Impacts of fire and prospects for recovery in a tropical peat forest ecosystem | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Vastly bigger than the Black Summer: 84 million hectares of northern Australia burned in 2023 theconversation.com/vastly-bigger-…

For those who missed the recent SYNAPSE seminar, you can now enjoy it here: youtu.be/mTDxoZkHyYU?si…

What did it used to look like? A case study from tall, wet mainland Mountain Ash forests prior to British invasion - Lindenmayer - 2024 - Austral Ecology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ae…

Gone in a puff of smoke: 52,000 sq km of ‘long unburnt’ Australian habitat has vanished in 40 years theconversation.com/gone-in-a-puff…

Shifting fire regimes cause continent-wide transformation of threatened species habitat | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Researchers at Girraween Lagoon reveal groundbreaking evidence of humans' firestick farming, dating back over 11,000 years! 🔥⌛

A testament to Indigenous wisdom, fostering biodiversity and shaping ecosystems. 💚

Dive in here: eos.org/articles/the-c… 👀

Diving through time aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Immune-mediated disease caused by climate change-associated environmental hazards: mitigation and adaptation

Anthropogenically driven increases in pollen, wildfires, sand and dust storms, thunderstorms, and heatwaves are worsening human health.

frontiersin.org/journals/scien…

Full article: Basil Eric Balme (1923–2023): doyen of Australian palynology tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🍯The discovery of Australia's oldest pottery rewrites the understanding of Aboriginal maritime history, say CABAH James Cook Uni and Monash University

scimex.org/newsfeed/disco…

Anthropocene is much more that a geological epoch
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Anthropocene, Pyrocene, and the Ravencene: fire use and abuse and the risks of environmental upheaval communities.springernature.com/posts/anthropo…

Honored to have played a very small role in research for this ABC Indigenous Compass doco

It tells the story of Aboriginal voyaging to Indonesia (Makassar) in the 1870s and perhaps earlier ...

By Erin Parke featuring Lynette Russell AM of Global Encounters Monash

Bit of info on the fire, and recovery after the fires for those who are interested.

themountainjournal.com/2016/01/22/tas…

themountainjournal.com/2023/07/24/pos…

Finally got to check out the area near Lake Mackenzie (lutruwita/TAS) impacted by the 2016 fires.

tbh the damage to the Pencil Pine forests was not as extensive as I had feared.

But still grim to see loss of these amazing Gondwana era trees. Recovery is so slow, any loss is bad

Duke University's Decision to Close Its Century-old Herbarium, a Renowned Plant Collection and Training Ground, Has Sparked Outcry Among Many - The Artistree theartistree.fm/journal/296312…

1/5 Out today in HESS Journal: new paper summarising Australian multi-year droughts in model simulations of the last millennium.

tl;dr natural variability in Australian rainfall could bring 20+ year droughts.

Read here: hess.copernicus.org/articles/28/13…

And the paper itself here: hess.copernicus.org/articles/28/13…

As well as the Research at ANU media release: reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/au…