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Biography
Academic Education and Qualifications
1971 BA in Geology, Macquarie University
1976 MSc (Hons) in Geology & Micropalaeontology, Macquarie University
1981 PhD in Zoology/Geology, Zoology Department, University of Adelaide
2002 DSc University of Adelaide, examined through Department of Geology & Geophysics [Title: Australian Quaternary studies]
Employment History
1975 Tutor-demonstrator in Geology and Palaeontology, University of Newcastle
1976-77 Senior demonstrator in the Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, University of Louvain, Belgium
1978-80 Postgraduate student, University of Adelaide
1981-June 1985 Research Fellow, ANU (Dept. of Biogeography & Geomorphology)
July 1985-Oct.85 Senior Research Fellow, same institution
Nov 1985-Feb.1988 Senior Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Monash University
Since March 1988: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader [1992], Department of Geology, ANU
March 2002- July 2004, Head of Department of Geology
Since January 2003. Professor, level E1
2008-09: Associate Director, Group Leader for Earth Environment, RSES, ANU
Primary Research Skills and Experience
All the research activities listed below have a common aim: to obtain information of relevance for the reconstruction of past marine and continental environments of importance for understanding global and regional climatic variability. - Quaternary palaeoceanography of the Australian region based on deep-sea cores and by principally using microfossils and their chemical composition
- Cainozoic palaeoenvironments, involving sedimentology, hydrology, stratigraphy, geochemistry and palaeoecology of lacustrine deposits and microfossils
- Fingerprinting aeolian dust in Australia [a new multidisciplinary project funded by the Australian Research Council involving geochemists, sedimentologists, meteorologists and microbiologists from Australia and Germany]
- Race-element and isotope geochemistry of biogenic carbonates
- Marine and non-marine micropalaeontology applied to palaeoenvironmental reconstructions using the fossils and their chemical composition
- Continuation of work on non-marine ostracods (taxonomy, ecology, palaeoecology).
Research Experience:
- Quaternary marine record of the Australian region, based on deep-sea cores (palaeoecology and geochemistry of biogenic carbonates, aeolian dust, and X-ray mineralogy) and of continental environments based on lake deposits
- Cruise leader on the R.V. Franklin in the Tasman Sea in January 1994, and in the eastern Indian Ocean both in December 1995 and February-March 1996, and September 2001 in the Tasman Sea offshore New Caledonia. Co-cruise leader on RV Marion Dufresne for AUSCAN cruise in Feb-March 2003 and cruise leader on RV Southern Surveyor in March 2006 for the AUSCAN II cruise and March 2007 for the Lacepede Shelf investigations on ancient meanders of the River Murray.
- Taxonomy, ecology and palaeoecology of non-marine ostracods
- Geochemistry of carbonates, especially biogenic ones
- Stratigraphy, sedimentology, hydrology and palaeontological reconstructions of inland-lake basins, and more particularly from saline lakes.
- Biological and chemical investigations of inland waters, principally from Australia but also from New Caledonia, Tahiti, Antarctica
- Late Cainozoic lacustrine stratigraphy and palaeoecology studied at sites in Australia, China, England, Spain, France, Italy, North Africa and USA
Professional Society Activities
Affiliations to Scientific Societies and representation on committees since 2000
- 1997-2002: member of the international PAGES Scientific Steering Committee, associated with International Geosphere and Biosphere Program
- 2001/3: Deputy Chairman, then Chairman, ACT Branch of the Geological Society of Australia
- 2004-2009: Chairman of AINSE committee dealing with Archaeology and Geosciences
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Since 2008: member of the Australian IODP Council
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Since 2007: member of the Lakes Advisory Committee for the Corangamite Shire Council, Western Victoria
Professional Memberships and representation on various committees:
Australian Society for Limnology; Australasian Quaternary Association; Association for Australian Palaeontologists; British Micropalaeontological Society; American Geophysical Union; Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia; Geological Society of Australia, Australian Marine Science Association. - 1997-2002: member of the international PAGES Scientific Steering Committee, associated with International Geosphere and Biosphere Program
- 2001/3: Deputy Chairman, then Chairman, ACT Branch of the Geological Society of Australia
- Since 2004: Chairman of AINSE committee dealing with Archaeology and Geosciences
- 2008: member of the Australian IODP Council
Senior editorial responsibilities:
- 1991-2004 co-editor-in-chief of "Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology", but remains on the editorial board of that journal.
- Since 1989: on the board of advisors of "Journal of Paleolimnology"
- 1992-1998: on the editorial board of the "International Journal for Salt lake Research"
- 1995-1998: on the editorial board of "Journal of Micropalaeontology"
- Since 1996: on the editorial board of "Marine Micropaleontology"
Awards
Verco Medal awarded by the Royal Society of South Australia in 1992 for excellence in research in the fields of Geology and Zoology
Australian Society for Limnology Medal awarded publicly in December 2005 for outstanding contribution to Australian Limnology
Order of Australia Medal awarded in 2007 for service to science through research and teaching in the areas of palaeoclimate studies, salination and climate change, and through the initiation and support of international scientific collaboration
Christoffel Plantin Medal awarded in 2008 in recognition for scientific activities that have contributed to the prestige of Belgium
Mawson Medal to be awarded by the Australian Academy of Science in May 2010 for outstanding contribution to Earth Science in Australia
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