People

Professor Anthony Dosseto 
Director
Building 41 Room G32
T +61 2 4221 4805
anthony_dosseto@uow.edu.au 

• Catchment erosion response to climate change over the last glacial cycle. How does the landscape respond/adapt to climate change?
• Soil production and erosion. The combined use of uranium-series and cosmogenic isotopes to study the controls on the evolution of weathering profiles and soil resources
• Sediment production and transport. How fast are sediments produced, stored and exported? Study of small and large catchments under various climates (semi-arid to temperate southeastern Australia, tropical Puerto Rico)
• The production of silicic magmas. Study of the mechanisms and rates of magma evolution in the crust and how they relate to eruptive styles

Dr Alexandru "Tibi" Codilean
co-Director
Cosmogenic Isotope Czar – Senior Lecturer
Building 41 Room G23
T +61 2 4221 3426
alexandru_codilean@uow.edu.au

• Cosmogenic nuclide geochemistry
• Controls on denudation and global sediment fluxes
• Linking source to sink

Dr Florian Dux
Research Associate
Building 41 G04C
florian_dux@uow.edu.au 

• Li isotopes in rocks and sediments
• B isotopes in rocks
• Ca isotopes in blood and teeth
• Cu isotopes in rocks and biological tissues
• Zn isotopes in groundwaters
• Sr isotopes in rocks and sediments
• Nd isotopes in rocks and soils
• U-Th isotopes in sediments and soils
• U-Th dating of carbonates

Maame Adwoa Maisie
Building 41, Room G02
Title of Thesis: Using Charcoal Properties to Investigate Past Fire Regimes

Christopher Petteri Laurikainen Gaete
Building 41, Room G02
Title of Thesis: Using strontium isotopes to investigate megafauna mobility at Mt Etna Caves, QLD

Santosh Dhungana
Title of Thesis: Links between mantle convection, global sea level, paleogeography, ocean composition and climate leading to the explosion of complex life

River Edwards
Title of Thesis: Assessing human network responses to environmental forcing through strontium isotope geochemistry

Angus Walton
Title of Thesis: The role of episodic processes in the erosion and uplift of mountain belts

Christopher Vournazos
Title of Thesis: Jurassic Lab: Investigating the Ecology of Dinosaurs Using Strontium and Calcium Isotopes

Charles Pinczi
Title of project: Mobility of Diprotodon, the largest marsupial that ever existed

Ella Boss
Title of project: Everybody Walk the Titanosaur: Reconstructing Foraging in the World’s Largest-ever Terrestrial Organisms

Hannah Small
Title of project: Home Range in arboreal mammals throughout the Quaternary: implications for modern conservation

Lucy Bacon
Title of project: Strontium Isotopes as Range Proxies in Endangered Ghost Bats

Jarod Wright
Title of project: Cultural Burning vs. Prescribed Burning: A Comparison of Soil Health Under Differing Fire Regimes on Murramarang Country

Kara Thompson
Title of project: Assessment of Indigenous Land Care on the Physical and Chemical Properties of Soil of Murramarang Country, New South Wales

Associate Professor Tim Cohen
Associate Professor
Building 41 Room G32
T +61 2 4239 2375
tim_cohen@uow.edu.au

• Fluvial geomorphology
• Arid zone geomorphology
• Palaeoclimatology and Quaternary studies
• Geochronology
• River and catchment management

Dr Venera Espanon 
Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences – Geology
University of Freiburg
venera.espanon@geologie.uni-freiburg.de

Dr Reka-Hajnalka Fulop
Research Fellow
Building 41 Room 164
T +61 2 4221 5087
reka-hajnalka_fulop@uow.edu.au  

• Surface process rates and sediment residence times in rivers using cosmogenic in situ ¹⁴C
• Controls on denudation rates as derived using ¹⁰Be in river sediment
• CO₂ and CH₄ dynamics in Siberian permafrost soils

Dr Renaud Joannes-Boyau
Senior Research Fellow
Southern Cross University
renaud.joannes-boyau@scu.edu.au  

Dr Brandon Mahan
College of Science & Engineering
James Cook University
mahan@jcu.edu.au

Dafne Koutamanis
College of Science & Engineering
James Cook University
dafne.koutamanis@jcu.edu.au

Dr Sam Marx
Senior Lecturer
Building 41 Room G31
T +61 2 4221 5318
sam_marx@uow.edu.au

• Aeolian geomorphology, long-range dust transport and the use of dust as a palaeoenvironmental proxy
• Hydro-climate variability
• Atmospheric pollution and environmental accumulation of pollutants
• Geochemical tracers of physical processes
• Effects of anthropogenic activities on the environment, particularly erosion, sedimentation and pollution histories
• Coastal wetland dynamics.

Dr Jan-Hendrik May
School of Geography
University of Melbourne
janhendrikmay@unimelb.edu.au 

Dr Alexander Francke 

• Paleoenvironmental and -climate reconstructions in the Mediterranean Region derived from lacustrine sediments using sedimentary and (bio-)geochemical proxy data
• Catchment dynamics in response to past climate change, reconstructed using U and Li isotopes, and XRF core scanning data. How does a lake´s catchment response to changing climatic and environmental conditions?
• Reconstruction of lake-internal (lake productivity, internal physical properties) processes in response to climate change using sedimentary and (bio-)geochemical proxy data
• Combining proxy datasets for past catchment dynamics (U, Li isotopes) with proxy datasets for paleoclimatic conditions and lake internal processes
• Human-landscape interaction in the Mediterranean region during the Holocene
• Development of soil erosion and soil productivity during the Quaternary

Academics

• Dr Jinia Sikdar
• Dr Alexander Francke

PhD students

• Sally Carney - Title of Thesis: Using Isotopic Techniques to Understand Past Environmental Processes
• Gabriel Enge - Title of Thesis: Looking for the missing link: application of Cu isotope geochemistry to neurodegenerative diseases
• Venera Espanon - Title of Thesis: Geochemical and geochronological constraints on Quaternary volcanism in southern Mendoza, Argentina
• Christian Ercolani - Title of Thesis: Analyzing boron isotopes in paleo-channel sediments to reconstruct environmental conditions during the last glacial cycle in southern Australia
• Dafne Koutamanis - Title of Thesis: Reconstructing dietary behaviour and food webs of Pleistocene Australasian terrestrial vertebrates through calcium and strontium isotope geochemistry
• Shawn Lu - Title of Thesis: Boron Isotopes as a Proxy to Investigate Past Fire Regimes
• Ashley Martin - Title of Thesis: Reconstructing Past Variations in Erosion and Sediment Transport using Uranium-Series Isotopes
• Davide Menozzi -Title of Thesis: Assessment of Sequential Extraction and Mineral Separation for studying Uranium-Series Isotopes in Regolith
• Tsun-You Pan - Title of Thesis: Climate and sea-level changes during the last interglacial maximum
• Rebecca Ryan - Title of Thesis: Mineralogy and geochemistry of ancient fires recorded in lake sediments
• Leo Rothacker - Title of Thesis: Reconstructing Past Conditions of Chemical Weathering via Li Isotopes
• Holly Taylor - Title of Thesis: Investigating the Links Between the Termination of the Snowball Earth and the Emergence of the First Animals
• Maude Thollon - Title of Thesis: Using uranium isotopes to reconstruct past links between catchment erosion and climate change
• Matthew Williams - Title of Thesis: Developing a strontium isoscape to analyse natural and archaeological material for their strontium signature to determine providence of ostrich eggshell beads in south-western South Africa

Honours students

• Ryan North
• Reilly Pearce
• Rebecca Ryan
• Sally Carney
• Alex Hanna-Joyner
• Emma Kiekebosch-Fitt
• Holly Taylor
• Kaila Tonge
• Addison Borst
• Andrew Fuller
• Liam Stephen
• Jessica Drinnan
• Christopher Petteri Laurikainen Gaete

Undergraduate students

• Ryan Almeida
• Ellen Boardman
• Giorgia Borserio
• Greg Briscoe
• Stephanie Cowling
• Rachel Crowley
• Jessica Drinnan
• Declan Drum
• Nick Fitzpatrick
• Jacob Lia
• Justin Merdith
• Mark Quoyle
• Mahlea Ryan
• Anna Todd
• Patrick Wilcox
• Kristian Zajec-Tringle
• Taj Busch
• Anton Grabeck
• Annabel Green
• Caitlin Jenkins
• Ryan North
• Rebecca Ryan
• Warwick Suters
• Matthew Beuzeville
• Angus Walton
• Elise Beaumont

Visiting students

• Sheree Armistead - University of Adelaide (Australia)
• Marian Bailey - Flinders University (Australia)
• Connor Dougherty - UC Davis (USA)
• Burch Fisher - UC Santa Barbara (USA)
• Cornell Hanxomphou - ANU (Australia)
• Emma Harrison - UC San Diego (USA)
• August Hassler - ENS Lyon (France)
• Katelin-Rose Morrison - Summer Scholar (Australia)
• Alix Scheer - Universite de Strasbourg (France)
• Evan Webb - Summer Scholar (Australia)