GeoQuEST Research Centre @ UOW

The GeoQuEST Research Centre is committed to conducting innovative research in the earth and environmental sciences. It brings together researchers from the disciplines of geography, geology and environmental science with innovative and interdisciplinary research interests in earth processes, environmental change and human interactions in pursuit of excellence.

GeoQuEST is undertaking fundamental research across the geosciences, at a range of time scales, linking past earth history, present process studies, and sustainability of future environments. With an international reputation in Quaternary Science, our geochronological and geochemical facilities are targeted towards a greater understanding of the dynamics of palaeoenvironments and reconstruction of past climate variability. Basic research goals include identifying the causes of climate change at millennial to decadel time scales and separating natural variability from the impacts of human population growth and patterns of consumption.

GeoQuEST researchers endeavour to understand modern environments in order to bring a more sustainable perspective to future interrelationships between earth surface processes, ecological systems and human activities, particularly in the context of environmental change. We bring expertise in environmental modelling, geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing to the study of both environment and society.

MEMBERS

GeoQuEST Academic members and PhD students

RESEARCH

GeoQuEST is recognized for its innovative research on relationships between Environment and Society across time frames from prehistory to the present.

Research Overview
Geography, Geology and Environmental Science
Quaternary Science and Geochronology
Environment and Society
Spatial Technologies
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SEMINARS

Thursday 2nd July 2009

Building 41, Room 153 at 12:30pm, light lunch provided

Professor Shengkui CHENG

Deputy Director, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Professor Cheng has been involved in scientific research activities of the Tibetan plateau for almost twenty years. His presentation is will examine sustainable development in this high altitude location, considering climate, natural resources, regional ecology and local agriculture. Economic and social aspects will also be considered, as will some proposals for sustainable development in this unique area.

NEWS & MEDIA LINKS

Dr Zenobia Jacobs who led the international team of scientists who have helped shed new light on Homo Sapiens during the Middle Stone Age

New study pinpoints timing of archaeological innovations by early modern humans read more...

31 Oct 2008 | Bernie Goldie

FEATURES

On 28 October 2004, it was announced that a near-complete skeleton of a previously undiscovered species of human had been found on the Indonesian island of Flores.

This astonishing discovery, made in part by members of GeoQuEST, has once again focused the world's attention on human evolution.
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Also in the news recently and a major research focus of GeoQuEST member, Associate Professor Ted Bryant, Tsunamis are a fascinating and awesome natural phenomenon.

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