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Peter Kershaw

Prof. Peter Kershaw
Centre for Palynology & Palaeoecology
School of Geography & Environmental Science
Monash University
Melbourne, VIC 3800
Australia
Phone: +61 (0)3 9905 2910
Phone2: +61 (0)3 9905 2927
Fax: +61 (0)3 9905 2948
E-mail: peter.kershaw@arts.monash.edu.au
URL: www.arts.monash.edu.au/ges/research/Cpp/
Vitae: link


Programs in which Peter Kershaw holds an official function:

PAGES

scientific steering committee

2004 -

Additional functions:
- Head of School
- Secretary, International Quaternary Association (INQUA) Palaeoclimate Commission


Key Publications of Peter Kershaw (up to five) :
Kershaw, P., van der Kaars, S., Moss, P., Opdyke, B., Guichard, F., Rule, S., Turney, C., 2006. Environmental change and the arrival of people in the Australian region. Before Farming [Online] http://www.waspress.co.uk/journals/beforefarming//journal_20061/, 2006/1 article 2.

Kershaw, A.P., van der Kaars, S., Flenley, J.R. (2006) The Quaternary history of far eastern rainforests. In: Bush, M.B., Flenley, J.F. (Eds.) Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climate Change. Springer-Praxis, Berlin, pp. 77-115.

Turney, C.S.M., Kershaw, A.P., Clemens, S., Branch, N., Moss, P.T. and Fifield, L.K. (2004) Millennial and orbital variations in El Niño/Southern Oscillation and high latitude climate in the last glacial period. Nature, 428: 306-310.

Kershaw, A.P., van der Kaars, S. and Moss, P.T. (2003) Late Quaternary Milankovitch-scale climate change and variability and its impact on monsoonal Australia. Marine Geology, 201: 81-95.

Kershaw, A.P., David, B., Tapper, N.J., Penny, D. and Brown, J.(Eds.) (2002) Bridging Wallace’s Line: The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Southeast Asian – Australian Region. Catena Verlag., Reiskirchen, Germany, 360 pp.


Expertise of Peter Kershaw:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
PAGES Topics	Climate Dynamics
	Human Impacts
PAGES Timescales	Pleistocene (glacial-interglacial cycles)
	Holocene (10,000 years)
PAGES Location	Southern Hemisphere
PAGES Parameters	Ecosystems
PAGES Archives	Ocean Sediments
	Lake Sediments
PAGES Proxies	Pollen

Additional Specialties:
The Quaternary history of vegetation, climate and biomass burning in the Australasian-Southeast Asian region

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