The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Doctor Stuart Pearson
School: School of Environmental and Life Sciences
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Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Doctor Stuart Pearson 2004 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Calculation of the environmental changes recorded in rat middens built during the last 5000 years in arid Australia.   6000  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 2003 1 Dale R. McCulloch Research Funding Research Grant Reconstructing multimillenial change in Yathong Nature Reserve using rodent middens.   9176  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 2003 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant 4th Southern Connections Conference: Climate change: a paleoecological perspective.   2365  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 2003 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant World Archaeological Congress Inter-Congress, Canberra 15-18 January 2003   814  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 2002 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant Inaugural Meeting of the International Biogeographical Society, Mesquite, Nevada 4-9 January 2003   2400  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 2002 1 Lake Macquarie City Council Lake Macquarie Environmental Research Grant Vulnerable Fauna - Powerful Owls (Ninox strenua) in the Southern Hunter.   1500  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 2001 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant AQUA 2001 Biennial Conference Registration, Victoria 5-9 February 2001   347  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 2000 1 University of Newcastle Visitor Grant Prof Julio Betancourt - 22 May to 26 June 2000.   2857  
Dr Timothy Rolph;Doctor Stuart Pearson 2000 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant A multi-disciplinary study of the sediments of Tuggerah Lake: Investigating past climates of the Newcastle region.   6000  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 2000 1 University of Newcastle Early Career Researcher Grant Measuring 10,000 years of environmental change in arid Australia from the vegetation fossils in stick-nest rat middens.   10000  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 2000 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant Perfumes Pineries: The environmental history of Australia, NSW 20-24 November 2000   316  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 2000 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant Ninth International Ottawa Conference on Medical Education, Capetown, South Africa.   1954  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 1999 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant Ecological connections: Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Australia, Perth.   400  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 1997 2 University of Newcastle New Staff Grant Changing environments in the Hunter Valley during the last 100,000 years   12000  
Doctor Stuart Pearson 1996 1 Australian Institute of Nuclear Science & Engineering Grant for Quaternary Science A fine resolution study of the Glacial Maximum and Recent human impact on the Hunter.   5360  

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Environmental Sc) 2008 A Palaeoenvironmental History of the Paroo and Warrego Regions, Australia: A Multi-Proxy, Multi-Site Approach

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Pearson Stuart Graham, Honeywood Steven James, O'Toole John Mitchell, ’Not yet learning for sustainability: the challenge of environmental education in a university’, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 14 173-186 (2005) [C1]

Webeck K, Pearson Stuart Graham, ’Stick-nest rat middens and a late-Holocene record of White Range, central Australia’, Holocene, 15 466-471 (2005) [C1]

Gayler Lucyna Maria, Pearson Stuart Graham, ’Preparation of gypsum-rich sediments for determining organic matter content using loss on ignition’, Quaternary Australasia, 21 30-33 (2003) [C1]

Pearson Stuart Graham, Searson M, ’High resolution data from Australian trees’, Australian Journal of Botany, 50 431-439 (2002) [C1]

Pearson Stuart Graham, Betancourt Jl, ’Understanding arid environments using fossil rodent middens’, Journal of Arid Environments, 50 499-511 (2002) [C1]

Pearson Stuart Graham, Searson Matthew John, Gayler Lucyna Maria, ’Preliminary results from tree increment and playa sediment cores from the Paroo, north-western New South Wales, Australia’, QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL, 83-85 145-153 (2001) [C1]

Pearson Stuart Graham, Baynes A, Triggs B E, ’The record of fauna, and accumulating agents of hair and bone, found in middens of stick-nest rats (Genus Leporillus) (Rodendia: Muridae)’, Wildlife Research, 28 435-444 (2001) [C1]

Shimeld Peter William, Hopf Felicitas Viktoria Luise, Pearson Stuart Graham, ’Pollen image management: Using digital images to teach recognition skills and build reference collections’, Cal-Laborate, 5 29-32 (2000) [C1]

Pearson Stuart Graham, ’Late Holocene biological records from the middens of stick-nest rats in the central Australian arid-zone’, Quaternary International, 59 39-46 (1999) [C1]

Pearson Stuart Graham, Lawson E, Head L, McCarthy L, Dodson J, ’The Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Stick-Nest Rat Middens in Australia’, Radiocarbon, 41(3) 295-308 (1999) [C1]

Pearson Stuart Graham, Lawson E, Head L, McCarthy L, Dodson J, ’The spatial and temporal patterns of stick-nest rat middens in Australia’, Radiocarbon, 41 295-308 (1999) [C1]

Chapter in Book

Pearson Stuart Graham, ’Outback’, The World Book Encyclopedia, N-O Volume 14, World Book Inc, Chicago, IL, USA, 879 (2002) [B2]

Pearson Stuart Graham, Searson Matthew John, ’A new technique in dendroecology using Callitris’, Perfumed Pineries: Environmental History of Australia's Callitris forests, Centre for Research & Environmental Studies, Canberra, 39-47 (2001) [B2]

Conference Publication

Pearson Stuart Graham, Webeck Kim Maree, Cockerill Alexander, McCulloch Dale R, ’New uses for old rat faeces, urine and middens’, IV Southern Connections Conference; Southern Temperate Ecosystems & Biota: Contributions towards a Global Synthesis. Towards a southern perspective, Cape Town, South Africa (2004) [E3]

Gayler Lucyna Maria, Pearson Stuart Graham, ’The palaeoenvironments of the Paroo, Australia - a new piece in the southern climate puzzle’, IV Southern Connections Conference; Southern Temperate Ecosystems & Biota: Contributions towards a Global Synthesis. Towards a southern perspective, Cape Town, South Africa (2004) [E3]

Pearson Stuart Graham, Gayler Lucyna Maria, Hartig Kathleen Violet, Timms Brian Victor, ’Ecosystem health in the Paroo: an arid frontier?’, Proceedings of The Airs Waters Places Transdisciplinary Conference on Ecosystem Health in Australia, Newcastle, Australia (2003) [E1]

Pearson Stuart Graham, Cockerill Alexander, Webeck Kim Maree, ’Environmental history from rodent middens in arid Australia’, 23¿ S Archaeology and Environmental History of Southern Deserts, National Museum of Australia, Canberra (2003) [E3]

Pearson Stuart Graham, Shimeld Peter William, Hopf Felicitas Viktoria Luise, Gayler Lucyna Maria, ’I Spy - Image Management and Recognition Training for Biogeographers’, Frontiers of Biogeography, Oasis Resort, Mesquite, NV (2003) [E3]

Gayler Lucyna Maria, Pearson Stuart Graham, ’Paleoenvironments of the Paroo Region, Far North-Western NSW’, Australasian Quaternary Association Biennial Conference 2003, Westport, NZ (2003) [E3]

Pearson Stuart Graham, Gayler Lucyna Maria, Searson Matthew John, ’Tree and Lake Cores from the north-west of NSW’, Quaternary Studies Meeting. Regional analysis of Australian Quaternary Studies: strengths, gaps and future directions, Canberra (1999) [E4]

Pearson Stuart Graham, Betancourt J L, ’Unlocking the ecological past from American and Australian rodent middens’, Handbook of the 1999 meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia, Inc., Fremantle, WA (1999) [E4]

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Key Words

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