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

**Friday 27th June**
Jenny Atchison, University of Wollongong
Where is the wheat? Towards a new geography of Australian wheat

Seminars are normally held on Friday, Building 41, Room 153 at 12.30pm with a Light lunch provided.

NEWS & MEDIA LINKS

Sol Buckman (foreground) is pictured with Earth and Environmental Sciences honours students Sarah Woodward and Alex Moffitt who accompanied him to China

Geological tales from the Silk Road
25 June, 2008

“Journey to the West. A monkey’s tale of the geology of the Silk Road” was the title of a recent address presented recently at UOW as part of the GeoQuEST and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences lunchtime seminar series. Sol Buckman from Earth and Environmental Sciences spoke about the geological marvels of China. He has just returned from China where he was accompanied by two Honours students, Sarah Woodward and Alex Moffitt. Central Asia contains the world’s largest, ac... read more!

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.
More on tsunamis...