Dr Kevin Welsh
Senior Lect: Sedimentology&Paleocli
School of the Environment
+61 7 336 58379
Journal Articles
Macalalad, Joan, Welsh, Kevin, Hofmann, Harald, Jacobsen, Geraldine, Ni, Zhenyu and Zhang, Enlou (2025). Last Glacial Maximum and deglacial branched GDGT‐based palaeotemperature reconstruction from a subtropical Australian wetland. Journal of Quaternary Science jqs.70017. doi: 10.1002/jqs.70017
Shulmeister, J., Rittenour, T. M., Patton, N. R., Ellerton, D., Gontz, A., Hesp, P. A., Santini, T., Miot da Silva, G., Forman, S., Bowyer, H., Kelly, J. T., McCallum, A. and Welsh, K. (2024). Chronology and evolution of the world's largest sand island: K'gari (Fraser Island), South East Queensland, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 328 108529, 108529. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108529
Ellerton, D., Rittenour, T. M., Shulmeister, J., Roberts, A. P., Miot da Silva, G., Gontz, A., Hesp, P. A., Moss, P., Patton, N., Santini, T., Welsh, K. and Zhao, X. (2022). Fraser Island (K'gari) and initiation of the Great Barrier Reef linked by Middle Pleistocene sea-level change. Nature Geoscience, 15 (12), 1-25. doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-01062-6
Hanson, Johanna M., Welsh, Kevin J, Moss, Patrick T and Gadd, Patricia (2022). Implications of sea level variability on the formation and evolution of subtropical Rainbow Beach patterned fen complexes, Queensland, Australia. The Holocene, 33 (1), 49-60. doi: 10.1177/09596836221126120
Hanson, Johanna M., Vandergragt, Maria L., Welsh, Kevin J. and Moss, Patrick T. (2021). Variations in wetland conditions within the Fitzroy Basin, north-eastern Australia: a palaeoecological approach. Marine and Freshwater Research, 73 (1), 35-47. doi: 10.1071/MF21082
Scullett-Dean, G., Shulmeister, J., Welsh, K. J. and Santini, T. C. (2020). Mineralogical and chemical markers of fire exposure in ancient, sandy podzols. Catena, 195 104820, 104820. doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2020.104820
Ellerton, D., Rittenour, T., Shulmeister, J., Gontz, A., Welsh, K. J. and Patton, N. (2020). An 800 kyr record of dune emplacement in relationship to high sea level forcing, Cooloola Sand Mass, Queensland, Australia. Geomorphology, 354 106999, 106999. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.106999
Leonard, N. D., Welsh, K. J., Nguyen, A. D., Sadler, J., Pandolfi, J. M., Clark, T. R., Zhao, J. X., Feng, Y. X. and Webb, G. E. (2019). High resolution geochemical analysis of massive Porites spp. corals from the Wet Tropics, Great Barrier Reef: rare earth elements, yttrium and barium as indicators of terrigenous input. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 149 110634, 110634. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110634
Wilson, David J., Bertram, Rachel A., Needham, Emma F., van de Flierdt, Tina, Welsh, Kevin J., McKay, Robert M., Mazumder, Anannya, Riesselman, Christina R., Jimenez-Espejo, Francisco J. and Escutia, Carlota (2018). Ice loss from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet during late Pleistocene interglacials. Nature, 561 (7723), 383-+. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0501-8
Verdel, Charles, Phelps, Britta and Welsh, Kevin (2018). Rare earth element and 87Sr/86Sr step-leaching geochemistry of central Australian Neoproterozoic carbonate. Precambrian Research, 310, 229-242. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.02.014
Leonard, N. D., Welsh, K. J., Clark, T. R., Feng, Y. X., Pandolfi, J. M. and Zhao, J. X. (2018). New evidence for “far-field” Holocene sea level oscillations and links to global climate records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 487, 67-73. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.02.008
Ellerton, Daniel, Rittenour, Tammy, Miot da Silva, Graziela, Gontz, Allen, Shulmeister, James, Hesp, Patrick, Santini, Talitha C. and Welsh, Kevin J. (2018). Late-Holocene cliff-top blowout activation and evolution in the Cooloola Sand Mass, south-east Queensland, Australia. Holocene, 28 (11), 1697-1711. doi: 10.1177/0959683618788679
Madden, Robert H. C., Wilson, Moyra E. J., Mihaljević, Morana, Pandolfi, John M. and Welsh, Kevin (2017). Unravelling the depositional origins and diagenetic alteration of carbonate breccias. Sedimentary Geology, 357, 33-52. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.05.002
Mihaljevic, Morana , Korpanty, Chelsea , Renema, Willem , Welsh, Kevin and Pandolfi, John M. (2017). Identifying patterns and drivers of coral diversity in the Central Indo-Pacific marine biodiversity hotspot. Paleobiology, 43 (3), 343-364. doi: 10.1017/pab.2017.1
Syme, Caitlin E., Welsh, Kevin J., Roberts, Eric M. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2016). Depositional environment of the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) Winton formation at Isisford, central-west Queensland, Australia, inferred from sandstone concretions. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 86 (9), 1067-1082. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2016.67
Leonard, N. D., Welsh, K. J., Lough, J. M., Feng, Y., Pandolfi, J. M., Clark, T. R. and Zhao, J. (2016). Evidence of reduced mid-Holocene ENSO variance on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Paleoceanography, 31 (9), 1248-1260. doi: 10.1002/2016PA002967
Lowe, Kelsey M., Shulmeister, James, Feinberg, Joshua M., Manne, Tiina, Wallis, Lynley A. and Welsh, Kevin (2016). Using soil magnetic properties to determine the onset of Pleistocene human settlement at Gledswood Shelter 1, Northern Australia. Geoarchaeology, 31 (3), 211-228. doi: 10.1002/gea.21544
Leonard, Nicole D., Zhao, J.-X., Welsh, K.J., Feng, Y.-X., Smithers, S.G., Pandolfi, J.M. and Clark, T.R. (2015). Holocene sea level instability in the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia: high-precision U–Th dating of fossil microatolls. Coral Reefs, 35 (2), 1-15. doi: 10.1007/s00338-015-1384-x
Patterson, M. O., McKay, R., Naish, T., Escutia, C., Jimenez-Espejo, F. J., Raymo, M. E., Meyers, S. R., Tauxe, L., Brinkhuis, H., Klaus, A., Fehr, A., Bendle, J. A. P., Bijl, P. K., Bohaty, S. M., Carr, S. A., Dunbar, R. B., Flores, J. A., Gonzalez, J. J., Hayden, T. G., Iwai, M., Katsuki, K., Kong, G. S., Nakai, M., Olney, M. P., Passchier, S., Pekar, S. F., Pross, J., Riesselman, C. R., Rohl, U. ... Yamane, M. (2014). Orbital forcing of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene. Nature Geoscience, 7 (11), 841-847. doi: 10.1038/ngeo2273
Driscoll, Robin, Elliot, Mary, Russon, Tom, Welsh, Kevin, Yokoyama, Yusuke and Tudhope, Alexander (2014). ENSO reconstructions over the past 60 ka using giant clams (Tridacna sp.) from Papua New Guinea. Geophysical Research Letters, 41 (19), 6819-6825. doi: 10.1002/2014GL061446
Mihaljevic, Morana, Renema, Willem, Welsh, Kevin and Pandolfi, John M. (2014). Eocene-miocene shallow-water carbonate platforms and increased habitat diversity in Sarawak, Malaysia. Palaios, 29 (7), 378-391. doi: 10.2110/palo.2013.129
Bilj, Peter K., Bendle, James A. P., Bohtay, Steven M., Pross, Jörg, Schouten, Stefan, Tauxe, Lisa, Stickley, Catherine E., McKay, Robert M., Rohl, Ursula, Olney, Matthew, Sluijs, Appy, Escutia, Carlota, Brinkhius, Henk, Expedition 318 Scientists and Welsh, Kevin (2013). Eocene cooling linked to early flow across the Tasmanian Gateway. Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 (24), 9645-9650. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1220872110
Stocchi, Paolo, Escutia, Carlota, Houben, Alexander J. P., Vermeersen, Bert L. A., Bijl, Peter K., Brinkhuis, Henk, DeConto, Robert M., Galeotti, Simone, Passchier, Sandra, Pollard, David, Klaus, Adam, Fehr, Annick, Williams, Trevor, Bendle, James A. P., Bohaty, Steven M., Carr, Stephanie A., Dunbar, Robert B., Flores, Jose Abel, Gonzàlez, Jhon J., Hayden, Travis G., Iwai, Masao, Jimenez-Espejo, Francisco J., Katsuki, Kota, Kong, Gee Soo, McKay, Robert M., Nakai, Mutsumi, Olney, Matthew P, Pekar, Stephen F., Pross, Jörg ... Yamane, Masako (2013). Relative sea-level rise around East Antarctica during Oligocene glaciation. Nature Geoscience, 6 (5), 380-384. doi: 10.1038/ngeo1783
Houben, Alexander J. P., Bijl, Peter K., Pross, Jorg, Bohaty, Steven M., Passchier, Sandra, Stickely, Catherine E., Rhol, Ursula, Sugisaki, Saiko, Tauxe, Lisa, van der Fliert, Tina, Olney, Matthew, Sangiorgi, Francesca, Slujis, Appy, Escutia, Carlota, Brinkhuis, Henk, Expedition 318 Scientists and Welsh, Kevin (2013). Reorganization of Southern Ocean plankton ecosystem at the onset of Antarctic glaciation. Science, 340 (6130), 341-344. doi: 10.1126/science.1223646
Cook, Carys P., van de Flierdt, Tina, Williams, Trevor, Hemming, Sidney R., Iwai, Masao, Kobayashi, Munemasa, Jimenez-Espejo, Francisco J., Escutia, Carlota, Gonzalez, Jhon Jairo, Khim, Boo-Keun, McKay, Robert M., Passchier, Sandra, Bohaty, Stevem M., Riesselman, Christina R., Tauxe, Lisa, Sugisaki, Saiko, Galindo, Alberto Lopez, Patterson, Molly O., Sangiorgi, Francesca, Pierce, Elizabeth L., Brinkhuis, Henk, Klaus, Adam, Fehr, Annick, Bendle, James A. P., Bijl, Peter K., Carr, Stephanie a., Dunbar, Robert B., Flores, Jose Abel, Hayden, Travis G. ... Yamane, Masako (2013). Dynamic behaviour of the East Antarctic ice sheet during Pliocene warmth. Nature Geoscience, 6 (9), 765-769. doi: 10.1038/ngeo1889
Leonard, Nicole D., Welsh, Kevin J., Zhao, Jian-xin, Nothdurft, Luke D., Webb, Gregory E., Major, Josef, Feng, Yuexing and Price, Gilbert J. (2013). Mid-Holocene sea-level and coral reef demise: U-Th dating of subfossil corals in Moreton Bay, Australia. Holocene, 23 (12), 1841-1852. doi: 10.1177/0959683613508156
Pross,Jorg, Contreras, Lineth, Bijl, Peter K., Greenwood, David R., Bohaty, Steven M., Schouten, Stefan, Bendle, James A., Rohl, Ursula, Tauxe, Lisa, Raine, J. Ian, Huck, C Claire E., van de Flierdt, Tina, Jamieson, Stewart S. R., Stickley, Catherine E., van de Schootbrugge, Bas, Escutia, Carlota, Brinkhuis, Henk, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 318 Scientists and Welsh, Kevin (2012). Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch. Nature, 488 (7409), 73-77. doi: 10.1038/nature11300
Tauxe, L., Stickley, C. E., Sugisaki, S., Bijl, P. K., Bohaty, S. M., Brinkhuis, H., Escutia, C., Flores, J. A., Houben, A. J. P., Iwai, M., Jimenez-Espejo, F., McKay, R., Passchier, S., Pross, J., Riesselman, C. R., Rohl, U., Sangiorgi, F., Welsh, K., Klaus, A., Fehr, A., Bendle, J. A. P., Dunbar, R., Gonzalez, J., Hayden, T., Katsuki, K., Olney, M. P., Pekar, S. F., Shrivastava, P. K., van de Flierdt, T. ... Yamane, M. (2012). Chronostratigraphic framework for the IODP Expedition 318 cores from the Wilkes Lan Margin: constraints for paleoceanographic reconstruction. Paleoceanography, 27 (2) PA2214, PA2214.1-PA2214.19. doi: 10.1029/2012PA002308
Welsh, Kevin, Elliot, Mary, Tudhope, Alexander, Ayling, Bridget and Chappell, John (2011). Giant bivalves (Tridacna gigas) as recorders of ENSO variability. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 307 (3-4), 266-270. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.032
Expedition 318 Scientists and Welsh, Kevin (2010). Integrated Ocean Drilling Program: Expedition 318 preliminary report. Wilkes Land glacial history: Cenozoic East Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution from Wilkes Land margin sediments. 3 January–8 March 2010. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program: Preliminary Reports, 1 (318), 1-101. doi: 10.2204/iodp.pr.318.2010
Elliot, M., Welsh, K., Chilcott, C., McCulloch, M., Chappell, J. and Ayling, B. (2009). Profiles of trace elements and stable isotopes derived from giant long-lived Tridacna gigas bivalves : Potential applications in paleoclimate studies. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 280 (1-2), 132-142. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.06.007
Conference Paper
Macalalad, Joan, Welsh, Kevin, Hofmann, Harald, Krak, Dean and Moss, Patrick (2019). A New Late Glacial Record of Changing Hydrology in Subtropical Queensland Derived from Isotopes of Aquatic Cellulose. American Geophysical Union General Assembly, San Francisco, CA United States, 9-13 December 2019.