Cesca McInerney

School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr. McInerney examines how climate change influenced terrestrial ecosystems in the geologic past by analyzing the chemical signatures of fossilized plants.

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Dr. McInerney’s research focuses on reading isotopic signatures from the rock record to understand the influence of past climate change on ancient ecosystems. She is interested in how plant communities and terrestrial biogeochemical cycles reacted to periods of global warming in the geologic past as a potential analogue to future climate change impacts.

Specifically, she analyzes the stable isotopic composition of fossilized plants and their preserved leaf waxes to reconstruct past climates and ecosystems. These leaf waxes are essentially molecular fossils that can retain information for millions of years about the plants that made them and the environments they lived in. In order to interpret these ancient chemical signatures, McInerney also studies modern plants and soils as a means of calibrating the isotopic tools she applies to the geologic record.

Current projects include:

• Palaeohydrology of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

• Palaeoecology of the Miocene of Ethiopia

• Isotopic and chemical signature of leaves as rainfall proxies

• Climatic influences on chemical and isotopic signatures of leaf wax n-alkanes in soils and plants across Australia

• Soil degradation of n-alkanes

• Palaeohydrology of the Holocene of Southeast Queensland

• Within species variation in leaf wax n-alkane abundance in relation to climate and leaf traits

• Isotopic signatures of canopy structure across the Cenozoic of Australia

• Isotopic tools for provenancing timber

• Palaeoclimate during Megafauna extinction in Australia

Students interested in using geochemical tools to explore past climate-ecosystem interactions in an Honours or PhD project should contact Dr. McInerney directly.

Appointments

Date	Position	Institution name
2017 - 2020	Senior Lecturer	University of Adelaide
2012 - 2017	ARC Future Fellow	University of Adelaide
2012 - 2016	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Northwestern University
2006 - 2012	Assistant Professor	Northwestern University

Awards and Achievements

Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
2017	Recognition	Unsung Hero of South Australian Science	Government of South Australia	Australia	-
2016	Invitation	Keynote address, Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference, 2016	-	-	-
2015	Invitation	Invited Keynote Speaker at international Plant Waxes Conference	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	-

Language Competencies

Language Competency

French Can read, write, speak and understand spoken

Language	Competency
French	Can read, write, speak and understand spoken

Education

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
1996 - 2002	University of Chicago	United States	PhD
1993 - 1996	University of Chicago	United States	Master of Science
1987 - 1992	Yale University	United States	Bachelors

Postgraduate Training

Date	Title	Institution	Country
2004 - 2006	Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow	Smithsonian Institution	United States
2002 - 2004	BRIE Postdoctoral Fellow	Pennsylvania State University	United States

Journals

Year	Citation
2024	McAllister-Hayward, M. S., Blyth, A. J., McInerney, F. A., Holman, A. I., Grice, K., Tyler, J. J., . . . Morley, M. W. (2024). Reconstructing the environmental conditions experienced by early modern humans at Tam Pà Ling (northeast Laos) using higher plant wax biomarkers. Quaternary Science Reviews, 325, 108471-1-108471-13. DOI Scopus3
2023	Bunney, E., McInerney, F. A., Dormontt, E., Malik, A., Welti, N., Wilkins, D., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2023). Safeguarding sandalwood: A review of current and emerging tools to support sustainable and legal forestry. Plants People Planet, 5(2), 190-202. DOI Scopus9 WoS1
2023	McInerney, F. A., Gerber, C., Dangerfield, E., Cernusak, L. A., Puccini, A., Szarvas, S., . . . Welti, N. (2023). Leaf water <scp> δ <sup>18</sup> O </scp> , <scp> δ <sup>2</sup> H </scp> and <i>d</i> ‐excess isoscapes for Australia using region‐specific plant parameters and non‐equilibrium vapour. Hydrological Processes, 37(5), 18 pages. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2022	McAllister, M. S., Morley, M. W., Tyler, J. J., McInerney, F. A., & Blyth, A. J. (2022). Investigating the palaeoenvironmental context of Late Pleistocene human dispersals into Southeast Asia: a review of stable isotope applications. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 14(5), 1-27. DOI Scopus4
2022	Munroe, S. E. M., Guerin, G. R., McInerney, F. A., Martín-Forés, I., Welti, N., Farrell, M., . . . Sparrow, B. (2022). A vegetation carbon isoscape for Australia built by combining continental-scale field surveys with remote sensing. Landscape Ecology, 37(8), 1987-2006. DOI Scopus7 WoS2
2022	Munroe, S. E. M., McInerney, F. A., Guerin, G. R., Andrae, J. W., Welti, N., Caddy-Retalic, S., . . . Sparrow, B. (2022). Plant families exhibit unique geographic trends in C4 richness and cover in Australia. PLoS One, 17(8), e0271603-1-e0271603-21. DOI Scopus3 WoS1 Europe PMC1
2021	Karp, A. T., Andrae, J. W., McInerney, F. A., Polissar, P. J., & Freeman, K. H. (2021). Soil carbon loss and weak fire feedbacks during Pliocene C₄ grassland expansion in Australia. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(2), e2020GL090964-1-e2020GL090964-10. DOI Scopus8 WoS6
2021	Munroe, S. E. M., McInerney, F. A., Andrae, J., Welti, N., Guerin, G. R., Leitch, E., . . . Sparrow, B. (2021). The photosynthetic pathways of plant species surveyed in Australia’s national terrestrial monitoring network. Scientific Data, 8(1), 97-1-97-10. DOI Scopus7 WoS5 Europe PMC3
2021	Denis, E. H., Maibauer, B. J., Bowen, G. J., Jardine, P. E., Harrington, G. J., Baczynski, A. A., . . . Freeman, K. H. (2021). Decreased soil carbon in a warming world: degraded pyrogenic carbon during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 566, 1-8. DOI Scopus8 WoS5
2020	Caddy-Retalic, S., Wardle, G. M., Leitch, E. J., McInerney, F. A., & Lowe, A. J. (2020). Vegetation change along a Mediterranean to arid zone bioclimatic gradient reveals scale-dependent ecotone patterning. Australian Journal of Botany, 68(8), 574-586. DOI Scopus3 WoS1
2020	Currano, E. D., Jacobs, B. F., Bush, R. T., Novello, A., Feseha, M., Grímsson, F., . . . Tabor, N. J. (2020). Ecological dynamic equilibrium in an early Miocene (21.73 Ma) forest, Ethiopia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 539, 1-15. DOI Scopus12 WoS8
2020	Dong, N., Prentice, I. C., Wright, I. J., Evans, B. J., Togashi, H. F., Caddy-Retalic, S., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2020). Components of leaf-trait variation along environmental gradients. New Phytologist, 228(1), 82-94. DOI Scopus132 WoS71 Europe PMC37
2020	Hill, K. G., Nielson, K. E., Tyler, J., McInerney, F., Doubleday, Z. A., Frankham, G. J., . . . Cassey, P. B. (2020). Pet or pest? Stable isotope methods for determining the provenance of an invasive alien species. NeoBiota, 59(59), 21-37. DOI Scopus4 WoS2
2020	Cheesman, A. W., Duff, H., Hill, K., Cernusak, L. A., & McInerney, F. A. (2020). Isotopic and morphologic proxies for reconstructing light environment and leaf function of fossil leaves: a modern calibration in the Daintree Rainforest, Australia. American Journal of Botany, 107(8), 1165-1176. DOI Scopus9 WoS6 Europe PMC3
2020	Andrae, J. W., McInerney, F. A., & Sniderman, J. M. K. (2020). Carbon isotope systematics of leaf wax n-alkanes in a temperate lacustrine depositional environment. Organic Geochemistry, 150, 1-9. DOI Scopus20 WoS11
2019	Caddy-Retalic, S., Hoffmann, B. D., Guerin, G. R., Andersen, A. N., Wardle, G. M., McInerney, F. A., & Lowe, A. J. (2019). Plant and ant assemblages predicted to decouple under climate change. Diversity and Distributions, 25(4), 551-567. DOI Scopus11 WoS9
2019	Andrae, J. W., McInerney, F. A., Tibby, J., Henderson, A. C. G., Hall, P. A., Marshall, J. C., . . . Greenway, M. (2019). Variation in leaf wax n-alkane characteristics with climate in the broad-leaved paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia). Organic Geochemistry, 130, 33-42. DOI Scopus21 WoS17
2019	Laurin, J., Barclay, R. S., Sageman, B. B., Dawson, R. R., Pagani, M., Schmitz, M., . . . McElwain, J. C. (2019). Terrestrial and marginal-marine record of the mid-Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE 2): High-resolution framework, carbon isotopes, CO2 and sea-level change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 524, 118-136. DOI Scopus34 WoS22
2019	Baczynski, A. A., McInerney, F. A., Freeman, K. H., & Wing, S. L. (2019). Carbon isotope record of trace n-alkanes in a continental PETM section recovered by the Bighorn Basin Coring Project (BBCP). Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(5), 853-865. DOI Scopus16 WoS14
2018	Greer, J., McInerney, F., Vann, D., & Song, X. (2018). Evaluating methods for extraction of α-cellulose from leaves of Melaleuca quinquenervia for stable carbon and oxygen isotope analysis. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 32(9), 711-720. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2018	Baruch, Z., Jones, A., Hill, K. E., McInerney, F., Blyth, C., Caddy-Retalic, S., . . . Breed, M. (2018). Functional acclimation across microgeographic scales in Dodonaea viscosa. AoB Plants, 10(3), ply029-1-ply029-15. DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC2
2018	Howard, S., McInerney, F., Caddy-Retalic, S., Hall, P., & Andrae, J. (2018). Modelling leaf wax n-alkane inputs to soils along a latitudinal transect across Australia. Organic Geochemistry, 121, 126-137. DOI Scopus30 WoS23
2018	Andrae, J., Mcinerney, F., Polissar, P., Sniderman, J., Howard, S., Hall, P., & Phelps, S. (2018). Initial expansion of C₄ vegetation in Australia during the late Pliocene. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(10), 4831-4840. DOI Scopus54 WoS42
2017	Baczynski, A., McInerney, F., Wing, S., Kraus, M., Bloch, J., & Secord, R. (2017). Constraining paleohydrologic change during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the continental interior of North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 465, 237-246. DOI Scopus26 WoS24
2017	Caddy-Retalic, S., Andersen, A. N., Aspinwall, M., Breed, M. F., Byrne, M., Christmas, M., . . . Lowe, A. J. (2017). Bioclimatic transect networks: powerful observatories of ecological change. Ecology and Evolution, 7(13), 4607-4619. DOI Scopus23 WoS20 Europe PMC4
2017	Bush, R., Wallace, J., Currano, E., Jacobs, B., McInerney, F., Dunn, R., & Tabor, N. (2017). Cell anatomy and leaf δ¹³C as proxies for shading and canopy structure in a Miocene forest from Ethiopia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 485, 593-604. DOI Scopus20 WoS19
2016	Cernusak, L., Barbour, M., Arndt, S., Cheesman, A., English, N., Feild, T., . . . Farquhar, G. (2016). Stable isotopes in leaf water of terrestrial plants. Plant, Cell & Environment, 39(5), 1087-1102. DOI Scopus225 WoS179 Europe PMC67
2016	Tibby, J., Barr, C., McInerney, F., Henderson, A., Leng, M., Greenway, M., . . . McNeil, V. (2016). Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the broad-leaved paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall. Global Change Biology, 22(10), 3474-3486. DOI Scopus15 WoS14
2016	Baczynski, A., McInerney, F., Wing, S., Kraus, M., Morse, P., Bloch, J., . . . Freeman, K. (2016). Distortion of carbon isotope excursion in bulk soil organic matter during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128(9), 1352-1366. DOI Scopus40 WoS28
2015	Bush, R., & McInerney, F. (2015). Influence of temperature and C₄ abundance on n-alkane chain length distributions across the central USA. Organic Geochemistry, 79, 65-73. DOI Scopus157 WoS119
2014	Baczynski, A., McInerney, F., & Wing, S. (2014). n-Alkane PETM records from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: A core-outcrop comparison. Rendiconti Online Societa Geologica Italiana, 31, 19-20. DOI
2013	Clyde, W., Gingerich, P., Wing, S., Rohl, U., Westerhold, T., Bowen, G., . . . Brady, K. (2013). Bighorn Basin Coring Project (BBCP): A continental perspective on early Paleogene hyperthermals. Scientific Drilling, 16(16), 21-31. DOI Scopus22 WoS13
2013	Baczynski, A., McInerney, F., Wing, S., Kraus, M., Bloch, J., Boyer, D., . . . Fricke, H. (2013). Chemostratigraphic implications of spatial variation in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum carbon isotope excursion, SE Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(10), 4133-4152. DOI Scopus43 WoS40
2013	Bush, R., & McInerney, F. (2013). Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in and across modern plants: implications for paleoecology and chemotaxonomy. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 117, 161-179. DOI Scopus617 WoS517
2013	Kraus, M., McInerney, F., Wing, S., Secord, R., Baczynski, A., & Bloch, J. (2013). Paleohydrologic response to continental warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 370, 196-208. DOI Scopus90 WoS77
2012	Sachse, D., Billault, I., Bowen, G., Chikaraishi, Y., Dawson, T., Feakins, S., . . . Kahmen, A. (2012). Molecular paleohydrology: interpreting the hydrogen-isotopic composition of lipid biomarkers from photosynthesizing organisms. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 40(1), 221-249. DOI Scopus785 WoS663
2012	Lynch, D., McInerney, F., Kouwenberg, L., & Gonzalez-Meler, M. (2012). Plasticity in bundle sheath extensions of heterobaric leaves. American Journal of Botany, 99(7), 1197-1206. DOI Scopus12 WoS12 Europe PMC3
2012	Secord, R., Bloch, J., Chester, S., Boyer, D., Wood, A., Wing, S., . . . Krigbaum, J. (2012). Evolution of the earliest horses driven by climate change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science, 335(6071), 959-962. DOI Scopus131 WoS117 Europe PMC31
2011	McInerney, F., & Wing, S. (2011). The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: a perturbation of carbon cycle, climate, and biosphere with implications for the future. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 39(1), 489-516. DOI Scopus713 WoS585
2011	McInerney, F., & Stromberg, C. (2011). The Neogene transition from C₃ to C₄ grasslands in North America: assemblage analysis of fossil phytoliths. Paleobiology, 37(1), 50-71. DOI Scopus108 WoS92
2011	McInerney, F., Helliker, B., & Freeman, K. (2011). Hydrogen isotope ratios of leaf wax n-alkanes in grasses are insensitive to transpiration. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(2), 541-554. DOI Scopus128 WoS121
2011	McInerney, F., Stromberg, C., & White, J. (2011). The Neogene transition from C₃ to C₄ grasslands in North America: stable carbon isotope ratios of fossil phytoliths. Paleobiology, 37(1), 23-49. DOI Scopus65 WoS61
2009	Polissar, P., Freeman, K., Rowley, D., McInerney, F., & Currie, B. (2009). Paleoaltimetry of the Tibetan Plateau from D/H ratios of lipid biomarkers. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 287(1-2), 64-76. DOI Scopus239 WoS209
2007	McInerney, F., Freeman, K., & Wing, S. (2007). Magnitude of the carbon isotope excursion at the paleocene-eocene thermal maximum: the role of plant community change. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 262(1-2), 50-65. DOI Scopus175 WoS156
2007	Smith, F. A., Freeman, K. H., & Helliker, B. R. (2007). GEOC 2-Hydrologic and taxonomic controls on leaf wax lipid hydrogen isotope ratios. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 234, 1 page.
2006	Smith, F. A., & Freeman, K. H. (2006). Influence of physiology and climate on δD of leaf wax n-alkanes from C<inf>3</inf> and C<inf>4</inf> grasses. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70(5), 1172-1187. DOI Scopus313 WoS286
2005	Wing, S. L., Harrington, G. J., Smith, F. A., Bloch, J. I., Boyer, D. M., & Freeman, K. H. (2005). Paleontology: Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. Science, 310(5750), 993-996. DOI Scopus487 WoS432 Europe PMC86
2004	Smith, F. A., & White, J. W. C. (2004). Modem calibration of phytolith carbon isotope signatures for C<sub>3</sub>/C<sub>4</sub> paleograssland reconstruction. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, 207(3-4), 277-304. DOI WoS49
2004	Smith, F., & White, J. (2004). Modern calibration of phytolith carbon isotope signatures for C <inf>3</inf>/C<inf>4</inf> paleograssland reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 207(3-4), 277-304. DOI Scopus61
2002	Smith, F. A., & White, J. W. C. (2002). The development of Neogene grasslands in relation to climate and atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>:: The carbon isotope ratios of fossil phytoliths. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 66(15A), A722. WoS1

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2001	Smith, F. A., & Anderson, K. B. (2001). Characterization of organic compounds in phytoliths:: Improving the resolving power of phytolith δ<SUP>13</SUP>C as a tool for paleoecological reconstruction of C3 and C4 grasses. In J. D. Meunier, & F. Colin (Eds.), Unknown Book (pp. 317-327). A A BALKEMA PUBLISHERS. WoS26

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2009	McInerney, F. A., Wing, S. L., Bloch, J. I., Bowen, G. J., Boyer, D. M., Chester, S., . . . Secord, R. (2009). Coordinated sedimentary and biotic change during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA. In E. M. Crouch, C. P. Strong, & C. J. Hollis (Eds.), Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene (CBEP 2009), extended abstracts from an international conference in Wellington, New Zealand, 12-15 January 2009 Vol. GNS Science Miscellaneous Series (pp. 156-162). Wellington, New Zealand: GNS Science Miscellaneous Series.
2005	Smith, F. A., Wing, S., & Freeman, K. H. (2005). Using carbon and hydrogen isotope ratios of terrestrial organic matter to understand climate change at the PETM. In GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA Vol. 69 (pp. A345). Moscow, ID: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD.

Year

Citation

2009

McInerney, F. A., Wing, S. L., Bloch, J. I., Bowen, G. J., Boyer, D. M., Chester, S., . . . Secord, R. (2009). Coordinated sedimentary and biotic change during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA. In E. M. Crouch, C. P. Strong, & C. J. Hollis (Eds.), Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene (CBEP 2009), extended abstracts from an international conference in Wellington, New Zealand, 12-15 January 2009 Vol. GNS Science Miscellaneous Series (pp. 156-162). Wellington, New Zealand: GNS Science Miscellaneous Series.

2005

Smith, F. A., Wing, S., & Freeman, K. H. (2005). Using carbon and hydrogen isotope ratios of terrestrial organic matter to understand climate change at the PETM. In GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA Vol. 69 (pp. A345). Moscow, ID: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD.

Conference Items

Year	Citation
2021	Munroe, S., McInerney, F., Andrae, J., Welti, N., Guerin, G., Leitch, E., . . . Sparrow, B. (2021). Plants down under: defining and mapping the photosynthetic pathway of plants across Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of TERN Science Symposium.
2017	Caddy-Retalic, S., Hoffmann, B., Guerin, G. R., Andersen, A., Wardle, G., McInerney, F., & Lowe, A. (2017). The potential decoupling of plant and ant communities with climate change. Poster session presented at the meeting of Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Portland, USA.
2016	Andrae, J., McInerney, F., Tyler, J., & Hall, P. (2016). The Neogene expansion of C₄ dominated ecosystems: an Australian perspective. Poster session presented at the meeting of Conference handbook and abstracts of the 19th Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference. Fremantle, WA.

Datasets

Year	Citation
2020	Munroe, S., McInerney, F., Andrae, J., Welti, N., Guerin, G., Emrys, L., . . . Sparrow, B. (2020). The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species surveyed in TERN Ecosystem Surveillance Plots. DOI

Francesca McInerney (Lead CI), Jonathan Tyler, Jake Andrae. Ecosystem change through the Neogene in Australia: documenting the rise of C4 vegetation. ANZIC special post-cruise analytical funding 9/2016-8/2017. AU $20,000.

Andrew Henderson (Lead CI), Francesca McInerney, John Tibby. Tracking hydrological changes during Marine Isotope Stage 3 in the tropics using leaf wax isotopes. NERC Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility Grant 2016. AU $41,162.

Stefan Caddy-Retalic & Francesca McInerney. Foliar isotope ratios along bioclimatic gradients. TERN Australian Transect Network. 2016-2017. AU $25,000.

Stefan Caddy-Retalic & Francesca McInerney. Leaf carbon isotope ratios along TREND. TERN eMast. 2015. $4,700.

Cameron Barr (Lead CI), John Tibby and Francesca McInerney. A high-resolution quantitative rainfall record over the last 1000 years from the Australian sub-tropics. AINSE Research Award. 1/7/2015-30/6/2016. AU $9,895.

Juraj Farkas (Lead CI), Francesca McInerney, David Bruce, Jonathan Tyler and Robert Frei. Development of New Method for Chromium Isotope Analysis. 6/2015 – 12/2015. AU$14,610.

Elizabeth Reed (Lead CI), Lee Arnold, Francesca McInerney, John Tibby, Jonathan Tyler, Juraj Farkas. Refining the timing and palaeoenvironmental context for megafauna extinction records at Naracoorte, South Australia. Marjor Collaborative Project, Environment Institute. 6/2015-12/2015. AU$50,000.

Francesca McInerney (Lead CI). Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis in Australia: Existing Strengths and Emerging Opportunities. Environment Institute Workshop. 21/10/2014-31/12/2014. AU $10,050.

Francesca McInerney (Lead CI) and John Tibby. High-resolution multi-isotope palaeoclimate proxy leaves. Environment Institute Small Research Grants Scheme. 25/6/2014-31/12/2014. AU $12,000.

Francesca McInerney (Lead CI), John Tibby, Seth Westra, Cameron Barr, Jonathan Tyler, Mark Thyer. Leaves as rain gauges: Ancient hydrology from the isotopic signature of leaves. University of Adelaide DVCR Interdisciplinary Research Fund. 14/11/2013- 13/11/2014. AU $29,476.

John Conran (Lead CI), Francesca McInerney, Robert Hill, Daphne Lee, Dallas Mildenhall. The Eocene high latitude Australasian ‘tropics’ in a changing climate – resolving conflicting evidence. ARC Discovery Grant. 1/2013-12/2015. AU$ 230,000.

Francesca McInerney (Sole CI). Palaeoclimate reconstructions from the isotopic signature of fossilized leaf waxes. Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. 1/9/2012-31/8/2016. AU $714,418.

Francesca McInerney (CI). CO₂levels during the greenhouse of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN) Booster Grant. 1/12/2010-30/11/2011. US $33,444.

Francesca McInerney (CI). Ancient greenhouse worlds: Past climates as a roadmap for the future. Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN) Booster Grant. 1/5/2009-30/11/2011. US $28,206.

Bonnie Jacobs (Lead CI), Ellen Currano, Francesca McInerney, Mulugeta Feseha, Aaron Pan. Collaborative Research: A multi-proxy approach to Early Miocene community, landscape, and climate reconstruction, Ethiopian Plateau. NSF-EAR: Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology. 1/8/2011-31/7/2014. US $383,129.

William Clyde (Lead CI), Philip Gingerich, Scott Wing, Francesca McInerney, Anders Noren, Gabriel Bowen, Mary Kraus, Katherine Freeman, Kirk Johnson. Collaborative Research: Bighorn Basin Coring Project (BBCP) - Targeted Continental Drilling of Paleogene Hyperthermals. NSF-EAR. 1/9/2010-31/8/2013. US $1,400,000.

Francesca Smith (Lead CI), Jonathan Bloch, Mary Kraus, Scott Wing. Collaborative Research: Paleohydrology of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: A multiple proxy reconstruction. NSF-EAR: Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology. 1/10/2007-30/9/2011. US $303,001.

University of Adelaide

Earth Systems History III- Geology 3505 (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016): Third year major course. Team Taught. My topics: palaeoclimate, Earth’s energy budget and the long- and short-term carbon cycles.

Stable Isotopes in Biospheric Systems Workshop

Intensive short course (1 week) for Honours, PhD and Postdocs; includes lecture and laboratory components. Lectured on isotope signatures of leaf wax lipids at the University of Sydney workshop (2015) and Daintree Rainforest Observatory (2016).

Northwestern University

Paleoclimate Analogs to Future Climate Change- EARTH 451 (Winter 2012): Graduate seminar course.

Stable Isotope Ecology and Paleoecology- EARTH 451 (Winter 2010): Graduate and advanced undergraduate seminar course with group laboratory project.

Paleobiology- EARTH 340 (Winter 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011): Upper level Earth and Planetary Science course.

Global Warming: The Scientific Evidence - EARTH 102-6 (Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2012): Freshman Seminar, a required writing-intensive course.

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2021 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	Oxygen Isotopes Ratios of Phytoliths as a Proxy for Past Climates and Environments	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mrs Kym Elizabeth Edwards
2017 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	Multi-isotopic Provenancing: Forensic Analysis for Determining Geographic Origin of Sandalwood	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Ellyse Bunney
2016 - 2019	Principal Supervisor	Development and Application of Leaf Wax Geochemistry to Reconstruct Late Cenozoic Climate and Environmental Change in Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Jake William Andrae
2015 - 2019	Principal Supervisor	Palaeoenvironmental Proxy Development and Application of Leaf Wax n-Alkanes in Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Sian Howard
2014 - 2018	Co-Supervisor	Quantifying Responses of Ecological Communities to Bioclimatic Gradients	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Stefan Caddy-Retalic
2014 - 2018	Co-Supervisor	Contributions to the Cenozoic Macrofossil Record of the Myrtaceae in South Eastern Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Myall Alexander Tarran

Committee Memberships

Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
2016 - ongoing	Member	Climate and Biotic Events of the Paleogene Conference 2017 (Snowbird, Utah, USA) Scientific Committee.	-	-
2014 - 2014	Chair	Australian Compound Specific Isotope Analysis Workshop	University of Adelaide	Australia
2013 - 2014	Co-Chair	Session Leader at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference	Geochemical Society	United States
2013 - 2014	Co-Chair	Organic Geochemistry Theme of the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference	Geochemical Society	United States
2012 - 2014	Member	Organising Committee for the 18th Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference	University of Adelaide	Australia

Email: cesca.mcinerney@adelaide.edu.au