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Professor Peter Kershaw

 

 

  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:


Contact

Ph: +61 3 9905 2927
Fx: +61 3 9905 2948
E-mail

Room No: S220
Menzies,
(Building 11)

School of Geography and Environmental Science,
Monash University
Wellington Road Clayton
Victoria