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Professor Patrick De Deckker


BA (Geology)   Macquarie University ,
MSc(Hons)   Macquarie University ,
PhD   University of Adelaide ,
DSc   University of Adelaide

Australian Society for Limnology Medal recipient 2004

 
Office Location
Room 130, DEMS Building 47
 
Mailing Address
Department of Earth and Marine Sciences
DEMS Building 047
Australian National University
ACT 0200 Australia
 

Telephone  +61 2 612 52070
Fax  +61 2 612 55544
Email   patrick.dedeckker@anu.edu.au
 
 
       
Research Interests & Current Projects  
       
Preliminary findings on the geochemical and microbiological fingerprinting of Australian aeolian dust
Implications for (past) climates, the environment, health and the oceans
 

Understanding the origin and composition of Australian dust has implications on the environment, ocean and human health. However, there is scant published information on the chemical and biological composition of airborne dust from the Australian continent. For example, an isotopic comparison of aeolian material from the southern continents with dust recovered in Antarctic ice cores listed only 5 samples for the entire Australian continent, and consequently argued for a Patagonian source during glacial periods for dust recovered at Vostok.

Thus far, we have undertaken an intensive, multidisciplinary and collaborative analysis of dust from the October 22, 2002 “Canberra dust storm” event [see McTainsh et al. Atmospheric Environment 39, 1227-1236 (2005) for a description of the event]. Interestingly, DNA from 75 different microbial species was extracted from the dust by Drs R. Abed and D. de Beer from the Max-Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology in Bremen, and a great variety of organic compounds were also found by Dr E. Schefuss and Prof. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs from the University of Bremen. Dr J.-B. Stuut, from the same institution, studied the sedimentological aspect of the dust. Using a variety of geochemical and palynological [by Dr S. van der Kaars of Monash] ‘fingerprinting’ analyses, including investigations of Nd and Sr isotopes [made by Dr M. Norman from the Research School of Earth Sciences at ANU] linked the dust that rained down in Canberra to the Bourke area of western NSW. Investigation of the meteorological events at this time by Prof. N. Tapper and Tadhg O'Loingsigh, both from Monash, corroborated with these results. A publication is being prepared.

Further investigation of different isotopes of Nd, Pb and Sr, has now demonstrated that Australian dust has clearly been linked, for particular episodes of the Late Quaternary, to Antarctic ice cores. The Australian origin of the dust is already discussed in the paper by Revel, De Deckker et al. in press in EPSL [see DeDeckker’s list of publications].

Finally, preliminary investigations by Dr G. Allison and Mr D. Stephenson [from the ANU Medical School] of the microbiological communities isolated from aerosols pumped at sea offshore Australia has commenced and the results are being prepared for publication.
For further details on our work on he Canberra dust event, visit the following web site: http://www.anu.edu.au/CSEM/newsletters/2006/MMAug06.pdf

Geological and biological investigations of the Murray Canyons Group - March 2006 -
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS02/2006
Cruise leader : Patrick De Deckker
 

We successfully completed the mapping of the some of the deep-sea canyons that was commenced during the AUSTREA AND AUSCAN cruises on the L’Atalante and Marion Dufresne vessels in 1999/2001 and 2003 respectively [see other report entitled ‘Deep-sea Canyons]. As a result, we now have a high-resolution map of the Sprigg Canyon. We have identified that some of the conduits [channels] in several of the canyons are definitely transporting upper slope material down to the abyss. We found, by attempting to core the large, deep holes located at great depths [> 4.5km] below the canyons that they are not sites of substantial sedimentation. In addition, we did not find any hydrochemical anomaly that could have been generated by fluid/gas emission, although we did not manage to rest the CTD equipment on the floor of the holes.

In addition, we located the position of ancient courses of the Murray across the Lacepede Shelf and discovered the presence of a large lake that would have been dammed by outcrops and possibly a large dune field. A map of the extent of the lake and associated prodelta, dune fields and various courses of the river system was completed. Unfortunately, we did not manage to retrieve cores from the Lacepede Shelf that would help us confirm our discovery as a thin, hard layer consisting of medium fine, brown sand covered the entire Lacepede Shelf. We anticipate that the lake occurred at approximately the 60m isobath.
We could only trace the ancient courses of the River Murray for the last glacial-interglacial period. No evidence was found for much older geomorphic features, assuming either that they were eroded away or that the sub-bottom profiling equipment did not permit us to penetrate deeper into the sedimentary sequences. However, in most cases, recognised fluvial features did sit directly on the basement.
We also found evidence of an ancient drainage system on the shelf opposite the Glenelg River that will deserve further investigations.

As a separate project, De Deckker was able to use an air filtering apparatus [see project on aeolian dust] in the front of the vessel aimed at trapping sufficient material for microbiological analysis from the ambient air. On one occasion, a sample was taken during a minor dust storm that reached the ship when it was close to the South Australian coastline. Material is now being analysed at the ANU in the microbiological laboratory of Dr G. Allison from the ANU Medical School.

We obtained good CTD data down to great depths [>5,000m] in the canyons [perhaps the deepest CTD obtained with the Southern Surveyor] and these will prove very useful for future research on deep water.

In conclusion, we have a better understanding of the nature of the deep-sea canyons offshore Kangaroo Island. These sites are likely to be visited by cetaceans and will be of use to future biological surveys in the region. We have found ancient lacustrine deposits that have the potential, if cored, to provide information on past climatic regimes that affected Australia during a very wet period coinciding with the filling of the Willandra Lakes [e.g. Mungo] and the extensive river flows registered in the Murray Darling Basin.
We have mapped possible ancient courses of the ancestral River Murray offshore Portland and discovered significant undersea slides that potentially could cause tsunamis.

We have commenced a program of filtering air at sea to determine the nature of aerosols and identify their microbiological contents.
For further details, visit http://www.marine.csiro.au/nationalfacility/voyagedocs and check voyage SS02/2006

University of the Sea. "A research training program for postgraduate students interested in any aspect of marine science in the Indo-Pacific region".
  About UOS
The University of the Sea is a partnership between the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, the Australian National University, the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, the University of Technology Sydney, the University of Tokyo, the Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute, Tongji University China, the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans Canada, the National Institute of Oceanography Goa, and the Indonesian Research Centre for Marine Technology. Together these institutions make up the Asian Neighbours Global Change Network, whose secretariat is located at the University of Sydney (http://www.usims.org.usyd.edu.au/floating.html).
The University of the Sea programme was funded by grants from the Toyota Foundation in Japan, the Australian Earth Systems Science Network (through the ARC), and the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research. The programme is made possible by the support of the French Polar Institute (IPEV) who host the University of the Sea onboard their research vessel the Marion Dufresne.

The University of the Sea is dedicated to building marine science capacity in the Asia Pacific region. It aims to bring together senior researchers and young local scholars to address marine science issues of direct interest to the region. The programme endeavours to give these students the opportunity to gain the skills and knowledge required for participation in the global debate on the use of the ocean.

The first University of the Sea training program took place in the Coral Sea – Arafura Sea region onboard the French research vessel Marion Dufresne between June 24 and July 8, 2005. The ship sailed from Port Moresby (PNG) to Darwin (Australia).
During this two-week period, twenty students representing ten countries [Australia, P.R. China, East Timor, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Sri Lanka] got “hands on” practical experience in both marine data collection and marine research problem solving. The students were under the supervision of Professor Patrick De Deckker (Australian National University) and Assoc. Professor Jock Keene (The University of Sydney).

The second University of the Sea training program took part in 2006 with the cruise departing from Auckland on February 7 and went via Noumea, to finish in Sydney on February 26. The shipboard programme was supervised by Drs Jock Keene and Julie Dickinson from the University of Sydney, Dr Greg Skilbeck from the University of Technology Sydney, and Professor Patrick De Deckker from the Australian National University. The University of the Sea students joined a research program developed by marine geoscientists from Geoscience Australia. It was part of their 'Lord Howe Rise Project' to evaluate the gas hydrates ('frozen' methane) in the sediments.
Geoscience Australia's survey was primarily involved in the collection of six giant CALYPSO piston cores over areas of possible gas hydrate (bottom simulating reflectors, BSRs) on the northern Lord Howe Rise. In addition to the coring program, swath, sub-bottom profiler, gravity and magnetometer data were collected on transits to and from the sampling sites. These data provided detailed information on the bathymetry and structure of the seafloor and underlying geology, particularly of the continental margin of central and northern New South Wales and of the eastern flank of the Lord Howe Rise. Also, a small number of dredge hauls were taken during the swath mapping on the eastern flank of the Rise.
For further details, visit the following site describing the 2 cruises held so far in 2005 and 2006.
http://uos.anu.edu.au

Deep-Sea Canyons and AUSCAN 2003
  Deep-sea canyons are among some of the most extraordinary topographic features on Earth, and these easily rival the dramatic cliffs and profiles of the Grand Canyon of the USA. The Australian landmass is bordered by numerous canyons, some of which are not even chartered on available maps, and they commence their descent to the abyss from the edge of the continental shelf. In our region, there are well over 50 canyons, most of which are located along the southern and western margins of Australia. It appears that the most spectacular canyons, thus far known in the Australia region, are located offshore Kangaroo Island, and these appear to be linked to ancient courses of the River Murray. More >>
Quaternary palaeoclimates of Australia and abroad
  Currently I work on lacustrine and deep-sea environments. I use as many proxies as possible to reconstruct past environments, but my strengths rely on the use of microfossils and also the geochemical composition of their shells/valves. I also rely on gathering as much information on modern-day environments and their biota in order to better understand past environments. More >>
The last 30,000 years of history of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool, with emphasis on the eastern Indian Ocean
  ABC science news story
Collaboration with colleagues: Sander van der Kaars (Monash), Hisa Okada (Hokkaido), Lena Maeda (Japan Geological Survey), François Guichard (CNRS/CEA, France), Franz Gingele (Baltic Sea Research Insitute), Tim Barrows (ANU), Martine Paterne (CNRS/CEA, France), Beverley Johnson (Bates College, USA), Shawn Stanley (AGSO, Canberra)
http://ems.anu.edu.au/people/patrick/sealevel

http://www.pages-igbp.org/ and click on Newletter, PEP II special issue, volume 9(2), July 2001, pages 4-5.
The late Quaternary history of the Tasman Sea in the vicinity of New Zealand
  Collaboration with Tim Barrows (ANU), Kerry Swanson and Gerrit van der Lingen (U. Canterbury, NZ), Scott Lehman (U. Colorado), Arne Sturm (Geomar, Germany)
The trace-elemental and stable-isotopic chemistry of waters at the confluence of the Southern-Pacific- Indian Oceans
  Collaboration with Anja Müller (Germany)
The trace-elemental and stable-isotopic chemistry of waters in the eastern Indian Ocean
   
The Australian Marine Quaternary Program led by Patrick De Deckker
   
The late Quaternary of the playa Lake Frome in northern South Australia
  Collaboration with John Magee
 
       
Publications  
       

PUBLICATIONS of Patrick DE DECKKER (updated:20 August 2006)

Only in referred journals or books; no abstracts listed here

GROUPING BY THEMES Patrick has a pdf version of nearly all the publications listed below [except for those listed in the ostracod taxonomy section], and these can be obtained on request.

PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY [55 papers]

2006

ELLWOOD, M. J., KELLY, M., MAHER, W. A., DE DECKKER, P. 2006. Germanium incorporation into sponge spicules: development of a proxy for reconstructing inorganic germanium and silicon concentration in seawater. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 243 (3-4): 749-759.

PELEJERO, C. CALVO, E., BARROWS, T.T., LOGAN, G.A., DE DECKKER, P. 2006. South Tasman Sea alkenone palaeothermometry over the last four glacial/interglacial cycles. Marine Geology 230, 73-86.

VAN DER KAARS, S., DE DECKKER, P., GINGELE F. X. 2006. A 100,000 year record of annual and seasonal rainfall and temperature for northwestern Australia based on a marine pollen record. Journal of Quaternary Science [proofs corrected]

REVEL-ROLLAND, M., DE DECKKER, P., DELMONTE, B., HESSE, P.P., MAGEE, J. W., BASILE-DOELSCH, I., GROUSSET, F., BOSCH, D. 2006. Eastern Australia: A possible source of dust in East Antarctica interglacial ice. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (proofs available on web)

BARROWS, T. T., JUGGINS, S., DE DECKKER, P., CALVO, E., PELEJERO, C. (In press). Long-term climate change in the Australian-New Zealand region. Paleoceanography

2005

GINGELE, F. X. & DE DECKKER, P. 2005. Late Quaternary fluctuations of palaeoproductivity in the Murray Canyons area, South Australian continental margin. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 220: 361-373.

HILL, P. J., DE DECKKER, P. & EXON, N. 2005. Geomorphology and evolution of the gigantic Murray Canyons on the Australian southern margin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52: 117-136.

MURGESE, S. D. & DE DECKKER, P. 2005. The distribution of deep-sea benthic foraminifer in core tops from the eastern Indian Ocean. Marine Micropaleontology 56, 25 - 49.

SPOONER, M. I., BARROWS, T. T., DE DECKKER, P., PATERNE, M. 2005. Palaeoceanography of the Banda Sea, and Late Pleistocene initiation of the Northwest Monsoon. Global and Planetary Change 49, 28-46

. DE DECKKER, P. 2005. Paleoclimatology in the Pacific Ocean: perspectives and suggestions. Assises de la Recherche franaise dans le Pacifique. Nouma 24-27 Aot 2004 pp. 163 166.

SADEKOV, A. Yu., EGGINS, S. M., DE DECKKER, P. 2005. Characterization of Mg/Ca distributions in planktonic foraminifera species by electron microprobe mapping, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 6, Q12P06, doi:10.1029/2005GC000973.

2004

DE DECKKER, P. 2004. On the celestite-secreting Acantharia and their effect on seawater strontium to calcium ratios. Hydrobiologia 517, 1-13.

OLLEY, J. M, DE DECKKER, P., ROBERTS R.G., FIFIELD, L.K., YOSHIDA, C. H. & G. HANCOCK. 2004. Optical dating of deep-sea sediments using single grains of quartz: a comparison with radiocarbon. Sedimentary Geology 169 175189.

HILL, P. & DE DECKKER, P. 2004. AUSCAN Seafloor Mapping and Geological Sampling Survey on the Australian Southern Margin by RV Marion Dufresne in 2003. Geoscience Australia Record 2004/04, 136pp.

CALVO, E., PELEJERO, C., LOGAN, G. A. & DE DECKKER, P. 2004. Dust-induced changes in phytoplankton composition in the Tasman Sea during the last four glacial cycles. Paleoceanography, 19, No. 2, PA2020 10.1029/2003PA000992

AYRESS, M. A., DE DECKKER, P. & COLES, G. P. 2004. A taxonomic and distributional survey of marine benthonic Ostracoda off Kerguelen and Hear Islands, South Indian Ocean. Journal of Micropalaeontology 23, 15-38.

GINGELE, F. X. & DE DECKKER, P. 2004. Fingerprinting Australias rivers with clay minerals and the application for the marine record of climate change. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 51:339-348.

GINGELE, F. X., DE DECKKER, P. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D., 2004. Late Quaternary terrigenous sediments from the Murray Canyons area, offshore South Australia and their implications for sea level change, palaeoclimate and palaeodrainage of the Murray-Darling Basin. Marine Geology. 212: 183-197

EGGINS, S. M., A. SADEKOV, A. Y. & DE DECKKER, P. 2004. Modulation and daily banding of Mg/Ca in foraminiferal calcite by symbiont photosynthesis and respiration: a complication for seawater thermometry? Earth and Planetary Science Letters 225, 411-419.

2003

VAN DER KAARS, S. & DE DECKKER, P. 2003. Pollen distribution in marine surface sediments offshore Western Australia. Palaeobototany and Palynolology 124, 113-129.

EGGINS, S. M., DE DECKKER, P. & MARSHAL, J. 2003. Mg/Ca variation in planktonic formaminifera tests: implications for reconstructing Palaeo-seawater temperature and habitat migration. Earth and Planetary Science 212, 291-306.

PELEJERO, C., CALVO, E., LOGAN, G. A., DE DECKKER, P. 2003. Marine Isotopic Stage 5e in the Southwest Pacific: Similarities with Antarctica and ENSO inferences. Geophysical Research Letters 30, no.23, 2185, doi:10.1029/2003GL018191.

EDGAR, N.T., CECIL, C.B., MATTICK, R., CHIVAS, A.R., DE DECKKER, P., YUSUF S. DJAJDIHARDJA. 2003, A modern analogue for tectonic, eustatic, and climatic processes in cratonic basins: Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia: in Cecil, C.B. and Edgar, N.T., eds., Climate Controls on Stratigraphy: Society for Sedimentary Geology, SEPM Special Publication 77, 193-205.

YOKOYAMA, Y., DE DECKKER, P., LAMBECK, K. 2003. Reply to Sea-level observations around the last Glacial Maximum from the Bonaparte Gulf, NW Australia by I. Shennan and G. Milne. Quaternary Science Reviews 22, 1549-1550.

MLLER, Anja & DE DECKKER, P., 2003. Magnesium, calcium and strontium in waters of the southern Tasman Sea at the confluence of the Indian, pacific and Southern Oceans. Marine and Freshwater Research 53, 1115-1128.

2002

MARTINEZ, J.I., DE DECKKER, P. & BURROWS, P. 2002. Palaeoceanography of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool during the Last Glacial Maximum: long-term climatic monitoring of the maritime continent - In: "Bridging Wallaces Line. The environmental and cultural history and dynamics of the SE-Asian-Australian region". (Eds. P. Kershaw, B. David, N. Tapper, D. Penny & J. Brown) Advances in Geoecology 34, 147-172 Catena-Verlag Publishers.

GINGELE, F.X., DE DECKKER, P., GIRAULT, A. & GUICHARD, F. 2002. High resolution history of the South Java Current during the last 80ka. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. .Palaeoecol. 183, 247-260.

DE DECKKER, P. 2002. A discussion on the possible significance of the Warm Pool on global oceanic circulation during the Late Quaternary. in Marine Environment: The Past, Present and Future (Ed. Chen-Tun, A. C.) , Sueichan Press, Taipei, pp. 1-8.

STANLEY, S., CHOPRA, P. & DE DECKKER, P., 2002. Sea level changes in SE Asia over the last 150,000 years. Implications for geographical settings and oceanic currents. Text and animation available at http://aedol.anu.edu.au/sealevel/commentary.html. but also in in Marine Environment: The Past, Present and Future (Ed. Chen-Tun, A. C.), Sueichan Press, Taipei, pp. 76-78.

DE DECKKER, P. & GINGELE, F. X.., 2002. On the occurrence of the giant diatom Ethmodiscus rex in a 80 ka record from a deep-sea core, southeast of Sumatra, Indonesia: implications for tropical palaeoeceanography Marine Geology 183, 31-43.

DE DECKKER, P., TAPPER, N.J. & VAN DER KAARS, S. 2002/3. The status of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and adjacent land at the Last Glacial Maximum. Global and Planetary Change 35, 25-35.

VAN DER KAARS, S. & DE DECKKER, P. 2002. A Late Quaternary pollen record from deep-sea core Fr10/95-GC17 offshore Cape Range Peninsula, northwestern Western Australia. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 120, 17-39.

2001

YOKOYAMA, Y., DE DECKKER, P., LAMBECK, K. & FIFIELD, L. K. 2001. Sea-level at the Last Glacial Maximum: evidence from northwestern Australia to constrain ice volumes for oxygen isotope 2. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 165: 281-297.

DE DECKKER, P. 2001. A discussion on the possible significance of the Warm Pool on global oceanic circulation during the Late Quaternary. in Marine Environment: The Past, Present and Future (Ed. Chen-Tun, A. C.) , Sueichan Press, Taipei, pp. 1-8.

GINGELE, F. X., DE DECKKER, P. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D., 2001. Clay mineral distribution in surface sediments between Indonesia and NW Australia - source and transport by ocean currents. Marine Geology 179: 135-146.

GINGELE, F. X., DE DECKKER, P. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D., 2001. Late Quaternary fluctuations of the Leeuwin Current and palaeoclimates on the adjacent land masses clay mineral evidence. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 48, 867-874.

ZHOU, W., HEAD, M. J., ZHISHENG, A., DE DECKKER, P., LIU, Z., LIU, X., LIU, X., DONAHUE, D., JULL, A. J. T., BECK. J. W. &. 2001. Tropical evidence for a spatial structure of tropical-polar interconnections during the Younger Dryas Episode. Earth Planet. Sc. Lett. 191, 231-239.

SUZUKI, A., GAGAN, M. K., DE DECKKER, P., OMURA, A., YUKINO, I. & KAWAHATA, H. 2001. Last Interglacial coral record of enhanced insolation seasonality and seawater 18O enrichment in the Ryuku Islands, the northwestern Pacific. J. Geophys. Res.. Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 19 , p. 3685-3688.

2000

BARROWS, T. T., JUGGINS, S., DE DECKKER, P., THIEDE, J. & MARTINEZ, J. I. 2000. Sea-surface temperatures of southwest Pacific Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum. Paleoceanography 15: 95-109.

YOKOYAMA, Y., LAMBECK, K., DE DECKKER, P., & FIFIELD, L. K. 2000. Timing of the Last Glacial Maximum from observed sea-level minima. Nature 406: 713-716.

1999

MARTINEZ, J.I., DE DECKKER, P. & BURROWS, P. 1999. Palaeoceanography of the Last Glacial Maximum in the eastern Indian Ocean: Planktonic foraminiferal evidence. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 147: 73-99.

NEES, S., ARMAND, L., DE DECKKER, P., LABRACHERIE, M. & PASSLOW, V. 1999. A diatom and benthic foraminiferal record from the South Tasman Rise (southeastern Indian Ocean): implications for palaeoceanographic changes for the last 200,000 years. Mar. Micropal. 38: 69-89.

1998

MARTINEZ, J.I., TAYLOR, L.C., DE DECKKER, P. & BURROWS, P. 1998. Planktonic foraminifera from the eastern Indian Ocean: distribution and ecology in relation to the Western Pacific Warm Pool. Marine Micropaleontology 34: 121-151.

1997

HIRAMATSU, C. & DE DECKKER, P. 1997. The calcareous nannoplankton assemblages of surface sediments in the Tasman and Coral Seas. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 131: 257-285.

HIRAMATSU, C. & DE DECKKER, P. 1997 The Late Quaternary nannoplankton assemblages of three cores from the Tasman Sea. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 131: 391-412.

CORREGE, T. & DE DECKKER, P. 1997 Faunal and geochemical evidence for change in intermediate water temperature and salinity in the western Coral Sea during the Late Quaternary. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 131: 183-205.

THIEDE, J. , NEES, S., SCHULTZ, H. & DE DECKKER, P. 1997 A study of oceanic surface circulation recorded on the seafloor of the southwest Pacific Ocean. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 131: 207-239.

RATHBURN, A.R., PICHON, J.J., AYRESS, M.A. & DE DECKKER, P. 1997 .Microfossil and stable-isotope evidence for changes in Late Holocene paleoproductivity and paleoceanographic conditions in the Prydz Bay region of Antarctica. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 131: 485-510.

DE DECKKER, P. 1997. Introduction to the special issue on the palaeoceanography of the Australasian region. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 131: 179-182. DE DECKKER, P. 1997. The significance of the oceans in the Australasian region with respect to global palaeoclimates. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 131: 511-515.

RATHBURN, A. E. & DE DECKKER, P. 1997. Magnesium and strontium compositions of Recent benthic foraminifera from the Coral Sea, Australia and Prydz Bay, Antarctica. Mar. Micropal. 32, 231-248.

MARTINEZ, J.I., DE DECKKER, P. & CHIVAS, A.R., 1997. New estimates for salinity changes in the Western Pacific Warm Pool during the Last Glacial Maximum: oxygen-isotope evidence. Mar. Micropal. 32, 311-340.

1996

HIRAMATSU, C. & DE DECKKER, P. 1996. The distribution of calcareous nannoplankton near the subtropical convergence, south of Tasmania, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research.47: 707-713.

1994

NEES, S. MARTINEZ, I., DE DECKKER, P. & AYRESS, M. 1994. A stable-isotope record for the Late Quaternary from the East Tasman Plateau. in Evolution of the Tasman Sea Basin (eds. van der Lingen, G., Swanson, K.M. & Muir, R.J.), pp. 197-202. Balkema, Rotterdam.

1991

DE DECKKER, P., CORREGE, T. & HEAD, M. J. 1991. Late Pleistocene record of eolian activity from tropical northeastern Australia suggesting the Younger Dryas is not an unusual climatic event. Geology 19: 602-605.

LIMNOLOGY, SALT LAKES (chemistry, biology, ecology) [8 papers]

2005

GINGELE, F. X. & DE DECKKER, P. 2005. Clay mineral, geochemical and Sr-Nd-isotopic fingerprinting of sediments in the Murray-Darling fluvial system, SE Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 52, 965-974.

2004

RADKE, L. C., JUGGINS, S., HALSE, S. A., DE DECKKER, P., FINSTON, T. 2003. Chemical diversity in south-eastern Australian saline lakes II: biotic implications. Marine and Freshwater Research 54, 895-912.

Pre-2000

DE DECKKER, P. & WILLIAMS, W.D. 1988. Physico-chemical limnology of eleven, mostly saline, permanent lakes in western Victoria, Australia. Hydrobiologia 162: 275- 286.

WILLIAMS, W. D., DE DECKKER, P. & SHIEL, R. J. 1998. The limnology of Lake Torrens, an episodic salt lake of central Australia, with particular reference to unique events in 1989. Hydrobiologia 384: 101-110.

DE DECKKER, P. & WILLIAMS, W.D. 1982. Chemical and biological features of Tasmanian salt lakes. Aust. J. Mar. Freshwat. Res. 33, 1127-1132.

GEDDES, M.C., DE DECKKER, P., WILLIAMS, W.D., MORTON, D. & TOPPING, M. 1981. On the chemistry and biota of some saline lakes in Western Australia. Hydrobiologia 82, 201-222.

DE DECKKER, P. 1981. Australian salt lakes: history, chemistry and biota - a review. Hydrobiologia 105, 231-244.

DE DECKKER, P. & GEDDES, M.C. 1980. The seasonal fauna of ephemeral saline lakes near the Coorong Lagoon, South Australia. Aust. J. Mar. Freshwat. Res. 31, 677-699.

OSTRACOD TAXONOMY AND ECOLOGY [28 papers]

2004-1974

DE DECKKER, P. 1974. Australocypris, a new ostracod genus from Australia. Aust. J. Zool. 22, 91-104.

DE DECKKER, P. 1975. Determination of an ostracod collection in elation to Australocypris (Cyprididae). Aust. J .Mar. Freshwat. Res. 26, 423-424.

DE DECKKER, P. 1976. Trigonocypris, a new ostracod genus from Queensland. Aust. J. Zool. 24, 145-157. DE DECKKER, P. 1977. The distribution of the "Giant" ostracods Family: Cyprididae Baird, 1845) endemic to Australia. Sixth Internat. Ostracod Symposium, 285-294, Junk, The Hague.

ROME, D.R. & DE DECKKER, P. 1977. Ostracodes du Lac Kivu. Mem. Inst. Geol. Louvain 9, 241-287.

DE DECKKER, P. & JONES, P.J. 1978. Check list of Ostracoda from Australia and Papua New Guinea. Rep. Bur. Min. Res.195, 1-184.

DE DECKKER, P. 1978. Comparative morphology and review of Australian Mytilocypridinid ostracods. Aust. J. Zool. (suppl. ser.) 58, 1-62.

DE DECKKER, P. 1978. Comparative morphology and review of Australian Notodromadinae. Senck. biologica 59, 417-463.

DE DECKKER, P. 1979. Ostracods from the Mound Springs area between Strangways and Curdimurka, South Australia. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust.103, 155-168.

DE DECKKER, P. 1979. Evaluation of features distinctive in the taxomony of the Cypridacea, above the generic level. Proc. VII Int. Symp. Ostracodes, 9-17, Serbian Geological Society.

DE DECKKER, P. 1980. On Scottia audax. Stereo Atlas of Ostracod Shells 7, 37-44.

DE DECKKER, P. 1981. Ostracods from athalassic salt lakes: a review. Hydrobiologia 81, 131-144. DE DECKKER, P. 1981. Taxonomic notes on some Australian non-marine ostracods with description of new species. Zoologica Scripta 10, 37-55.

DE DECKKER, P. 1981. Ostracoda from Australian inland waters - Notes on taxonomy and ecology. Proc. R. Soc. Vict. 93, 43-85.

DE DECKKER, P. 1981. Taxonomy and ecological notes for some ostracods from Australian waters. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 105, 91-138.

DE DECKKER, P. 1981. On Eucypris fontana (Graf 1931). Stereo Atlas of Ostracod Shells 8, 87-92.

DE DECKKER, P. 1981. On Reticypris pinguis De Deckker 1981. Stereo Atlas of Ostracod Shells 8, 93-99.

DE DECKKER, P. 1981. On Notiocypridopsis frigogena (Graf 1931). Stereo Atlas of Ostracod Shells 8, 101-106.

DE DECKKER, P. & MCKENZIE, K.G. 1981. Bennelongia, a new cyprididid ostracod from Australasia. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 105, 53-58.

DE DECKKER, P. 1982. On Bennelongia tunta De Deckker. Stereo Atlas of Ostracod Shells 9, 117-124.

DE DECKKER, P. 1982. On Cypretta yaplinga De Deckker. Stereo Atlas of Ostracod Shells 9, 133-140.

DE DECKKER, P. 1982. On Caboncypris nunkeri De Deckker. Stereo Atlas of Ostracod Shells 9, 125-132.

DE DECKKER, P. 1983. Terrestrial ostracods in Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 18, 87-100.

DE DECKKER P. 1983. Notes on the ecology and distribution of ostracods in Australia. Hydrobiologia 106, 223-234.

DE DECKKER, P. & WOUTERS, K. 1983. On Tanganyikacypris matthesi Kiss. Stereo Atlas of Ostracod Shells 10, 139-149.

MARTENS, K., DE DECKKER, P. & MARPLES, T.G. 1985. Life history of Mytilocypris henricae (Crustacea: Ostracoda). Aust. J. Mar. Freshwat. Res. 36, 807-819.

WOUTERS, K., MARTENS, K. & DE DECKKER, P. 1989. On the systematic position of Tanganyikacypris Kiss, 1961, a description of I. staffersi sp.n. (Crustacea Ostracoda). Cour. Senck. 113, 177-186.

MARTENS, K., DE DECKKER, P. & ROSETTI, G. 2004. On a new terrestrial genus and species of Scottiinae (Crustacea, Ostracoda)from Australia, with a discussion on the phylogeny and the zoogeography of the subfamily. Zoologisher Anzeiger 243: 21-36

PALAEOLIMNOLOGY-QUATERNARY PALAEOENVIRONMENTS & GEOLOGY [21 papers]

2003

STANLEY, S. & DE DECKKER, P., 2002. A Holocene record of allochthonous mineral grains into an Australian alpine lake; implications for the history of climate change in southeast Australia. Journal of Paleolimnology 27: 207-219.

2001

DE DECKKER, P. 2001. Late Quaternary cyclic aridity in tropical Australia. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 170: 1-9

1999

HEAD, M. J., DE DECKKER, P., & LAWSON E. M., 1999. The use of natural 14C as a tracer to identify the incorporation of younger material into the organic component of sediments from the Carpentaria Basin, Australia. IAEA - TECDOC - 1094. Proc. Marine Pollution Symposium, Monaco, October1998. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, pp.226-230.

1991

WILLIAMS, M.A.J., DE DECKKER,P., ADAMSON, D.A. & TALBOT, M.R. 1991. Episodic fluviatile, lacustrine and aeolian sedimentation in a late Quaternary desert margin system, central western New South Wales. in Williams, M.A.J., De Deckker, P. & Kershaw, A. P. (eds.) The Cainozoic in Australia: a re-appraisal of the evidence" Geol. Soc. Aust. Spec. Public. 18: 258-287.

DE DECKKER, P., KISS, E. & CHIVAS, A.R. 1991. The suitability of lakes on the Windmill Islands in Antarctica for palaeolimnological studies.in Quaternary Research In Australian Antarctica: Future Directions. (Gillieson, D.S. & Fitzsimons, S. eds.) Special Publication No.3, pp.69-77, Department of Geography and Oceanography, University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.

1990

NORMAN, M.D. & DE DECKKER, P. 1990. Trace metals in lacustrine and marine sediments: a case study from the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia. Chemical Geology 82 (3/4) 299-318.

GIBERT, E., ARNOLD, M., CONRAD, G., DE DECKKER, P., FONTES, L.C., GASSE, F., & KASSIR, A. 1990. Retour des conditions humides au Tardiglaciaire au Sahara septentrional (sebkha Mellala, Algrie). Bull. Soc. gol. France 1990, t. VI (3): 497-504.

LAST, W.M. & DE DECKKER, P. 1990. Modern and Holocene carbonate sedimentology of two saline volcanic maar lakes, southern Australia. Sedimentology 37: 967-981.

EDNEY, P.A., KERSHAW, A.P. & DE DECKKER, P. 1990. A Late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and environmental record from Lake Wangoom, Western Plains of Victoria, Australia. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 80: 325-343.

1989

DE DECKKER, P. & LAST, W.M. 1989. Modern dolomite in continental, saline playa lakes in western Victoria, Australia. Sed. Geol. .64, 223-238.

D'COSTA, D.M., EDNEY, P., KERSHAW, A.P. & DE DECKKER, P. 1989. Late Quaternary palaeoecology of Tower Hill, Victoria, Australia. J. Biogeography.116, 461-482.

1998

DE DECKKER, P. 1988. Large Australian lakes during the last 20 million years - sites for petroleum source rocks or metal deposition, or both? In Fleet, A., Kelts, K. & Talbot, M. (eds.)."Lacustrine Petroleum Source Rocks" Geol. Soc .Spec .Public. 40, 45-58.

DE DECKKER, P. & LAST, W.M. 1988. A new continental region of modern dolomite deposition in western Victoria, Australia. Geology 16, 29-32. DE DECKKER, P. 1988. Biological and sedimentary facies of Australian salt lakes. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 62, 237-270.

DE DECKKER, P. & FORESTER, R.M. 1988. The use of ostracods to reconstruct continental palaeoenvironmental records. In De Deckker, P., Colin, J.P. and Peypouquet, J.P. (eds) "Ostracoda in the Earth Sciences", Elsevier pp. 175-199.

DE DECKKER, P., KERSHAW, A.P. & WILLIAMS, M.A.J. 1988. Past environmental analogues. In Pearman, G.I. (ed). " Greenhouse .Planning or climate change", CSIRO & E.J. Brill Publishers, 473-488.

TORGERSEN, T., LULY, J., DE DECKKER, P., JONES,M.R., SEARLE, D.E., CHIVAS, A.R. & ULLMAN, W.J. 1988. Late Quaternary environments of the Carpentaria Basin. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 67,245-261.

1987

DE DECKKER, P. 1987. What happened to the aquatic biota in Australia 18,000 years ago? In De Deckker, P. & Williams, W.D. 'Limnology in Australia'. CSIRO Publ. Melbourne & Junk, Dordrecht, 487-496.

GASSE, F., FONTES, J.C., PLAZIAT, J.C., CARBONEL, P., KACZMARSKA, I., DE DECKKER, P., SOULIE-MARSCHE, I., CALLOT, Y. & DUPEUPLE, P.A. 1987. Biological remains, geochemistry and stable isotopes for the reconstruction of environmental and hydrological changes in the Holocene lakes from North Sahara. Palaeogeogr .Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 60, 1-46.

1986

TORGERSEN, T., DE DECKKER, P., CHIVAS, A.R. & BOWLER, J.M. 1986. Salt lakes; a discussion of processes influencing palaeoenvironmental interpretation and recommendations for future study. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 54, 7-19.

CHIVAS, A.R., DE DECKKER, P., NIND, M., THIRIET, D. & WATSON, G. 1986. The Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental record of Lake Buchanan: an atypical Australian playa. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 54, 131-152.

OSTRACOD PALAEOECOLOGY - QUATERNARY PALAEO-ENVIRONMENTS [10 papers]

2002

DE DECKKER P., 2002. Ostracod palaeoecology, In: Applications of the Ostracoda in Quaternary Research (Holmes, J.& Chivas, A. R. Eds), American Geophysical Monograph, 131, 121-134.

1992

LAST, W.M. & DE DECKKER, P. 1992. Paleohydrology and paleochemistry of Lake Beeac, a saline playa in southern Australia. In: Aquatic ecosystems in semi-arid regions: implications for resource management. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, (Robarts, R.D. & Bothwell, M.L. Eds.) N.H.T.I. Symposium Series 7, Environment Canada, Saskatoon, 63-74.

1988

DE DECKKER, P. 1988. An account of the techniques using ostracodes in palaeolimnology in Australia. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 62, 463-475.

1987

ANADON, P., JULIA, R., DE DECKKER, P., ROSSO, J.C. & SOULIE MARSCHE, I. 1987. Contribucion a la paleolimnologia del Pleistoceno inferior de la cuenca da Baza (Sector Orce-Venta Micena). Paleont. I Evol., Mem. Esp. 1, 35-72.

1986

ANADON, P., DE DECKKER, P. & JULIA, R. 1986. The Pleistocene lake deposits of the Baza Basin (S.E. Spain): Salinity variations and ostracod succession. Hydrobiologia 143, 199-208

1983

DE DECKKER, P. 1983. The limnological and climatic environment of modern ostracodes in Australia - a basis for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Proc. 8th Intern. Symp. Ostracoda in Maddocks, R.F. ed., University of Houston, 250-254.

1982

DE DECKKER, P.1982. Non-marine ostracods from two Quaternary profiles at Pulbeena and Mowbray Swamps, Tasmania. Alcheringa 6, 305-318.

DE DECKKER, P. 1982. Late Quaternary ostracods from Lake George, New South Wales. Alcheringa, 6, 305-318.

DE DECKKER, P. 1982. Holocene history of four maar lakes in SE Australia, illustrated by the recovery of ostracods and other invertebrate and fish remains. Proc. R. Soc. Vict. 94, 183-220.

1979

DE DECKKER, P. 1979. The Middle Pleistocene ostracod fauna of the West Runton Freshwater Bed, near Cromer, Norfolk. Palaeontology 22, 293-316.

GEOCHEMISTRY OF OSTRACOD SHELLS [15 papers]

2003

ITO, E., DE DECKKER, P., EGGINS, S. M. 2003. Ostracodes and their shell chemistry: implications for paleohydrologic and palaeoclimatologic applications. In: Park, L. E. and Smith, A. J.: Bridging the gap. Trends in the Ostracode Biological and Geological Sciences. The Paleontological Papers, volume 9, pp. 119-151 [Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA].

2002

CHIVAS, A R, DE DECKKER P., WANG, S & CALI, J., 2002. Oxygen-isotope systematics of the nektic ostracod Australocypris robusta. In: Applications of the Ostracoda in Quaternary Research (Holmes, J. & Chivas, A. R. Eds), American Geophysical Monograph, 131: 301-313.

1999

DE DECKKER, P., CHIVAS, A.R. & SHELLEY, J.M.G.. 1999. The uptake of Mg and Sr in the euryhaline ostracod Cyprideis determined from in vitro experiments. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 148: 105-116.

1998

WANSARD, G., DE DECKKER, P. & JULIA, R. 1998. On the combination of partition coefficients D(Sr) and D(Mg) in lacustrine ostracods for use in palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Chemical Geology 146: 39-54.

INGRAM, B. L., DE DECKKER, P., CHIVAS, A. R., BYRNE, A. R., & CONRAD, M. E. 1998 Stable isotopes and trace-elemental composition of marsh sediments: Late Holocene paleoenvironmental change in Northern California. Geochemica Cosmochimica Acta. 62: 3229-3237.

1993

CHIVAS,A.R., DE DECKKER, P., CALI, J.A., CHAPMAN, A., KISS, E.& SHELLEY, J.M.G. 1993. Coupled stable-isotope and trace-element measurements of lacustrine carbonates as paleoclimatic indicators. Am. Geophys. Mon. 78, 113-121.

DE DECKKER, P. & WILLIAMS, M.A.J. 1993. Lacustrine paleoenvironments of the Area of Bir Sahara Tarfawi Sahara East reconstructed from fossil ostracods and the chemistry of their shells. In: Egypt during the Last Interglacial. The Middle Paleolithic of Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East. (eds. Wendorf, F., Schild, R., Close, A.E, and associates), 115-119. Plenum Press, New York.

1989

McCULLOCH,M.T., DE DECKKER, P. & CHIVAS,A.R. 1989. Strontium isotope variations in single ostracod valves from the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia: a palaeoenvironmental indicator. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 53, 1703-1710.

McCULLOCH,M.T. & DE DECKKER, P. 1989. Sr isotopic constraints on the evolution of the Mediterranean Basin during the Messinian "salinity crisis" Nature 342, 62-65.

1988

DE DECKKER, P., CHIVAS, A.R. & SHELLEY, J.M.G. 1988. Ostracod shell chemistry: a new palaeoenvironmental indicator applied to a regressive/transgressive record from the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 66,231-241.

DE DECKKER, P., CHIVAS, A.R. & SHELLEY, J.M.G. 1988. Paleoenvironment of the Messinian Mediterranean "Lago Mare" from strontium and magnesium in ostracode shells. Palaios 3, 352-358.

1986

CHIVAS, A.R., DE DECKKER, P. & SHELLEY, J.M.G. 1986. Magnesium content of non-marine ostracod shellls; a new palaeosalinometer and palaeothermometer. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 54, 43-61.

CHIVAS, A.R., DE DECKKER, P. & SHELLEY, J.M.G. 1986. Magnesium and strontium in non-marine ostracods as indicators of palaeosalinity and palaeotemperature. Hydrobiologia 143, 135-142.

1985

CHIVAS, A.R., DE DECKKER, P. & SHELLEY, J.M.G. 1985. Strontium content of ostracods indicates lacustrine palaeosalinity. Nature 316, 251-253.

1983

CHIVAS, A.R., DE DECKKER, P. & SHELLEY, J.M.G. 1983. Mg, Sr and Ba partitioning in non-marine ostracode shells and its use in paleoenvironmental reconstructions - a preliminary study. In Maddocks, R.F. (ed.) Applications of Ostracoda. University of Houston Geoscience, Houston, 238-249..

PALAEOENVIRONMENT RECONSTRUCTIONS BASED ON FOSSILS (forams, conodonts, charophytes, etc.) PRINCIPALLY QUATERNARY [11 papers]

1996

BROUWERS, E.M. & DE DECKKER, P. 1996. Earliest origins of northern hemisphere temperate nonmarine ostracode taxa: evolutionary development and survival through the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary mass extinction event. In: Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinctions: biotic and environmental changes. McLeod, N. & Keller, G. (eds), 205-230, Norton Publishers.

1994

GELL, P.A., BAKER, P.A., DE DECKKER, P., LAST, W.M. & JELICIC, L. 1994. The Holocene history of West Basin Lake, Victoria, Australia: chemical changes based on fossil biota and sediment mineralogy. Jour. Palaeolimnol. 12: 235-258.

1993

BROUWERS, E.M. & DE DECKKER, P. 1993. Late Maastrichtian and Danian faunas from Northern Alaska: Reconstructions of environment and biogeography. Palaios 8, 140-154.

1991

CANN, J.H., DE DECKKER, P. & MURRAY-WALLACE, C.V.1991. Coastal aboriginal shell middens and their palaeoenvironmental significance, Robe Range, South Australia. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 115, 161-175.

1983

DE DECKKER, P. 1983. The history of four closely located maar lakes in central Victoria during the Holocene. In: Proceedings of the First CLIMANZ conference, Howman's Gap, Victoria. Australian National University, 94-96.

1982

DE DECKKER, P. 1982. Australian habitats and biota: their suitability for palaeolimnological investigation. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 106, 145-153.

DE DECKKER, P., BAULD, J. & BURNE, R.V. 1982. Pilie Lake, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia; modern environment and biota, dolomite sedimentation, and Holocene history. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 106, 169-181.

1981

CANN, J.H. & DE DECKKER, P. 1981. Fossil Quaternary and living foraminifera from athalassic (non-marine) saline lakes, southern Australia. J. Pal .55, 660-670.

1980

BURNE, R.V., BAULD, J. & DE DECKKER, P. 1980. Saline charophytes and their geological significance. J. Sed. Pet. 50, 281-293.

1979

DE DECKKER, P., GEURTS, M.A. & JULIA, R . 1979. Seasonal rhythmites in a Lower Pleistocene lake in NE Spain. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 26, 43-71.

1976

DE DECKKER, P. 1976. Late Silurian (Late Ludlovian) conodonts from the Kildrummie Formation, South of Rockley, New South Wales, J. Proc. R . Soc. N.S.W. 109, 56- 69

OTHERS [4 papers]

DE DECKKER, P. 2005. Preface: A Tribute to Bill Williams and his contribution to limnology. Hydrobiologia special issue 552, vii-x.

HUTCHINGS, P., DE DECKKER, P. & GEDDES, M.C. 1981. A new species of Manayunkia (Polychaeta) from ephemeral lakes near the Coorong, South Australia. Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 105, 25-28.

DE DECKKER, P. 1980. New records of Koonunga cursor Sayce 1908 (Syncarida, Anaspidacea). Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 104, 21-25.

DE DECKKER, P. 1976. Dom Remacle Rome (1893-1974). Abh. Verh. naturwiss. Ver. Hamburg (NF) 18/19, 145-147. 7

EDITED VOLUMES

RYDER, D., BOULTON, A. & DE DECKKER, P. (editors) 2005. Conservation and Management of Australias Water Resources: 20/20 Vision or Blind Faith. A Tribute to the late Bill Williams. Hydrobiologia [special issue] 552, 1-166.

MAGEE, J. W. & DE DECKKER, P. (editors) 2001. Australian Quaternary studies: a tribute to Jim Bowler. Special Issue of Quaternary International 83/85: 1-292.

DE DECKKER, P. & WILLIAMS, W. D. (editors) 1986. Limnology in Australia. CSIRO Publ. Melbourne, and Junk, Dordrecht., 671pp. DE DECKKER, P. 1997 (editor) "The Late Quaternary evolution of the o

WILLIAMS, M.A.J., DE DECKKER, P. & KERSHAW, A. P. (editors) 1991. The Cainozoic in Australia: a re-appraisal of the evidence" Geol. Soc. Aust. Spec. Public. 18: 1-346.

CHIVAS, A.R. & DE DECKKER, P. (editors) 1991. Palaeoenvironments of salt lakes. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 84 (1-4): 1-423.

DE DECKKER, P., COLIN, J.P. & PEYPOUQUET, J.P. 1988. (editors) "Ostracoda in the Earth Sciences" Elsevier, Amsterdam,pp.302.

1 1/2 BOOK CHAPTERS IN EACH OF THE FOLLOWING TEXTBOOKS BY:

WILLIAMS, M.A.J., DUNKERLEY, D.L., DE DECKKER, P., KERSHAW, A. P. & CHAPPELL, J. M.A., 1998. Quaternary Environments. Edward Arnold Publishers, 1-329. Second edition.

WILLIAMS, M.A.J., DUNKERLEY, D.L., DE DECKKER, P., KERSHAW, A. P. & STOKES, T., 1993. Quaternary Environments. Edward Arnold Publishers, 1-329. First edition.

 
   
Professional Activities  
  Patrick is also co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Palaeogeography , Palaeoclimatology , Palaeoecology
   
 
Students  
Marty Young (co-supervised with Prof. G. Hope)
Quaternary dinoflagellates from the Australasian region.( Thesis compleed and PhD awarded)
Davide Murgese (thesis completed, PhD awarded)
Deep-sea benthic foraminifera from the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool
Michelle Spooner
Planktonic foraminifera from the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (Thesis completed and being revised)
Daniel Wilkins (co-supervised by Drs J. Olley from CSIRO and L. K. Fifield from RSPhysE, ANU)
AMS and OSL dating of marine and lacustrine sediments

Christos Gouramanis
Ostracod palaeoecology and geochemistry from Holocene lacustrine sediments from southern Australia

Julie Trotter (co-supervised by Dr S. M. Eggins, RSES-ANU, Prof. C. Barnes, Victoria University, Canada and Dr R. Nicoll, Geology, ANU). De Deckker adviser only
Conodont geochemistry
Natalie Sinclair (co-supervised by Dr E. Monteil, Geoscience Australia and Dr E. M. Truswell, ANU)
Cretaceous palynomorphs from various exploration wells from the Australian region.
Robert Beattie (MSc parttime). The Permian insect fauna at Belmont, Newcastle, NSW.
 
   
Awards  
   
Australian Society for Limnology Medal
  Patrick was awarded the prestigious Australian Society Medal which commemorates Hilary Jolly, a founding member of the Australian Society for Limnology, and is presented to a person who in the opinion of the Society, has made an outstanding contribution to Australian Limnology.
Patrick’s award was received at the Society’s annual meeting in Hobart in December 2005. For more details, visit the following site: http://www.asl.org.au/about/asl_medal_recipients.htm
 
   
Curriculum Vitae  
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