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PROF JAMES BOWLER



Contact Details

Organization: Earth Sciences
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Work: 8344 6740
Mobile: 0425 702 599
Fax: 8344 7761
Room: 308
Level: 03
Building: Mccoy Building/Earth Sciences
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Environmental history, climatic change China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province), Australia, Israel

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
China Chinese Academy of Sciences Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Master of Science The Australian National University
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University

Honours

Honour Date Awarded
Member of the Order of Australia 1999

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Geological Society of Australia Stillwell Medal 01-Jan-1981
Medal Geological Society of Australia Stillwell Medal 01-Jan-1986
Medal Geological Society of Australia Mawson Medal 01-Jan-1989

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Palaeoclimate reconstruction in northwestern China Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage International Awards 01/01/2003
CULTURAL RESOURCE SURVEY, MULAN (GREGORY) LAKES REGION Chief Investigator AIATSIS Research Grants Program 01/06/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Molecular Ecology
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 4398-4417
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Relationships between desert dunes during the late Quaternary in the Lake Frome region, Strzelecki Desert, Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of quaternary Science
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 549-558
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Environmental evolution of the Mallee region, western Murray Basin
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria
    Volume: 118
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 161-210
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  • Single-grain optical dating of grave-infill associated with human burials at Lake Mungo, Australia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Quaternary Science Reviews
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 2469-2474
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • The dendroecological potential of eucalyptus camaldulensis dehnhardt (river red gum) from the barmah forest, victoria, australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Geographical Studies
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 89-102
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Timing of the Tianshan Mountains uplift constrained by magnetostratigraphic analysis of molasse deposits
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 219
    Page numbers: 239-253
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Nature
    Volume: 421
    Page numbers: 837-840
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Modelling historical lake levels and recent climate change at three closed lakes, Western Victoria, Australia (c.1840-1990)
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Hydrology
    Volume: 246
    Page numbers: 159-180
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Variations of the northwest Australian summer monsoon over the last 300,000 years: the paleohydrological record of the Gregory (Mulan) Lakes System
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Quaternary International
    Volume: 83-85
    Page numbers: 63-80
    Publisher: Perfamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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