Haidee Cadd – The Conversation

Lashmars Lagoon, Kangaroo Island. Quentin Chester

May 8, 2026

Lake mud reveals 7,000 years of Kangaroo Island’s complex fire history

Haidee Cadd, University of Wollongong; Jonathan Tyler, Adelaide University , and Lucinda Duxbury, University of Tasmania

Without First Nations people, Kangaroo Island has burned widely over the past 2,000 years as the climate got drier.

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October 31, 2024

Ancient mud reveals Australia’s burning history over the past 130,000 years – and shows a way through our fiery future

Michela Mariani, University of Nottingham; Anna Florin, Australian National University; Haidee Cadd, University of Wollongong; Matthew Adeleye, University of Cambridge, and Simon Connor, Australian National University

Indigenous land management in southeastern Australia halved forest shrub cover 6,000 years ago, reducing high-intensity bushfires

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.

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August 30, 2021

1,600 years ago, climate change hit the Australian Alps. We studied ancient lake mud to learn what happened

Zoë Thomas, UNSW ; Haidee Cadd, University of Wollongong, and Larissa Schneider, Australian National University

Australia’s alpine region warmed for about 600 years. What makes this climate change particularly interesting is that it bears striking similarity to today.

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February 25, 2020

The last ice age tells us why we need to care about a 2°C change in temperature

Alan N Williams, UNSW ; Christian Turney, UNSW ; Haidee Cadd, UNSW ; James Shulmeister, University of Canterbury; Michael Bird, James Cook University, and Zoë Thomas, UNSW

Perhaps 2°C doesn’t sound like much, but if you look through history, 2°C temperature changes have had huge effects on the planet and people.

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