Cohen, Tim J.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2011	Continental aridification and the vanishing of Australia's megalakes Published in Geology (Boulder)
2012	A pluvial episode identified in arid Australia during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly Published in Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2015	Hydrological transformation coincided with megafaunal extinction in central Australia Published in Geology (Boulder)
2012	Late Quaternary mega-lakes fed by the northern and southern river systems of central Australia: Varying moisture sources and increased continental aridity
2013	Lowland river responses to intraplate tectonism and climate forcing quantified with luminescence and cosmogenic 10Be Published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Research Areas

Research Overview

Quaternary Science

Geomorphology

Geochronology

Hydrology

Geographic Focus

Australasia Transnational Region

Available for Collaborative Projects

Head Of

GeoQuest Co-Director 2016 -

Member Of

Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group Member 2001 -
Australain and New Zealand Quaternary Association Vice President 2016 - 2018

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Determining Bathymetry of Shallow and Ephemeral Desert Lakes Using Satellite Imagery and Altimetry Published In Geophysical Research Letters
2020	Establishing standardised growth curves (SGCs) for OSL signals from individual grains of quartz: A continental-scale case study Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2020	Palaeochannels of Australia's Riverine Plain - Reconstructing past vegetation environments across the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Published In Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
2019	Single-grain OSL dating of fluvial terraces in the upper Hunter catchment, southeastern Australia Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2018	Climatically-Controlled River Terraces in Eastern Australia Published In Quaternary
2018	Identifying extreme pluvials in the last millennia using optical dating of single grains of quartz from shorelines on Australia's largest lake Published In The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change
2018	OCTOPUS: An open cosmogenic isotope and luminescence database Published In Earth System Science Data
2018	Revisiting an arid LGM using fluvial archives: a luminescence chronology for palaeochannels of the Murrumbidgee River, south-eastern Australia Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2018	Testing the applicability of a partial bleach method for post-IR IRSL dating of Holocene-aged K-feldspar samples Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2018	Tracking geomorphic recovery in process-based river management Published In Land Degradation and Development
2017	Extending the record of lacustrine phases beyond the last interglacial for Lake Eyre in central Australia using luminescence dating Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2017	Hydroclimate of the Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation in southern Australia’s arid margin interpreted from speleothem records (23–15 ka) Published In Climate of the Past
2017	Late Quaternary channel and floodplain formation in a partly confined subtropical river, eastern Australia Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2017	Variations in luminescence properties of quartz and feldspar from modern fluvial sediments in three rivers Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2016	Sediment mixing in aeolian sandsheets identified and quantified using single-grain optically stimulated luminescence Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2015	A soil chronosequence on Lake Mega-Frome beach ridges and its implications for late Quaternary pedogenesis and paleoenvironmental conditions in the drylands of southern Australia Published In Quaternary Research
2015	All mixed up: using single-grain equivalent dose distributions to identify phases of pedogenic mixing on a dryland alluvial fan Published In Quaternary International
2015	Drying inland seas probably helped kill Australia’s megafauna Published In The Conversation
2015	Hitting rock bottom: morphological responses of bedrock-confined streams to a catastrophic flood Published In Earth Surface Dynamics
2015	Hydrological transformation coincided with megafaunal extinction in central Australia Published In Geology (Boulder)
2015	Late Quaternary evolution of a playa margin at Lake Frome, South Australia Published In Journal of Arid Environments
2015	Modern depositional processes in a confined, flood-prone setting: benches on the Shoalhaven River, NSW, Australia Published In Geomorphology
2014	A reconstruction of extratropical Indo-Pacific sea-level pressure patterns during the Medieval Climate Anomaly Published In Climate Dynamics
2014	Headwater peatland channels in south-eastern Australia; the attainment of equilibrium Published In Geomorphology
2014	Hydrospatial assessment of streamflow yields and effects of climate change: Snowy Mountains, Australia Published In Journal of Hydrology
2014	Late-Holocene climatic variability indicated by three natural archives in arid southern Australia Published In The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change
2013	Climate variability over the last 35,000 years recorded in marine and terrestrial archives in the Australian region: an OZ-INTIMATE compilation Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2013	Climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate Australia – a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2013	Determining the impact of the Holocene highstand at the coastal-fluvial interface, Shoalhaven River, south-eastern Australia Published In Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
2013	Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in the Australian drylands Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2013	Lowland river responses to intraplate tectonism and climate forcing quantified with luminescence and cosmogenic 10Be Published In Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2013	Sediment residence times constrained by uranium-series isotopes: a critical appraisal of the comminution approach Published In Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
2013	Ten trenches: a scienceart collaboration Published In Leonardo: Art Science and Technology
2012	A pluvial episode identified in arid Australia during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2012	Alluvium of antiquity: Polycyclic terraces in a confined bedrock valley Published In Geomorphology
2012	An improved bathymetric model for the modern and palaeo Lake Eyre Published In Geomorphology
2012	Late Quaternary mega-lakes fed by the northern and southern river systems of central Australia: Varying moisture sources and increased continental aridity
2011	Continental aridification and the vanishing of Australia's megalakes Published In Geology (Boulder)
2011	Intimate meetings at INQUA Published In Quaternary Australasia
2010	Late Quaternary aeolian and fluvial interactions on the Cooper Creek Fan and the association between linear and source-bordering dunes, Strzelecki Desert, Australia Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2008	Alluvial evidence for major climate and flow regime changes during the middle and late Quaternary for eastern central Australia Published In Geomorphology
2008	Topographically associated but chronologically disjunct late Quaternary floodplains and terraces in a partly confined valley, south-eastern Australia Published In Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
2007	Mind the gap: an absence of valley-fill deposits identifying the Holocene hypsithermal period of enhanced flow regime in southeastern Australia Published In The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2014	The Shifting Sands of Stockyard Creek: the geomorphic response to large wood reintroduction in a sand-bed stream Published In Proceedings of the 7th Australian Stream Management Conference
2013	A methodology for the rapid assessment of the potential impact and hazard of coal seam gas mining on aquifers and the environment Published In Conference Program: 2013 BBENS: Bangkok International Conference on Biological Engineering & Natural Science
2011	Where was my coastline? Determining the impact of the Holocene highstand on the coastal-fluvial interface, Shoalhaven River, southesastern Australia Published In Second Joint IGCP 588 'Preparing for Coastal Change' and INQUA 1001: 'Quaternary Coastal Change and Records of Extreme Marine Inundation on Coastal Environments' Meeting

Other Publications

Year	Title
2009	Climate change in the dead heart of Australia

Investigator On

Year	Title
2017 - 2024	ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Centres of Excellence
2019 - 2023	Climate extremes and landscape responses across continental Australia Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Future Fellowships
2018 - 2019	A national facility for the analysis of pyrogenic carbon Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2012	The big flood: will it happen again? Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
2011	Megalake filling and deflation in central Australia Awarded by: Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Funding Scheme: Research Awards
2011	Sonic drilling to provide contamination-free core sampling of rock, unconsolidated sediment and organics Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2011	The last glaciation maximum climate conundrum and environmental responses of the Australian continent to altered climate states Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2009	A fluvial record of late Holocene climate change on south coast rivers of New South Wales: Implications for predicted sea-level rise. Awarded by: Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Funding Scheme: Research Award

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	A history of vegetation and climate change in northern Australia during the last 130,000 years	Reynolds, Will
Doctor of Philosophy	Oceanographic Characteristics of Alluvial Estuaries, North-West Arabian/Persian Gulf	Al-aesawi, Qassim
Doctor of Philosophy	Exploring the use of lunette dunes as geoarchives: an examination of late Quaternary palaeo-environmental change in Australias Murray-Darling Basin	Brandolese, Sara
Doctor of Philosophy	Late Jurassic (Oxfordian- Thithonian) Palynostratigraphy of the Dingo Claystone, Northern Canarvon Basin, Australia	Dekuek, Deng
Doctor of Philosophy	Dating the Southern Dispersal Terminus: Anatomically Modern Human Migrations Through the Banda Island Arc to Northwest Australia	Norman, Kasih
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Erosion rates and long-term evolution of the Great Dividing Range.	Glass, Jamie
Doctor of Philosophy	New terrestrial paleoenvironmental archives from Wallacea	Wall, Alexander
Doctor of Philosophy	N-alkane and compound-specific isotope distribution in sediments and implications for palaeo-hydrology in tropical Australasia	Boesl, Fabian
Master of Philosophy -SMAH	Past Vegetation and Palaeoenvironments of Thirlmere Lakes	Angus, Natahlia-Anne
Doctor of Philosophy	Understanding the Contribution of Dust to Ecosystem Fertilisation in the South Pacific and Southern Ocean	Johansen, Andrea

Top Publications

Year	Title
2011	Continental aridification and the vanishing of Australia's megalakes Published in Geology (Boulder)
2012	A pluvial episode identified in arid Australia during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly Published in Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2015	Hydrological transformation coincided with megafaunal extinction in central Australia Published in Geology (Boulder)
2012	Late Quaternary mega-lakes fed by the northern and southern river systems of central Australia: Varying moisture sources and increased continental aridity
2013	Lowland river responses to intraplate tectonism and climate forcing quantified with luminescence and cosmogenic 10Be Published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Research Areas

Research Overview

Quaternary Science

Geomorphology

Geochronology

Hydrology

Geographic Focus

Australasia Transnational Region

Head Of

GeoQuest Co-Director 2016 -

Member Of

Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group Member 2001 -
Australain and New Zealand Quaternary Association Vice President 2016 - 2018

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Determining Bathymetry of Shallow and Ephemeral Desert Lakes Using Satellite Imagery and Altimetry Published In Geophysical Research Letters
2020	Establishing standardised growth curves (SGCs) for OSL signals from individual grains of quartz: A continental-scale case study Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2020	Palaeochannels of Australia's Riverine Plain - Reconstructing past vegetation environments across the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Published In Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
2019	Single-grain OSL dating of fluvial terraces in the upper Hunter catchment, southeastern Australia Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2018	Climatically-Controlled River Terraces in Eastern Australia Published In Quaternary
2018	Identifying extreme pluvials in the last millennia using optical dating of single grains of quartz from shorelines on Australia's largest lake Published In The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change
2018	OCTOPUS: An open cosmogenic isotope and luminescence database Published In Earth System Science Data
2018	Revisiting an arid LGM using fluvial archives: a luminescence chronology for palaeochannels of the Murrumbidgee River, south-eastern Australia Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2018	Testing the applicability of a partial bleach method for post-IR IRSL dating of Holocene-aged K-feldspar samples Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2018	Tracking geomorphic recovery in process-based river management Published In Land Degradation and Development
2017	Extending the record of lacustrine phases beyond the last interglacial for Lake Eyre in central Australia using luminescence dating Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2017	Hydroclimate of the Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation in southern Australia’s arid margin interpreted from speleothem records (23–15 ka) Published In Climate of the Past
2017	Late Quaternary channel and floodplain formation in a partly confined subtropical river, eastern Australia Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2017	Variations in luminescence properties of quartz and feldspar from modern fluvial sediments in three rivers Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2016	Sediment mixing in aeolian sandsheets identified and quantified using single-grain optically stimulated luminescence Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2015	A soil chronosequence on Lake Mega-Frome beach ridges and its implications for late Quaternary pedogenesis and paleoenvironmental conditions in the drylands of southern Australia Published In Quaternary Research
2015	All mixed up: using single-grain equivalent dose distributions to identify phases of pedogenic mixing on a dryland alluvial fan Published In Quaternary International
2015	Drying inland seas probably helped kill Australia’s megafauna Published In The Conversation
2015	Hitting rock bottom: morphological responses of bedrock-confined streams to a catastrophic flood Published In Earth Surface Dynamics
2015	Hydrological transformation coincided with megafaunal extinction in central Australia Published In Geology (Boulder)
2015	Late Quaternary evolution of a playa margin at Lake Frome, South Australia Published In Journal of Arid Environments
2015	Modern depositional processes in a confined, flood-prone setting: benches on the Shoalhaven River, NSW, Australia Published In Geomorphology
2014	A reconstruction of extratropical Indo-Pacific sea-level pressure patterns during the Medieval Climate Anomaly Published In Climate Dynamics
2014	Headwater peatland channels in south-eastern Australia; the attainment of equilibrium Published In Geomorphology
2014	Hydrospatial assessment of streamflow yields and effects of climate change: Snowy Mountains, Australia Published In Journal of Hydrology
2014	Late-Holocene climatic variability indicated by three natural archives in arid southern Australia Published In The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change
2013	Climate variability over the last 35,000 years recorded in marine and terrestrial archives in the Australian region: an OZ-INTIMATE compilation Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2013	Climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate Australia – a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2013	Determining the impact of the Holocene highstand at the coastal-fluvial interface, Shoalhaven River, south-eastern Australia Published In Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
2013	Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in the Australian drylands Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2013	Lowland river responses to intraplate tectonism and climate forcing quantified with luminescence and cosmogenic 10Be Published In Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2013	Sediment residence times constrained by uranium-series isotopes: a critical appraisal of the comminution approach Published In Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
2013	Ten trenches: a scienceart collaboration Published In Leonardo: Art Science and Technology
2012	A pluvial episode identified in arid Australia during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2012	Alluvium of antiquity: Polycyclic terraces in a confined bedrock valley Published In Geomorphology
2012	An improved bathymetric model for the modern and palaeo Lake Eyre Published In Geomorphology
2012	Late Quaternary mega-lakes fed by the northern and southern river systems of central Australia: Varying moisture sources and increased continental aridity
2011	Continental aridification and the vanishing of Australia's megalakes Published In Geology (Boulder)
2011	Intimate meetings at INQUA Published In Quaternary Australasia
2010	Late Quaternary aeolian and fluvial interactions on the Cooper Creek Fan and the association between linear and source-bordering dunes, Strzelecki Desert, Australia Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2008	Alluvial evidence for major climate and flow regime changes during the middle and late Quaternary for eastern central Australia Published In Geomorphology
2008	Topographically associated but chronologically disjunct late Quaternary floodplains and terraces in a partly confined valley, south-eastern Australia Published In Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
2007	Mind the gap: an absence of valley-fill deposits identifying the Holocene hypsithermal period of enhanced flow regime in southeastern Australia Published In The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2014	The Shifting Sands of Stockyard Creek: the geomorphic response to large wood reintroduction in a sand-bed stream Published In Proceedings of the 7th Australian Stream Management Conference
2013	A methodology for the rapid assessment of the potential impact and hazard of coal seam gas mining on aquifers and the environment Published In Conference Program: 2013 BBENS: Bangkok International Conference on Biological Engineering & Natural Science
2011	Where was my coastline? Determining the impact of the Holocene highstand on the coastal-fluvial interface, Shoalhaven River, southesastern Australia Published In Second Joint IGCP 588 'Preparing for Coastal Change' and INQUA 1001: 'Quaternary Coastal Change and Records of Extreme Marine Inundation on Coastal Environments' Meeting

Other Publications

Year	Title
2009	Climate change in the dead heart of Australia

Investigator On

Year	Title
2017 - 2024	ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Centres of Excellence
2019 - 2023	Climate extremes and landscape responses across continental Australia Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Future Fellowships
2018 - 2019	A national facility for the analysis of pyrogenic carbon Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2012	The big flood: will it happen again? Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
2011	Megalake filling and deflation in central Australia Awarded by: Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Funding Scheme: Research Awards
2011	Sonic drilling to provide contamination-free core sampling of rock, unconsolidated sediment and organics Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2011	The last glaciation maximum climate conundrum and environmental responses of the Australian continent to altered climate states Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2009	A fluvial record of late Holocene climate change on south coast rivers of New South Wales: Implications for predicted sea-level rise. Awarded by: Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Funding Scheme: Research Award

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	A history of vegetation and climate change in northern Australia during the last 130,000 years	Reynolds, Will
Doctor of Philosophy	Oceanographic Characteristics of Alluvial Estuaries, North-West Arabian/Persian Gulf	Al-aesawi, Qassim
Doctor of Philosophy	Exploring the use of lunette dunes as geoarchives: an examination of late Quaternary palaeo-environmental change in Australias Murray-Darling Basin	Brandolese, Sara
Doctor of Philosophy	Late Jurassic (Oxfordian- Thithonian) Palynostratigraphy of the Dingo Claystone, Northern Canarvon Basin, Australia	Dekuek, Deng
Doctor of Philosophy	Dating the Southern Dispersal Terminus: Anatomically Modern Human Migrations Through the Banda Island Arc to Northwest Australia	Norman, Kasih
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Erosion rates and long-term evolution of the Great Dividing Range.	Glass, Jamie
Doctor of Philosophy	New terrestrial paleoenvironmental archives from Wallacea	Wall, Alexander
Doctor of Philosophy	N-alkane and compound-specific isotope distribution in sediments and implications for palaeo-hydrology in tropical Australasia	Boesl, Fabian
Master of Philosophy -SMAH	Past Vegetation and Palaeoenvironments of Thirlmere Lakes	Angus, Natahlia-Anne
Doctor of Philosophy	Understanding the Contribution of Dust to Ecosystem Fertilisation in the South Pacific and Southern Ocean	Johansen, Andrea

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Available for Collaborative Projects

Head Of

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Funding

Investigator On

Supervision

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Head Of

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Funding

Investigator On

Supervision

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Visualisations

Research Areas

Geographic Focus