Job title: Associate Professor
Phone: 64 9 373 7599 ext 87603
Office: Rm 1068, Science Centre, 23 Symonds St
Postal: School of Environment, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland
Email: p.augustinus@auckland.ac.nz

BSc (Melb) & BSc (Hons)(Tas), PhD (Waik.)

Research Interests

• Quaternary paleoclimate reconstruction
• Paleolimnology of Auckland maar lakes
• Glacial geomorphology in Antarctica and Australasia
• Longterm landscape evolution

'Holocene isotopic variation at both ends of the coastal Antarctic marine food web: linking marine sediment with snow petrel mumiyo'. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 307: 1-10, 2006 (with Ainley, D.G., Hobson, K.A., Crosta, X., Rau, G.H., Wassenaar, L.I.).

'Reassessment of the record of linear dune activity in Tasmania using optical dating'. Quaternary Science Reviews,25: 2608-2618, 2006 (with Duller, G.A.T).

'Towards a climate event stratigraphy for New Zealand over the past 30,000 tears (NZ-INTIMATE project)'. Journal of Quaternary Science, 22: 9-35, 2007 (with Alloway, B.V., Lowe, D.J., Newnham, R., Barrell, D., Shulmeister, J., Almond, P., Bertler, N., Carter, L., Litchfield, N., McGlone, M., Williams, P., Vandergoes, M & NZ-INTIMATE Members).

'Rapid change in early Holocene environments inferred from Lake Pupuke, Auckland City, New Zealand'. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23: 435-447, 2008 (with Bleakley, N., Deng, Y-B., Shane, P. and Cochran, U.).

Tom Stephens, PhD, topic: 'Novel geochemical proxies for environmental change in Auckland maar crater lakes'.

Dan Atkin, PhD, topic: 'Geochemical proxies for environmental chnage in auckland maar crater lakes'.

Kevin Robinson, PhD, topic: 'Late Holocene records of paleoproductivity from lake sediments'.

Catherine Frericks, MSc, topic: ' Holocene sediment dynamics in Waiotahi river catchment'.