[Aqualist] ARC Linkage outcomes announced

[Simon Haberle]

Dear all,

The ARC website has listed the outcomes of the 2017 ARC Linkage grants submission (round 1)… see the successful grants below. Some great outcomes across palaeoecology, geochronology and archaeology.

Regards, Simon Haberle



The University of Queensland

LP170100544	Professor Kerrie Wilson; Associate Professor Paul Dargusch; Associate Professor Patrick Moss; Dr Elizabeth Law; Professor Dan Charman; Dr Angela Gallego-SAla; Dr Laura Graham
The right information on time to restore tropical peatlands.
This project aims to develop new tools to help environmental managers collect and rapidly share critical information to plan and evaluate restoration interventions that seek to reverse environmental degradation of tropical peatlands and curb megafires. Megafires that burn degraded peatlands generate significant carbon emissions, and transboundary air pollution that adversely affects the health and livelihoods of millions of people. This project will improve restoration planning and evaluation to strategically restore degraded peatlands, with immediate focus on Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, but with application to many other regions.	
Partners: BADAN RESTORASI GAMBUT ; BORNEO ORANGUTAN SURVIVAL FOUNDATION
$562,059.00

LP170100242	Professor Dr Hamish McGowan; Professor Simon Haberle; Professor Michael Bird; Dr Samuel Marx; Professor Jonathan Woodhead; Associate Professor Patrick Moss; Dr Stuart Browning; Dr John Callow; Professor Dr Frank Preusser
Unlocking the environmental archives of the Kimberley’s past. This project aims to reconstruct the environmental history of Australia’s Kimberley region spanning the past 60,000 years. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the project will provide new understanding of the causes of environmental change and impacts on this region since the arrival of Australia’s earliest inhabitants. This will inform the development of conservation policy to ensure preservation of the region's globally significant rock art against environmental change and economic development.
Partners: KIMBERLEY FOUNDATION AUSTRALIA; ALBERT LUDWIG UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG; DUNKELD PASTORAL CO. PTY. LTD.
$460,429.00


Flinders University	

LP170100050	Dr Michael Morrison; Dr Darlene McNaughton; Associate Professor Heather Burke; Associate Professor Shawn Ross; Dr Ian Moffat; Dr Adela Sobotkova; Dr Brit Asmussen; Mr David Claudie	
Indigenous foodways in colonial Cape York Peninsula. 
This project aims to trace historical Indigenous foodways in colonial Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, through a program of collaborative community-based archaeological and anthropological research. Food was a key medium for cultural exchanges between Indigenous peoples and settler-colonists. The analysis of foodways is known to provide unparalleled insights on daily life, as well as the development of both cultural values and social relationships. This has received limited attention in archaeological investigations in Australia. Results will provide greater insight into the history behind our current society.
Partners: THE TRUSTEE FOR THE WESTERN CAPE COMMUNITIES TRUST; CHUULANGUN ABORIGINAL CORPORATION; NAPRANUM ABORIGINAL SHIRE COUNCIL; QUEENSLAND MUSEUM
$301,254.00

LP170100479	Associate Professor Amy Roberts; Dr Michael Morrison; Associate Professor Heather Burke; Dr Ian Moffat
Interrogating the Riverland's colonial frontier.
This project aims to deliver the first comprehensive study of the colonial frontier in South Australia’s Riverland, a region that was the scene of nationally significant colonial endeavours coupled with violence towards Aboriginal people. While previous studies have focused on discrete events from the historical record, this project will to use a multi-layered strategy to explore this past and present. By coalescing archaeological, anthropological and oral history evidencethis project expects to generate meaningful narratives for and with Aboriginal descendants. These insights should substantially contribute to understandings about the colonial frontier in Australia and globally.
THE RIVER MURRAY AND MALLEE ABORIGINAL CORPORATION; AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE TRUST
$157,290.00


The University of Melbourne	

LP170100155	Professor Andrew Gleadow; Professor Janet Hergt; Professor Jonathan Woodhead; Dr John Moreau; Dr John Hellstrom; Professor Peter Veth; Dr Sven Ouzman; Professor Richard Roberts; Dr Alexandru Codilean; Professor Royston Goodacre; Dr David Fink; Ms Cecilia Myers
Dating the aboriginal rock art sequence of the Kimberley in north west Australia.
This project aims to develop a robust time scale for the known aboriginal rock art sequence in the Kimberley, Western Australia (WA). The project will use new knowledge of complex processes on sandstone surfaces across the north Kimberley, and an innovative combination of four scientific dating methods developed through our earlier work. The project expects to provide a well-dated sequence for Kimberley rock art based on replication of results, confirmation across different methods, and a large interdisciplinary data set. The project will allow rigorous analysis of the relationship between dating results and rock art styles that has not previously been possible, and give new insights into Australia’s deep indigenous heritage. This will have a significant impact for future efforts in rock art conservation, and lay a foundation for cultural tourism, with important benefits for the local economy and health of regional indigenous communities.
AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION; KIMBERLEY FOUNDATION AUSTRALIA; DUNKELD PASTORAL CO. PTY. LTD.; BALANGGARRA ABORIGINAL CORPORATION; DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND WILDLIFE
$880,000.00