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Current PhD Students

	Paolo Abballe paa747@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Allan Chivas Topic: The origin of organic matter in shelf sediments from compound-specific radiocarbon and stable isotope analyses		Nathan Jankowski nrj934@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Bert Roberts Zenobia Jacobs Topic: Chronologies in context: in situ single-grain OSL dating of archaeological sediments.
	Fahad Mubarak H Al Gahtani fmhag159@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Brian Jones Adrian Hutton Topic: Petrology of the Southern Sydney Basin, NSW, Australia		Chulantha Jayawardena clj946@uow.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 Altalyan hnha874@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Brian Jones Paul Carr Topic: Environmental Implications of Marine Pollution		Behrooz Karamiqucham bk569@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Allan Chivas Topic: Geochemistry and dating of iron oxides and clays of the Australian regolith
	Khalid Alharbi khma491@uow.edu.au Supervisor: C Murray-Wallace Topic: Late Quaternary coastal evolution of the Yanbu area, Saudi Arabia with implication for the future coastal change		Stephanie Kermode sjk51@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Gerald Nanson Brian Jones Topic: Holocene Sea Level Rise, Flood History & Floodplain Sedimentation on the Lower Shoalhaven
	Yasir Al Yazichi ymmay555@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Allan Chivas Brian Jones Topic: Environmental Pollution of Water Resources		Deirdre Ryan ddr608@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Colin Murray-Wallace Topic: The Quaternary Geomorphological Evolution of the Murray River Mouth Region and its Terminal Lakes, South Australia.
	Sarmad Asi Ali saaa952@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Brian Jones Sol Buckman Sabah Ismail Topic: Geochemistry of Tethyan Arc-Related Volcanic rocks of NE Iraq		Anna De Jong aldj@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Gordon Waitt Chris Gibson Topic: The Big Day Out
	Naomi Atauea (Biribo nb766@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Colin Woodroffe Colin Murray-Wallace Topic: Coastal vulnerability of Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati to projected sea level rise.		Chantel Carr cac900@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Chris Gibson Topic: The Make Economy: Contested Geographies of Design and Production.
	Elena Platonova ep081@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Allan Chivas Topic: Application of Clumped Isotope Geothermometry to Paleoenvironments		Brent Koppel bk830@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Mike Morwood Kat Szabo Topic: Shell use through time in the Kimberley, WA
	Kendall Barnes kab80@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Gordon Waitt Nick Gill Topic: Climate action in the Bega valley		Pat Macquarie pcm496@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Lesley Head Gordon Waitt Topic: The Illawarra Escarpment as a Cultural Landscape
	Amy Blakemore agb997@uow.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 Mohamma oam512@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Brian Jones Gerald Nanson Topic: Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Evaluation of the Kirkuk Group, Iraq
	Thang Nguyen ttsn060@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Colin Woodroffe Topic: Environmental vulnerability assessment. A case study for the Mekong delta in Vietnam		Christina M. Neudorf cmn821@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Bert Roberts Zenobia Jacobs Topic: Prehistory in Ash and Alluvium
	Gabriele Caccamo gc996@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Laurie Chisholm Marji Puotinen Ross Bradstock Topic: Spatially explicit analysis of the influences of moisture and vegetation water content on fire behaviour across different spatial and temporal scales		Tony Nicholas wan734@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Allan Chivas Colin Murray-Wallace Topic: High resolution geochronological investigations in the Quanternary sedimentary record: AAR studies applied to questions of time, temperature, and taphonomy
	Adam Carrigan adc401@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Marji Puotinen Topic: Tropical Cyclone Induced Cooling Zones: A Thermal Stress Relief for Corals in Warming Seas?		Richard Olmo rko040@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Lesley Head Topic: Theoretical Perspectives: The Human Ecology of Tarague Embayment.
	Laurent 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 Riggs nriggs@uow.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 Vet erdv892@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Lesley Head Chris Gibson Topic: An ethnography of Australian weather		Baleed Saleh bs946@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Allan Chivas Adriana Garcia Topic: Biogeochemistry of charophytes and their degradation
	Florian Dux fwd774@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Allan Chivas Adriana Garcia Topic: Applications of 'Clumped' Isotope Mass Spectrometry in Carbonate Geochemistry		Md Golam Mahabub Sarwar mgms225@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Colin Woodroffe Brian Jones Topic: Physical Processes Exacerbating Sea Change in Bangladesh
	Amanda Edwards ae751@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Nick Gill Topic: Managing Bushfire: Diverse values; shared vision		Xiao Shang xs786@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Laurie Chisholm Topic: "Discrimination of Australian Native Vegetation Species from Hyperspectral Data:A Case Study of Beecroft Peninsula".
	Venera Espanon vre981@uowmail.edu.au Supervisor: Allan Chivas Masahiko Honda Topic: Cosmogenic 21^NE and 3^He dating of young basaltic lavas		Ashishika Sharma as730@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Colin Woodroffe Brian Jones Adriana Garcia Topic: Using Foraminifera for Coastal Rehabilitation of Damaged Areas in Tuvalu
	Ben Gallan bwg032@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Chris Gibson Topic: Cultural infrastructure, heterotopia and the right to the city		Tanyalak Sripho ts640@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Gerald Nanson Tim Cohen Topic:GIS Based Hydrological Assessment of the Arid Zone of Lake Eyre Basin.
	Thomas Oliver tsno412@uowmail.edu.au Supervisor: Colin Woodroffe Topic: Beach and Dune Sediment Budgets and Climate Change		Zachary Swander zjs785@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Tony Dosseto Topic: Basin Response to Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impact Over the Last 100,000 ky
	Anna Habeck ah816@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Gerald Nanson Brian Jones Topic: Wetlands in a Dryland		Diego Hernan Valencia Korosi dhvk724@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Lesley Head John Morrison Topic: A comparative analysis of EIA guidelines and methodologies applied to Ecotourism in Mexico and Australia
	Lili Yu ly825@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Allan Chivas Adriana Garcia Topic: Palaeoenvironmental Organic Geochemistry and Chronology of the Macquarie Marshes, NSW, Australia		Andrew Warren atw77@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Chris Gibson Gordon Waitt Topic: Surfing, Space, Gender and Ethics
	Theresa Harada tmh952@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Gordon Waitt Nick Gill Chris Gibson Topic: Everyday Mobility Pathways - Getting Around Wollongong and Beyond		Carl Hopley Supervisor: Brian Jones Topic: The Holocene and Beyond: Evolution of Bay Head Deltas, NSW
	Muatasam Hassan mmh942@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Brian Jones Chris Fergusson Sabah Ismail Ali Al-Juboury Topic: Sedimentology of red bed successions in northern Iraq		Megan Williams mlw02@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Paul Carr Brian Jones Topic: The Permian-Triassic Boundary and Mass Extinctions
	Ebbe (Elspeth) Hayes ehh998@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Zenobia Jacobs Richard Fullagar Bert Roberts Topic: Dating and Identifying Traces of Modern Human Behaviour in Australia and South East Asia.		Ashley martin anm724@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Tony Dosseto Topic: Uranium Series Isotopes to Reconstruct Part Variations in Erosion and Sediment Transport.
	Heather Moorcroft hm514@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Lesley Head Michael Adams Jack Baker Topic: Engagements between Indigenous Australians and environmental NGOs		Ruly Setiawan rs309@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Mike Morwood Gerrit Van Den Bergh Topic: The Chronology And Palaeoenvironment of The Soa Basin, Indonesia

Current Masters Students

	Natasha Carlson-Perret nlcp280@uow.edu.au Supervisor: John Morrison Topic: Studies on phosphorus interactions in soils.		Helen Wilson hw192@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Nick Gill Topic: Practising the green public sphere: a case study of the Illawarra Escarpment
	Sabina D'Ambrosio dsda118@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Allan Chivas Adriana Garcia Topic: Exchange Student		Athier Hussin ah057@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Gerald Nanson Lesley Head Topic: Adaptation to Climate Change in Desert Contexts.
	Dida Yurnaldi dy657@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Mike Morwood Topic: A Palaeo-Magnetic Study of the Soa Basin, Flores, Indonesia		Andrea Gordon aeg999@uowmail.edu.au Supervisor: Chris Gibson Topic: Cultural Sustainability in Rural Areas - Country Music and Well-Being.
	Alison Scobie alisons@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Lesley Head Topic: Understanding printing behaviours and paper consumption of staff at UOW.		Ladan Jafari lj901@uow.edu.au Supervisor: John Morrison Brian Jones Topic: Studies on Environmental Aspects of Disposing of Estuarine Dredge Spoil on Land.
	Robert Evitt re463@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Lesley Head Michael Adams Topic: Cultural Values and Biodiversity		Andrew Thomas aot01@uow.edu.au Supervisor: John Morrison Philomena Gangaiya Topic: Sustainability Studies on Water Quality Control Ponds in Urban Development Areas.
	Ammar Manaa am675@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Brian Jones Colin Murray-Wallace Topic: Raised Coral Reefs in Western Saudi Arabia		Mohammed Jahangir Alam mja92@uow.edu.au Supervisor: Nick Gill Lesley Head Topic: Invasive Plants and Climate Change