Jonathan Tyler

Research Interests

Climate Change Processes Isotope Geochemistry Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology Sedimentology

APrf Jonathan Tyler

ARC Externally-Funded Research Associate Professor

School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

College of Sciences

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

Dr. Jonathan Tyler is an Associate Professor in Earth Sciences with a PhD from University College London and research experience from the Universities of Tokyo, Oxford and Melbourne. His teaching and research revolve around climate variability past and present and the way Earth surface processes can be deciphered using chemical signatures. When not working, Jonathan is being re-educated about the world via his three children. He tries to spend as much time as he can outside, but otherwise indulges in following the travails of the English cricket team whilst listening to '90s alternative rock.

I am a palaeoclimatologist and isotope geochemist. That means I am interested in past climates and the use of chemical tracers in sediments to develop our understanding of past climate changes. I mostly work with lake sediments, but also work in terrestrial, marine, estuarine and cave environments.

Mainly, I am interested in developing isotope-based tools for quantifying past climate variability. This involves field and experimental studies on modern systems. I then apply these techniques to examine the patterns and causes of past climate change, in regions as diverse as coastal Antarctica, central Australia and Japan. In 2024 I will start an ARC Future Fellowship, which aims to better understand climate variability in southern Australia through the last 2000 years, with a view to providing data and knowledge relevant to policy makers and environmental managers. Similarly, I am actively researching the interplay between climate variability and changing vegetation and fire regimes in order to better understand bushfire risks and mitigation strategies, most notably on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

West Basin

During my career I have worked with a variety of techniques, both geochemical and palaeoecological, including oxygen and silicon isotopes in biogenic silica, carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of sedimentary chlorins and branched GDGTs as a proxy for surface air temperature and soil pH. Recent projects involve the use of 'clumped isotope' palaeothermometry and sub-annual geochemical analysis of fossil and modern bivalves. I've supervised over 30 Honours students, and over 10 PhD students and place a high value on mentorship and fostering an inclusive and positive research environment.

 

Date Position Institution name
2023 - ongoing Associate Professor, Earth Sciences, School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences University of Adelaide,
2018 - 2022 Senior Lecturer, Earth Sciences University of Adelaide, Adelaide
2013 - 2017 Lecturer University of Adelaide
2012 - 2013 Research Fellow University of Melbourne
2009 - 2012 NERC Research Fellow University of Oxford
2009 - 2009 NERC Research Fellow Natural History Museum
2008 - 2009 JSPS Research Fellow University of Tokyo

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2009 Fellowship Fellow, Wolfson College Wolfson College, Oxford United Kingdom -
2005 Scholarship Marie Curie Postgraduate Scholarship University of Bergen Norway -

Date Institution name Country Title
2004 - 2008 University College London United Kingdom PhD
2002 - 2003 Royal Holloway, University of London UK MSc
1998 - 2001 University of Leeds UK BSc

Year Citation
2025 Cadd, H., Mariani, M., Tibby, J., Tyler, J., Barr, C., Leng, M. J., . . . Petherick, L. (2025). Australian subtropical vegetation and wetland response to fire, climate and nutrient availability during the Holocene. Journal of Quaternary Science, 40(3), 519-536.
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2025 Nixon, F. C., Tyler, J. J., Klaebe, R. M., Priestley, S. C., Hua, Q., Arnold, L. J., & Cohen, T. J. (2025). Temperature and hydrological change in central Australia through the last glacial cycle: Insights from clumped isotope analysis of lacustrine molluscs. Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal, 350, 109157-1-109157-18.
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2025 Hill, K. G. W., Delean, S., Hall, T., Tyler, J. J., Stringham, O. C., & Cassey, P. (2025). Feather forensics: tracing the origins of parrots in wildlife trade with stable isotopes and citizen science. Animal Conservation, 28(4), 582-591.
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2025 Rahman, M., Duxbury, L., Cadd, H., Klaebe, R., Jacobsen, G., Tibby, J., & Tyler, J. (2025). A 2000-year record of hydroclimate variability inferred from oxygen isotopes in lake sediments on Kangaroo Island (Karti/Karta), South Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 363, 14 pages.
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2025 Dharmarathna, A., Cadd, H., Barr, C., Francke, A., Hua, Q., Child, D., . . . Tyler, J. J. (2025). Developing robust lake sediment chronologies using 210Pb, Pu and radiocarbon dating of pollen concentrates and macrofossil: A case study from Lake Surprise, Victoria, Australia. Quaternary Geochronology, 89, 101686-1-101686-19.
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2025 Hill, K. G. W., Delean, S., Robinson, S. A., Hall, T., Tyler, J. J., Stringham, O. C., & Cassey, P. (2025). Identifying recent captive escapees of Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus moluccanus) at different stages of the pet-release pathway. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 13, 1517867-1-1517867-12.
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2025 Francke, A., Tyler, J. J., Staff, R., McLean, D., Nowinski, V., Saito-Kato, M., . . . Nakagawa, T. (2025). Orbital-scale East Asian monsoon variability since the last interglacial inferred from the sediments of Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Quaternary Science Reviews, 368, 109566.
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2025 Nowinski, V., Francke, A., Tibby, J., Nakagawa, T., Hall, T., Kitaba, I., & Tyler, J. (2025). Tracking millennial-scale climate variability during the last glacial period using aquatic productivity indicators from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Quaternary Science Reviews, 369, 13 pages.
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2025 Tibby, J., Cadd, H., Harris, M., Marshall, J. C., Tyler, J., Barr, C., . . . Hofmann, H. (2025). Mid‐Holocene drying of K'gari lakes (subtropical eastern Australia) necessitates re‐evaluation of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate links and future drying risk. Journal of Quaternary Science, 40(8), 1437-1451.
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2024 Rex, C. L., Tyler, J. J., Nagaya, K., Staff, R. A., Leng, M. J., Yamada, K., . . . Nakagawa, T. (2024). The contemporary stable isotope hydrology of Lake Suigetsu and surrounding catchment (Japan) and its implications for sediment-derived palaeoclimate records. Quaternary Science Advances, 13, 100145-1-100145-14.
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2024 Duxbury, L. C., Johns-Mead, L. Y., Cadd, H., Francke, A., Löhr, S. C., Law, W. B., . . . Tyler, J. J. (2024). Holocene climate and catchment change inferred from the geochemistry of Lashmars Lagoon, Kangaroo Island (Karti/Karta), southern Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 634, 15 pages.
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2024 Hill, K. G. W., Stringham, O. C., Moncayo, S., Toomes, A., Tyler, J. J., Cassey, P., & Delean, S. (2024). Who's a pretty bird? Predicting the traded abundance of bird species in Australian online pet trade. Biological Invasions, 26(4), 975-988.
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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.
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2023 Francke, A., Tsimosh, O., Tibby, J., Reid, M., Fletcher, M., & Tyler, J. J. (2023). Contemporary Controls on Terrestrial Carbon Characteristics in Temperate and Sub‐Tropical Australian Wetlands. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128(1), e2022JG007092-1-e2022JG007092-17.
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2023 Mosley, L. M., Priestley, S., Brookes, J., Dittmann, S., Farkaš, J., Farrell, M., . . . Welsh, D. T. (2023). Extreme eutrophication and salinisation in the Coorong estuarine-lagoon ecosystem of Australia's largest river basin (Murray-Darling). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 188(114648), 1-16.
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2023 Erdélyi, D., Hatvani, I. G., Jeon, H., Jones, M., Tyler, J., & Kern, Z. (2023). Predicting spatial distribution of stable isotopes in precipitation by classical geostatistical- and machine learning methods. Journal of Hydrology, 617, 1-9.
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2023 Quenu, M., Judd, E. J., Morgan-richards, M., Trewick, S. A., Holt, K., Tyler, J., & Lorrey, A. M. (2023). High-resolution stable isotope profiles from shells of the land snail Placostylus reveal contrasting patterns between snails originating from New Zealand and New Caledonia. Journal of Quaternary Science, 38(7), 1171-1183.
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2023 Chamberlayne, B. K., Tyler, J. J., Haynes, D., Shao, Y., Tibby, J., & Gillanders, B. M. (2023). Hydrological change in southern Australia over 1750 years: a bivalve oxygen isotope record from the Coorong Lagoon. CLIMATE OF THE PAST, 19(7), 1383-1396.
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2023 Duxbury, L. C., Johns-Mead, L. Y., Cadd, H., Francke, A., Löhr, S. C., Law, W. B., . . . Tyler, J. J. (2023). Holocene Climate and Catchment Change Inferred from the Geochemistry of Lashmars Lagoon, Kangaroo Island (Karti), Southern Australia.
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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.
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2022 Maxson, C., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Tyler, J., Leng, M., Lomax, B., . . . Jacobsen, G. (2022). Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7500 years. Journal of Paleolimnology, 67(1), 75-93.
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2022 Priestley, S. C., Tyler, J., Liebelt, S. R., Mosley, L. M., Wong, W. W., Shao, Y., . . . Farkaš, J. (2022). N and C Isotope Variations Along an Extreme Eutrophication and Salinity Gradient in the Coorong Lagoon, South Australia. Frontiers in Earth Science : Geochemistry, 9(727971), 1-14.
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2022 Ankor, M. J., & Tyler, J. J. (2022). A computational method for rapid orthographic photography of lake sediment cores. Journal of Paleolimnology, 68(2), 203-214.
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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.
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2022 Cadd, H., Sherborne-Higgins, B., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Forbes, M., . . . Turney, C. (2022). The application of pollen radiocarbon dating and bayesian age-depth modeling for developing robust geochronological frameworks of wetland archives. Radiocarbon, 64(2), 213-235.
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2022 Tyler, J. J., Marshall, J. C., Schulz, C., Barr, C., Hofmann, H., Blessing, J. J., . . . Tibby, J. (2022). Hydrological and Isotopic Variability of Perched Wetlands on North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Australia: Implications for Understanding the Effects of Past and Future Climate Change. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, 1-21.
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2022 Francke, A., Dosseto, A., Forbes, M., Cadd, H., Short, J., Sherborne-Higgins, B., . . . Cohen, T. J. (2022). Catchment vegetation and erosion controlled soil carbon cycling in south-eastern Australia during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles. Global and Planetary Change, 217, 1-16.
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2022 Rudd, R. C., Tyler, J. J., Tibby, J., Tanabe, Y., & Kudoh, S. (2022). Ecological and habitat preferences of diatoms in lakes of Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica. Freshwater Biology, 67(12), 2113-2129.
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2021 Shao, Y., Farkaš, J., Mosley, L., Tyler, J., Wong, H., Chamberlayne, B., . . . Eisenhauer, A. (2021). Impact of salinity and carbonate saturation on stable Sr isotopes (δ⁸⁸/⁸⁶Sr) in a lagoon-estuarine system. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 293, 461-476.
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2021 Forbes, M., Cohen, T., Jacobs, Z., Marx, S., Barber, E., Dodson, J., . . . Woodward, C. (2021). Comparing interglacials in eastern Australia: a multi-proxy investigation of a new sedimentary record. Quaternary Science Reviews, 252, 106750-1-106750-20.
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2021 Barr, C., Tibby, J., Leng, M. J., Tyler, J. J., Henderson, A. C. G., Overpeck, J. T., . . . McRobie, F. H. (2021). Author Correction: Holocene El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability reflected in subtropical Australian precipitation. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1 page.
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2021 Chamberlayne, B. K., Tyler, J. J., & Gillanders, B. M. (2021). Elemental concentrations of waters and bivalves in the fresh to hypersaline Coorong Lagoons, South Australia: Implications for palaeoenvironmental studies. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 255, 107354-1-107354-11.
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2021 Chamberlayne, B. K., Tyler, J. J., & Gillanders, B. M. (2021). Controls over oxygen isotope fractionation in the waters and bivalves (arthritica helmsi) of an estuarine lagoon system. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(6), 1-18.
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2021 Cadd, H., Petherick, L., Tyler, J., Herbert, A., Cohen, T. J., Sniderman, K., . . . Harris, M. R. P. (2021). A continental perspective on the timing of environmental change during the last glacial stage in Australia. Quaternary Research (United States), 102, 5-23.
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2021 Maxson IV, C., Tibby, J., Marshall, J., Kent, M., Tyler, J., Barr, C., . . . Lomax, B. H. (2021). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a tracer of organic matter sources in lake sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 581, 110622-1-110622-11.
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2020 Cadd, H. R., Tyler, J., Tibby, J., Baldock, J., Hawke, B., Barr, C., & Leng, M. J. (2020). The potential for rapid determination of charcoal from wetland sediments using infrared spectroscopy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 542, 109562-1-109562-13.
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2020 Bajo, P., Drysdale, R. N., Woodhead, J. D., Hellstrom, J. C., Hodell, D., Ferretti, P., . . . Fallick, A. E. (2020). Persistent influence of obliquity on ice age terminations since the Middle Pleistocene transition. Science, 367(6483), 1235-1239.
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2020 Bajo, P., Drysdale, R., Woodhead, J., Hellstrom, J., Hodell, D., Ferretti, P., . . . Fallick, A. (2020). Persistent influence of obliquity on ice age terminations since the Middle Pleistocene transition. Science, 367(6483), 1235-1239.
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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.
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2020 Ryves, D. B., Leng, M. J., Barker, P. A., Snelling, A. M., Sloane, H. J., Arrowsmith, C., . . . Anderson, N. J. (2020). Understanding the transfer of contemporary temperature signals into lake sediments via paired oxygen isotope ratios in carbonates and diatom silica: Problems and potential. Chemical Geology, 552, 16 pages.
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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.
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2020 Chamberlayne, B. K., Tyler, J. J., & Gillanders, B. M. (2020). Environmental Controls on the Geochemistry of a Short-Lived Bivalve in Southeastern Australian Estuaries. Estuaries and Coasts, 43(1), 86-101.
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2019 Tibby, J., Richards, J., Tyler, J. J., Barr, C., Fluin, J., & Goonan, P. (2019). Diatom-water quality thresholds in South Australian streams indicate a need for more stringent water quality guidelines. Marine and Freshwater Research, 71(8), 942-952.
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2019 Barr, C., Tibby, J., Leng, M. J., Tyler, J. J., Henderson, A. C. G., Overpeck, J. T., . . . McRobie, F. H. (2019). Holocene El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability reflected in subtropical Australian precipitation. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1627-1-1627-9.
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2019 Ankor, M. J., Tyler, J. J., & Hughes, C. E. (2019). Development of an autonomous, monthly and daily, rainfall sampler for isotope research. Journal of Hydrology, 575, 31-41.
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2019 Ankor, M. J., & Tyler, J. J. (2019). Development of a spreadsheet-based model for transient groundwater modelling. Hydrogeology Journal, 27(5), 1865-1878.
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2018 Loakes, K., Ryves, D., Lamb, H., Schäbitz, F., Dee, M., Tyler, J., . . . McGowan, S. (2018). Late Quaternary climate change in the north-eastern highlands of Ethiopia: a high resolution 15,600 year diatom and pigment record from Lake Hayk. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 166-181.
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2018 Tibby, J., Tyler, J., & Barr, C. (2018). Post little ice age drying of eastern Australia conflates understanding of early settlement impacts. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 45-52.
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2018 Field, E., Tyler, J., Gadd, P., Moss, P., McGowan, H., & Marx, S. (2018). Coherent patterns of environmental change at multiple organic spring sites in northwest Australia: Evidence of Indonesian-Australian summer monsoon variability over the last 14,500 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 196, 193-216.
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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.
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2018 Shao, Y., Farkas, J., Holmden, C., Mosley, L., Kell-Duivestein, I., Izzo, C., . . . Gillanders, B. (2018). Calcium and strontium isotope systematics in the lagoon estuarine environments of South Australia:implications for water source mixing, carbonate fluxes and fish migration. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 239, 90-108.
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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.
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2018 Cadd, H. R., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Tyler, J., Unger, L., Leng, M. J., . . . Baldock, J. (2018). Development of a southern hemisphere subtropical wetland (Welsby Lagoon, south-east Queensland, Australia) through the last glacial cycle. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 53-65.
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2017 DIxon, B., Tyler, J., Lorrey, A., Goodwin, I., Gergis, J., & Drysdale, R. (2017). Low-resolution Australasian palaeoclimate records of the last 2000 years. Climate of the Past, 13(10), 1403-1433.
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2017 Ackerley, D., Reeves, J., Barr, C., Bostock, H., Fitzsimmons, K., Fletcher, M., . . . Tyler, J. (2017). Evaluation of PMIP2 and PMIP3 simulations of mid-Holocene climate in the Indo-Pacific, Australasian and Southern Ocean regions. Climate of the Past, 13(11), 1661-1684.
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2017 Smith, R., Tyler, J., Reeves, J., Blockley, S., & Jacobsen, G. (2017). First Holocene cryptotephras in mainland Australia reported from sediments at Lake Keilambete, Victoria, Australia. Quaternary Geochronology, 40, 82-91.
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2017 Schlolaut, G., Brauer, A., Nakagawa, T., Lamb, H., Tyler, J., Staff, R., . . . Tarasov, P. (2017). Evidence for a bi-partition of the Younger Dryas Stadial in East Asia associated with inversed climate characteristics compared to Europe. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 1-7.
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2017 Emile-Geay, J., McKay, N., Kaufman, D., Von Gunten, L., Wang, J., Anchukaitis, K., . . . Thomas, E. (2017). A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era. Scientific Data, 4(1), 170088-1-170088-33.
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2017 Tyler, J., Sloane, H., Rickaby, R., Cox, E., & Leng, M. (2017). Post-mortem oxygen isotope exchange within cultured diatom silica. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 31(20), 1749-1760.
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2016 Tyler, J., Jones, M., Arrowsmith, C., Allott, T., & Leng, M. (2016). Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles. Climate Dynamics, 47(5-6), 1971-1987.
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2016 Sniderman, J. M. K., Woodhead, J. D., Hellstrom, J., Jordan, G. J., Drysdale, R. N., Tyler, J. J., & Porch, N. (2016). Pliocene reversal of late Neogene aridification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(8), 1999-2004.
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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.
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2016 Rudd, R., Tyler, J., Tibby, J., Yokoyama, Y., Tavernier, I., Verleyen, E., . . . Takano, Y. (2016). A diatom-inferred record of lake variability during the last 900 years in Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(2), 114-125.
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2016 Kiem, A., Johnson, F., Westra, S., van Dijk, A., Evans, J., O Donnell, A., . . . Mehrotra, R. (2016). Natural hazards in Australia: droughts. Climatic Change, 139(1), 37-54.
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2015 Tyler, J., Mills, K., Barr, C., Sniderman, J., Gell, P., & Karoly, D. (2015). Identifying coherent patterns of environmental change between multiple, multivariate records: an application to four 1000-year diatom records from Victoria, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 119, 94-105.
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2014 Pearson, E., Juggins, S., & Tyler, J. (2014). Ultrahigh resolution total organic carbon analysis using Fourier Transform Near Infrarred Reflectance Spectroscopy (FT-NIRS). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(1), 292-301.
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2014 Barr, C., Tibby, J., Gell, P., Tyler, J., Zawadzki, A., & Jacobsen, G. (2014). Climate variability in south-eastern Australia over the last 1500 years inferred from the high-resolution diatom records of two crater lakes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 95, 115-131.
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2014 Stevenson, E., Hermoso, M., Rickaby, R., Tyler, J., Minoletti, F., Parkinson, I., . . . Burton, K. (2014). Controls on stable strontium isotope fractionation in coccolithophores with implications for the marine Sr cycle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 128, 225-235.
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2014 Mills, K., Ryves, D., Anderson, N., Bryant, C., & Tyler, J. (2014). Expressions of climate perturbations in western Ugandan crater lake sediment records during the last 1000 years. Climate of the Past, 10(4), 1581-1601.
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2014 Schlolaut, G., Brauer, A., Marshall, M. H., Nakagawa, T., Staff, R. A., Bronk Ramsey, C., . . . Suigetsu 2006 project members. (2014). Event layers in the Japanese Lake Suigetsu ‘SG06’ sediment core: description, interpretation and climatic implications. Quaternary Science Reviews, 83, 157-170.
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2013 Nakagawa, T., Kitagawa, H., Payne, R., Tarasov, P., Demske, D., & Suigetsu 2006 Project Members. (2013). A standard sample method for controlling microfossil data precision: a proposal for higher data quality and greater opportunities for collaboration. Quaternary International, 290-291, 239-244.
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2013 Smith, V., Staff, R., Blockley, S., Bronk Ramsey, C., Nakagawa, T., Mark, D., . . . Suigetsu 2006 Project Members. (2013). Identification and correlation of visible tephras in the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sedimentary archive, Japan: chronostratigraphic markers for synchronising of east Asian/west Pacific palaeoclimatic records across the last 150 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews, 67, 121-137.
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2013 Demske, D., Tarasov, P. E., Nakagawa, T., & Suigetsu 2006 Project Members. (2013). Atlas of pollen, spores and further non-pollen palynomorphs recorded in the glacial-interglacial late Quaternary sediments of Lake Suigetsu, central Japan. Quaternary International, 290-291, 164-238.
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2013 Staff, R. A., Nakagawa, T., Schlolaut, G., Marshall, M. H., Brauer, A., Lamb, H. F., . . . Suigetsu 2006 Project Members. (2013). The multiple chronological techniques applied to the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sediment core, central Japan. Boreas, 42(2), 259-266.
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2013 Staff, R., Schlolaut, G., Bronk Ramsey, C., Brock, F., Bryant, C., Kitagawa, H., . . . Suigetsu 2006 Project Members. (2013). Integration of the old and new Lake Suigetsu (Japan) terrestrial radiocarbon calibration data sets. Radiocarbon, 55(4), 2049-2058.
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2013 Nakagawa, T., & Suigetsu 2006 Project Members. (2013). Lake Suigetsu 2006 Varved Sediment Core Project. PAGES News, 20(2), 70-71.
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2013 von Gunten, L., Anderson, D. M., Chase, B., Curran, M., Gergis, J., Gille, E. P., . . . Willard, D. (2013). The backbone of PAGES 2k: data management and archiving. PAGES News, 21(2), 87.
2012 Takano, Y., Tyler, J., Kojima, H., Yokoyama, Y., Tanabe, Y., Sato, T., . . . Fukui, M. (2012). Holocene lake development and glacial-isostatic uplift at Lake Skallen and Lake Oyako, Lutzow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica: based on biogeochemical facies and molecular signatures. Applied Geochemistry, 27(12), 2546-2559.
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2012 Marshall, M., Schlolaut, G., Nakagawa, T., Lamb, H., Brauer, A., Staff, R., . . . Suigetsu 2006 Project Members. (2012). A novel approach to varve counting using μXRF and X-radiography in combination with thin-section microscopy, applied to the Late Glacial chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Quaternary Geochronology, 13, 70-80.
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2012 Nakagawa, T., Gotanda, K., Haraguchi, T., Danhara, T., Yonenobu, H., Brauer, A., . . . Suigetsu 2006 Project Members. (2012). SG06, a fully continuous and varved sediment core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: stratigraphy and potential for improving the radiocarbon calibration model and understanding of late Quaternary climate changes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 36, 164-176.
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2012 Schlolaut, G., Marshall, M. H., Brauer, A., Nakagawa, T., Lamb, H. F., Staff, R. A., . . . Suigetsu 2006 project members. (2012). An automated method for varve interpolation and its application to the Late Glacial chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Quaternary Geochronology, 13, 52-69.
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2012 Marshall, M., Schlolaut, G., Nakagawa, T., Lamb, H., Brauer, A., Staff, R., . . . Tada, R. (2012). A novel approach to varve counting using mu XRF and X-radiography in combination with thin-section microscopy, applied to the Late Glacial chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Quaternary Geochronology, 13, 70-80.
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2011 Kossler, A., Tarasov, P., Schlolaut, G., Nakagawa, T., Marshall, M., Brauer, A., . . . Suigetsu 2006 project members. (2011). Onset and termination of the late-glacial climate reversal in the high-resolution diatom and sedimentary records from the annually laminated SG06 core from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 306(3-4), 103-115.
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2011 Smith, V. C., Mark, D. F., Staff, R. A., Blockley, S. P., Ramsey, C. B., Bryant, C. L., . . . Suigetsu 2006 Project Members. (2011). Toward establishing precise ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar chronologies for Late Pleistocene palaeoclimate archives: an example from the Lake Suigetsu (Japan) sedimentary record. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(21-22), 2845-2850.
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2011 Staff, R., Ramsey, C., Bryant, C., Brock, F., Payne, R., Schlolaut, G., . . . Suigetsu 2006 Project Members. (2011). New 14C Determinations from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: 12,000 to 0 cal BP. Radiocarbon, 53(3), 511-528.
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2011 Chapligin, B., Leng, M., Webb, E., Alexandre, A., Dodd, J., Ijiri, A., . . . Yam, R. (2011). Inter-laboratory comparison of oxygen isotope compositions from biogenic silica. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(22), 7242-7256.
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2010 Tyler, J., Kashiyama, Y., Ohkouchi, N., Ogawa, N., Yokoyama, Y., Chikaraishi, Y., . . . Nakagawa, T. (2010). Tracking aquatic change using chlorin-specific carbon and nitrogen isotopes: The last glacial-interglacial transition at Lake Suigetsu, Japan. G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11(9), 1-19.
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2010 Tyler, J., Nederbragt, A., Jones, V., & Thurow, J. (2010). Assessing past temperature and soil pH estimates from bacterial tetraether membrane lipids: evidence from the recent lake sediments of Lochnagar, Scotland. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(G1), G01015-1-G01015-11.
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2010 Staff, R., Bronk Ramsey, C., Nakagawa, T., & Suigetsu 2006 Project Members. (2010). A re-analysis of the Lake Suigetsu terrestrial radiocarbon calibration dataset. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 268(7-8), 960-965.
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2009 Francus, P., Lamb, H., Nakagawa, T., Marshall, M., Brown, E., & Suigetsu 2006 Project Members. (2009). The potential of High-resolution X-ray fluorescence core scanning: applications in paleolimnology. PAGES News, 17(3), 93-96.
2009 Leng, M., Swann, G., Hodson, M., Tyler, J., Patwardhan, S., & Sloane, H. (2009). The potential use of silicon isotope composition of biogenic silica as a proxy for environmental change. Silicon, 1(2), 65-77.
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2008 Tyler, J., Leng, M., Sloane, H., Sachse, D., & Gleixner, G. (2008). Oxygen isotope ratios of sedimentary biogenic silica reflect the European transcontinental climate gradient. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23(4), 341-350.
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2008 Brewer, T., Leng, M., Mackay, A., Lamb, A., Tyler, J., & Marsh, N. (2008). Unravelling contamination signals in biogenic silica oxygen isotope composition: the role of major and trace element geochemistry. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23(4), 321-330.
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2007 Tyler, J. J., Leng, M. J., & Arrowsmith, C. (2007). Seasonality and the isotope hydrology of Lochnagar, a Scottish mountain lake: Implications for palaeoclimate research. Holocene, 17(6), 717-727.
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2007 Tyler, J. J., Leng, M. J., & Sloane, H. J. (2007). The effects of organic removal treatment on the integrity of δ<sup>18</sup>O measurements from biogenic silica. Journal of Paleolimnology, 37(4), 491-497.
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Year Citation
2013 Tyler, J. J. (2013). Silicon Isotopes in Diatoms. In Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science: Second Edition (pp. 734-743).
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2013 Tyler, J. J. (2013). PALEOBOTANY | Silicon Isotopes in Diatoms. In Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (pp. 734-743). Elsevier.
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- Flower, R. J., Monteith, D. T., Tyler, J., Shilland, E., & Pla, S. (n.d.). The Aquatic Flora of Lochnagar. In Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (pp. 199-229). Springer Netherlands.
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Year Citation
2022 Priestley, S., Mosley, L., Farkas, J., Tyler, J., Shao, Y., Shanafield, M., . . . Leyden, E. (2022). Sources and transport of nutrients in the Coorong.
2020 Mosley, L., Priestley, S., Brookes, J., Dittmann, S., Farkas, J., Farrell, M., . . . Welsh, D. (2020). Coorong water quality synthesis with a focus on the drivers of eutrophication. Australia: Goyder Institute for Water Research Technical Report Series.

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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  • ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant (LE180100185): 'Mass spectrometry for next generation isotope analysis of silicate minerals'. Lead CI with 14 additional collaborators at 9 institutions. $784,351. 2018. 
  • ARC Discovery Project (DP140104093): ‘The application of clumped isotope thermometry to the terrestrial environment’. With Allan Chivas (Lead CI; Wollongong) and Russell Drysdale (Melbourne). $450,000. 2014-2017.
  • Adelaide University Environment Institute Grant: ‘Refining the timing and palaeoenvironmental context for megafauna extinction records at Naracoorte, South Australia’. Lead CI: Liz Reed, $75,000. 2015.
  • Adelaide University Environment Institute Grant: ‘Development of a new method for cromium isotope analysis’. Lead CI: Juraj Farkas, $15,000. 2015.
  • AINSE Honours awards to Briony Chamberlayne and Eliza Lockier, 2015.
  • AINSE Postgraduate award to Georgina Falster, 2015.
  • Adelaide University Environment Institute, ECR Grant: ‘An annual record of climate variability spanning several millennia from mainland Australia’. $18,000. 2014.
  • Adelaide University Environment Institute Grant: ‘Discovery and identification of microscopic volcanic ash remains in southeastern Australian lake sediments: towards improved palaeoclimate chronologies and volcanic histories’. $21,000. 2014.
  • Adelaide University Environment Institute, Interdisciplinary Research Fund: ‘Leaves as rain gauges: ancient hydrology from the isotopic signatures of leaves’. With Cesca McInerney (Lead CI), John Tibby, Seth Westra and Mark Thyer. $30,000. 2014.
  • Sir Mark Mitchell Research Foundation Award: ‘Mollusc shell geochemistry as a tool for reconstructing past climate, pollution and life history’. With Bronwyn Gillanders and Chris Izzo. $8,000. 2014.
  • AINSE Research Award: ‘Sub-decadal climate variability during the Holocene: radiocarbon age constraints for ITRAX geochemical data from West Basin Lake, Victoria (ALNGRA13510)’. $10,275. 2013.
  • AINSE Research Award: ‘Sub-decadal climate variability during the last 3000 years: ITRAX geochemical records from western Victorian maar lake sediments (ALNGRA13006).’ AU$12,550. 2013.
  • NERC Small Grant (as CI with Dr. David Ryves, Loughborough): ‘Critically testing the role of d30Sidiatom as a novel productivity signal in lakes (NE/H011978/1).’ £69,246. 2010-2012.
  • NERC Fellowship: ‘Calibrating the fractionation of stable oxygen and silicon isotopes in diatom silica through laboratory culture experiments (NE/F014708/1).’ £305,190.02. 2009-2012.
  • JSPS Bridge Fellowship. Funding a 6 week research visit to Tokyo to facilitate collaborative discussions and paper writing. JP¥892,000. Nov 2010 - Jan 2011.
  • NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities grant in kind for isotope analysis of diatom silica (culture samples). £30,500.
  • NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities grant for isotope analysis of diatom silica (Rostherne Mere; as co-investigator with Dr. David Ryves, Loughborough). £22,980.
  • JSPS Fellowship: ‘Late Quaternary environmental change at Lake Suigetsu, central Japan: organic geochemical evidence for past primary productivity (PE07622)’. JP¥4,608,500. 2008-2009.
  • Centre for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi, grant in kind for 500 organic carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses. AU$27,500 (approx. value).

Earth Systems I (GEOLOGY 1103)

This course draws from all fields of geoscience to explore the evolution of Planet Earth. My lectures introduce students to the energy balance on Earth, the fundamentals of atmospheric and ocean circulation and their effects on the hydrosphere, cryosphere and biosphere.

Geochemistry II (GEOLOGY 2505)

This course focuses on the chemistry of the natural world and the chemical evolution of the Earth over geological time. I coordinate this course and my lectures include the partitioning of elements on Earth, low temperature geochemical processes and the fundamentals of stable isotope geochemistry.

Earth Systems History III (GEOLOGY 3505)

This course focuses on the chemistry of the natural world and the chemical evolution of the Earth over geological time. I coordinate this course and my lectures primarily cover climate variability during the late Cenozoic and Quaternary up to present day, including the various techniques used to reconstruct climate change over those timescales.

Structural Geology II (GEOLOGY 2501)

This year (in 2016) I'll be joining my first Pichi Richi field camp with Structural Geology. I'm really looking forward to spending a week out in the Flinders Ranges, and being part of one of Adelaide's longest running geology traditions. 

Principles and Practice of Research II and III (SCIENCE 2300 and 3100)

I regularly contribute to the PPR courses for the BSc Advanced program, leading tutorials and supervising research projects.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor Past and future climate impacts on lake ecology and hydrology in south-western Western Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Teye Frederik Nicolaas Aukes
2025 Principal Supervisor Reconstructing Holocene fire regime change on Kangaroo Island using geochemical and spectroscopic techniques Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Evandro de Souza Magalhaes
2025 Principal Supervisor Climate change on Kangaroo Island Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Abigail Matthias
2025 Principal Supervisor Climate change on Kangaroo Island Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Abigail Matthias
2025 Co-Supervisor Past and future climate impacts on lake ecology and hydrology in south-western Western Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Teye Frederik Nicolaas Aukes
2025 Principal Supervisor Reconstructing Holocene fire regime change on Kangaroo Island using geochemical and spectroscopic techniques Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Evandro de Souza Magalhaes
2024 Principal Supervisor Decadal resolution climate reconstruction of south-eastern Australia through the last 2,000 years. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Kym Elizabeth Edwards
2024 Principal Supervisor Bacterial biomarkers as a tool for reconstruction of palaeotemperatures Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nashley Aaron Griffiths
2024 Principal Supervisor Decadal resolution climate reconstruction of south-eastern Australia through the last 2,000 years. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Kym Elizabeth Edwards
2024 Principal Supervisor Bacterial biomarkers as a tool for reconstruction of palaeotemperatures Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nashley Aaron Griffiths
2023 Principal Supervisor Understanding multi-decadal drought risk in southern and south-eastern Australia using oxygen isotopes and lake sediments Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mahfuzur Rahman
2023 Principal Supervisor Understanding multi-decadal drought risk in southern and south-eastern Australia using oxygen isotopes and lake sediments Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mahfuzur Rahman
2022 Principal Supervisor Reconstruction of the East Asian Monsoon through the last ~140,000 years- Isotope palaeoclimatology of Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Vanessa Nowinski
2022 Principal Supervisor Application of clumped isotope analysis of central Australian carbonates for reconstructing palaeoclimate in Australia's arid interior Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Fletcher Clancy Nixon
2022 Principal Supervisor Reconstruction of the East Asian Monsoon through the last ~140,000 years- Isotope palaeoclimatology of Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Vanessa Nowinski
2022 Principal Supervisor Application of clumped isotope analysis of central Australian carbonates for reconstructing palaeoclimate in Australia's arid interior Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Fletcher Clancy Nixon

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2021 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Decadal resolution climate reconstruction of south-eastern Australia through the last 2,000 years. Doctor of Philosophy Master Full Time Mrs Kym Elizabeth Edwards
2020 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Holocene climate, fire and ecosystem change on Kangaroo Island (Karti), South Australia Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Lucinda Cameron Duxbury
2019 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Feather forensics: tracing Australian parrot trade with online trade analysis, stable isotopes, and citizen science Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Katherine Georgia Weston Hill
2019 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Holocene hydroclimate variability in south-eastern Australia; validation and application of cellulose oxygen isotopes at Lake Surprise, Victoria, Australia. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Asika Dharmarathna
2018 - 2023 Co-Supervisor The Hydroclimatic History of Subtropical Australia Inferred from Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) Lake Sediments Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Charles Reynolds Maxson IV
2017 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Calibration of alkaline earth metal isotope tracers in semi-arid coastal environments Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Yuexiao Shao
2016 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Oxygen isotope and elemental ratios in waters and bivalves as tracers of hydrological change in the modern and ancient waters of the Coorong Lagoons, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Briony Kate Chamberlayne
2016 - 2019 Co-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
2016 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Climate, humans, fire and megafauna - Key drivers of Australian subtropical vegetation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Haidee Rochelle Cadd
2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Hydrologic and Isotopic Lake Modelling for Palaeoclimate Research Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Martin James Ankor
2015 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Reconstructing Australia's Late Quaternary Climates from the Geochemistry of Lake Sediments and Snail Shells Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Georgina Maja Falster
2015 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Lake Sediment Archives of Late Holocene Climate Variability in Lutzow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Rachel Claire Rudd

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2015 - 2014 Member PAGES Aus2k - Data Manager - -
2015 - ongoing Member PAGES Iso2k PAGES -

Date Role Membership Country
2015 - ongoing Member American Geophysical Union -

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2019 - ongoing Editor Scientific Reports University of Adelaide Australia

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