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Dr Robert Haworth sedimentology, geomorphology, environmental history
Associate Professor Robert Baker fixed inter-tidal biological indicators, Holocene near-shore environments
Dr Peter Grave geochronology, geochemistry, Asian Holocene archaeology
Associate Professor Wendy Beck Aboriginal midden archaeology
Dr Raj Rajaratnam wild life ecology and climate change
Dr Robin Bartel environmental management and policy
Associate Professor Steve Smith,
(UNE Coffs Harbour)		 marine biology, marine midden species
Professor Peter Flood holocene marine environment, coral stratigraphy

 

HDR students associated with the Centre
Leo Dutra marine biology and reef management (Centre for Water Policy Research)
Shelley Wright Coastal geomorphology, North Queensland
Ros James (SHES—PhD) palynology, geoarchaeology
Deborah Vale (SHES—PhD) archaeology of coastal shell middens
Brian Tolagson (Phd) Sedimentology, estuarine geomorphology

 

image of Profoessor Peter Flood
Professor Peter Flood 


 Pro Vice Chancellor of Research at UNE, and the first worker to find and date tube worm remnants at Valla Beach Cave, NSW, described in his 1989 paper. This was the first major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy that sea levels had been stable for the last 6000 years, rather than falling through many minor fluctuations, as our work and that of many others have now demonstrated. Visit Peter's web-page

 

Convenor, Marine Science and Management
Coordinator, Postgraduate Program in Marine Science and Management
School of Environmental Science & Natural Resources Management
University of New England

Based at:
The National Marine Science Centre
Bay Drive
Coffs Harbour, NSW 2450, Australia

 

The purpose of my research is to test whether evidence for mid to late Holocene sea level oscillations, in the form of Fixed Biological Indicators (FBIs), exists on the central Queensland coast similar to that found in southern Australia.

Present dates for Holocene sea level change in Queensland are based mainly on depositional features and the dating of coral and beachrock. The error range from coral and mangrove sediments is greater than that of the more tightly constrained intertidal species that may be found in relic shellcrust.

I plan to survey granite sites on the central Queensland coast to locate and date relic shellcrust. The main marker species of the tropical intertidal zone is expected to be the oyster Saccostrea cucullata. The survey will commence from known (Larcombe & Carter 1998) sites at Magnetic Island.