Janelle Stevenson, BSc (UNSW), PhD (UNSW)
Research Fellow, Archaeology and Natural History (ANH)

Email: janelle.stevenson@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

Research Interests

Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Pacific Islands; palynology; fire; palaeoclimatology; disentangling climate change from human impact in the palaeoenvironmental record; detection of crop plants in the archaeological and palaeoenvironmental record; experience working in New Caledonia and Fiji; currently working in the Northern Phillipines and Taiwan.

Key Publications

• (with Simon Haberle, Fay Johnston and David Bowman) (2007) Seasonal distribution of pollen in the atmosphere of Darwin, tropical Australia: preliminary results. Grana, 46 (1): 1-9.
• (with Geoff Hope) (2005) A comparison of late Quaternary forest changes in New Caledonia and northeastern Australia. Quaternary Research.
• (2004) A late Holocene record of human impact from the southwest coast of New Caledonia. The Holocene. 14(6): 888-898.
• (with Hua Lu, Ian P. Prosser, Chris J. Moran, John Gallant, and Graeme Priestley) (2003) Predicting sheetwash and rill erosion over the Australian continent. Australian Journal of Soil Research, 41: 1037-1062.
• (with J. R. Dodson and I. P. Prosser )(2001). A late Quaternary record of environmental change and human impact from Plum Swamp, New Caledonia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 168: 97-123.
• (with Prosser, I. P., and W. E. Dietrich) (1995). Flow resistance and sediment transport by concentrated overland flow in a grassland valley. Geomorphology. 13: 71-86.

Career Highlights

Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian National University (2002-2004); Treasurer, Australasian Quaternary Association 2003 - present; Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship 2002.