Kathryn Hill

Dr Kathryn Hill

Research Associate

School of Biological Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

I research plant ecophysiology; the relationship between plant anatomy and function and plant environment. Ecophysiology is a wonderful science as we can work on plants form anywhere growing at any time. I have researched plant function 65 million years ago in environments that are now extinct from Earth and the same species across a range of environments in present day.

This work enables me to think about what climatic pressures were forcing plants to function in a specific way in the past and present, thus I can use these data to create paleo-climate proxies. This information is also valuable for modelling species survival with future climate change projections.

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2022 Co-Supervisor Comparing the past and present floral communities of Naracoorte Caves, South Australia. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Rachel Amber Atkins

  • Other Supervision Activities
    Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
    2019 - ongoing Principal Supervisor Addressing bias in use of stick-nest rat middens for paleo-ecology reconstruction The University of Adelaide Honours Annie Kraehe
    2018 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Environmental stressors such as light, water and temperature affect leaf physiomorphology. Can we reconstruct palaeoclimates from leaf fossils compared to their nearest living relative grown under controlled conditions? The University of Adelaide Honours Full Time George Batzios
  • Position: Research Associate
  • Phone: 83130051
  • Email: kathryn.hill@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83136222
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Benham, floor B
  • Org Unit: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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