[Aqualist] Thanks so much Simon

[John Tibby]

Dear Simon,
I just wanted to say on behalf of all AQUArians (or at least a good majority) thanks so much for these invaluable compilations.

Congratulations to those who were successful and commiserations to those whose applications were not supported.

With best wishes,
John.
*sent from my phone (may have voice recognition errors)
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Associate Professor John Tibby
Head of Department
Department of Geography, Environment and Population
Director, Sprigg Geobiology Centre
University of Adelaide
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Recent publications:
Tibby, J., Richards, J., Tyler, J.J., Barr, C., Fluin, J., and Goonan, P. (in press) Diatom–water quality thresholds in South Australian streams indicate a need for more stringent water quality guidelines<http://www.publish.csiro.au/MF/MF19065>. Marine and Freshwater Research.

Tibby J., Barr C., Marshall J.C., Richards J., Perna C., Fluin J. and Cadd H.R. (2019) Assessing the relative impacts of land-use change and river regulation on Burdekin River (Australia) floodplain wetlands.<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aqc.3151> Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 29(10), 1712-1725.

Tibby J., Tyler J.J. and Barr C. 2018. Post little ice age drying of eastern Australia conflates understanding of early settlement impacts<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379118302051>Quaternary Science Reviews 202: 45-52.

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On 15 Nov 2020, at 11:53 am, Simon Haberle <simon.haberle at anu.edu.au> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

The ARC announced the latest round of Discovery and Linkage grants for 2021 last Friday (13/11/2020). The list below includes all successful grants in Quaternary-related research (including archaeology). Apologies if I have missed anyone in the announcement list.

Congratulations to all who were successful and commiserations to those who did not make it this time. There were a total of 14 successful  Discovery Grants (total = $5.37m) and 1 Linkage Grant (total = $1.2m)

Regards, Simon

DISCOVERY

The Australian National University

Dr Duncan Wright; Prof Geoffrey Clark; Dr Jillian Huntley (DP210102739)
Waiet: Archaeology of a Torres Strait Islander ritual pathway.
The project aims to provide a high-resolution archaeological record of ritual mobility by examining a Torres Strait Islander initiation pathway. The project is expected to generate new knowledge about human movement and improve public understanding of Indigenous peoples connection with country. Anticipated outcomes of the multi-disciplinary and community-led research include the first detailed record of ancient ritual mobility in northern Australia and development of a web-based system to transfer archival information between cultural institutions and remote communities. This should provide significant benefits and assist Meriam people to engage with their cultural heritage and expand public knowledge about Indigenous forms of mobility. $342,871.00


The University of New South Wales

Prof Christian Turney; Dr Zoë Thomas; Dr Lorena Becerra Valdivia (DP210103621)
Back to the Future: Interglacial Warming and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The Antarctic is highly-sensitive to abrupt changes caused by the passing of tipping points within the climate system. Crucially, the instrumental record is too short to resolve major uncertainties surrounding future warming. The Last Interglacial (125,000 yrs ago) was 2°C warmer than today and experienced 6-11 m higher global sea levels. The role of Antarctica is vital for constraining sea-level projections. This Australian-led international project aims to determine the mechanisms and impacts of past interglacial Antarctic warming up to 2°C (relative to pre-industrial). Innovative techniques integrating horizontal ice cores and high resolution marine records will help identify polar tipping points and better plan for impacts in Australia. $590,000.00


Griffith University

Prof Adam Brumm; A/Prof Mark Moore; Prof Philip Piper; Dr Michelle Langley (DP210102981)
Resolving the archaeological enigma of Indonesia’s ‘Toalean’ culture.
Archaeologists have long puzzled over the identity and origin of the 'Toalean' people from Sulawesi, Indonesia. These prehistoric hunter-gatherers produced a unique culture that emerged in the south of this island about 7500 years ago, and some scholars believe they introduced the dingo to Australia. Little is known about these early foragers despite a century of research. This project aims to investigate a significant new cave site in Sulawesi that is the richest, most well-dated Toalean locality yet uncovered. Through detailed archaeological excavations and analyses, this project expects to advance scientific knowledge of an important but poorly understood Indonesian culture that is often connected with the early human story in Australia.           $597,284.00

Prof Tanya Smith; Prof Ian Williams (DP210101913)
Constructing robust climate proxies to explore human and primate evolution.
This project will build the requisite foundation to resolve whether variable climate change sparked the origins of humans and our great ape forebears. Scientists endeavor to recover ancient environmental records to examine this influential idea, but have lacked the means to do so at the scale of a human lifespan. This multidisciplinary effort will harness groundbreaking advances pioneered by our collaborative team to produce the first fine-scaled climate proxies from the teeth of humans’ closest living relatives. Documenting climate variation across diverse landscapes promises to transform studies of prehistoric ecosystems and past behaviour from omnipresent fossilised teeth, providing further insight into humanity’s unprecedented success. $343,086.00



The University of Western Australia

Prof Malcolm McCulloch; Dr Julie Trotter (DP210102896)
Deep-sea coral records of Southern Ocean climate and nutrient dynamics.
Deep-sea coral and seawater nutrient profiles collected from the Southern Ocean (SO) facing submarine canyons of south-west Australia will be used to provide new insights into the role of the SO overturning circulation in modulating global climate as well as supplying the essential nutrients that make these canyons biodiversity hot-spots for seasonal aggregations of killer and blue whales. This frontier project made possible by samples collected using Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) technology rarely available in Australia, will also help to understand how SO circulation has influenced past changes in global climate and its future role in controlling ocean productivity in a warming world with rapidly increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. $455,000.00

Prof Jane Balme; Prof Susan O'Connor; Dr Matthew McDowell (DP210101960)
The coming of the dingo and its interaction with Indigenous Australians. This project will identify more precisely the time of the entry of dingoes into Australia and will investigate their impact on the lives of Indigenous Australians. Archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that Indigenous people rapidly incorporated dingoes into their lives. Dingoes were used for a variety of purposes and were particularly valued as hunters by women, effectively increasing their access to meat. Impact would include a re-organisation of gender roles and an associated improvement in women's fecundity. By examining evidence for such changes, this project will significantly contribute to knowledge about implications of the arrival of a living technology in Australia and, more generally, the human/dog relationship. $467,536.00


La Trobe University

A/Prof Phillip Edwards; Dr Patrick Faulkner; Dr Cristina Valdiosera (DP210102250                 )
Earliest Village People: the shift to sedentary life in the Natufian period. This project aims to investigate the shift to sedentary life by excavating one of the earliest villages, founded by hunter-gatherers around 12,500 BCE. Of key interest are foundational burials at Wadi Hammeh 27 in Jordan and their role in the establishment of this new kind of settlement. Well-preserved deposits present a rare opportunity to track a community in the act of settling down so significant knowledge about the transition to sedentism should be generated. An interdisciplinary approach combining archaeology, bioanthropology and archaeogenetics may provide new explanations of early social organisation. Potential benefits include the building of international collaborations and the development of Australia’s role in the Middle East. $158,669.00


The University of Sydney

Prof Alison Betts; Prof Lloyd Weeks (DP210101745)
Bronzes of Xinjiang: technology, society and power on the road to China.
This project aims to reveal the backstory to the remarkable development of bronze working in ancient China by studying complex pathways by which metallurgical knowledge spread there from Eurasia through the crossroads region of Xinjiang. It will generate new knowledge through the innovative use of mass elemental analysis of ancient metals from Xinjiang, providing important evidence for early metallurgical techniques. Expected outcomes include enhanced understanding of the role of developing technology in the consolidation of regional power and its impact on social inequality. Partnerships between Australian, Chinese and UK institutions are expected to expand Australia’s research capability in archaeology, ancient mining and metallurgy. $596,789.00


Macquarie University

A/Prof John Alroy; Prof Barry Brook (DP210101324)
Global patterns of mammalian biodiversity loss over the last 50,000 years.
Wild mammals have experienced major population losses and extinctions in recent centuries, but their communities had already suffered from widespread losses during the Pleistocene. Existing literature has focused on documenting individual extinctions or continental-scale patterns. This project aims to show how biodiversity loss played out at the local scale around the world. It will use palaeontological and zooarchaeological data to show how losses varied in space, how population sizes changed, and how species attributes such as rarity and body size related to loss. The world of mammals has become more homogeneous as biodiversity has declined. The challenge is to show how that happened across space and time. $391,000.00

Prof Dorrit Jacob; Prof Stephen Eggins; Prof Simon Clark (DP210101268)
Maximising accuracy and reliability of carbonate climate proxy archives.
This project brings together expertise and cutting-edge methodology from different disciplines to identify the controls on the compositions of the shells and skeletons of marine organisms. The compositions of these materials are essential tools to reconstruct environmental conditions before modern climate records began. However, recent insights into how they form profoundly complicate and affect their interpretations. The results will enable us to develop new, realistic models for the behaviour of chemical elements in these materials. This will significantly improve paleoclimate interpretations and provide critical benefit for protecting Australia’s marine resources in the future. $420,000.00


James Cook University

Professor Michael Bird; Dr Sourav Das (DP210100881)
Pyrogenic carbon sequestration in Australian soils.
Pyrogenic Carbon ('charcoal') is a poorly understood component of the global carbon cycle, important because it is resistant to degradation and hence has potential soil carbon sequestration benefits. This project applies a new technique (hydrogen pyrolysis), in combination with spectroscopic techniques, to quantify charcoal in a pan-Australian soil sample set, collected using uniform stratified sampling and preparation protocols. This will enable the mapping of soil charcoal stocks in relation to environmental and soil variables across Australia. The results will enable understanding of the controls on charcoal sequestration potential in Australian soils and contribute to efforts to quantify soil charcoal stocks and dynamics globally.          $401,000.00


University of Wollongong

A/Prof Kerrylee Rogers; Prof Colin Woodroffe; A/Prof Sarah Hamylton (DP210100739)
Mangrove sustainability on the Australian coast.
This project aims to model the response of mangroves and adjoining communities to sea-level rise. Australia’s coastline supports some of the most extensive and diverse mangrove forests globally, and mangrove response models are urgently needed to plan for Australia’s coastal future and global sea-level rise adaptation. Bringing together world-leading specialists in geomorphology and spatial analysis, we will project the response of Australia’s mangrove shorelines to sea-level rise, indicating the implications for blue carbon stocks, adjoining communities, infrastructure and assets. Significant benefits will be provided to sustainable coastal management and national carbon accounting efforts. $450,000.00

Dr Bo Li (DP210100717)
Out of Africa: human prehistory in southwestern China.
This project aims to establish the timing and processes of human settlement in East Asia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Through studying a series of key archaeological sites in southwest China using the most recent innovative scientific approaches in luminescence dating, sedimentary DNA and lithic analysis, we expect to provide new insights into the human prehistory of East Asia over the last 300,000 years. This should provide significant contribution to addressing major debates about the timing, rate and route of dispersal of modern humans out of Africa, across south Asia and into Australia. $269,457.00


The University of Adelaide

Dr Francesca McInerney; Prof Gavin Prideaux; Dr Kale Sniderman (DP210100508)
Fire and rain: Drivers of deep-time ecosystem assembly in Australia.
This project aims to investigate the influence of bushfires and shifting rainfall patterns on the development of Australia’s dominant ecosystems. By combining a range of novel geochemical, isotopic and palaeontological techniques, this research seeks to reveal the causes and consequences of Australia’s transformation from a forested to mainly open landscape of grassland, shrubland and savannah. The expected outcome is detailed knowledge of how changes in fire and rain shaped the ecology and evolution of plants and animals. This knowledge is key to understanding how Australian ecosystems function and to protecting their cultural, economic and environmental values, especially as climate and fire regimes continue to change into the future. $476,000.00


ARC LINKAGE GRANTS

The Australian National University

Prof Andrew Hogg; Prof Matthew England; Dr Adele Morrison; Dr Paul Spence; Associate Prof Luke Bennetts; Prof Alexander Babanin; Dr Ryan Holmes; Dr William Hobbs; Dr Callum Shakespeare; A/Prof Alessandro Toffoli; Dr Benjamin Evans (LP200100406)
Building Australia's next-generation ocean-sea ice model.
Ocean and sea ice models are used for predicting future ocean and climate states, and for climate process research. This project aims to bring the next generation of ocean-sea ice models to Australia and configure the models for our local priorities. The ultimate goal is to create a new coupled ocean-sea ice model for Australia that includes surface waves and biogeochemistry. The model will be optimised and evaluated on Australian facilities, and released for community use. These developments underpin future ocean state forecasts, sea ice forecasts, wave forecasts, decadal climate prediction and climate process studies. The project will benefit search and rescue, Defence and shipping operations, and will enhance future climate projections.
AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION; BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE; COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION $1,161,512.00


Simon Haberle
Director, School of Culture, History & Language
Professor of Natural History

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