[Aqualist] Future Fellowships and Linkage grants

[Simon Haberle]

Dear all,

Congratulations to the latest recipients of the recently announced 
Future Fellowships and Linkage grants. Here is a summary of those 
projects related to Quaternary research including archaeology.

Cheers, Simon
Associate Professor
Deputy Director of the Centre for Archaeological Research
Dept of Archaeology and Natural History
School of Culture, History and Language
College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200

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The Australian National University

FT120100716

Bedford, Dr Stuart H

The archaeology of ritual architecture on the islands of Malakula, Vanuatu

Total $711,333.00, ARCHAEOLOGY

Project Summary: This project will define the historical trajectory, 
function and role of ritual architecture across Malakula, Vanuatu, 
furnishing crucial comparative data and contributing to debates on the 
dynamics and manifestations of long-term social changed across the 
Pacific. Contemporary issues such as population growth, land and food 
security will be addressed.

FT120100757

Cameron, Dr Judith A

The Maritime Silk Route as a world system

Total $645,273.00, ARCHAEOLOGY

Project Summary: New archaeological evidence suggests that cultural 
interaction along the Maritime Silk Route was more complex than 
previously held. By using new analytical techniques to source artefacts 
from pre-Oc Eo sites in South Vietnam, this project will provide new 
insights into the production and distribution of trade goods 2000 years ago.

FT120100842

Hogg, Dr Andrew M

Dynamics of the Southern Ocean

Total $780,675.00, OCEANOGRAPHY

Project Summary: The Southern Ocean is critically important to future 
global climate: it controls the natural global carbon cycle and the 
distribution of heat and nutrients around the ocean. This project will 
investigate key uncertainties in the Southern Ocean's response to 
climate change, and thereby improve our capacity to predict future climate.

FT120100299

Oxenham, Dr Marc F

Origins, health and demography of ancestral Southeast Asians: 2500 BC to 
1000 AD

Total $708,777.00, ARCHAEOLOGY

Project Summary: This project will investigate the origins, demography 
and health of ancestral Southeast Asian peoples, particularly during and 
after the Neolithic revolution. This crucial and transformative period 
in prehistory ushered into Southeast Asia the first farmers, novel 
technological changes, waves of new migrants and hitherto unknown diseases.

FT120100241

Sidwell, Dr Paul J

Unlocking the missing Millennia of mainland Southeast Asia

Total $682,460.00, LINGUISTICS

Project Summary: This project will reveal the prehistoric transition 
from Neolithic to Bronze Age in South and Southeast Asia, the missing 
Millennia of the archaeological record. Sophisticated linguistic 
analyses, facilitated by innovative computational methods and 
bioinformatics, reconstruct the languages, migrations, and societies of 
the region's oldest cultures



Macquarie University

FT120100440

Handley, Dr Heather K

The timescales of Earth-system processes

Total: $621,746.00, GEOCHEMISTRY

Project Summary: This project will advance our understanding of the 
timescales of Earth processes using short-lived (22 to 380,000 years) 
isotopes. The results will provide better constraints on the timescales 
of magmatic processes and frequency of large-scale eruptions for 
volcanic hazard mitigation and also soil production rates for landscape 
erosion studies.

FT120100462

Jacob, Dr Dorrit E

A new approach to quantitative interpretation of paleoclimate archives

Total $822,007.00, GEOCHEMISTRY

Project Summary: Skeletons of marine organisms can be used to 
reconstruct past climates and make predictions for the future. The 
precondition is the knowledge of how climatic and environmental 
information is incorporated into the biominerals. This project will use 
cutting-edge nano-analytical methods to further our understanding of how 
organisms build their skeletons.

The University of New South Wales

FT120100168

Curnoe, A/Prof Darren K

Human dispersals and the early peopling of East Asia and Australasia

Total $800,519.00, ARCHAEOLOGY

Project Summary: This project will address the most important question 
of contemporary human evolution research - the origin of modern humans - 
targeting evidence from ancient fossil humans through virtual 
anthropology techniques, human ancient DNA sequencing, and cultural 
evidence in the vital but poorly known East Asia region, focusing on China.

FT120100004

Fogwill, Dr Christopher J

Understanding the drivers and impacts of long-term Antarctic ice sheet 
change

Total $672,342.00, PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE

Project Summary: This project will extend historical records of change 
and develop an understanding of the complex linkages between the climate 
and Antarctic ice sheet dynamics. The results will thereby assist in 
identifying the mechanisms of the past and future ice sheet stability 
and be communicated to the general public by enhancing scientific 
understanding.

La Trobe University

FT120100399

Herries, Dr Andrew I

A new chronological framework to access regional variability in 
mid-Pleistocene archaeological, palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic data 
from Africa

Total $795,965.00, ARCHAEOLOGY

Project Summary: This project will enable us to understand, for the 
first time, the contribution of South Africa to human origins between 
1.8 and 0.6 million years ago. It will help us understand how major 
changes in climate have influenced our evolutionary history, the animals 
around us and how our behaviour and tools have changed to adapt to such 
changes.

The University of Melbourne

FT120100715

Baker, Dr Patrick J

Climate-proofing southeastern Australia's native forests: where, when, 
and how?

Total $683,974.00, FORESTRY SCIENCES

Project Summary: Changing environmental conditions and forest 
fragmentation threaten the ability of native forest species to 
regenerate or migrate. Using unique long--term datasets and novel 
statistical analyses, this project will assess future risks to forest 
regeneration after logging, bushfires, and land abandonment.

James Cook University

FT120100656

Ulm, Dr Sean G

Resolving fundamental problems in the dating of marine shell in the tropics

Total $699,593.00, ARCHAEOLOGY

Project Summary: This project will model variability in the way carbon 
is distributed in marine environments and animals in tropical 
Australasia. Results will provide key enabling tools for accurate dating 
of marine materials, realising the potential of previous research and 
forming the basis for accurate reconstructions of cultural, sea-level 
and climate changed.

University of Tasmania

FT120100759

Chase, Dr Zanna

Southern Ocean oxygen variability since the last glacial maximum

Total $706,046.00, OCEANOGRAPHY

Project Summary: Recently observed decreases in ocean oxygen 
concentration could decrease ocean biodiversity and accelerate climate 
change. This project will determine the links between climate change and 
ocean oxygenation since the last ice age, and provide a way to predict 
future oxygen concentrations.

LINKAGE

The Australian National University

LP120200626

Pillans, Prof Bradley J; Hiscock, Prof Peter ; Dosseto, Dr Anthony ; 
Papp, Dr Eva ; McPhail, A/Prof D C "Bear"

Landscape evolution, environmental change and human occupation history 
of Lake George - an outstanding natural archive

Total $370,000.00, PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE

Partner Organisation(s): Grantham Park Pty Ltd, Grantham Holdings Pty 
Ltd, Tobiway Crushing Pty Ltd

Project Summary: This project will study the environmental and human 
history of Lake George, where sand and gravel are mined to supply the 
Canberra region's construction industry. The project will investigate 
past vegetation and climate changes, lake level fluctuations, 
groundwater flow, sediment deposition, archaeology and sustainable 
resource management outcomes.



The University of New South Wales

LP120200724

Fogwill, Dr Christopher J; Turney, Prof Chris S; Meissner, Dr Katrin J

Integrating past ice sheet dynamics with palaeoclimate in the Weddell 
Sea sector to evaluate current and future change in Antarctica

Total $270,000.00, PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE

Partner Organisation(s): Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions LLC (ALE)

Project Summary: This project will extend historical records of change 
and understand the complex linkages between Antarctic climate and ice 
sheet dynamics, thereby assisting in: (i) identifying the mechanisms of 
past and future ice sheet stability, and (ii) communicating the research 
outputs to the general public, helping scientific understanding.

The University of Sydney

LP120200259

Clarke, Dr Anne F; Bashford, Prof Alison C

The archaeology and history of quarantine

Total $820,000.00, ARCHAEOLOGY

Partner Organisation(s): Mawland Quarantine Station Pty Ltd

Project Summary: This project investigates the stories of people, place 
and passage inscribed in the landscape at Sydney's Quarantine Station. 
Immigration connects people and places to the wider world, and this 
project investigates the international connections that bind the 
experience and history of quarantine and diverse immigration sites 
across the globe.