Rate My Professor Eric Colhoun

Emeritus Professor Eric Colhoun is affiliated with the College of Engineering, Science and Environment at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in the Department of Earth Sciences. He holds a Doctor of Science and previously served as Professor of Geography and Head of the Department of Geography at the University of Newcastle. His long-standing academic career has centered on Quaternary palaeoenvironments, with extensive fieldwork and analysis contributing to global understandings of past climates.

Professor Colhoun's research specializations encompass Quaternary landscape evolution, glaciation, vegetation history, fire regimes, and environmental change, particularly in Tasmania, southeastern Australia, and Antarctic regions. His expertise includes pollen analysis, radiocarbon dating, glacial stratigraphy, palaeomagnetism, and exposure dating. He has produced 133 publications, amassing 4,781 citations and 18,578 reads on ResearchGate. Key publications include "A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum" (Antarctic Science, 2014); "Terrestrial and submarine evidence for the extent and timing of the Last Glacial Maximum and the onset of deglaciation on the maritime-Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands" (Antarctic Science, 2014); "Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes" (Nature, 2012); "Late Quaternary fire regimes in Australia" (Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2011); "Late-surviving megafauna in Tasmania, Australia, implicate human involvement in their extinction" (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008); "Exposure dating and glacial reconstruction at Mt. Field, Tasmania, Australia, identifies MIS 3 and MIS 2 glacial advances and climatic variability" (Quaternary Science Reviews, 2006); "Pollen-based reconstructions of biome distributions for Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific (SEAPAC region) at 0, 6000 and 18,000 C-14 yr BP" (Journal of Biogeography, 2004); "Bunger Hills, East Antarctica: Ice free at the Last Glacial Maximum" (Geology, 2001); and "Vegetation and climate change during the Last Interglacial-Glacial cycle in western Tasmania, Australia" (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2000). These works have advanced knowledge of ice sheet dynamics, biome shifts, and palaeoclimatic variability. Professor Colhoun is a Life Member of the Australasian Quaternary Association.