Dr Georgina Falster
DECRA Fellow
School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
I am a DECRA Fellow in Climate Science. I take a holistic approach to understanding Earth's climate and how it is changing - combining information from weather observations, climate model simulations, and natural archives of long-term climate variability (like tree rings and ice cores).
I am mainly interested in the water cycle, on spatial scales from local to global, and time scales from monthly to multi-centennial. Within that, I have particular focus on: Australian droughts and how they are changing, tropical Pacific variability, and using water isotopes to track dynamical variability in the water cycle.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2021 - 2025 ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Science Postdoctoral Fellow Australian National University 2019 - 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher Washington University in St. Louis -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2025 Award STA Superstar of STEM Science and Technology Australia Australia - 2024 Teaching Award K. S. W. Campbell Award in Earth Science Australian National University Australia - 2023 Award ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes prize for best paper published by a postdoctoral researcher Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes Australia - 2019 Award Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence The University of Adelaide Australia - 2016 Award AUGU RC Heddle Award Adelaide University Graduates Union Australia - 2015 Research Award AINSE Postgraduate Research Award - Australia - 2014 Scholarship CRC LEME Scholarship for outstanding research in the field of regolith science The University of Adelaide Australia - 2010 Award James Barrans Scholarship The University of Adelaide - - 2009 Award Glenn Scotford Memorial Prize The University of Adelaide - - -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2015 - 2019 University of Adelaide Australia PhD in Earth Sciences 2008 - 2011 University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Geology -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2025 Holgate, C. M., Falster, G. M., Gillett, Z. E., Goswami, P., Grant, M. O., Hobeichi, S., . . . Ukkola, A. M. (2025). Physical mechanisms of meteorological drought development, intensification and termination: an Australian review. Communications Earth and Environment, 6(1), 14 pages.
Scopus22025 Cho, P. G., Falster, G., Bolster, D., Berke, M. A., & Müller, M. F. (2025). Influence of the Indian Walker Circulation on δ<sup>18</sup>O<inf>P</inf> and Hydroclimate Variability in the Indian Ocean Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(8), 14 pages.
2025 Vaiglova, P., Kierdorf, H., Witzel, C., Falster, G., Joannes-Boyau, R., Wang, Y., . . . Darabi, H. (2025). Transport of animals underpinned ritual feasting at the onset of the Neolithic in southwestern Asia. Communications Earth and Environment, 6(1), 12 pages.
2024 Devanand, A., Falster, G. M., Gillett, Z. E., Hobeichi, S., Holgate, C. M., Jin, C., . . . Ukkola, A. M. (2024). Australia's Tinderbox Drought: An extreme natural event likely worsened by human-caused climate change. Science Advances, 10(10), eadj3460-1-eadj3460-22.
Scopus27 Europe PMC42024 Falster, G., Coats, S., & Abram, N. (2024). How unusual was Australia's 2017–2019 Tinderbox Drought?. Weather and Climate Extremes, 46, 100734-1-100734-11.
Scopus22024 Falster, G. M., Wright, N. M., Abram, N. J., Ukkola, A. M., & Henley, B. J. (2024). Potential for historically unprecedented Australian droughts from natural variability and climate change. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 28(6), 1383-1401.
Scopus132023 Falster, G., Konecky, B., Coats, S., & Stevenson, S. (2023). Forced changes in the Pacific Walker circulation over the past millennium. Nature, 622(7981), 93-100.
Scopus26 Europe PMC22023 Konecky, B. L., McKay, N. P., Falster, G. M., Stevenson, S. L., Fischer, M. J., Atwood, A. R., . . . Yoshimura, K. (2023). Globally coherent water cycle response to temperature change during the past two millennia. Nature Geoscience, 16(11), 997-1004.
Scopus20 WoS12022 Churakova-Sidorova, O. V., Myglan, V. S., Fonti, M. V., Naumova, O. V., Kirdyanov, A. V., Kalugin, I. A., . . . Saurer, M. (2022). Modern aridity in the Altai-Sayan mountain range derived from multiple millennial proxies. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 10 pages.
Scopus10 Europe PMC12021 Falster, G., Konecky, B., Madhavan, M., Stevenson, S., & Coats, S. (2021). Imprint of the Pacific Walker Circulation in Global Precipitation d18O. Journal of Climate, 34(21), 8579-8597.
Scopus222020 Konecky, B. L., McKay, N. P., Churakova, O. V., Comas-Bru, L., Dassié, E. P., Delong, K. L., . . . Klaebe, R. M. (2020). The Iso2k database: A global compilation of paleo δ18O and δ2H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate. Earth System Science Data, 12(3), 2261-2288.
Scopus69 WoS312019 Falster, G., Armbrecht, L., & Missiaen, L. (2019). Under the Southern Cross: 13th International Conference on Paleoceanography. Past Global Changes Magazine, 27(2), 87.
2019 Khider, D., Emile-Geay, J., McKay, N. P., Gil, Y., Garijo, D., Ratnakar, V., . . . Zhou, Y. (2019). PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(10), 1570-1596.
Scopus38 WoS232018 Falster, G. M., Tyler, J., Grant, K., Tibby, J., Turney, C., Lohr, S., . . . Kershaw, A. P. (2018). Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago. Quaternary Science Reviews, 192, 106-122.
Scopus24 WoS202018 Falster, G., Delean, S., & Tyler, J. (2018). Hydrogen peroxide treatment of natural lake sediment prior to carbon and oxygen stable isotope analysis of calcium carbonate. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(9), 3583-3595.
Scopus19 WoS102015 Collins, A., Patranabis-Deb, S., Alexander, E., Bertram, C., Falster, G., Gore, R., . . . Wade, B. (2015). Detrital mineral age, radiogenic isotopic stratigraphy and tectonic significance of the Cuddapah Basin, India. Gondwana Research, 28(4), 1294-1309.
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Datasets
Year Citation - Falster, G., Grant, K., Tyler, J., Tibby, J., Turney, C., Lohr, S., . . . Kershaw, A. P. (n.d.). Falster_et_al_2018_Lake_Surprise.xlsx.
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Committee Memberships
Date Role Committee Institution Country 2025 - ongoing Member Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology Early to Mid Career Researcher Committee The University of Adelaide Australia 2023 - 2024 Co-Chair Research School of Earth Sciences Seminar Committee Australian National University Australia 2023 - 2024 Co-Chair ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes Early Career Researcher Committee Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes Australia 2021 - 2024 Co-Chair Past Global Changes (PAGES) Early Career Network Steering Committee Past Global Changes (PAGES) Switzerland 2021 - ongoing Co-Chair Past Global Changes (PAGES) 2k Network Past Global Changes - a Future Earth initiative Switzerland 2017 - 2019 Treasurer Australasian Quaternary Association Australasian Quaternary Association Australia
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