Sub sections:
Dr Robert Haworth
Senior Lecturer, School of Human and Environmental Studies
Contact
| Email: | rhaworth@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E4 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2006 (or +61 2 6773 2006 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3030 |
Bob was educated at Sydney High. He worked in various branches of the media and advertising in Australia and the UK before completing an external degree at UNE in 1988, majoring in Physical Geography.
He gained a 1st class Honours degree in Geography at UNE in 1989 and followed this with a PhD thesis on Sedimentation in upland lake systems in northern NSW in 1994.
Research interests
His research and consulting interests include: Bed rock source streams and their suitability for hydro electric power generation; lake lunette systems in humid upland Australia and their relationship to groundwater systems and regolith formation, and associated peat and hydro-carbon formation; analysis of sediment from depositional sinks on Tablelands; coast and inland in order to reconstruct past environmental and climatic conditions and determine long term rates of denudation; sea level changes in the last 500 years; sustainable resource management and integrated catchment management.
Synopsis of past and current research and consultancy projects
1. Late Holocene sea level fluctuations and their correspondence with climatic changes as determined by inter-tidal species shifts and Oxygen-18 analysis of shells in different latitudes.
2 Changes in mangrove distribution in estuarine environments and their relationship with changes in sedimentation, hydrology, and short-term sea level change.
3 Analysis of sediment from depositional sinks in order to reconstruct past environmental and climatic conditions and determine long term rates of denudation.
4 A comparison of lake-lunette systems in humid upland Australia with the semi-arid inland and its relationship to groundwater systems and regolith formation in different topographic locations.
5 Origins of "basalt" lagoons on the Great Divides of passive continental margins
6 The effects of agricultural and industrial chemicals, as well as pre-European burning practices, on the nutrient and heavy metal load of river systems and their catchments.
7 Discrepancies in isotopic dating of sediments (Lead-210/Radium-226) and the usefulness of Radium-226 as a sediment tracer.
8 Initiation and development of Australian rural settlement patterns, particularly closer settlement, and their effect on land degradation.
9 Bed rock source streams and their suitability for hydro-electric power generation..
10 Long term drainage evolution in Australia.
Publications
Haworth, B., 1989, Rates of denudation: a comparison of pre- and post-settlement rates of soil erosion and deposition in a closed catchment, B.A. (Hons 1) , UNE,
Haworth, B., 1994, European impact on lake sedimentation in upland eastern Australia: case studies from the New England tablelands of New South Wales, PHD, UNE,
Haworth R.J., Ollier C.D., 1992, Continental rifting and drainage reversal: the Clarence River of eastern Australia, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms , Vol. 17, pp. 387-397,
Haworth R.J., Ollier C.D., 1994, Geomorphology of the Clarence-Moreton Basin, In (eds) Wells A.T. and O'Brien P.E., Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Clarence-Moreton Basin, New South Wales and Queensland, Bulletin, Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Canberra, Vol. 241, pp. 291-302,
Gale S.J., Haworth R.J., Pisanu P.C., 1995, The Lead-210 chronology of late Holocene deposition in an east Australian lake basin, Quaternary Science Reviews, Quaternary Geochronology, Vol. 14, pp. 395-408,
Haworth R.J., 1995, Bush tracks and bush blocks: the aerial photographic record of southwest Sydney, 1930-1950, People and Physical Environment Research, Vol. 48,
Haworth R.J., 1996, Fine sentiments vs. brute actions: the landcare ethic and land clearing in contemporary Australia, Rural Society, Vol. 6, pp. 18-23,
Haworth R.J., 1996, European impact on lake sedimentation in upland eastern Australia: case studies from the New England Tableland, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales , Vol. 129, pp. 3-4,
Baker R.G.V., Haworth R.J., 1997, Further evidence from relic shellcrust sequences for a late Holocene higher sea level for eastern Australia, Marine Geology, Vol. 141, pp. 1-9,
Brown M , Haworth R.J., 1997, Culturally embedded sustainability practices among the Walpiri: conservation and commerce in the Tanami Desert , Rural Society, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 3-17,
Haworth R.J., Gale S.J., Short S., Heinjes H., 1999, Land use and lake sedimentation on the New England Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, Australian Geographer, Vol. 30, pp. 51-74,
Baker R.G.V., Haworth R.J., 1999, Evidence for the nature of late Holocene sea-level fall on the New South Wales coast from fixed biological indicators: was the fall smooth or fluctuating?, Geodiversity Proceedings of the IAG Conference 1998, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, pp. 1-9,
Baker R.G.V., Haworth R.J., 2000, Smooth or oscillating late Holocene sea levels in southeast Australia: an application of the fixed biological indicator method, Marine Geology, Vol. 163, pp. 367-386,
Haworth R.J., MacDonald K., , In submission, Evidence of extensive pre-European erosion disturbance and infilled relic channels in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australian Geographer.,
Baker R.G.V., Haworth R.J., Flood P.J., 2001, Inter-tidal fixed biological indicators in Australia: a multi-dimensional measure of coastal characteristics for the mid to late Holocene, , Quaternary International,
Baker R.G.V., Haworth R.J., Flood P.J., 2001, Warmer or cooler late Holocene marine palaeoenvironments? Interpreting south-east Australian and Brazilian sea-level changes using variations in fixed biological indicators and their 18O composition, Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, Vol. 168, pp. 249-272,
Haworth R.J., 1996, Comments on the geomorphic input of the Expert Panel Environmental Flow Assessment of the Snowy River below Jindabyne Dam, In Pigram J.J.J. and Burton J.R. (eds) Review of the Expert Panel Process as a Mechanism for Determining Environmental Releases, Centre for Water Policy Research, Armidale, pp. 2-14,
Haworth R.J., 1998, The landcare ethic and land clearing, In (eds) S. Lockie and F. Vanclay Critical Landcare. Key Papers Series No 5, Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga.,
Haworth R.J., 1998, Reconstructing the History of Environmental Change from Multiple Lines of Evidence from Lake Sediments in Eastern Australia., Proceedings, Linking the Past with the Future Conference., SHES, UNE, Armidale.,
Haworth R.J., 1997, Geomorphology of Land Units at the Bayswater Two Mining Lease, Hunter Valley, New South Wales., In (ed.) K. MacDonald The Bayswater Archaeological Research Project,, Division of Archaeology, UNE, Armidale.,
Haworth R. J., 1999, Report on the land units of the proposed Rothbury Country Estate, near Cessnock, New South Wales., , Burromoko Archaeological Service, Katoomba.,
Haworth R.J., 1999, An Inventory of Wetlands in the New England Region and an Assessment of their Environmental Health, Past History and Present Status: State of the Environment Report for Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, ,
Haworth R.J., 1999, Geomorphic Response to the Proposal to Utilise Surplus Water from the Northern Rivers of New South Wales to Supplement the Border River System and the Murray-Darling Basin., Report to Macquarie Bank/Thiess Construction Consortium. ,