Kale Sniderman

Researcher

"My research focuses on the analysis of fossils, particularly pollen, to investigate past environmental changes in Australasia at a range of timescales. I examine palaeo-environments because they help us understand the evolution of modern climates and vegetation, and because they provide a guide to the nature and rates of biological responses that can be expected in the face of future climate changes."

Teaching

• ATS3791: Environmental Change: Past to Future

Refereed Publications

• Sniderman, J.M.K. & Haberle, S.G. (in press) Fire and vegetation change during the Early Pleistocene in upland southeastern Australia. Journal of Quaternary Science
• Sauquet, H., Ho, S.Y.W., Gandolfo, M.A., Jordan, G.J., Wilf, P., Cantrill, D.J., Bayly, M.J., Bromham, L., Brown, G.K., Carpenter, R.J., Lee, D.M., Murphy, D.J., Sniderman, J.M.K. & Udovicic, F. (in press) Impact of calibration on molecular divergence times using a fossil-rich group: The case of Nothofagus (Fagales). Systematic Biology
• Byrne, M., Steane, D., Joseph, L., Yeates, D., Jordan, G.J., Crayn, D., Aplin, K., Cantrill D., Cook, L.G., Crisp, M.D., Keogh, Melville, J., Moritz, C., Porch, N., Sniderman, J.M.K., Sunnucks, P. & Weston, P.H. (2011) Decline of a biome: contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota. Journal of Biogeography. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02535.x
• Sniderman, J.M.K. (2011) Early Pleistocene vegetation change in upland southeastern Australia. Journal of Biogeography doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02518.x   Supporting Information
• Sniderman, J.M.K. & Jordan, G.J. (2011) Extent and timing of floristic exchange between Australian and Asian rainforests. Journal of Biogeography doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02519.x   Supporting Information
• Sniderman, J.M.K., Porch, N., Kershaw, A.P., (2009). Quantitative reconstruction of Early Pleistocene climate in southeastern Australia and implications for atmospheric circulation. Quaternary Science Reviews 28:3185-3196
• Denham T.P., Sniderman K., Saunders K.M., Winsborough B. and Pierret A. (2009) Contiguous multi-proxy analyses (X-Radiography, diatom, pollen, and microcharcoal) of Holocene archaeological features at Kuk Swamp, Upper Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea. Geoarchaeology 24:715-42.
• Sniderman, J.M.K. (2009). Biased reptilian palaeothermometer? Nature 460, E1-E2. doi: 10.1038/nature08222.
• Sniderman, J.M.K., Finn, J., Denham, T.P. (2009). A late-Holocene palaeoecological record from Ambra Crater in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and implications for agricultural history. The Holocene 19, 449-458.
  
• Jordan, G.J., Bromfield, K.E., Sniderman, J.M.K. and Crayn, D. (2007). Diverse fossil Ericaceae from Early Pleistocene sediments at Stony Creek Basin, Victoria, Australia. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168:1359-1376.
  
• Sniderman, J.M.K., Pillans, B., OSullivan, P.B. and Kershaw, A.P. (2007). Climate and vegetation in southeastern Australia respond to southern hemisphere insolation forcing in the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene. Geology 35:41-44.
  
• Sniderman, J.M.K., OSullivan, P.B, Hollis, J.D. and Kershaw, A.P. (2004). Late Pliocene vegetation and climate change at Stony Creek Basin, Western Uplands of Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 116:79-94.

Contact

Ph: +61 3 990 54622
Fx: +61 3 9905 2948
Kale.Sniderman@monash.edu

Room No: S524,
Menzies building
(Building 11)

School of Geography and Environmental Science,
Monash University
Wellington Road Clayton
Victoria