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Geoffrey Hope is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular involvement in Environmental Science. The subfields of study connected to their work include Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Anthropology, and Paleontology.

The main topics covered in Geoffrey Hope's work encompass:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Recent publications by Geoffrey Hope include:

  • Setting research priorities for effective management of a threatened ecosystem: Australian alpine and subalpine peatland, 2023, Conservation Science and Practice
  • Characterizing environmental change and species' histories from stratified faunal records in southeastern Australia: a regional review and a case study for the early to middle Holocene, 2020, Records of the Australian Museum
  • Fire, humans and climate as drivers of environmental change on Broughton Island, New South Wales, Australia, 2020, The Holocene
  • The effect of the introduction of livestock on the erosion of alpine soils: a comparison of five dating techniques applied to sediments of the Australian alpine Blue Lake, 2023, Journal of Paleolimnology
  • The Reconstruction of Hydroclimate Over the Past 3100 Years in South-Eastern Australia Using Testate Amoebae and Implications for Pacific Climatic Variability, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Geoffrey Hope frequently collaborates with several colleagues, including:

  • Scott Mooney
  • Xianglin Zheng
  • Jessica A. Rowland
  • Jessica C. Walsh
  • Matthew Beitzel

Their research has been published across various journals and venues, notably:

  • Conservation Science and Practice
  • Records of the Australian Museum
  • The Holocene
  • Journal of Paleolimnology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Late Quaternary climates of Australia and New Guinea

    J.M. Bowler;G.S. Hope;J.N. Jennings;G. Singh

  • Plant Migration and Climate Change

    L. F. Pitelka;R. H. Gardner;J. Ash;S. Berry

  • Tropical climates at the Last Glacial Maximum: a new synthesis of terrestrial palaeoclimate data. I. Vegetation, lake-levels and geochemistry

    I. Farrera;S. P. Harrison;I. C. Prentice;G. Ramstein

  • Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

    A.L. Daniau;P.J. Bartlein;S.P. Harrison;S.P. Harrison;I.C. Prentice;I.C. Prentice;I.C. Prentice

  • Late Quaternary fire regimes of Australasia

    S. Mooney;S. Harrison;P. Bartlein;A.-L. Daniau

  • Neogene paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change in southern temperate ecosystems — a southern perspective

    Vera Markgraf;Matt McGlone;Geoff Hope

  • Biomass burning in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea: natural and human induced fire events in the fossil record

    Simon G Haberle;Geoffrey S Hope;Sander van der Kaars

  • History of vegetation and habitat change in the Austral-Asian region

    Geoffrey S Hope;Peter Kershaw A Peter Kershaw;Sander van der Kaars;Sun Xiangjun

  • The Vegetational History of Mt Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea

    G. S. Hope

  • Pollen-based reconstructions of biome distributions for Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific (SEAPAC region) at 0, 6000 and 18,000 14C yr BP

    Elizabeth J. Pickett;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Geoff Hope;Kate Harle

  • Environmental change in the Baliem Valley, montane Irian Jaya, Republic of Indonesia

    S. G. Haberle;G. S. Hope;Y. Defretes;Irian Jaya

  • Pollen evidence for the transition of the Eastern Australian climate system from the post-glacial to the present-day ENSO mode

    Timme H. Donders;Simon G. Haberle;Geoffrey Hope;Friederike Wagner

  • Climate change, biodiversity conservation, and the role of protected areas: An Australian perspective

    Brendan G. Mackey;James E.M. Watson;Geoffrey Hope;Sandy Gilmore

  • Pleistocene occupation of New Guinea's highland and subalpine environments

    Andrew S. Fairbairn;Geoffrey S. Hope;Glenn R. Summerhayes

  • A long vegetation history from lowland Irian Jaya, Indonesia

    Geoffrey Hope;Jim Tulip

  • Widespread global peatland establishment and persistence over the last 130,000 y

    Claire C. Treat;Claire C. Treat;Thomas Kleinen;Nils Broothaerts;April S. Dalton

  • Environmental change in the Late Pleistocene and later Holocene at Wanda site, Soroako, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

    Geoffrey Hope

  • The Late Pleistocene and Holocene Vegetational History of Hunter Island, North-western Tasmania

    GS Hope

  • The stratigraphy and fire history of the Kutai Peatlands, Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Geoffrey Hope;Unna Chokkalingam;Syaiful Anwar

  • Sphagnum in peatlands of Australasia: Their distribution, utilisation and management

    Jennie Whinam;Geoffrey Hope;B R Clarkson;R Buxton

  • Late Quaternary vegetation history

    D. Walker;G. S. Hope

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon G. Haberle
Simon G. Haberle Australian National University
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading
Sander van der Kaars
Sander van der Kaars Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Claire C. Treat
Claire C. Treat Aarhus University
Charles Tarnocai
Charles Tarnocai Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Patrick Moss
Patrick Moss University of Queensland
Thomas A. Douglas
Thomas A. Douglas Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Victor Brovkin
Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society

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