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 | 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
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 | Chris GIBSON Professor of Human Geography
ARC Future Fellow (2010-2014) cgibson@uow.edu.au Ph: +61 2 42213448 Location: 41.G08 | - Human Geography
- Cultural Economy
- Cities & Regions
- Cultures of sustainability
- Tourism
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 | 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
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 | 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.
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 | 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
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| Principal Research Fellows |
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 | 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
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| Senior Research Fellows |
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 | 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
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 | 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
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| Research Fellows |
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 | 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
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 | 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
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 | 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
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| | Catherine PHILLIPS Research Fellow
cphillip@uow.edu.au Ph: +61 2 42215616 Location: 41.G10 | |
| Associate Research Fellows |
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 | Christine ERIKSEN Associate Research Fellow
ceriksen@uow.edu.au Ph: +61 2 42213346 Location: 41.G15 | - 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
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 | 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
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 | Luke GLIGANIC Associate Research Fellow lukeg@uow.edu.au Ph: +61 2 Location: 41 | |
| | Bi LI Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship bli@uow.edu.au Ph: +61 2 4221 3817 Location: 41.272 | |
 | Hendrick MAY Associate Research Fellow hmay@uow.edu.au | |
 | 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
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 | 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
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 | 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
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