Teye Aukes
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
I am interested in palaeoclimatology and palaeoecology, and especially love the combination of earth sciences and biological sciences. I did my Bachelor's and Master's at the university of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. My MSc thesis looked at systems in South-America, the Netherlands and Italy using a combination of different proxies: diatoms, pollen and coprophilous fungal spores.
My research is on (hydro)climate change in south-western Western Australia, which has been experiencing a decline in winter precipitation over the last five decades. To understand how this relates to past variability and how the ecosystem responded to these shifts, I will be using diatoms and environmental DNA to reconstruct past climate and ecological change.
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Language Competencies
Language Competency Dutch; Flemish Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2025 University of Adelaide Australia PhD 2022 - 2024 University of Amsterdam Netherlands MSc Biological Sciences (Ecology and Evolution) 2019 - 2022 University of Amsterdam Netherlands BSc Future Planet Studies -
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Journals
Year Citation 2024 Nascimento, M. N., Aukes, T. F. N., & McMichael, C. N. H. (2024). Indigenous and colonial influences on Amazonian forests. Plants People Planet, 6(4), 803-823.
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