Mr Richard Lewis

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

Postgraduate Student

School of Physical Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Richard Lewis is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Earth Sciences. His research is focused on understanding ecological change in response to climate and anthropogenic variables across Australia. He is reconstructing palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental histories from sedimentary deposits using a combination of dating techniques, geochemistry and multi-proxy analysis.

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Year	Citation
2021	Lewis, R. J., Tibby, J., Arnold, L. J., Gadd, P., Jacobsen, G., Barr, C., . . . Moss, E. (2021). Patterns of aeolian deposition in subtropical Australia through the last glacial and deglacial periods. Quaternary Research, 102, 68-90. DOI Scopus4 WoS5
2020	Lewis, R. J., Tibby, J., Arnold, L. J., Barr, C., Marshall, J., McGregor, G., . . . Yokoyama, Y. (2020). Insights into subtropical Australian aridity from Welsby Lagoon, north Stradbroke Island, over the past 80,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 234, 106262-1-106262-13. DOI Scopus11 WoS10
2020	Hocknull, S. A., Lewis, R., Arnold, L. J., Pietsch, T., Joannes-Boyau, R., Price, G. J., . . . Lawrence, R. A. (2020). Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration. Nature Communications, 11(1), 2250. DOI Scopus21 WoS21 Europe PMC4
2019	Lisé-Pronovost, A., Fletcher, M. S., Mallett, T., Mariani, M., Lewis, R., Gadd, P. S., . . . Pedro, J. B. (2019). Scientific drilling of sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania. Scientific Drilling, 25, 1-14. DOI Scopus5
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. DOI Scopus20 WoS19

Australian Government Research Training Scholarship.

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) Research Portal grant (proposal AP12402). Brown Lake: A keystone for understanding long-term dust signals across southeast Queensland and its relationship with continent wide aridificaiton?, R. Lewis, L. Arnold, M. Mariani, P. Gadd, G. Jacobsen, 2020.

CRC LEME Regolith Science Scholarship. R.J. Lewis, Evaluating the effects of landscape evolution using luminescence and geochemical techniques in sedimentary deposits in Queensland, 2019.

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) Research Portal grant (proposal AP11643). Do the lacustrine sediments from subtropical Australia Brown Lake, North Stradbroke Island, show increased aeolian activity during the Last Glacial Maximum? L.J. Arnold, G. Jacobsen, R. Lewis., M. Mariani, J. Tibby, 2018.

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) Research Portal grant (proposal AP11411). Using terrigenous sediment and dust to understand North Stradbroke Island’s palaeoenvironment during the late Pleistocene. L.J. Arnold, G. Jacobsen, J. Tibby, R. Lewis. 2018.

Richard has worked as a sessional demonstrator for first, second and third-year earth science courses:

Palaeontology and Geochronology [PALAEO 3005]
Geochemistry [GEOLOGY 2505]
Building a Habitable Planet [GEOLOGY 1103]
Earth's Interior [GEOLOGY 1100]

Memberships

Date	Role	Membership	Country
2020 - ongoing	Member	Australian Coastal Society	Australia
2018 - ongoing	Member	University of Adelaide Palaeontologist Society	Australia
2017 - ongoing	Member	Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA)	Australia
2015 - ongoing	Member	Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS)	Australia
2014 - ongoing	Member	Adelaide University Sciences Association	Australia

Position: Postgraduate Student
Email: richard.lewis@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 83134380
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Mawson, floor 1
Org Unit: Earth Sciences

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