People
Email archaeo-science@unimelb.edu.au to contact the Archaeological Sciences stream, or contact an individual researcher below.
Coordinators
Prof Rachel Popelka-Filcoff
Academic staff
Dr John Hellstrom
John is a uranium-series dating specialist with expertise in uranium–thorium and uranium–lead dating of carbonates. He applies these techniques to address a broad range of research questions related to past climate change, archaeology, and other fields. His has a particular interest in developing highly accurate methods for dating challenging samples, such as those with high initial thorium content, and on constructing robust speleothem depth–age models.
j.hellstrom@unimelb.edu.auA/Prof Jan-Hendrik May
Dr Amy Prendergast
Dr Kale Sniderman
Kale is a biogeographer, palynologist, and palaeoclimatologist. He is interested in extraction of fossil pollen from speleothems, as a way of understanding how vegetation evolved through time, particularly in dry regions where conventional wetland sediment archives are unavailable.
kale.sniderman@unimelb.edu.au +61390359873Graduate researchers
Maedeh Darzi
Honorary
Prof Jon Woodhead
Jon is an isotope geochemist with a keen interest in technique development and innovation in MC-ICPMS and laser ablation technologies, and geochronology. Although recently retired, as Professor Emeritus he maintains a number of ongoing research programs particularly investigating the origin and evolution of the Nullarbor caves.
jdwood@unimelb.edu.au +61383446821