Professor Jon Woodhead
School of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne
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Sciences & Technology
Australia’s mountains are still growing
Research using the age of caves shows the Eastern Highlands of Victoria have been steadily growing at a rate of 76 metres every million years, and are still going
Sciences & Technology
What causes an ice age to end?
In order to know why an ice age ends, we need to know when it ended. Now, new research is working to solve one of the enigmas in palaeoclimatology
Sciences & Technology
Probing Earth’s deep and ancient secrets
A rock that is the source of most of the world’s diamond deposits is giving us insights into the Earth’s formation
Environment
It’s time the Nullarbor Caves had World Heritage status
Australia’s Nullarbor caves are a precious time machine to millions of years ago, and crucial to understanding our future climate. So, why aren’t they World Heritage listed?
Sciences & Technology
Human evolutionary history takes a rain check
Dating the rock layers in between, rather than the actual fossils in Africa’s ‘Cradle of Humankind’ is shedding new light on the time record and how early humans adapted to a changing climate.
Sciences & Technology
The not-so-plain Nullarbor
Today it’s one of the driest spots in Australia, but just a few million years ago the Nullarbor was flush with trees and plants and had four times as much rain