Guest Speaker: Vanessa Nowinski - Earth and Environmental Science

PhD student, Vanessa Nowinski from The University Adelaide, was a guest speaker during the Stage 2 Earth and Environmental Science Lecture. Vanessa’s research ties in beautifully with the Stage 2 Earth and Environmental Science course. Her primary focus of her research is unravelling the mysteries of the past, specifically through analysing lake sediments from the very famous Lake Suigetsu in Japan. The lake is recognised for its remarkable chronology spanning an impressive 70,000 years, with many of the individual years being represented by a single layer of sediment. Vanessa’s PhD research involves reconstructing the palaeoclimate of the East Asian monsoon from the chemistry of these layers, specifically the stable isotopes.