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Publications, posters and conference presentations

Publication

  • McDonough, Liza K., Micheline Campbell, Pauline C. Treble, Christopher Marjo, Silvia Frisia, Jitraporn Vongsvivut, Annaleise R. Klein, Viktoria Kovacs-Kis, and Andy Baker. Fire-Induced Shifts in Stalagmite Organic Matter Mapped Using Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy. Organic Geochemistry 195 (2024): 104842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2024.104842.
  • Campbell, M., Treble, P.C., McDonough, L.K., Naeher, S., Baker, A., Grierson, P.F., Wong, H., Andersen, M.S., 2024. Combustion Completeness and Sample Location Determine Wildfire Ash Leachate Chemistry. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 25, e2024GC011470. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011470
  • Campbell, M., McDonough, L., Treble, P.C., Baker, A., Kosarac, N., Coleborn, K., Wynn, P.M., Schmitt, A.K., 2023. A Review of Speleothems as Archives for Paleofire Proxies, With Australian Case Studies. Reviews of Geophysics 61, e2022RG000790. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022RG000790
  • McDonough, L.K., Treble, P.C., Baker, A., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., Nagra, G., Coleborn, K., Gagan, M.K., Zhao, J-x., Paterson, D. (2022) Past fires and post-fire impacts reconstructed from a southwest Australian stalagmite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta325, p. 258-277.
  • Campbell M., McDonough L., Treble P., Baker A., Kosarac N., Coleborn K., Wynn P. M., Schmitt A. (2022) Speleothems as Archives for Palaeofire Proxies. Earth and Space Science Open Archive [preprint] doi:10.1002/essoar.10511989.1, 57.
  • McDonough, L.K., Treble, P.C., Baker, A., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., Nagra, G., Coleborn, K., Gagan, M.K., Fakra, S.C., Paterson, D. (2021) Past fires and post-fire impacts reconstructed from a southwest Australian stalagmite [preprint]. EarthArxiv preprint.

Posters

  • Campbell, M., Treble, P., Baker, A., McDonough, L., Howard, D., Sinclair, D.: Exploring a speleothem fire severity signal using coeval stalagmites from southwest Australia, 2024 AQUA Biennial, Minjerribah, Australia, 24-29 June 2024.
  • Treble, P., Campbell, M., Baker, A., Liza, M., and Nevena, K.: Hydrological conceptual model for reconstructing fire history from cave stalagmites, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-2932, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-2932, 2023.
  • McDonough, L., Treble, P., Baker, A., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., Campbell, M., Nagra, G., Coleborn, K., Gagan, M., Zhao, J., and Paterson, D.: An annually resolved stalagmite record of fire frequency for the last 250 years in south west Australia, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-10651, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10651, 2023.
  • Campbell, M., McDonough, L., Treble, P., Baker, A., Kosarac, N., Coleborn, K., Wynn, P., and Schmitt, A.: Speleothems as archives for palaeofire proxies, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-11016, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11016, 2023.
  • Baker, A., Campbell, M., Treble, P., Adler, L., McDonough, L., Howard, D. (2022) Quantifiying the fire imprint in speleothem oxygen and carbon isotope records [conference presentation]. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Chicago, USA, 12 December 2022 - 16 December 2022.
  • McDonough, L.K., Campbell, M.C., Treble, P.C., Marjo, C., Frisia, S., Vongsvivut, J., Klein, A., Baker, A. (2022) Investigating the stalagmite organic matter record of past fires in shallow caves using synchrotron IRM [conference presentation]. Presented at the Australian Synchrotron User Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 9 December 2022 - 10 December 2022.
  • Campbell, M.L., McDonough, L.K., Treble, P.C., Baker, A., Howard, D., Hankin, S. (2022) Stalagmites as high-resolution archives of past fire severity [conference presentation]. Presented at the Australian Synchrotron User Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 9 December 2022 - 10 December 2022.
  • Campbell, M.L., McDonough, L.K., Treble, P.C., Baker, A., Howard, D., Hankin, S. (2022) Stalagmites as high-resolution archives of past fire severity [conference presentation]. Presented at Climate Change, The Karst Record IX (KR9), Innsbruck, Austria, 17-20 July 2022.
  • Campbell, M., McDonough, L., Kosarac, N., Treble, P., Markowska, M., Baker, A., Hua, Q. (2021) Speleothem 14C is unlikely to be impacted by wildfire - case studies from Western Australia and Tasmania [conference presentation]. Presented at the Accelerator Mass Spectroscopy 15th International Conference, Sydney, Australia. 15 November 2021 – 19 November 2021.
  • Campbell, M., Treble, P., McDonough, L., Baker, A., Kosarac, N. (2021) Speleothems as palaeofire archives - a synthesis and meta-analysis of data and methods [conference presentation]. Presented at the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, New Orleans, USA, 13 December – 17 December 2021.
  • McDonough, L.K., Treble, P.C, Baker, A., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., Campbell, M., Nagra, G., Coleborn, K., Gagan, M.K., Paterson, D. (2021) Past fires and post-fire impacts reconstructed from a southwest Australian stalagmite [conference presentation]. Presented at the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, New Orleans, USA, 13 December – 17 December 2021.
  • McDonough, L.K., Treble, P.C., Baker, A., Nagra, G., Borsato, A., Frisia, S., de Jonge, M., Paterson, D., Fakra, S.C. (2020) Using synchrotron XFM, LA-ICP-MS and stable isotopes to identify an intense wildfire event recorded in a speleothem [conference presentation]. Presented at the Australian Synchrotron User Meeting 2020, Melbourne, Australia, 19 November 2020 – 20 November 2020. 

Conference Presentations

  • Treble, P., Baker, A., Campbell, M., McDonough, L.: The speleothem fire record: outcomes from a Discovery Project, 2024 AQUA Biennial, Minjerribah, Australia, 24-29 June 2024.
  • Campbell, M., McDonough, L., Naeher, S., Treble, P., Grierson, P., Sinclair, D., Howard, D., Baker, A. (2022) Towards the development of fire proxies in speleothems using geochemical signatures in ashes from bushfires [conference presentation'. Presented at the Australasian Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting, Adelaide, Australia, 6 December 2022 - 8 December 2022. 
  • McDonough, L.K., Treble, P.C., Baker, A., Borsato, A., Frisia, Campbell, M., Nagra, G., Coleborn, K., Gagan, M.K., Zhao, J-x, Paterson, D. (2022) Past fires and post-fire impacts reconstructed from a southwest Australian stalagmite [conference presentation]. Presented at KR9, online 18 – 20 July 2022. 
  • McDonough, L.K., Treble, P.C., Baker, A., Borsato, A., Frisia, Campbell, M., Nagra, G., Coleborn, K., Gagan, M.K., Zhao, J-x, Paterson, D. (2022) Using XFM and IRM beamlines to identify past fires recorded in a cave stalagmite [conference presentation]. Presented at the 2022 Synchrotron Workshop, virtual meeting.
  • Campbell, M.L., McDonough, L.K., Kosarac, N., Treble, P.C., Baker, A. (2022) Reconstruction Australia's fire history from cave stalagmites [conference presentation]. Presented at the 13th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Christchurch, New Zealand, 8 February 2022 - 12 February 2022.
  • Kosarac, N., Treble, P.C., McDonough, L., Paterson, D., Adler, L., Baker, A. (2021) Reconstructing a fire and climate history using a stalagmite from Crystal Cave, south-west Western Australia. [conference presentation]. Presented at the Australasian Quaternary Association Pop-up Conference 2021, Melbourne, Australia, 8 July 2021 – 9 July 2021.
  • McDonough, L.K., Treble, P.C., Baker, A., Borsato, A., Frisia, Nagra, G., Coleborn, K., Gagan, M.K., Fakra, S.C., Paterson, D. (2021) Past fires and post-fire impacts reconstructed from a southwest Australian stalagmite [conference presentation]. Presented at the Australasian Quaternary Association Pop-up Conference 2021, Melbourne, Australia, 8 July 2021 – 9 July 2021.
Media

Media 

AGU Eos Using Cave Formations to Investigate Ancient Wildfires 

Australian Geographic Microscopic layers of stalagmites provide clues to earlier climate changes

UNSW Newsroom ‘Like a metronome’: stalagmite growth found to be surprisingly constant

Smithsonian Magazine Caves Can Now Help Scientists Trace Ancient Wildfires