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Biography
I research and teach in the fields of geomorphology and Quaternary science. I investigate how past climate changes have shaped earth surface processes, now and in the past. Much of my research has examined arid and semi-arid (dryland) regions of Australia. I am interested in how climate change has influenced desert sand dunes, dust storms, rivers, wetlands and vegetation cover and how those feed back into climate change.
I am Convenor of the Bachelor of Environment course and teach several units within the Environmental Earth Science major: ENVS2266 Earth Surface Processes (convenor), ENVS3240 Environmental Change, and ENVS2341 Active Environments (field unit in New Zealand).
Recent and current research projects include: history of rivers in the Murray-Darling Basin over the last 100 000 years and how their discharge has decreased dramatically as global temperatures increased; how drought affects vegetation cover and wind erosion on sand dunes in the Simpson Desert; the global distribution of desert sand dunes, their activity and climatic sensitivity; the links between rivers, wetlands and dunefields in central Argentina (Mendoza province).
Education/Academic qualification
Quaternary Palaeoclimatology, PhD, Australian National University
1 Apr 1989 → 3 Apr 1993
Award Date: 1 Jul 1993
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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DP22: Will rivers be smaller when the climate is hotter?
Hesse, P., Fryirs, K., Ralph, T., Kiem, A. S., Taschetto, A., Tripaldi, A. & Mehl, A.
28/09/22 → 27/09/25
Project: Research
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MQ Marine Research Centre
George, S., Armand, L., Armbrecht, L., Bishop, M., Brock, G., Daczko, N., Dadd, K., Goodwin, I., Grech, A., Hesse, P., Irvine, A., Jacob, D., Kennedy, M., Kosnik, M., Loehr, S., Madin, E., Madin, J., Ostrowski, M., Paulsen, I., Saintilan, N., Tetu, S., Williamson, J., Wood, L. & O'Brien, P.
1/07/15 → …
Project: Research
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Global climate change, coastal landscape evolution and the intensification of aridity in southern Australia during the Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition
Murray-Wallace, C., Pillans, B., Flament, N., Hesse, P. & Bateman, M.
2/04/20 → 1/04/23
Project: Research
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Desertification and the role of climate in Southern Hemisphere deserts
1/07/19 → 1/12/19
Project: Other
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Evaluating and reducing the risk of floodplain wetland disconnection
Ralph, T., Fryirs, K., Hesse, P., Larkin, Z., Berney, P. & Kobayashi, T.
31/03/19 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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An extended last glacial maximum in the Southern Hemisphere: a contribution to the SHeMax project
Petherick, L. M., Knight, J., Shulmeister, J., Bostock, H., Lorrey, A., Fitchett, J., Eaves, S., Vandergoes, M. J., Barrows, T. T., Barrell, D. J. A., Eze, P. N., Hesse, P., Jara, I. A., Mills, S., Newnham, R., Pedro, J., Ryan, M., Saunders, K. M., White, D., Rojas, M., & 1 others , Aug 2022, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 231, p. 1-31 31 p., 104090.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dune Paleoenvironments
Thomas, D. S. G. & Hesse, P., 1 Jan 2022, Treatise on Geomorphology. Lancaster, N. (ed.). 2nd ed. London: Elsevier, Vol. 7. p. 592-616 25 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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OCTOPUS database (v.2)
Codilean, A. T., Munack, H., Saktura, W. M., Cohen, T. J., Jacobs, Z., Ulm, S., Hesse, P. P., Heyman, J., Peters, K. J., Williams, A. N., Saktura, R. B. K., Rui, X., Chishiro-Dennelly, K. & Panta, A., 16 Aug 2022, In: Earth System Science Data. 14, 8, p. 3695-3713 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Quantifying vegetation and its effect on aeolian sediment transport: a UAS investigation on longitudinal dunes
Shumack, S., Farebrother, W. & Hesse, P., Feb 2022, In: Aeolian Research. 54, p. 1-12 12 p., 100768.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Climatically modulated dust inputs from New Zealand to the Southwest Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean over the last 410 kyr
Wu, Y., Roberts, A. P., Grant, K. M., Heslop, D., Pillans, B. J., Zhao, X., Rohling, E. J., Ronge, T. A., Ma, M., Hesse, P. P. & Palmer, A. S., May 2021, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 36, 5, p. 1-19 19 p., e2020PA003949.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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River Basin Management Society Award for Best Paper
Ralph, Tim (Recipient), Hosking, T. (Recipient), Iles, J. (Recipient) & Hesse, Paul (Recipient), 6 Feb 2012
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