Overview
Topic status: We're looking for students to study this topic.
Various projects are available contributing to the research topic above. The aim of the various honours projects (each custom made and using specific field sites) is to use multi-proxy data to reconstruct palaeo-climate change, sea level fluctuation, and the impact of extreme events (e.g. tsunami and/or storm surge) on the northeast coast of NSW and the southeast coast of Qld.
To achieve palaeo-environment reconstruction these research projects will use geo-chronological, sedimentological, litho-stratigraphic and bio-stratigraphic data collected from coastal lagoons, estuarine environments and exposed coastal depositional environments.
The detailed reconstruction of palaeo-climate, sea-level change and extreme events will contribute to the construction of coastal landscape evolution models. Accordingly, a detailed understanding of the processes and influences on past depositional environments will enable more informed and detailed assessments of future impacts of climate change, sea-level fluctuation and the impact of extreme events. Many of these projects can also be modified or done in conjunction with groundwater studies with co-supervision from Assoc Prof Malcolm Cox.
- Study level
- Vacation research experience scholarship
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
- Please contact the supervisor.
Dr Craig Sloss
