Rate My Professor Maree Corkeron

Dr. Maree Corkeron serves as an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Oceans at the University of Western Australia. She completed her PhD in Geoscience at the University of Western Australia, awarded on 1 March 2003, with a doctoral thesis entitled "Neoproterozoic glacial events in the Kimberley Region, Western Australia: their sedimentology and regional correlation in the context of continental- and global-scale Neoproterozoic glaciation," conducted from 1996 to 2002. Her research focuses on the Precambrian Earth system, particularly global climatic events during the Cryogenian and Ediacaran periods and their effects on life's evolution. Specific interests include the role of microbial communities in constructing Precambrian carbonate reef frameworks, stromatolite morphology and their architectural contributions to ancient reef geomorphology, stromatolite geochemistry and microbial biomarkers, Cryogenian reefs in the northern Flinders Range, South Australia, and Neoproterozoic deposits in the Kimberley region, Western Australia. Additionally, she investigates medical geology, exploring relationships between diseases like Melioidosis and Ross River Virus and their geological host environments, alongside expertise in sedimentology, carbonate geochemistry, Precambrian geology, basin analysis, and microbialites.

Prior to her adjunct role, Corkeron was Senior Lecturer at James Cook University from July 2021 to December 2022. She possesses several years of experience in Queensland's Palaeozoic and Mesozoic basins through academic and industry roles, addressing coal, coal seam gas, underground coal gasification, carbon sequestration, and hydrogeological projects. Key publications include "Seismic acquisition parameters to improve imaging beneath mafic igneous units: case study from Australia’s Northwest Shelf" (2023, Exploration Geophysics, co-authored with C. T. G. Yule, N. Rollet, and J. Daniell); "New Perspectives on Glacial Geomorphology in Earth’s Deep Time Record" (2022, Frontiers in Earth Science, with D. P. Le Heron et al.); "Deposition and palaeogeography of glacigenic Neoproterozoic succession in the east Kimberley, Australia" (2008, Sedimentary Geology); "'Cap carbonates' and Neoproterozoic glacigenic successions from the Kimberley region, north-west Australia" (2007, Sedimentology); and her 2002 PhD thesis. These contributions advance understanding of ancient glacial deposits, reef systems, and geoenvironmental health links.