Dr. Duanne White
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Position: | Lecturer |
| Office: | E7A 625 | |
| Telephone: | +612 9850 6835 | |
| Fax: | +612 9850 8420 | |
| Email: | duanne.white@mq.edu.au |
Biography
I completed an honours degree at Monash University in 2000 on the geochemistry of soils above mineral deposits. I then worked for as an exploration geologist in Kalgoorlie before being awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) and taking up a PhD at Macquarie University in 2002, investigating the landscape evolution and glacial history of the Prince Charles Mountains in East Antarctica.
Teaching
I am currently teaching two second and third year units:
· Earth Surface Processes (GEOS266) Second year unit introducing the geomorphic processes which dominate the soils, hillslopes, rivers and coasts of our environment. This unit emphasises field teaching and understanding of linkages crucial to applied environmental management.
· Soils and Landscape Processes (GEOS399) This is a third year unit that examines the processes which control soil formation and erosion. It investigates how these processes have affected landscape development during the differing climates of the past few hundred thousand years, and discusses how knowledge of these processes can improve soil resource management.
Publications
Berg, S., Wagner, B., White, D.A., Cremer, H., Bennike, O., Melles, M. Late Pleistocene glaciation history of Rauer Group, East Antarctica, Antarctic Science.
Wright A.P., White, D.A., Gore, D.B., Siegert, M.J., Antarctica at the Last Glacial Maximum, Deglaciation and the Holocene. Antarctic Climate Evolution. Editied by Florindo, F., and Siegert, M. Elsevier, In Press.
Hultzsch, N., Wagner, B., Diekmann, B., White, D ., 2008. Mineralogical implications for the Late Pleistocene glaciation in Amery Oasis, East Antarctica, from a lake sediment core. Antarctic Science, 20, 169-172 (doi 10.1017/S0954102007000880).
Mackintosh A., White, D., Fink, D., Gore, D., Pickard, J., Fanning, P., 2007. Late Glacial and Holocene deglaciation of Mac.Robertson Land, East Antarctica, Geology, 35, 551-504.
White, D., Hermichen, W-D. 2008. Glacial and Periglacial History of the Southern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica. Terra Antartica, 14 (1), 5-12.
White, D., McPhail, D.C., Lawie, D., 2004. Fractionation of Zn and Cd in soils proximal and distal to sulphide mineralisation, Regolith 2004, Canberra, Australia.
Research
I am interested in the drivers of landscape change in Australia and Antarctica during the late Cenozoic through the use of geochemistry and cosmogenic nuclides. I have been lucky enough to take part of three trips south, investigating the landscape evolution and glacial history of a number of sites in the region near Prydz Bay. Closer to home, I have recently begun a project using cosmogenic nuclides to investigate the rate and distribution of erosion in the Sydney Basin. I am also currently investigating the application in-situ 14C to understand the importance of sediment recycling in both Australia and Antarctica.