GPEM Seminar: Bugheads and Watersheds and Sediment-covered Lakebeds

Event Details

Date:

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Time:

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Room:

320

UQ Location:

Steele Building (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=191841&pid=114393

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Lakes can be seen as the “silent sentinels” of the landscape, quietly recording everything that happens in their surroundings. The task of piecing together the events that have happened in or around a lake in the past can be likened to the ultimate “cold case” - a criminal case where the evidence is examined many years after the fact.

In this seminar it is Australia’s first European settlers that are on trial. Did settlers illegally leave the “limits of location” around Sydney as early as 1800 AD and cause wide-spread environmental damage? The interpretation of new evidence provides surprising results that have implications for our understanding of climate change in Australia, and the effects of deforestation on lakes and wetlands around the world.

Bio:
Craig is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management at UQ. He is currently part of a multidisciplinary team working on an Australian Research Council funded multi-year project that is examining the response of Australia’s climate system to global change during the last “ice age” 21,000 years ago.