Research Academics

Bruce CHAPPELL
Professor of Geology

brucec@uow.edu.au
Ph: +61 409203552
Location: 41.G63

• Geochemistry and genesis of granitic and associated volcanic rocks
• X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analysis
• New England and Lachlan Orogens - tectonic and metallogenic evolution

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

Lesley HEAD
ARC Australian Laureate Fellow
 

lhead@uow.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 42213124
Location: 41.G14

• 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

Mike MORWOOD
Professorial Research Fellow

mikem@uow.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 42213189
Location:  41.264

• 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, especially the role of symbolic behaviours in indigenous communities and the potential of art as a source of information about past ideology, social interactions and material culture.

Richard (Bert) ROBERTS
ARC Australian Professorial Fellow

rgrob@uow.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 42215319
Location: 41.268

• 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. How does the landscape respond/adapt to climate change?
• Soil production and erosion. Combined use of uranium-series and cosmogenic isotopes to study the controls on the 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

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
ARC Postdoctoral 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

• The affect of amenity-migration on awareness, preparedness and attitudes towards bushfire
• The role and place of local environmental knowledge in global frameworks
• Gendered dimensions of risk engagement and risk resilience
• The impact of sustainable development initiatives on local environments and communities

Carol FARBOTKO
Associate Research Fellow

carolf@uow.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 42214265
Location: 41.G26

• Cultural geographies of islands, coasts and industrial cities
• Households and sustainability
• Climate change and the media
• Climate change and migration
• Environmental activism

Luke GLIGANIC
Associate Research Fellow

lukeg@uow.edu.au
Ph: +61 2
Location: 41

Hendrick MAY
Associate Research Fellow

Michael MEYER
Marie Curie Research Fellow

meyer@uow.edu.au
ph: +61 2 42215946
Location: 41.266

• Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of archaeological and paleoenvironmental sites in Eurasia and Africa using single grains of quartz
• Glaciations and human occupation of central High Asia
• Speleothems as high-resolution archives of continental climate change
• Quaternary landscape evolution and environmental changes

Emily O'GORMAN
Associate Research Fellow

emilyo@uow.edu.au
ph: +61 2 42215616
mob: +61 40438402
Location: 41.G10

• Historian of environment, science and culture
• Changing environmental practices and knowledges of town and urban dwellers, industry members (farmers, miners),managers and scientists (meteorologists, ecologists, engineers), as well as the institutions that connect them

Gert VAN DEN BERGH
Research Associate

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