Professor Peter Kershaw

Professor Peter Kershaw

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  Environmental change, particularly the application of pollen and associated fossils to the reconstruction of past vegetation, biomass burning, climate, water quality and human impacts, as a basis for understanding present landscapes and contributing to their future management.

 

Director, Centre for Palynology and Palaeoecology

Offices Currently Held:

• Editor-in-Chief, International Journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Vice-President, International Quaternary Association’s (INQUA) Palaeoclimate Commission (PALCOMM)
• Scientific Steering Committee member, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Past Global Changes (PAGES) project
• Councillor, Royal Society of Victoria
• Environmental Evolution Commission member, International Geographical Union
• Leader, INQUA PALCOM project ‘Land-Ocean Correlation of Long Records from the Southern Hemisphere on Orbital and Sub-orbital timescales’
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Quaternary Science

Current Teaching Units:

• GES1020/ENV1022 Australian Physical Environments: Evolution, Status and Management
• GES2860/ATM2250 Climate Change and Variability
• GES3555 Environmental Change: Past to Future