I am a Lecturer in Environmental Sciences within the UWA School of Agriculture and Environment. I am a multidisciplinary scientist with expertise in Earth, Environmental and Climate science. 

My research interests include using scientific techniques to produce records of past environmental and climatic change, improving our ability to predict and manage the environment in the future. I am particularly interested in human-environment interactions and the impacts of climate change on landscapes and water resources. Most recently, my research has focused on developing climate records from freshwater carbonate deposits and other climate archives in Murujuga rock art province (the Dampier Archipelago), on the Pilbara coast in Western Australia. This research aims to improve knowledge on the environmental conditions, fresh water availability and changing local climatic conditions that have constrained and enabled human occupation and movement over the past ~65,000 years. I work collaboratively with colleagues across the University, nationally and internationally. 

I have strong industry connections and have previously worked as an environmental geochemist in the mining industry, where my roles focussed on management of mine waste materials, water quality and environmental impacts of mining.

As a Lecturer at UWA, I use my multidisciplinary research background and mining industry experience, to deliver learning content to the units GEOG1106: Climate Change and Society, ENVT5515: Environmental Management in Mining and ENVT5517: Ecological Rehabilitation. 

• Palaeoenvironment and climate research
• Environmental management and rehabilitation
• Earth surface processes
• Geochemistry and hydrochemistry
• Geomorphology
• Mineralogy
• Semi-arid and arid environments

As a geologist and environmental geochemist in Western Australia, I have strong ties to industry partners in the mining and petroleum sectors, particularly in the fields of environmental management, geochemistry and hydrogeology. I have undertaken collaborative research with industry partners duringmy doctoral degree and within my current role. My research has numerous applications to industry, research partners, and other stakeholders, including implications for water quality and management, groundwater dependent ecosystems, surface water - groundwater interactions, environmental impacts and management.

ARC Linkage Project (LP190100724) "Dating Murujuga's Dreaming: Scientific analysis of landscapes and rock art" between The University of Western Australia, University of Melbourne, University of Wollongong, Murujuga Aborginal Corporation, Rio Tinto and Woodside (2021-2025)

ANSTO Grant (AP18132) "Refining radiocarbon ages of tufa formation using paired dating of carbonate and organic matter residue to provide Holocene environmental records for Murujuga, northwest WA" (2024)

ANSTO Grant (AP16174) "Locating the 14-C bomb-pulse in freshwater tufa to improve calibrated age data in Holocene environmental records from Murujuga, NW Western Australia" (2023)

ANSTO Grant (AP13888) "Radiocarbon dating of tufa to develop palaeoenvironmental records for Murujuga, NW Western Australia: Implications for early human occupation" (2022)

ANSTO Grant (AP15148) "Determining the age and seasonality of Aboriginal shellfish harvesting in Murujuga (the Dampier Archipelago)" (2022)

ANSTO Grant (AP13234) "Radiocarbon dating of tufa to develop palaeoenvironmental records for Murujuga, NW Western Australia: Implications for early human occupation" (2021)

ANSTO Grant (AS212/PD/17516) "Carbonate spring deposits as archives of environmental change coinciding with early human occupation in Murujuga, NW Western Australia: a mineralogical assessment" (2021)

AINSE Research Award ALLGRA15028): “ITRAX High Resolution Scanning of Calcrete Profiles from the Hamersley Basin for Investigation of Formation Processes of Calcrete” (2015) 

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