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RESEARCH

The School of Earth and Environmental Sciences has an internationally-acclaimed record of research across a range of areas in both Geography and Geology.

The main research grouping within the school is the GeoQuEST Reseach Centre. Click on the logo for the GeoQuEST website.


 

Main Research Interests

Archaeology and Human Evolution

Human Evolution and the ‘Hobbit’ (Bert Roberts)

Coastal and Marine Environments

mangroves and estuaries (C Woodroffe)
neotectonics (Colin Murray-Wallace)
sea-level changes (Colin Murray-Wallace , C Woodroffe, Brian Jones)
sedimentary environments (Colin Murray-Wallace, C Woodroffe, B Jones)
  Tsunami: processes and products (T Bryant)
estuarine ecology (Ron West and John Morrison)
estuarine biogeochemistry (John Morrison and Ron West)
estuarine wetlands (Ron West)
science/policy interface for the coastal zone (Ron West, John Morrison)

Environmental Science

fisheries and aquaculture (Ron West)
management of small island environments (John Morrison, Ron West)
watershed/catchment management (John Morrison and Ron West)
soil/sediment water interface studies (John Morrison)
contaminant transport and transformations (John Morrison)

Fluvial process and landforms

arid zone geomorphology (G Nanson)
fluvial sedimentology (B Jones)

Geochronology, Stable Isotopes and Quaternary Environmental Change

amino acid racemisation dating (AAR) (CM-W)
optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) (Bert Roberts)
thermoluminescence (TL) (David Price)
radiocarbon dating (C-14)
stable isotopes ( Allan Chivas)

Human Geography

cultural landscapes (Lesley Head & Gordon Waitt)
land and heritage (Nick Gill)
rural, urban and economic geography (Chris Gibson)

Sedimentology

( B Jones)

Spatial technologies

Geographic Information Systems (Marji Puotinen)
Remote Sensing (Laurie Chisholm)

Volcanic Landforms

(Paul Carr)

 

Other major research areas with the school are:

International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)

 International Research Group on Charophytes

 The Home and Away Project

 The Backyard Project

 OZ INTIMATE

 

Research Links

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See also:

  Academic Staff Page

  Science Faculty Research Page

 

 
 
   

Last reviewed: 24 October, 2007 

 
   
 
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