Kale Sniderman

Dr. Kale Sniderman Lecturer

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  My research focuses on the analysis of fossils, particularly pollen, to investigate past environmental changes in Australasia at a range of timescales. I examine palaeo-environments because they help us understand the evolution of modern climates and vegetation, and because they provide a guide to the nature and rates of biological responses that can be expected in the face of future climate changes.

 

TEACHING

• GES2170 Biogeography: Status of the Australian Biota
• ENV414F/514F Ecological Systems and Management
• GES1020 Australian Physical Environments: Evolution, Status and Management
• GES2860 Climate Change and Variability
  

   

  REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
  

  • Sniderman, J.M.K., Porch, N. and Kershaw, A.P. (in review). Quantitative reconstruction of Early Pleistocene climate in southeastern Australia and implications for atmospheric circulation. Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Denham, T., Sniderman, K., Saunders, K.M., Winsborough, B. and Pierret, A. (in press). Contiguous multi-proxy analyses (X-radiography, diatom, pollen and microcharcoal) of Holocene archaeological features at Kuk Swamp, Upper Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea. Geoarchaeology
  • Sniderman, J.M.K. 2009. Biased reptilian palaeothermometer? Nature doi:10.1038/nature08222
  • Sniderman, J.M.K., Finn, J. and Denham, T.P. 2009. A late-Holocene palaeoecological record from Ambra Crater in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and implications for agricultural history. Holocene 19:449-458.
  • Jordan, G.J., Bromfield, K.E., Sniderman, J.M.K. and Crayn, D. 2007. Diverse fossil epacrids (Styphelioideae; Ericaceae) from Early Pleistocene sediments at Stony Creek Basin, Victoria, Australia. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168:1358-1376.
  • Sniderman, J.M.K., Pillans, B., O’Sullivan, P.B. and Kershaw, A.P. 2007. Climate and vegetation in southeastern Australia respond to Southern Hemisphere insolation forcing in the late Pliocene-early Pleistocene. Geology 35:41-44.
  • Sniderman, J.M.K., O'Sullivan, P.B., Hollis, J.D. and Kershaw, A.P. 2004. Late Pliocene vegetation and climate change at Stony Creek Basin, western uplands of Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 116:77-92.

   

  Manuscripts in preparation:

  • Sniderman, J.M.K. Early Pleistocene vegetation change in upland southeastern Australia.
  • Byrne, M. et al. Biogeography of Australia’s Mesic Zone.
  • Sniderman, J.M.K. Vegetation and fire dynamics in southeastern Australian during the Early Pleistocene.
  • Sniderman, J.M.K. and Gell, P.A. Early Pleistocene laminated sediment from Stony Creek Basin, upland southeastern Australia: microfabric study of mixed-domain laminae.