Faculty of Science and Information Technology

Dr Ian Goodwin

• B Surv (UNSW)
• MAppSc (UNSW)
• PhD (Tas)

Ian Goodwin is an Earth Scientist with specialisations in climatology, palaeoclimatology and coastal geoscience. Areas of expertise are:

• Ice core and coral palaeoclimatology
• Climate variability in the Australasian, Antarctic and South-West Pacific region
• Antarctica and global change
• Antarctic glaciology and Quaternary glacial geology
• Holocene coastal evolution and sea-level studies
• Large scale coastal behaviour, longshore sediment transport processes, sea-level rise, wave climate and coastal stability.
• Impacts of climate change and sea-level change on coastal, estuarine and coral reef systems
• Coastal management and protection.
• Mitigation and adaptation strategies to climate change
• Climate change and Australian water resources
• Environmental impact assessment
• International project management

• Earth and Ocean Science Research Group
• Environmental and Climate Change Research Group

• Australian Antarctic Science (AAS) Grant: East Antarctic and Circum-Antarctic climate history from ITASE ice coring in Eastern Wilkes Land, 2003-2004.
• Australian Research Council Grant (ARC), Longshore sediment supply to the deep ocean, 2004-2007.
• AINSE grant for Coastline re-alignment and climate change on the mid-north coast of NSW during the Late Holocene, 2004.
• Climate change and environmental response in northern NSW over the last 1000 years, University of Newcastle, RGC grant 2003-2004.
• AINSE grant Late Holocene sea-level and climate history of the Southern Cook Islands from coral microatolls, 2003.
• Fluorescence spectrophotometer and fibre-optic probe for speleothem and coral palaeoclimate research, Uni of Newcastle – RIB Grant.
• The development of a recurrence index for coastal erosion cycles over the last 500 years along the northern NSW coast . University of Newcastle RMC grant 2002.
• Multidecadal climate-induced sea-level change from coral microatoll growth patterns in the south-west Pacific Ocean. University of Newcastle RMC grant 2001.
• Sea-level fluctuations over the last 2,000 years in the Samoan Islands, Southwest Pacific Ocean, University of Newcastle New Staff Grant, 2000.
• AINSE grants for Late Holocene coastal evolution of Belongil Spit, NSW, 2001.
• AINSE grants for Late Holocene coastal evolution of Woody Bay and Iluka, NSW, 2001-2.
• AINSE grants for Late Holocene coastal evolution of Hungry Hill dunefield, NSW, 2001.
• Late Quaternary Glacial History and Palaeoenvironments of Prydz Bay, East Antarctica, Antarctic Scientific Advisory Committee (ASAC) Grant 2000-2001.
• ITASE reconnaissance firn core drilling in coastal George V Land, East Antarctica, Antarctic Scientific Advisory Committee (ASAC) Grant 2000-2001.

• Antarctic CRC, University of Tasmania, Postgraduate Scholarship 1994-95

Teaching in 2005:

• GEOS2070 Hydroclimatology and Soils
• GEOS3220 Coastal Dynamics, Evolution and Protection
• GEOS3200 Global Change

• 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