I am a palaeontologist using interdisciplinary research that combines sedimentary geology and fossil plants, to understand changes in plant community ecosystems through time and to understand plant relationships to past terrestrial environments and climates. I focus mainly on the Cretaceous-Cenozoic time periods.
I completed a PhD at The University of Melbourne in 2000 and held a postdoctoral fellowship for three years with the University of Leeds and the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, U.K. Fossil plants collected from the field in Antarctica during my postdoctorate were used to interpret past forest ecosystems and associated climates of the most recent greenhouse period. I spent the following four years as Lecturer at Latrobe University, before joining the School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, in 2010. My current research projects include: ancient ecosystems of the Cretaceous of southeastern Australia; biodiversity response to climate change in Antarctica during the most recent greenhouse climate; and plant-insect interactions and co-evolution through the Mesozoic to Cenozoic.
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Palaeoenvironments and palaeocommunities from Lower Cretaceous high latitude sites, Otway Basin, southeastern Australia
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
University of Leeds and British Antarctic Survey, NERC funded project, United Kingdom.
School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Credentials
Positions
Lecturer
Earth Sciences
Member
International Organisation of Palaeobotany
Member
The Palaeontological Association
Member
Geological Society of Australia
Member
Association of Australasian Palaeontologists
Education
Graduate Diploma of Education
University of Melbourne
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science (hons)
University of Melbourne