Caroline Mather is a Lecturer in Environmental Sciences within the UWA School of Agriculture and Environment. A multidisciplinary scientist specializing in Earth, environmental, and climate science, she earned her PhD in Earth Science from The University of Western Australia in 2020, with a doctoral thesis titled "Dolomite Formation within Groundwater Systems of Arid Northwest Australia." She also holds a First Class BSc (Hons) in Geology and Environmental Geoscience from UWA, awarded in 2014. Before entering academia, Mather worked as an environmental geochemist in the mining industry, where she managed mine waste materials, water quality monitoring, and the assessment of environmental impacts from mining operations. Currently, she teaches units including GEOG1106: Climate Change and Society, ENVT5515: Environmental Management in Mining, and ENVT5517: Ecological Rehabilitation, drawing on her strong connections within the mining and petroleum sectors.

Her research interests encompass chemical sediments, palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimate research, Earth surface processes, geochemistry, hydrochemistry, mineralogy, arid and semi-arid environments, and environmental management and rehabilitation. Recent work focuses on generating palaeoclimate records from freshwater carbonate deposits and other archives in the Murujuga rock art province in Western Australia's Pilbara coast, elucidating past environmental conditions, freshwater availability, and climatic shifts influencing human occupation over the past approximately 65,000 years. Mather has authored or co-authored key publications such as "Characterisation of rock varnish at Murujuga (Western Australia): Implications for climate records and petroglyph dating" (Quaternary International, 2026), "Soil wetting and drying processes influence stone artefact distribution in clay-rich soils: A case study from Middle Gidley Island in Murujuga" (Archaeometry, 2025), and "A method to date rock engravings using luminescence – tested at Murujuga, Western Australia" (Quaternary Geochronology, 2024). She has received numerous grants, including multiple ANSTO awards for radiocarbon dating projects in Murujuga, participation as a collaborator in the ARC Linkage Project LP190100724 "Dating Murujuga's Dreaming," and earlier support from the AINSE Research Award and UWA's Robert and Maude Gledden Postgraduate Scholarship. Additionally, she serves as Secretary of the Australasian Quaternary Association, contributing to the Quaternary science community.

Professional Email: caroline.mather@uwa.edu.au