Rate My Professor Caroline Mather

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.