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Email

b.kohn@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Education
PhD
Victoria University of Wellington
Bachelors Degree
Victoria University of Wellington
ORCID

0000-0001-5064-5454

Prof Barry Kohn

Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

285 Scholarly works
20 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Exploration of a Combined LIBS and LA-ICP-MS Approach for Apatite Characterisation
    DOI: 10.1111/ggr.70021
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Raising the bar: Deep learning on comprehensive database sets new benchmark for automated fission-track detection
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2025.106096
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Phanerozoic evolution of Fennoscandia: Evidence from apatite fission track, fluid flow and geodynamic data in Finland and Estonia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.011
  • 2024

    Research Contracts

    AuScope - Tandem LA/LIBS System
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    High Resolution Timeframe for Hominin Evolution in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
  • 2016

    Research Contracts

    AuScope Shallow Earth Monitoring and Petrophysics Capability
  • 2015

    Journal article

    The Fish Canyon Tuff: A new look at an old low-temperature thermochronology standard
    DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.05.003
Barry Kohn

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2020
Laslett Prize International Thermochronology Community
2009
F. L. Stillwell Medal Geological Society of Australia
1997
Gold Medal for Excellence in Research Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering
1983
Wexler Fellowship University of Pennsylvania

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    An Assessment of Monazite Fission-Track Thermochronology as a Proxy for Low-Magnitude Cooling, Catalina-Rincon Metamorphic Core Complex, AZ, USA
    DOI: 10.1029/2024GC011881
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Age, origin and tectonic controls on rapid Pleistocene exhumation of the Sibela Mountains, Bacan, Indonesia
    DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-16533
  • 2025

    Other

    Monazite fission-track thermochronology as a possible proxy for low-magnitude erosion
    DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-5153
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    The AuScope EarthBank & GPlates Projects: Translational Research Infrastructure Supporting Industry-Academia Partnerships in Resource Geoscience
    DOI: 10.7185/gold2025.28625
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Phanerozoic thermochronology record of Afro-Arabia through space and time
    DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-04767-6
  • 2024

    Journal article

    4D fault evolution revealed by footwall exhumation modelling: A natural experiment in the Malawi rift
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105196
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Interaction of surface processes and crustal flow in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis
    DOI: 10.1144/jgs2023-041

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2013

    Research Grant

    Geodynamics and Continental Extension in the East African Rift System - Origin and Evolution of the Turkana Depression in Northern Kenya

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