RESEARCH

The School of Earth and Environmental Sciences has an internationally-acclaimed record of research across a range of areas in both Geography and Geology.
The research groupings within the school are:

GeoQuEST
The Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER)
The Centre for Archaeological Science (CAS)  

Main Research Interests

Archaeology and Human Evolution

(Bert Roberts)

Coastal and Marine Environments

mangroves and estuaries (C Woodroffe)
neotectonics (Colin Murray-Wallace)
sea-level changes (Colin Murray-Wallace , C Woodroffe, Brian Jones)
sedimentary environments (Colin Murray-Wallace, C Woodroffe, B Jones)
estuarine ecology (Ron West and John Morrison)
estuarine biogeochemistry (John Morrison and Ron West)
estuarine wetlands (Ron West)
science/policy interface for the coastal zone (Ron West, John Morrison)

Environmental Science

fisheries and aquaculture (Ron West)
management of small island environments (John Morrison, Ron West)
watershed/catchment management (John Morrison and Ron West)
soil/sediment water interface studies (John Morrison)
contaminant transport and transformations (John Morrison)

Fluvial process and landforms

arid zone geomorphology (G Nanson)
fluvial sedimentology (B Jones)

Geochronology, Stable Isotopes and Quaternary Environmental Change

amino acid racemisation dating (AAR) (CM-W)
optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) (Bert Roberts)
thermoluminescence (TL) (David Price)
radiocarbon dating (C-14)
stable isotopes ( Allan Chivas)

Human Geography

Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER)
cultural landscapes (Lesley Head & Gordon Waitt)
land and heritage (Nick Gill)
rural, urban and economic geography (Chris Gibson)
Festivals Project (Chris Gibson)

Sedimentology

( B Jones)

Spatial technologies

Geographic Information Systems (Marji Puotinen)
Remote Sensing (Laurie Chisholm)

Tectonics, Regional Geology and Metallogenesis

Tectonics and regional geology of the Tasmanides (Chris Fergusson, Sol Buckman)
Metallogenesis (Sol Buckman)

Volcanic Landforms

(Paul Carr)

Other major research areas with the school are:

 International Research Group on Charophytes

 The Home and Away Project

 The Backyard Project

Research Links

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See also:

  Academic Staff Page

  Science Faculty Research Page