School of Earth & Environmental Sciences (SEES)

Current Post Graduate Students

Ashley MartinAshley Martin  anm724@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Tony Dosseto
Topic:  Uranium Series Isotopes to Reconstruct Part Variations in Erosion and Sediment Transport.

Nathan JankowskiNathan Jankowski  nrj934@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Bert Roberts  Zenobia Jacobs
Topic:  Chronologies in context: in situ single-grain OSL dating of archaeological sediments.
Davide MenozziDavide Menozzi  dm791@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Tony Dosseto
Topic:  Uranium-Series Study of Soil Processes.
ChulanthaChulantha Jayawardena
clj946@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Sol Buckman  
Colin Murray-Wallace
Topic:  Quantifying the nature, timing and displacement along neotectonic (active) faults in the Mount Lofty & Flinders Rangers, SA
Hamad Nasser H AltalyanHamad Nasser H Altalyan  hnha874@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Brian Jones  
Paul Carr
Topic:   Environmental Implications of Marine Pollution
BehroozBehrooz Karamiqucham  bk569@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Allan Chivas
Topic:  Geochemistry and dating of iron oxides and clays of the Australian regolith
Khalid Hamed M AlharbiKhalid Alharbi  khma491@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: C Murray-Wallace
Topic:   Late Quaternary coastal evolution of the Yanbu area, Saudi Arabia with implication for the future coastal change
Steph KermodeStephanie Kermode  sjk51@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Gerald Nanson  Brian Jones
Topic:  Holocene Sea Level Rise, Flood History & Floodplain Sedimentation on the Lower Shoalhaven
Yasir Al Yazichi Yasir Al Yazichi  ymmay555@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Allan Chivas  
Brian Jones
Topic:  Environmental Pollution of Water Resources
Deidre RyanDeirdre Ryan  ddr608@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  C. Murray-Wallace
Topic:  The Quaternary Geomorphological Evolution of the Murray River Mouth Region and its Terminal Lakes, SA
Ammar ManaaAmmar Manaa  
am675@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Brian Jones  
Colin Murray-Wallace
Topic:  Late Pleistocene raised coral reefs in the Eastern Red Sea

Anna De JongAnna de Jong  aldj988@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Gordon Waitt 
Chris Gibson
Topic: Young people, return journeys and mega urban events

Ryan MantonRyan Manton  rjm828@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Sol Buckman  Allen Nutman
Topic:  Tectonic and Metallogenic Evolution of the Great Serpentinite Belt in the New England Orogen
Chantel CarrChantel Carr  cac900@uowmail.edu.au    
Supervisor: 
Chris Gibson
Topic:  The Make Economy: Contested Geographies of Design and Production.
Stephanie TooleStephanie Toole  st921@uowmail.edu.au
SupervisorNatascha Klocker Lesley Head
Topic:  Cultural diversity and climate change adaptation in Australian households
Brent KoppelStudent Representative

Brent Koppel
bk830@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Mike Morwood  
Kat Szabo
Topic: Shell use through time in the Kimberley, WA

Kendall BarnesKendall Barnes
kab80@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Gordon Waitt  
Nick Gill
Topic:  Climate action in the Bega valley
Charles GillonCharles Gillon  cwg317@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Chris Gibson  Leah Gibbs
Topic:  Human/nonhuman relations in suburban estates
Amy BlakemoreAmy Blakemore
agb997@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Colin Murray-Wallace  Brian Jones
Topic:  Middle Pleisocene to Holocene Sea-Level Changes on the Coorong Coastal Plain - Mount Burr to Mount Gambier Region
Omar MohammadOmar Mohammad
oam512@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Brian Jones
Topic:  Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Evaluation: An Integrated Petroleum System Framework, Sydney Basin, NSW, Australia
 
Florian DuxFlorian Dux  fwd774@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Allan Chivas  
Adriana Garcia
Topic:  Applications of 'Clumped' Isotope Mass Spectrometry in Carbonate Geochemistry
Dida YurnaldiDida Yurnaldi  
dy657@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Mike Morwood
Topic:  A Palaeo-Magnetic Study of the Soa Basin, Flores, Indonesia

Adam CarriganAdam Carrigan  adc401@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Marji Puotinen
Topic:  Tropical Cyclone Induced Cooling Zones: A Thermal Stress Relief for Corals in Warming Seas?
Thang NguyenThang Nguyen  
ttsn060@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Colin Woodroffe
Topic:  Environmental vulnerability assessment. A case study for the Mekong delta in Vietnam
Laurent DevriendtLaurent Devriendt  ld404@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Helen McGregor  Colin Woodroffe  Allan Chivas
Topic:  El Niño-Southern Oscillation during the Mid- to Late Holocene: views from fossil corals

Naomi RiggsNaomi Riggs 
njr03@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Brian Jones  
Colin Murray-Wallace  
Craig Sloss
Topic:  Coastal inundation events along the eastern coastline of Australia, inferred from microfossils
Eliza de VetEliza de Vet  erdv892@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Lesley Head  
Chris Gibson
Topic:  The role of weather in everyday life in Australia
Beleed SalehBaleed Saleh  bs946@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Allan Chivas  Adriana Garcia
Topic:  Biogeochemistry of charophytes and their degradation
Amanda EdwardsAmanda Edwards  ae751@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Nick Gill
Topic:  Managing Bushfire: Diverse values; shared vision
Rafael CarvalhoRafael Carvalho 
rcc919@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Colin Woodroffe
 Topic: 
Venera EspanonVenera Espanon  vre981@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Allan Chivas  Masahiko Honda
Topic:  Cosmogenic 21^NE and 3^He dating of young basaltic lavas
Ashishika SharmaAshishika Sharma  as730@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Colin Woodroffe  Brian Jones  Adriana Garcia
Topic:  Using Foraminifera for Coastal Rehabilitation of Damaged Areas in Tuvalu
Ben GallanBen Gallan  bwg032@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Chris Gibson
Topic:  Crepuscular urban geography: Rethinking day and night in the city
Mika Rizki Puspaningrum  Mika Rizki Puspaningrum  mrp676@uowmail.edu.au
SupervisorAllan Chivas  Gert van den Bergh
TopicElephantoids as Palaeoenvironmental Indicators in Asia
Thomas OliverThomas Oliver  tsno412@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Colin Woodroffe
Topic: Beach and Dune Sediment Budgets and Climate Change
Zachary SwanderZachary Swander  zjs785@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Tony Dosseto
Topic:  Quantifying landscape response to monsoon variability using cosmogenic isotopes: 10Be and 26Al
Anna HabeckAnna Habeck  ah816@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Gerald Nanson  
Brian Jones
Topic:  Wetlands in a Dryland
Diego Hernan Valencia KorosiDiego Hernan Valencia Korosi
dhvk724@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Lesley Head  John Morrison
Topic:  Social and Environmental Impacts of Ecotourism: A comparative analysis of impact assessment procedures between Australia and Mexico
Lili YuLili Yu  ly825@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Allan Chivas  
Adriana Garcia
Topic:  Palaeoenvironmental Organic Geochemistry and Chronology of the Macquarie Marshes, NSW
Muatasam HassanMuatasam Hassan  mmh942@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Brian Jones  
Chris Fergusson  
Sabah Ismail  Ali Al-Juboury
Topic:  Sedimentology of red bed successions in northern Iraq
Theresa HaradaTheresa Harada  tmh952@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Gordon Waitt  
Nick Gill  Chris Gibson
Topic:  Everyday Mobility Pathways - Getting Around Wollongong and Beyond
Carl HopleyCarl Hopley
Supervisor:
Brian Jones
Topic: The Holocene and Beyond: Evolution of Bay Head Deltas, NSW
Elspeth (Ebbe) HayesEbbe (Elspeth) Hayes  ehh998@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:   Zenobia Jacobs  
Richard Fullagar  Bert Roberts
Topic:  Dating and Identifying Traces of Modern Human Behaviour in Australia and South East Asia.
Yujie GuoYujie Guo  yg991@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: 
Bo Li  Bert Roberts
TopicStudy of Human Dispersal in Southeast Asia
Heather MoorcroftHeather Moorcroft 
hm514@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Lesley Head  
Michael Adams  Jack Baker
Topic
:  Engagements between Indigenous Australians and environmental NGOs
Ruly Setiawan Ruly Setiawan  
rs309@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Mike Morwood  
Gerrit Van Den Bergh
Topic:  The Chronology And Palaeoenvironment of The Soa Basin, Indonesia
Claire PerretteClaire Perrette cp727@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Kat Szabo
Topic:  Shells artefacts, value and power: an anthropological approach to archaeological remains in Melanesia.
Elyse StanesElyse Stanes  es530@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor: Chris Gibson
Natascha Klocker
Topic:  Making space: Routines of consumption and its implications for the cultural economy of sustainability
Thomas SutiknaThomas Sutikna  ts788@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Mike Morwood  Laurie Chisholm
Lalit Kumar
Topic:  Development of GIS and Database Management Systems for Archaelogical Research: The Flores Case Study.
Michelle LinklaterMichelle Linklater  ml970@uowmail.edu.au
Supevisor:  Colin Woodroffe
Topic:  Seabed Habitats, Lord Howe Island
David CliftonDavid Clifton  dc985@uowmail.edu.au 
Supervisor:  Gordon Waitt
Topic:  Bodies that Run: Individual, Social and Regional Transformations of Running Festivals
Nicholas SkiltonNicholas Skilton  nb366@uowmail.edu.au 
Supervisor:  Chris Gibson
 & Leah Gibbs
Topic:  Standing On The Outside Looking In: Peripheral economies of the Australian FIFO experience
Alex TindaleAlex Tindale  at196@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Natascha Klocker
Topic:  ‘Ethnic minority experiences of “white” Australia
Daniela MuellerDaniela Mueller  dm728@uowmail.edu.au
SupervisorTim Cohen
TopicRivers in the Last Glacial Maximum.
Victoria IkutegbeVictoria Ikutegbe  vui982@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Nick Gill
Topic:  Cultural Environmental Research to Understand and Enhance Invasive Plant Management Among lifestyle Farmers
Ellen van HolsteinEllen van Holstein  emvh894@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor
 Lesley Head
Topic:  The changing image of the organic in the city
Shaun McKiernanShaun McKiernan  sm065@uowmail.edu.au
SupervisorNick Gill
Topic:  Weed Management and Governance in Complex Social Landscapes
Anne BickfordAnne Bickford  ab148@uowmail.edu.au
SupervisorLesley Head  Kat Szabo
Topic:  Shell Stringing by Tasmanian Aboriginal Women: An investigation from Ancient to Modern and #8221; 1,800 years ago to 1974.
Judith AmesburyJudy Amesbury  jra978@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Kat Szabo
Topic:  Items of Adornment, Wealth and Status During the Pre-contact and Spanish Periods in the Mariana Islands 
Justin WestgateJustin Westgate
jsw719@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Chris Gibson
Topic:  Responding to crisis: creative practices
in volatile spaces

Current Masters Students

Katie O'NealKatie O'Neal  kjon470@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Leah Gibbs 
Debora Martins de Freitas
Topic:  Improving coastal management outcomes through science and the law
Alison ScobieAlison Scobie  
alisons@uow.edu.au
Supervisor:  Lesley Head
Topic:  Understanding printing behaviours and paper consumption of staff at UOW.
Katrina SkellernKatrina Skellern
kjs859@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:
Paul Cooper  Gordon Waitt
Topic:  Adaptive capacities of low income households to climate change
Ren HuRen Hu
rh407@uowmail.edu.au
SupervisorNick Gill
TopicWeed Management at the Urban/Bushland Interface in Wollongong
Robert EvittRobert Evitt  
re463@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  Lesley Head  Michael Adams
Topic:  
Aboriginal culture, fire and knowledge in NSW and Queensland
Andrew ThomasAndrew Thomas  
aot01@uowmail.edu.au
Supervisor:  John Morrison  
Philomena Gangaiya
Topic:  Sustainability Studies on Water Quality Control Ponds in Urban Development Areas.
Ursula King 
Supervisor: 
Leah Gibbs & Alison Wicks [University of Canberra]
Topic:  A flourishing community? How has the aquaponics garden impacted the lives of residents in the Basin View, NSW, aged care facility?
 

 

Last reviewed: 3 May, 2013

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