Peter Kershaw
Research Interests:
Environmental change, particularly the application of palynology and palaeoecology to the reconstruction of past vegetation, biomass burning and climate, the understanding of present landscapes, and future environmental prediction.
Major teaching commitments reflect these research interests.
Current Teaching Units:
- GES2170 Biogeography - Status of Australian Vegetation
- GES3570 Quaternary Environments
- GES3860 Climate Change and Variability
Current Research:
- The Quaternary history of eastern and northern Australia with emphasis on climatic variability, the development of the present vegetation and the influence of Indigenous biomass burning.
- The history of climate, rainforest and peatland forest in the Maritime Continent region of Southeast Asia.
- Environmental change, Aboriginal occupation and conservation in southwestern Victoria.
- INQUA project: PASH2 - Land-Ocean Correlation of Long Quaternary Records from the Southern Hemisphere
Research supported by an ARC Discovery grant, two ARC Linkage grants and a grant from INQUA.
Recent Publications:
- Turney, C.S.M., Kershaw, A.P., Clemens, S., Branch, N., Moss, P.T. and Fifield, L.K. (2004) Millennial and orbital variations in El Niño/Southern Oscillation and high latitude climate in the last glacial period.Nature, 428, 306-310.
- Kershaw, A.P. and Turney, C.S.M. (2004) The day after tomorrow. Australasian Science 25 (7): 29-31.
- Kershaw, A.P., van der Kaars, S. and Moss, P.T. (2003) Late Quaternary Milankovitch-scale climate change and variability and its impact on monsoonal Australia. Marine Geology 201: 81-95.
- Kershaw, A.P., Moss, P.T. and van der Kaars, S. (2003) Causes and consequences of long-term climatic variability on the Australian continent. Freshwater Biology 48: 1274-1283.
- Tibby, J., Reid, M.A., Fluin, J., Hart, B.T. and Kershaw, A.P. (2003) Assessing long-term pH change in an Australian river catchment using monitoring and palaeolimnological data. Environmental Science and Technology 37: 3250-3255.
- Kershaw, A.P., David, B., Tapper, N.J., Penny, D. and Brown, J.(Eds.) (2002)Bridging Wallaces Line: The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Southeast Asian Australian Region. Catena Verlag., Reiskirchen, Germany, 360 pp.
- Kershaw, A.P., van der Kaars, S., Moss, P.T. and Wang, X. (2002) Palynological evidence for environmental change in the Indonesian-northern Australian region over the last 140,000 to 300,000 years. In Kershaw, A.P., David, B., Tapper, N.J., Penny, D. and Brown, J. (eds.) Bridging Wallaces Line: The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Southeast Asian Australian Region. Catena Verlag., Reiskirchen, Germany, pp. 97-118.
- David, B., Kershaw, A.P. and Tapper, N. (2002) Bridging Wallaces Line: Bringing home the Antipodes. In Kershaw, A.P., David, B., Tapper, N.J., Penny, D. and Brown, J. (eds.) Bridging Wallaces Line: The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Southeast Asian Australian Region. Catena Verlag., Reiskirchen, Germany, pp. 1-4.
- Kershaw, A.P., Clark, J.S. and Gill, A.M. (2002) A history of fire in Australia. In Bradstock, R., Williams, J. and Gill, A.M. (eds.) Flammable Australia: the Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent. Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-25.=
- Clark, J.S., Gill, A.M. and Kershaw, A.P. (2002) Spatial variability in fire regimes: its effects on recent and past vegetation. In Bradstock, R., Williams, J. and Gill, A.M. (eds.) Flammable Australia: the Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent. Cambridge University Press, pp. 125-141.
- Harle, K.J., Heijnis, H., Chisari, R., Kershaw, A.P., Zoppi, U. and Jacobsen, G. (2002) A chronology for the long pollen record from Lake Wangoom, western Victoria (Australia) as derived from uranium/thorium disequilibrium dating.Journal of Quaternary Science 17, 707-720.
- Reid, M.A., Fluin, J., Ogden, R.W., Tibby, J. and Kershaw, A.P. (2002) Long-term perspectives on human impacts on floodplain-river ecosystems, Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Proceedings of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology , 28: 710-716,
- Dam, R., van der Kaars, S. and Kershaw, A.P.(Eds.) (2001) Quaternary Environmental Change in the Indonesian Region. Special issue,Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 171, 428 pp.
- Kershaw, A.P. and Wagstaff, B.E. (2001) The southern conifer family Araucariaceae: history, status, and value for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 32: 397-414.
- Anshari, G., Kershaw, A.P. and van der Kaars, S. (2001) A Late Pleistocene and Holocene pollen and charcoal record from peat swamp forest, Lake Sentarum Wildlife Reserve, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 171: 213-228.
- Wagstaff, B.E., Kershaw, A.P, OSullivan, P.B., Harle, K.J. and Edwards, J.(2001) An Early to Middle Pleistocene palynological record from the volcanic crater of Pejark Marsh, Western Plains of Victoria, southeastern AustraliaQuaternary International, 83-85: 211-232.
- Kershaw, A.P. (2001) The history, palaeoclimatic significance and present day status of the southern conifer families Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae, with special reference to Australia. Geociencias 6: 5-21.
- Turney, C.S.M., Bird, M.I., Fifield, L.K., Kershaw, A.P., Cresswell, R.G., Santos, G.M., di Tada, M.L., Hausladen, P.A. & Youping, Z. (2001) Development of a robust 14C chronology for Lynch's Crater (North Queensland, Australia) using different pretreatment strategies.Radiocarbon, 43: 45-54.
- Turney, C.S.M., Kershaw, A.P., Moss, P., Bird, M.I., Fifield, L.K., Cresswell, R.G., Santos, G.M., di Tada, M.L., Hausladen, P.A. & Youping, Z. (2001) Redating the onset of burning at Lynchs Crater (North Queensland): implications for human settlement in Australia. Journal of Quaternary Science, 16: 767-771.
- Kershaw, A.P., Penny, D., van der Kaars, S., Anshari, G. and Thamotherampillai, A. (2001) Evidence for vegetation and climate in lowland southeast Asia at the Last Glacial Maximum. In Melcalfe, I., Smith, J.M.B., Morwood, M. and Davidson, I. (Eds.) Floral and Faunal Migrations and Evolution in Southeast Asia-Australasia. A.A. Balkema, Lisse, 227-236.
Address
- Room No: S220, Menzies Building
- Telephone Number: +61-3-9905 2927
- fax Number: +61-3-9905 2948
- Peter.Kershaw@arts.monash.edu.au