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Dr Russell Drysdale

Dr Russell N. Drysdale
Position: Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Science and Information Technology
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Contact Details: Staff Directory entry
Qualifications:
  • BA Hons (UNE)
  • PhD (UNSW) (1995)
Research Areas: My research focuses on global environmental change, particularly the use of natural archives to reconstruct past climates. Most of my work involves extracting palaeoclimate records from speleothems and tufa deposits, and understanding the ways in which climate information is recorded within these archives. I am currently involved in speleothem and tufa research projects in Australia (Barkly, Wickham River, Wombeyan, Jenolan, Cliefden, Nullarbor and Christmas Island karsts), Indonesia (Flores) and Italy (Alpi Apuane karst). This research explores both long-term (Milankovitch, millennial) and short-term (annual to centennial) palaeoclimate change, and involves several PhD and postdoctoral (link to Dr Janece McDonald) researchers. This research involves colleagues from the University of Melbourne (Drs John Hellstrom, Jon Woodhead and Roland Maas), the University of Pisa (Giovanni Zanchetta), the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) (Dr Ed Hodge), The Australian National University (Drs Steve Eggins and Mike Gagan), The University of Queensland (Dr Jian-xin Zhao) and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (Professor Tony Fallick).
Research Groups:
Research Grants:
  • Australian Institute of Nuclear Science & Engineering Project Grants (5) $37K
  • Australian Institute of Nuclear Science & Engineering Postgraduate Scholarship Awards (2) $78K
  • University of Newcastle RMC/RGC/RIBG (11) $133K
  • Macquarie University Research Grant (with Dr Taylor) (1) $4K
  • National Nature Science Foundation of China (with Prof. Liu) (1) $8K
  • ARC-LP 2002-2004 (with Dr Geary) ARC-LP 2005-2008 (with Drs Franks et al. incl. ANU, UMelb) $319K
  • ARC-DP 2006-2008 (with Drs Gagan (ANU) and Zhao (Qld)) ARC-DP 2007-2009 (with Drs Hellstrom and Maas (UMelb)) $777K
  • ARC-LIEF (with Goodwin, Franks, Woodhead (UMelb) and Zhao (UQ)) $100K and $111K
  • 2005-06 Hermon Slade Foundation: ENSO history in NSW (1) $54K
  • 2005 Faculty MCR: Geochemistry of speleothems (1) $21K
  • 2000-2005 Federazione Speleologica Toscana (with Zanchetta) (6) $73K
  • 2005 Royal Society of Edinburgh Travelling Fellowship (RSE International Exchange Programme) to visit Fallick and Bishop $4K
  • TOTAL (AU$) $1.739M
Honours, Distinctions, Societies:
  • Wiley Award (1998) British Geomorphological Research Group
Teaching Interests:
Supervision of Students:
  • Michael Griffiths - PhD (Physical Geography)
    Monsoon extremes, environmental shifts and catastrophic volcanic eruptions: quantifying impacts on the ealry human history of southern Australasia
  • Steven Lucas - PhD (Physical Geography)
    The Sustainability Of Effluent Irrigated Plantations: The Accumulation/Leaching Rates Of Na+ In An Effluent Irrigated Plantation
  • Dale Redwood - PhD (Physical Geography)
    1000 Year Rainfall History from Christmas Island Stalagmites
  • Anna Sim - PhD (Environmental Science)
    Reconstruction of extreme climate events in the Sydney Basin
Professional Positions:  

Publications: Link to: Publications List
Link to: Researcher Report
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