Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of New South Wales, Australia. I am currently employed on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘Reconstructing Australia’s fire history from cave stalagmites.’

Originally from Far North Queensland, I completed my BA at The University of Queensland, and then my PhD at the University of Western Australia, where I researched the Palaeoclimate of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales. After my PhD I worked for Queensland Department of Environment and Science, before taking up a Postdoctoral position at University College Dublin, where I worked in conjunction with the Queensland State Government and water utility companies to develop a database of Australasian palaeoclimate records and reconstruct 1000 years of rainfall for southeast Queensland. In June 2021 I joined the University of New South Wales, where I am working with researchers at UNSW and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation to reconstruct fire histories in Western Australia.

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