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Emeritus Professor John Chappell Professor of Geomorphology and Quaternary Research Earth Environment Research School of Earth Sciences The Australian National University Canberra 0200 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 612 58113 Fax: +61 2 612 50738 email: john.chappell@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

• Global sea level and climatic changes
• Geomorphology, sedimentology and related processes
• Applications of cosmogenic nuclides, together with luminescence and other methods for measuring erosion, soil production and landscape evolution
• Prehistoric interactions between climate, the biota and humans

Current Research

Professor Chappell's work is widely associated with geophysical, archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research. Recent results from his sea level studies include discovery of sea level fluctuations that are linked to millenial-scale changes of global climate; determination of ice-age temperature changes in the deep oceans from combined sea level and marine isotope data, and studies of the Holocene evolution of coral reefs, coastal lowlands and wetlands. With the collaboration of the dating specialists on these web pages, and with the accelerator mass spectrometry facility in the Research School of Physical Sciences, his research is largely based on field areas ranging from glacial landscapes in Tasmania, through the arid lands of central Australia to the tropics of north Australia and Papua New Guinea. As well as working with colleagues at ANU in dating, physics, archaeology and biological sciences, he has research collaborations with colleagues elsewhere in Australia, China and USA.

Publications

Representative publications last five years