Alexander Francke – The Conversation

Lake Couridjah, Thirlmere Lakes National Park in New South Wales. Shutterstock

September 21, 2022

We helped fill a major climate change knowledge gap, thanks to 130,000‑year‑old sediment in Sydney lakes

Alexander Francke, University of Adelaide; Anthony Dosseto, University of Wollongong; Haidee Cadd, University of Wollongong, and Tim Cohen, University of Wollongong

80% of carbon on land in stored in soil. Our new research investigated how erosion transports this carbon to the bottom of lakes, where it’ll never be released into the atmosphere.

Lake sediment tells an ancient story of trees, soil – and disaster. Dr. Niklas Leicher, University of Cologne

May 30, 2019

Trees, the ancient Macedonians, and the world’s first environmental disaster

Anthony Dosseto, University of Wollongong and Alexander Francke, University of Wollongong

Thousands of years of history tells the same story over and over: you ignore soil at your peril.

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