[Aqualist] ARC grant outcomes

[Kathryn Fitzsimmons]

Forwarded from Simon Haberle:

The ARC grant outcomes released in mid October produced another 
reasonably good result for Quaternary studies in Australia. 20 
Discovery projects were funded amounting to $6.9 million, which is 
down slightly on the levels of the last 2 years (2006-7, 25 grants 
and $10.5 million). Archaeology did particularly well with 15 
Discovery projects and all of the postdocs and fellowships (with the 
exception of 1 APDI and a Linkage International Fellowship) being 
awarded in this category. "Galactic Archaeology" even gets a gearnsey 
in this years round. A total of 6 APD's, 1 QEII, 1 ARF, 1 APDI and 2 
APAI were awarded. Congratulations to all those who where successful.


THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

Dr CJ Clarkson; Dr MD Petraglia; Dr NL Boivin
Assessing lithic evidence for the impact of the Toba super eruption 
(74,000 years ago) on long term cultural, biological and ecological 
histories on the Indian subcontinent
2009: $ 59,000; 2010: $57,000; 2011: $54,000
Primary RFCD: ANTHROPOLOGY

Dr AS Fairbairn
Agriculture and the Late Bronze Age collapse of the Hittite Empire
2009: $61,090; 2010: $52,050; 2011: $37,130
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY

Dr MI Weisler; A/Prof J Zhao
Voyaging, Trade and the Development of Ancient Complex Societies in 
East Polynesia: An Interdisciplinary Approach
2009: $105,000; 2010 $80,000; 2011: $120,000
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY

A/Prof J Zhao; Prof AR Chivas; Dr H Zhou (Linkage International Fellowship)
Continental temperature and rainfall change during past global 
warming - a multiproxy approach involving clumped isotopes in speleothems
2009: $ 82,000
Primary RFCD: ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Collaborating Countr: China


THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

Prof J Bland Hawthorn; Prof KC Freeman; Dr SC Keller; Prof M Asplund
Galactic Archaeology: a Challenge for the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm
2009: $170,000; 2010: $170,000; 2011: $170,000
Primary RFCD: ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES

Dr TE Doelman; Dr P Jia
Crossing Borders: The Use and Distribution of Volcanic Glass 
Artefacts in Northeast Asia
2009: $95,000; 2010: $40,000
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY

Dr M Fillios (APD)
The Taphonomy of Waterhole Faunal Death Assemblages: A model for 
Archaeological Contexts in the Australian Semi Arid Zone
2009: $78,978; 2010: $95,000; 2011: $95,000; 2012: $67,000
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY

Dr MJ Hendrickson (APD); Dr C Pottier; Prof Dr HJ Leisen; Dr DE Cook; Dr Q Hua
Industries of Angkor: Material Production and the Decline of the 
Khmer Empire (11th to 15th centuries CE)
2009: $128,000; 2010: $108,000; 2011: $93,000
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY

Dr D O'Reilly; Dr RA Armstrong; Dr KM Domett; Dr LG Shewan; Prof CF 
Higham; Prof R Chhem; Dr N Beavan Athfield; Dr C Pottier
History in their bones: A diachronic, bioarchaeological study of 
diet, mobility and social organisation from Cambodian skeletal assemblages
2009: $74,000; 2010: $56,000; 2011: $ 24,000
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY

Prof DT Potts (APF)
 From village to empire in the Zagros highlands: Archaeological 
investigations at Tol e Nurabad (Fars Province, Iran)
2009: $104,000; 2010: $104,000; 2011: $104,000; 2012: $78,590; 2013: $104,000
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY

Dr R Torrence; Mrs NA Kononenko (APD); Dr EA Carter
Valuing Stones: obsidian stemmed tools in the creation of social 
complexity in Papua New Guinea
2009: $149,000; 2010: $100,000; 2011: $101,000; 2012: $107,000
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY


THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Dr SW Wroe; Dr DK Curnoe
The mechanics of being human
2009: $60,000; 2010: $50,000; 2011: $60,000
Primary RFCD: GEOLOGY

Dr S Hand; Prof M Archer; Mr SA Hocknull; Mr TH Worthy (APDI); A/Prof 
JD Woodhead; Dr DI Cendon; A/Prof J Zhao; Dr IT Graham; Dr JD 
Scanlon; Dr GJ Price; Prof AR Chivas (Linkage Project including 1 APDI Award)
Environmental change in northern Cenozoic Australia: a 
multidisciplinary approach
2009: $ 300,000; 2010: $ 300,000; 2011: $ 300,000
Primary RFCD: GEOLOGY
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s): Xstrata Copper North 
Queensland; Queensland Museum; Outback at Isa; Mount Isa City Council

Dr SA Ross; Dr SE Connor; Dr AI Herries; Dr G Burgers; Dr I Iliev; Ms 
A Sobotkova; Dr K Rabadjiev
Cultural change in its environmental context: exploring, 
interpreting, and managing archaeologically rich, large-scale 
cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean Basin
2009: $ 70,000; 2010: $ 20,837; 2011: $ 26,267
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s): Royal Netherlands Institute in 
Rome; Historical Museum, Yambol


UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG

Dr K Szabo (QEII)
The cutting edge: Investigating the use of shell as a raw material by 
Australasian hominins
2009: $132,701; 2010: $127,000; 2011: $163,119; 2012: $117,220; 2013: $120,769
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY


THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Prof AJ Anderson; Dr SG Haberle; Dr GR Clark
Crossing the Green Sea: maritime mobility, trans oceanic interaction 
and remote island colonisation in the tropical Indian Ocean
2009: $ 279,000; 2010: $ 150,000; 2011: $ 200,000
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY

Dr SG Haberle; Dr RF Cosgrove; Dr PT Moss; Prof JF O'Connell; Ms A Ferrier
Light islands in a sea of dark rainforest: Human influence on fire, 
climate and biodiversity in the Australian tropics.
2009: $ 156,423; 2010: $ 120,291; 2011: $ 166,971
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY

Ms H Hung (APD); Prof PS Bellwood
A study of ancient jade trading networks in prehistoric southern 
China and Southeast Asia, 3000 BC to AD 500
2009: $ 114,000; 2010: $ 100,000; 2011: $ 100,000
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY

Prof MT McCulloch; Dr JA Trotter; Prof RB Dunbar
Ocean Acidification in a Rapidly Increasing CO2 World
2009: $ 230,000; 2010: $ 160,000; 2011: $ 160,000; 2012: $ 120,000
Primary RFCD: OCEANOGRAPHY

Dr MJ Prebble (APD)
Tracking 3000 years of agricultural adaptation to the resource poor, 
climate sensitive and remote Solomon Islands using biomarkers and palaeoecology
2009: $ 113,000; 2010: $ 117,000; 2011: $ 78,591
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY


THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

A/Prof D Phillips; Dr M Honda
The Cosmogenic 21Ne Exposure Dating Method: Calibration for 
Application to Volcanic Chronology, Landscape Evolution and Palaeo 
Climate Change
2009: $75,000; 2010: $60,000; 2011: $60,000
Primary RFCD: GEOLOGY

A/Prof JD Woodhead; Dr S Frisia; Dr A Blyth
Ancient weather stations of Australia: charting a continent's descent 
into aridity and its ecological consequences
2009: $ 100,000; 2010: $60,000; 2011: $60,000
Primary RFCD: ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES


MONASH UNIVERSITY

Dr LM Brady (APD)
The Kaurareg Archaeological Project, south Western Torres Strait, Australia
2009: $ 110,000; 2010: $100,000; 2011: $110,000; 2012: $58,943
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY


LA TROBE UNIVERSITY

Prof TA Murray; Dr CH Smith (Linkage Project including 1 APAI Award)
A Historical archaeology of the Commonwealth Block 1850-1950
2009: $ 94,000; 2010: $ 94,000; 2011: $ 26,140
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s): Museum Victoria


THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE

Prof A Cooper; Dr KP Aplin; Prof SC Donnellan
Phylogeography, evolution and taxonomy of humanity's greatest pest, 
Rattus rattus: Epidemiological, archaeological and conservation implications
2009: $ 130,000; 2010: $ 130,000; 2011: $ 130,000
Primary RFCD: ZOOLOGY


THE FLINDERS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

A/Prof M Staniforth (Linkage Project including 1 APAI Award)
The South Australian Historical and Maritime Archaeology Management Project
2009: $ 26,140; 2010: $ 26,140; 2011: $ 26,140
Primary RFCD: ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s): SA Maritime Museum; Department 
of Environment and Heritage; AHMS Pty Ltd


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Kathryn Fitzsimmons
Postdoctoral Fellow
Luminescence Dating Laboratory
Research School of Earth Sciences
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Ph: +61 (02) 6125 4035
Fax: +61 (02) 6125 0738
kathryn.fitzsimmons at anu.edu.au

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Quaternary Australasia
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