Historical holes: Beneath the surface, caves hold the key to Australia’s wildfire history

My colleague @michcampbell recently held a postdoctoral research grant from AINSE. They've just released this 2025 Research Spotlight for early career researcher awardees all about her fire research. I think this is nicely done. If you'd like to know how caves and cave stalagmites can be used to reconstruct records of past fires, here's the article

http://andy-baker.org/2025/04/22/historical-holes-beneath-the-surface-caves-hold-the-key-to-australias-wildfire-history/

#academia #fire #caves #karst #AINSE #ANSTO #UNSW

The AINSE Annual report for 2023 is out, and it's great to see so many Quaternary ECRs highlighted (3/4 of the geoscience, archeology, and environmental science contributions!). AINSE have been a huge supporter of my research, as both a PhD student and a postdoc, and I'm grateful for their help. You can read this year's report here, including a summary of some of the research I've been doing in the last few years:

#academia #ainse #postdoc #AusQuaternary

https://www.ainse.edu.au/mission/