Research Academics

• Human Geography
• Cultural Economy
• Cities & Regions
• Cultures of sustainability
• Tourism
   

• Conceptual debates about culture and nature
• Sustainability and Climate Change adaptation
• Urban natures
• Aboriginal land use, past and present
• Cultural landscapes
• Australian prehistoric environments and human interactions

• Human dispersal and evolution, especially in Southeast Asia, Australia, and Oceania.
• The complexity of interaction between climate, people, plants and animals.
• Culture contact and change.
• Island evolution and biogeography.
• Ethnoarchaeology. The role of symbolic behaviours in indigenous communities and art as an information source of past ideology, social interactions and material culture.

• Past and present human/environment interactions
• Scientific dating methods for the earth, biological and archaeological sciences
• Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of individual sand grains
• Human evolution and dispersal in Africa, Asia and Australia
• Quaternary megafaunal extinction, climate change and landscape evolution

Zenobia JACOBS
ARC QEII Research Fellow
zenobia@uow.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 42213633
Location:  41.269

• Development of optically stimulated luminescence dating techniques for individual sand grains
• Extending the age range of luminescence dating of quartz
• Timing of the anatomical and behavioural origins of Homo sapiens in Africa and their dispersal ‘Out of Africa’
• Quaternary environmental change and its impact on the evolution and dispersal of Homo sapiens
• Comparing the behaviour of Homo sapiens in Africa and Neanderthals in Europe

Tony DOSSETO
ARC Future Fellow
tonyd@uow.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 42214805
Location: 41.160

• Catchment erosion response to climate change over the last glacial cycle. Landscape response/adaptation to climate change?
• Soil production and erosion. Combined use of uranium-series and cosmogenic isotopes to study evolution of weathering profiles and soil resources
• Sediment production and transport. How fast are sediments produced, stored and exported? Study of small and large catchments under various climates (semi-arid to temperate southeastern Australia, tropical Puerto Rico)
• The production of silicic magmas. Study of the mechanisms and rates of magma evolution in the crust and how they relate to eruptive styles

Katherine SZABO
QEII ARC Research Fellow
kat@uow.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 42215846
Location: 41.266

• Aquatic resource use in Southeast Asia
• Shell artefacts of the tropical Asia-Pacific Neolithic
• Metal age material culture in island Southeast Asia
• Taphonomic processes and shell: reading life histories from shell surfaces
• Shell as a raw material

Gert VAN DEN BERGH
ARC Future Fellow
gert@uow.edu.au
Ph:  +61 2 42215946
Location: 41.266

• Evolution of Proboscideans (elephants and their kin)
• Evolution of island mammals
• Quaternary environmental change and catastrophic events and their impact on terrestrial fauna evolution and dispersal of hominins
• Paleozoogeography of SE Asia
• Taphonomy/zooarchaeology

Maxime AUBERT
ARC APD Fellow
maubert@uow.edu.au
Ph:  +61 2 42215966
Location:  41.266

• Development and application of dating methods and micro-analytical techniques
• Rock art dating
• The timing of human evolution and migration
• Megafaunal extinction
• Landscape dynamics and environmental change

Adam BRUMM
DECRA Senior Research Fellow
abrumm@uow.edu.au
Ph:  +61 2 42215946
Location:  41.266

• Hominin stone technology in Southeast Asia
• Old World Lower Palaeolithic archaeology
• Reduction sequence analysis
• Origin and evolution of modern human behaviour
• Social and symbolic aspects of stone technology
   

Helen McGREGOR
AINSE Research Fellow
mcgregor@uow.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 42214265
Location:  41.G26

• Tropical Climatology
• El Niño - Southern Oscillation
• Coral paleoclimatology
• Paleoceanography
• Climate change science & teaching

John JANSEN
 Senior Research Fellow
jjansen@uow.edu.au
 

• bedrock rivers & landscape evolution
• hydrology & sediment transport in anabranching rivers
• fluvial-glacial interactions at high latitudes
• palaeoenvironmental records in rivers & lakes.

• Pollinating possibilities and problems
• Biosecuring horticulture in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Saving more than seeds
• People-plant relations

• Development and improvement of luminescence dating techniques
• Application of luminescence dating in geological and archaeological studies
• Luminescence properties of quartz and feldspar from sediments
• Luminescence dating of neotectonic activities
• Quaternary environmental changes

•  Wildfire awareness and preparedness at the wildland-urban interface
• Gendered dimensions of risk engagement and natural disaster resilience
• The role and place of Indigenous and local environmental knowledge in global frameworks
• The impact of sustainable development initiatives on local environments and communities

Luke GLIGANIC
Associate Research Fellow
lukeg@uow.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 42213631
Location: 41.G33

• Using the OSL signal from single grains of quartz to resolve depositional and post-depositional histories of sediments.
• Using the IRSL signal from potassium-feldspars to extend the age limit of luminescence dating.
• Quaternary environmental change in currently-arid central Australia.
• Late Pleistocene human occupation in arid central and western Australia.
• The behavioural evolution of Homo sapiens.

Hendrick MAY
Associate Research Fellow
hmay@uow.edu.au

• GIS for cultural research – integrating GIS techniques with qualitative methods
• Applying historical GIS to understanding rural cultures
• Patterns of work in the cultural and creative industries