Climate extremes and landscape responses across continental Australia. This project aims to determine the magnitude, frequency and duration of dry and wet extremes across the Australian continent over the last thousand years and examine landscape responses to such climate extremes. Using terrestrial records from key lake locations, the project expects to construct a record of mega-lakes and mega-droughts and determine whether such climatic phenomena are becoming more frequent or severe through t ....Climate extremes and landscape responses across continental Australia. This project aims to determine the magnitude, frequency and duration of dry and wet extremes across the Australian continent over the last thousand years and examine landscape responses to such climate extremes. Using terrestrial records from key lake locations, the project expects to construct a record of mega-lakes and mega-droughts and determine whether such climatic phenomena are becoming more frequent or severe through time. The project will develop palaeoclimatic data at sub-centennial resolution, examining the spatial coherence of the climate extremes. The project will integrate this with both the historical record and global climate modelling, allowing us to assess the dominant oceanographic and atmospheric conditions that lead to such extremes.Read moreRead less
Breaking Gondwana: interplay between tectonics, climate and resources. The project aims to reconstruct 250 million years of landscape evolution in response to rifting and break-up of the Gondwana supercontinent, using the innovative approach of combining regional thermochronology with global plate tectonic models. From these reconstructions, the time-integrated record of exhumation and erosion at the continental margins will be revealed at an unprecedented scale. The main expected outcome will b ....Breaking Gondwana: interplay between tectonics, climate and resources. The project aims to reconstruct 250 million years of landscape evolution in response to rifting and break-up of the Gondwana supercontinent, using the innovative approach of combining regional thermochronology with global plate tectonic models. From these reconstructions, the time-integrated record of exhumation and erosion at the continental margins will be revealed at an unprecedented scale. The main expected outcome will be a deep time archive of the relationships between tectonic forcing, continental erosion and the global climate, which may assist predictions and debate on future climate change. The outcomes will also provide economic benefits as they will inform on the exhumation and preservation of (critical) mineral resources.Read moreRead less