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Rate My Professor Russell Drysdale

University of Melbourne

#4,676 worldwide#4,564 in Australia

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4.08/20/2025

Fosters a love for lifelong learning.

4.05/21/2025

Encourages creative and innovative thinking.

5.03/31/2025

Inspires students to achieve their best.

4.02/27/2025

Always positive, enthusiastic, and supportive.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

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About Russell

Professor Russell Drysdale serves as Professor of Physical Geography in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences within the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne. He heads the Melbourne Stable Isotope Facility and specializes in palaeoclimatology, employing speleothems—cave minerals—as key archives for reconstructing past climates. His investigations target the nature, timing, and causes of ice-age terminations as well as millennial-scale climate changes throughout the Quaternary Period. Drysdale collaborates with geochronologists, palaeoceanographers, ice-core scientists, and palaeoclimate modellers to integrate speleothem records with ocean and insolation data, probing the drivers behind glacial terminations. Within Australia, his research emphasizes past hydrological variations in southern Australia and the monsoon tropics, assessing their connections to global climate disruptions.