Kelly-Anne Lawler

PhD Candidate - Research School of Earth Sciences

The Australian National University

Biography

I am a PhD candidate in the Palaeoenvironments Group at the Research School of Earth Sciences,The Australian National University. I received a Bachelor of Science (Statistics) and Master of Research (Palaeobiology) from Macquarie University, where I also worked as a research assistant and tutor for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and as the administrator for the Macquarie University Marine Research Centre.

I have participated in three Southern Ocean seafloor coring voyages as a member of the science party on the Australian vessel R/V Investigator, and the French ship R/V Marion Dufresne II.

My PhD research focuses on using radiolarians to reconstruct Quaternary Southern Ocean palaeoclimate parameters in the Sabrina Coast region of East Antarctica.

Interests

Southern Ocean Radiolaria
Data Science
Science Communication

Education

PhD Candidate - Research School of Earth Sciences, 2019 - Present

The Australian National University
MRes - Department of Biological Sciences, 2018

Macquarie University
BSc - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 2016

Macquarie University

Projects

Sabrina Coast Radiolarians

Quantifying Sabrina Coast radiolarian assemblages.

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Southern Ocean Radiolarian Biogeography

Defining Southern Ocean Radiolarian Biogeographic Provinces.

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Publications & Reports

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Understanding glacial/interglacial changes in Southern Ocean sea ice

The Cycles of Sea-Ice Dynamics in the Earth System (C-SIDE) working group conducted its second three-day workshop which brought …

Matthew Chadwick, J.Jones, Kelly-Anne Lawler, Joe Prebble, Karen E. Kohfeld, Xavier Crosta

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Understanding glacial/interglacial changes in Southern Ocean sea ice

Radiolarian-based Quaternary palaeoclimate reconstructions of the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica

Understanding past Southern Ocean climate is important for predicting future climate scenarios. Siliceous microfossil tests preserved …

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Radiolarian-based Quaternary palaeoclimate reconstructions of the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica

Interactions of the Totten Glacier with the Southern Ocean through multiple glacial cycles (IN2017-V01):Post-survey report

The Sabrina Sea Floor Survey was a major marine geoscience expedition to the Antarctic margin which took place between 14 January and 7 …

Leanne K. Armand, P.E. O’Brien, On-board Scientific Party

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Interactions of the Totten Glacier with the Southern Ocean through multiple glacial cycles (IN2017-V01):Post-survey report

Indices based on silicoflagellate assemblages offer potential for paleo-reconstructions of the main oceanographic zones of the Southern Ocean

This study reports detailed silicoflagellate assemblage composition and annual seasonal flux from sediment traps at four locations …

Andrés S. Rigual-Hernández, Thomas W. Trull, Kevin McMartney, Anne-Marie Ballegeer, Kelly-Anne Lawler, Stephen G. Bray, Leanne K. Armand

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Indices based on silicoflagellate assemblages offer potential for paleo-reconstructions of the main oceanographic zones of the Southern Ocean

Data

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Diatom species of the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean, Ver. 1

The collection aims to showcase the range of Southern Ocean diatom species found in the major hydrological provinces of the Australian …

Andrés S. Rigual-Hernández, Leanne K. Armand, Thomas W. Trull, Stephen G. Bray, Jessica Wilks, Kelly-Anne Lawler, Anne-Marie Ballegeer

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Diatom species of the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean, Ver. 1

Recent Posts

Kelly-Anne Lawler

Last updated on Jul 2, 2020

ACCLIMATE-2

In February 2020 I took part in the ACCLIMATE-2 voyage as a member of the science party on-board the R/V Marion Dufresne II. The voyage departed from Durban, South Africa and spent three weeks at sea, retreiving cores from the seafloor.

Last updated on Jul 2, 2020

The Sabrina Seafloor Survey

For 53 days in early 2017, the R/V Investigator sailed from Hobart, Australia, to the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica, and back again. We spent six-weeks surveying the Sabrina Coast seafloor, and collected thousands of water and sediment samples, in a bid to better understand how the Southern Ocean and the nearby Totten Glacier have interacted over multiple glacial cycles, and to investigate the seafloor habitat of benthic organisms.