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
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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.
2025 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.
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.
Scopus18 Europe PMC32024 Falster, G., Coats, S., & Abram, N. (2024). How unusual was Australia's 2017–2019 Tinderbox Drought?. Weather and Climate Extremes, 46, 11 pages.
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.
Scopus92023 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.
Scopus23 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.
Scopus18 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.
Scopus9 Europe PMC12021 Falster, G., Konecky, B., Madhavan, M., Stevenson, S., & Coats, S. (2021). Imprint of the Pacific Walker Circulation in Global Precipitation d<sup>18</sup>O. Journal of Climate, 34(21), 8579-8597.
Scopus202020 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.
Scopus66 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.
Scopus37 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.
Scopus23 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 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 - ongoing Treasurer Australasian Quaternary Association Australasian Quaternary Association Australia
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