The Australian National University

Faculty Member, Archaeology and Natural History

Associate Professor

College of Asia and the Pacific

About

I completed my PhD at ANU on the "Late Quaternary Environmental History of the Tari Basin, Papua New Guinea", in 1994. While holding postdoctoral positions at the Smithsonian (STRI, Panama) and at the University of Cambridge I continued to pursue my interest in the role of past climate change and human activity on tropical and temperate ecosystems through work in the Amazon Basin and southern South America. My research is currently focussed on the application of high-resolution palaeoecological analysis to our understanding of the impact of Late Quaternary climate variability and human activity on terrestrial ecosystems in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. I am also developing e-Research tools in palaeoecology such as the Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas and the PalaeoWorks website. I am currently using my knowledge of Australian pollen to explore the impact of atmospheric pollen and spores on respiratory health.

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