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

Climate change science Climate Change Processes Palaeoclimatology Hydrology Isotope Geochemistry Climate change models

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), 220-1-220-14. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
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. DOI
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 & Environment, 6(1), 519-1-519-12. DOI
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. DOI Scopus29 WoS28 Europe PMC4
2024	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. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2024	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. DOI Scopus13 WoS11
2023	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. DOI Scopus26 WoS26 Europe PMC2
2023	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. DOI Scopus20 WoS18
2022	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. DOI Scopus10 WoS8 Europe PMC1
2021	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. DOI Scopus22 WoS21
2020	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. DOI Scopus69 WoS64
2019	Falster, G., Armbrecht, L., & Missiaen, L. (2019). Under the Southern Cross: 13th International Conference on Paleoceanography. Past Global Changes Magazine, 27(2), 87. DOI
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. DOI Scopus38 WoS35
2018	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. DOI Scopus24 WoS24
2018	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. DOI Scopus19 WoS18
2015	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. DOI Scopus99 WoS86

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.
DOI

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. DOI

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

Position: DECRA Fellow
Phone: 83135447
Email: georgina.falster@adelaide.edu.au
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Mawson, floor First Floor
Room: 118A
Org Unit: School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

Dr Georgina Falster

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