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ACAD wins Eureka Prizes for Aboriginal Heritage Project!

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Media Release: Eureka Prize win for Aboriginal Heritage Project

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Goyder Water Research Institute Media Release: Coastal Carbon Ecosystems

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Podcast: Dr Liz Reed's Sold Out Sprigg Talk

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Repost: "Dieback to domination: what have we learned in 45 years about the ecology of common reed?"

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Science in the Pub: Epigenetics

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Science in the Pub: Sustainability of Natural Resources

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3D Scanning of the Naracoorte Caves

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Prof Andy Austin is interviewed by Amanda Vanstone on ABC RN's Counterpoint

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Seminar: Past climate variability in south-eastern Australia: progress and potential from sediment archives

鈥淩ecords of past climate which span decades through millennia are crucial for establishing baseline听climate variability to place modern and future change in context. Such records provide new insights听into the drivers of long term regional climate change and help constrain the probability of climate听extremes. Our understanding of long term climate variability stems from a range of natural archives, including tree rings, cave stalagmites and lake sediments. Each of those natural archives carries听inherent idiosyncrasies and uncertainties which limit the direct interpretation of climate parameters such as temperature and rainfall. Furthermore, despite decades of research, high quality archives of Australian past climate variability are scarce, with a pressing need for new records with improved dating and temporal resolution. Here I will discuss recent attempts to address these challenges through a series of case studies, including new records from lake and wetland sediments, regional syntheses of past climate data, novel approaches to the numerical analysis of such data and contemporary process studies aimed at modelling and calibrating past climate proxies.鈥

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