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DR JOHN HELLSTROM



Contact Details

Organization: Earth Sciences
Position: URANIUM - SERIES GEOCHRONOLOGIST
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Homepage: http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/isotope/people/john.html
Work: 8344 7618
Fax: 8344 7761
Room: 325
Level: 03
Building: Mccoy Building/Earth Sciences
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Quaternary Palaeoclimatology Quatenary paleoclimate, Geochronology, Isotope Geochemistry, Uranium-series, Radiogenic isotopes New Zealand, Australia, Italy

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
New Zealand The University of Auckland Research
United Kingdom University of Bristol Research
United States Berkeley Research
New Zealand The University of Waikato Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Italy University of Pisa Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (honours) Victoria University of Wellington 31-Dec-1994
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 31-Dec-1999

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Australasian Quaternary Association 01-Oct-1998

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
Precise constraints on the timing and nature of late Quaternary glacial-interglacial climatic transitions in the Southwest Pacific region Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
DERIVATION OF LONG-TERM HYDROCLIMATIC SEQUENCES FOR WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING, MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2005
IMPROVING CLIMATE MODELS THROUGH NEW INSIGHTS ON LONG-TERM INTER-HEMISPHERIC CLIMATE SYNCHRONICITY FROM SPELEOTHEMS Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2007

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

Book Chapters

  • Chapter 9: A guide to depth profiling and imaging applications of LA-ICP-MS
    Year: 2008
    Book: Laser ablation ICP-MS in the Earth Sciences: current practices and outstanding issues
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  • Chapter A9: Iolite: software for spatially resolved LA-(quad and MC)-ICP-MS analysis
    Year: 2008
    Book: Laser ablation ICP-MS in the Earth Sciences: current practices and outstanding issues
    Publisher: Mineralogical Association of Canada(Ottawa)
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Journal Articles

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Nature
    Volume: 445
    Page numbers: 422-425
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  • Enhanced rainfall in the Western Mediterranean during deposition of sapropel S1: stalagmite evidence from Corchia cave (Central Italy)
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Quaternary Science Reviews
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 2007
    Page numbers: 279-286
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  • Glacio-lacustrine aragonite deposition, meltwater evolution and glacial history during isotope stage 3 at Radok Lake, Amery Oasis, northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Antarctic Science
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 365-372
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  • Isotopic and Elemental Imaging of Geological Materials by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 331-343
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  • Mammalian responses to Pleistocene climate change in southeastern Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 33-36
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  • Stalagmite evidence for the precise timing of North Atlantic cold events during the early last glacial
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 77-80
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Late Holocene drought responsible for the collapse of Old World civilizations is recorded in an Italian cave flowstone
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 101-104
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  • Rapid trace element analysis of speleothems by ELA-ICP-MS
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Chemical Geology
    Volume: 231
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 102-117
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  • Timing and dynamics of the last deglaciation from European and North African δ13C stalagmite profiles - comparison with Chinese and South Hemisphere stalagmites
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Quaternary Science Reviews
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 17-18
    Page numbers: 2118-2142
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  • U-Pb geochronology of speleothems by MC-ICPMS
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Quaternary Geochronology
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 208-221
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  • U-Th dating of speleothems with high initial 230Th using stratigraphical constraint
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Quaternary Geochronology
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 289-295
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Stalagmite evidence for the onset of the Last Interglacial in southern Europe at 129 ± 1 ka
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Geophysical Research Letters
    Volume: 32
    Issue: L24708
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: American Geophysical Union(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Palaeoclimatic implications of the growth history and stable isotope (δ18O and δ13C) geochemistry of a Middle to Late Pleistocene stalagmite from central-western Italy
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 227
    Page numbers: 215-229
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Rapid High Precision U Series
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 8th Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference 2004
    Conference Publication: 8th Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference 2004
    Page numbers: 56-58
    Publisher: School of Earth Sciences(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Rapid and accurate U/Th dating using parallel ion-counting multi-collector ICP-MS
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1346-1351
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
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