[Aqualist] Laureate Fellowships announced

[Simon Haberle]

Dear All

The recent announcement of Laureate Fellowships by the ARC saw three successful applicants in the area of Quaternary related studies.

Congratulations to all....

Cheers, Simon



James Cook University
FL140100044
Bird, Prof Michael I

2014, $269,087.00
2015, $551,948.00
2016, $561,673.50
2017, $547,268.00
2018, $493,000.00
2019, $224,544.50
Total, $2,647,521.00

Primary FoR 0406
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE
Funded Participants:
FLA Prof Michael I Bird
FLPDRA 2
FLPGR 2

Project Summary
What is natural? Humans, megafauna and climate in northern Australia: This project aims to produce the first long-term (100,000 year), replicated, high-resolution terrestrial records of environmental change before, during and after the arrival of humans in Australian savannas. These records will be the first in the world to extract, from the same material, independent, cutting-edge organic and isotope geochemical records of changes in water balance, vegetation type and fire activity.  This will enable natural and human drivers of change in northern Australia's climate and biodiversity to be disentangled on two timescales: millennial: before, during and after Aboriginal arrival in northern Australia and centennial: before, during and after European arrival in northern Australia.


The University of Adelaide
FL140100260
Cooper, Prof Alan

2014, $255,965.00
2015, $544,836.00
2016, $577,742.00
2017, $577,742.00
2018, $554,242.00
2019, $265,371.00
Total, $2,775,898.00

Primary FoR
0602 ECOLOGY

Project Summary
Using ancient microbiomes and genomes to reconstruct human history: This project aims to generate unique insights into the processes and history that produced the current distribution of modern humans and the bacteria we carry with us (our microbiome). The project will use combined signals of bacterial, genomic and climate data to reconstruct the impacts of migrations, changes in diet, environment, and health in different parts of the world. A key aspect will be the creation of a program to map the genetic history of indigenous Australia, and the impacts of colonisation on indigenous people around the world. Research advances will be transferred to Early Career Researchers through an innovative program of workshops, and the resulting data will be used to create a new format for Australian genetic databases.



The Australian National University
FL140100218
 Spriggs, Prof Matthew J

2014, $233,824.50
2015, $483,515.50
2016, $508,537.50
2017, $503,762.50
2018, $472,422.00
2019, $227,506.00
Total, $2,429,568.00

Primary FoR
2101 ARCHAEOLOGY

Project Summary
The collective biography of archaeology in the Pacific: a hidden history: The project aims to establish the history of Pacific archaeology as a new sub-discipline within world archaeology, covering the period from the speculations of early explorers to the present. The often-forgotten role of Australian and New Zealand scholars will be highlighted. Pacific archaeologists, stewards of a third of the World's archaeology, have forgotten so much of that history that the discipline is in a serious conceptual crisis, with current theories about the origins of Pacific peoples mired in outmoded and often racialised assumptions.  At the same time, our ideas about the Pacific past are becoming internalised among indigenous Pacific Islanders. There is a need for understanding the disciplinary history in order to move theory forward.