
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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Journals
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]
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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
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