Bird, Michael, and Rowe, Cassandra (2025) Field report: JCU, CABAH and records of environmental change in the north. Quaternary Australasia, 42 (1). pp. 7-11.

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Abstract

For many years, lacustrine records of environmental change in northern Australia tended to be focused on the Atherton Tablelands, following the seminal work of Peter Kershaw, and around the coastal fringe. Not surprising, because the strongly seasonal nature of rainfall in the monsoon north meant that many 'lakes' disappeared in the dry season, and the record they contain was therefore degraded. In 2012, the Australian Research Council funded a one-year project to just 'have a look' at a bunch of sites in the Top End to try and locate sites in the savanna that would contain quality records of environmental change that extended to the time of first human arrival; many thanks to whoever reviewed the application! This led to a successful Laureate Fellowship application to develop the most prospective sites. In turn, in 2017, this work was taken up by CABAH. The broader program aimed at understanding environmental change over the last glacial-interglacial cycle around Australia, with the JCU Quaternary crowd contributing to the Top End Flagship.

Item ID:	90944
Item Type:	Article (Short Note)
ISSN:	0811-0433
Copyright Information:	© Australasian Quaternary Association.
Funders:	Australian Research Council
Projects and Grants:	CE170100015, FL140100044
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2026 06:44
FoR Codes:	37 EARTH SCIENCES > 3709 Physical geography and environmental geoscience > 370905 Quaternary environments @ 100%
SEO Codes:	28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280111 Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences @ 50% 28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280107 Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences @ 50%
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