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Email

simon.connor@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Casual Academic
School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0001-5685-2390

Dr Simon Connor

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

94 Scholarly works
1 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Tracing fuels for fire through time: from Indigenous cultural burning to colonial land management in Australia
    DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-1790
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Health impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian “Black Summer” bushfires: smoke-related asthma emergency department presentations in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
    DOI: 10.1080/09603123.2025.2494734
  • 2025

    Journal article

    The Importance of Listening to Mud
    DOI: 10.17159/2309-9585/2025/v51a5
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Assessing changes in global fire regimes
    DOI: 10.1186/s42408-023-00237-9
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Past fire dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa during the last 25,000 years: Climate change and increasing human impacts
    DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2024.07.012
  • 2024

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Deep-Time History of Culturally Significant Lands and Waters in Timor-Leste
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Vegetation, Fire and Grazing Dynamics in Mtskheta, Georgia, and their Implications for Human Economic Strategies since 2000 BC
    DOI: 10.2143/ANES.57.0.3288616
Simon Connor

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia
    DOI: 10.1126/science.adn8668
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Conservation Agendas and the Denial of History. Reply to Penna, I. and Feller, M.C. Comments on “Laming et al. The Curse of Conservation: Empirical Evidence Demonstrating That Changes in Land-Use Legislation Drove Catastrophic Bushfires in Southeast Australia. Fire 2022, 5, 175”
    DOI: 10.3390/fire7110391
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Living on the edge: Abric Pizarro, a MIS 4 Neanderthal site in the lowermost foothills of the southeastern Pre-Pyrenees (Lleida, Iberian Peninsula)
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106038
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Long-term mercury accumulation and climate reconstruction of an Australian alpine lake during the late Quaternary
    DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104539
  • 2024

    Book

    Cultural Burning
    DOI: 10.1017/9781009485340

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