti, L. Archaeological landscapes and environmental changes: Neapolis, Gulf of  Oristano, S.W. Sardinia, from the Bronze Age to the present. PhD. With Jim Peterson.

Lewis, T. The value of plant macrofossils in vegetation reconstruction and their application to landscape conservation and restoration in southwestern Victoria. PhD. With Nick Porch and Heather Builth.

Pietrzak, U. The Fate and Behaviour of Copper in Vineyard Soils of Victoria, Australia. PhD

Rule, S. Decadal to centennial climate variability from the last glacial period to the present: Lynch’s Crater, Northeast Queensland, Australia. PhD. With Simon Haberle and Chris Turney

White, C. Climate change and environmental response in south western Victoria: a palaoecological record from Lake Surprise, western plains of Victoria. PhD

Recent:

Leahy, P. (2009) Long term perspectives of Yarra River billabongs (Melbourne, Australia): limnological and palaeolimnological evidence. PhD.

Graham. K. (2008) The contribution of wind-blown dust and its associated pollen to the alpine soils of Victoria. M.Env. Sci. (Research).

Davies, S. (2007) The geochemical characterisation and past environmental significance of mid-late Quaternary tephra deposits in Greater Australia. PhD – Queen’s University, Belfast.

McLeod, A. (2007)  Palaeoenvironmental change in the Central Highlands of Victoria interpreted from the analysis of macrofossil charcoal. PhD.

Sniderman, J.M.K. (2007) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene vegetation and climate cyclicity in the Western Uplands of Victoria, Australia. PhD.

Porch, N. (2006)  A method for reconstructing the Quaternary climates of Australia using fossil beetles.  PhD.

Cook, E.J. (2006) Late Quaternary environments and climate history at Lakes Bolac and Turangmoroke, Western Victoria, Australia. PhD.

Rowe, C. (2005) A Holocene history of vegetation change in the western Torres Strait region, Australia. PhD.

Bleakley, N. (2003) Late Holocene palaeoecology of  Taynaya Bay: The relationship between diatom assemblages and sediment composition in response to climate change in Antarctic coastal environments. PhD.

Fluin, J. (2002) A diatom-based palaeolimnological investigation of the lower Murray River (southeastern Australia) PhD.

Anshari, G. (2000) Late Quaternary environments of the Lake Sentarum region, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. PhD.

Tibby, J. (2000) The development of a diatom-based model for inferring lake water total phosphorus and its application to Burrinjuck reservoir (southern New South Wales, Australia) PhD.