The secrets of the deep will be uncovered when archaeologists excavate a significant colonial shipwreck in Victoria’s Port Phillip Bay later this month.
Leading Monash University archaeologist Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Mark Staniforth from the School of Geography and Environmental Science and a 60-person team will examine the excavation, reburial and preservation of the Clarence, a historically significant colonial [...]
Category Archives: GES
Shipwreck to give up its history
April 12, 2012 – 10:38 am
Getting to know… Jonathan Brown
April 2, 2012 – 2:35 pm
Name: Jonathan Brown
Title: Residential Support Team Coordinator for Monash Residential Services and College Head at Richardson Hall
Division: Monash Residential Services
Dept: VP Admin
Campus: Clayton (but I work across all campuses)
How long have you worked at Monash?
I have been at Monash since I began my undergraduate studies in 1997! I think I have been on the payroll in some form since about [...]
National maritime archaeology project launches new Website
March 21, 2012 – 12:15 pm
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Mark Staniforth (School of Geography and Environmental Science) is one of three Chief Investigators for the Australian Historic Shipwreck Protection Project (AHSPP). The project has a large ARC Linkage grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC) to investigate and conduct excavation, reburial and in-situ preservation of Clarence (1850), a historically [...]
In Memoriam: Vale Associate Professor Jim Peterson (1939 — 2012)
January 24, 2012 – 3:12 pm
Prof. James Andrew Peterson, friend and highly valued colleague to all in the School of Geography and Environmental Science and to the wider community of scholars, passed away on 23 January 2012 aged seventy-three.
Peterson undertook his undergraduate degree at the University of Tasmania (1957-1960) and began publishing on the glaciation of Frenchmans Cap (the subject [...]
GES Celebrates its Fifty-Year Anniversary
December 7, 2011 – 2:17 pm
In 2012 Monash’s School of Geography and Environmental Science (GES) celebrates its fifty-year anniversary, an exciting milestone that will be marked with a full commemorative programme, including seminars presented by distinguished alumni and a jubilee dinner.
An act of the Victorian Parliament established Monash University in 1958 and the fledging institution admitted its first students in [...]
Fabrizio D’Aprile, Main Convener at the European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna
December 2, 2011 – 10:16 am
Fabrizio D’Aprile, a research fellow at the School of Geography and Environmental Science, is a main convener in the Sessions BG2.14 Criteria and indicators for forest ecosystem management under changing climate and environmental condition http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/10346 and CL4.8/BG2.22
Climate Change: Carbon Cycle, Mortality, Growth, and Shift of Forests http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9699 at the European Geoscience Union General Assembly that will be [...]
