Dodson, John

Name: Professor John Dodson Position: Head of Institute Phone: +61 2 9717 9216 Email: john.dodson@ansto.gov.au

Role at ANSTO: John is the Head of the Institute for Environmental Research at ANSTO. John previously worked overseas in the UK for Brunel University as Professor and Head, Institute for Environment.

Expertise:Palynology, charcoal analysis, radiocarbon, stable isotopes and biomarkers, as applied to climate change, and human impact on environmental systems, particularly vegetation systems

Career Highlights & Achievements:

• Have been Head of University Departments in Sydney (UNSW), Perth (UWA) and London (Brunel)
• Research projects in Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Micronesia, China and UK
• Have served on National Committees for Australian Academy of Science, International Geosphere Biosphere Program (PAST Global Changes) and currently Chair of the International Year of Planet Earth for Society (Climate Change Group) for UNESCO
• Serve on Editorial Boards of Quaternary Research, The Holocene, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
• Publication of more than 100 refereed research articles in international journals and several books
• Ph.D. in Vegetation History, Australian National University

Key Publications:

Dodson, J.R. and Lu, H.Y. (2005). Salinity episodes and their reversal in the late Pliocene of south-western Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology 228: 296-304.

Dodson, J. R., Hickson, S., Khoo, R., Li, X.Q., Toia, J., and Zhou, W.J. (2006). A vegetation and environment history for the last 14,000 years from Dingnan, Jiangxi Province, south China.Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 48:1018-1027.