UNSW Leaders in Science

Dr Scott Mooney
Associate Dean (Undergraduate Programs), Faculty of Science

Sir Robert Webster Building, Room 128
Phone: +61 2 9385 8063 - Fax: +61 2 9385 1558 - Email: s.mooney@unsw.edu.au

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Funding

1995    Special Research Grant, Faculty of Applied Science UNSW ($3800) in support of "Fire, erosion and productivity over the last 2,000 years in southeastern Australia".

1996    Special Research Grant, Faculty of Applied Science UNSW ($4000) to support the continuation of the 1995 SRG project.

1996    AINSE Special AMS Quaternary Grants 1996/97 series ($4020) to investigate "Faunal losses and recent environmental change at Bedourie SW Queensland".

1997    Allocation of $2,200 towards costs of radiocarbon dating to investigate rates of sedimentation in Dee Why Lagoon, Dee Why, NSW, from Warringah Council.

1998 Australian Research Council (ARC) Small Grants Scheme ($6,000) to support the project "The post-glacial history of vegetation, fire, erosion and productivity at Thirlmere Lakes".

2000    Involvement in ARC/DETYA Research Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (RIEF) Grant awarded to a consortium of geology departments. The project title is "Quaternary lake and estuary sediment retrieval and logging facility", total funds allocated $180,000.

2000    Involvement in University Capital Grants Scheme resulting in funding of $15,000 to support the 2001 RIEF Grant.

2001 University Research Support Program ($4000) to support the project "Palynological perspectives of Australian land-cover at 300 years BP".

2002 University Research Support Program ($10,360) to support the project "Vegetation, fire and humans during the late glacial in the Blue Mountains (Gooches Crater)".

2003 University of NSW Faculty Research Grants Program ($11,000) to support the project "Late-Twentieth Century ENSO variability in the context of Holocene climatic change".

2003 AINSE Award for AMS ¹⁴C dating associated with the project "A reconstruction of the fire history of coastal eastern Australia using fire scars on Xanthorrhoea: pre- and post-European fire frequency" (AINGRA03083).

2004 University of NSW Faculty Research Grants Program ($10,213) to support the project "The human, climate and fire nexus: a comparison of prehistoric fire history and Aboriginal site usage in the Sydney basin".

2005    University of NSW Faculty Research Grants Program ($8,600) to support the project "Archaeological sequences versus past fire activity: elucidation of the humans, climate and fire nexus".

2005 AINSE Award for AMS ¹⁴C dating ($5,632) associated with the project "Archaeological sequences versus past fire activity: elucidation of the humans, climate and fire nexus" (AINGRA05122).

2006 Environmental Futures Network, Project Working Group ($79,000) for the project "Recent human impact on Australian ecosystems" 2005-2008. Project convenors: Peter Gell (U.Adel.), Scott Mooney (UNSW), Tim Denham (Monash).