Dr Katharine Grant
PhD Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, UK; MSc Earth Sciences, James Cook University, Australia; BSc (Hons) Marine Science with French, University of Southampton, UK
Postodoctoral Research Fellow
ANU College of Science
Research interests
Palaeoceanography
Palaeoclimatology
Marine Geoscience
***Please see my RSES webpage for my full profile:
https://earthsciences.anu.edu.au/people/academics/dr-katharine-grant
Publications
- Menviel, L, Govin, A, Avenas, A et al. 2021, 'Drivers of the evolution and amplitude of African Humid Periods', Communications Earth & Environment, vol. 2, no. 1.
- Qian, Y, Heslop, D, Roberts, AP, et al. 2021, 'Low-temperature magnetic properties of marine sediments — quantifying magnetofossils, superparamagnetism, and maghemitization: Eastern Mediterranean examples', Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 126, no. 9, pp. 1-22.
- Qian, Y, Heslop, D, Roberts, AP, Hu, PX, Zhao, X, Liu, Y, Li, JH, Grant, KM & Rohling, EJ 2021, 'Low-temperature magnetic properties of marine sediments — quantifying magnetofossils, superparamagnetism, and maghemitization: eastern Mediterranean examples', Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 126, e2021JB021793, doi:10.1029/2021JB021793.
- Wu, Y, Roberts, AP, Grant, KM, Heslop, D, Pillans, BJ, Zhao, X, Rohling, EJ, Ronge, TA, Ma, MM, Hesse, PP & Palmer, AS 2021, 'Climatically modulated dust inputs from New Zealand to the Southwest Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean over the last 410 kyr', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, vol. 36, e2020PA003949, doi:10.1029/2020PA003949.
- Satow, C, Grant, K, Wulf, S et al. 2020, 'Detection and Characterisation of Eemian Marine Tephra Layers within the Sapropel S5 Sediments of the Aegean and Levantine Seas', Quaternary, vol. 3, no. 1.
- Wulf, S, Keller, J, Satow, C et al. 2020, 'Advancing Santorini's tephrostratigraphy: New glass geochemical data and improved marine-terrestrial tephra correlations for the past ∼?360 kyrs', Earth-Science Reviews, vol. 200, pp. -.
- Qian, Y, Roberts, AP, Liu, Y, Hu, PX, Zhao, X, Heslop, D, Grant, KM, Rohling, EJ, Hennekam, R & Li, JH 2020, 'Assessment and integration of bulk and component-specific methods for identifying mineral magnetic assemblages in environmental magnetism', Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 125, e2019JB019024.
- Amies, J, Rohling, E, Grant, K et al. 2019, 'Quantification of African Monsoon Runoff During Last Interglacial Sapropel S5', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 1487-1516.
- Ellis, B, Grant, K, Mallela, J et al. 2019, 'Is XRF core scanning a viable method for coral palaeoclimate temperature reconstructions?', Quaternary International, vol. 514, pp. 97-107.
- Rohling, E, Marino, G, Grant, K et al 2019, 'A model for archaeologically relevant Holocene climate impacts in the Aegean-Levantine region (easternmost Mediterranean)', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 208, pp. 38-53.
- Rohling, EJ, Hibbert, FD, Grant, KM, Galaasen, EV, Irvali, N, Kleiven, HF, Marino, G, Ninneman, U, Roberts, AP, Rosenthal, Y, Schultz, H, Williams, FH & Yu, J 2019, 'Asynchronous Antarctic and Greenland ice-volume contributions to the last interglacial sea-level highstand', Nature Communications, vol. 10, 5040.
- Falster, G, Tyler, J, Grant, K et al 2018, 'Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 192, pp. 106-122pp.
- Falster, G, Tyler, J, Grant, K et al. 2018, 'Millennial-scale variability in south-east Australian hydroclimate between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 192, pp. 106-122.
- Rodriguez Sanz, L, Bernasconi, S, Marino, G et al 2017, 'Penultimate deglacial warming across the Mediterranean Sea revealed by clumped isotopes in foraminifera', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, pp. 1-11pp.
- Grant, K, Rohling, E, Westerhold, T et al 2017, 'A 3 million year index for North African humidity/aridity and the implication of potential pan-African Humid periods', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 171, no. Sep/17, pp. 100-118pp.
- Rohling, EJ, Hibbert, FD, Williams, FH, Grant, KM, Marino, G, Foster, GL, Hennekam, R, de Lange, GJ, Roberts, AP, Yu, J, Webster JM & Yokoyama Y 2017, 'Differences between the last two glacial maxima and implications for ice-sheet, d18O, and sea-level reconstructions', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 176, pp. 1-28.
- Grant, K, Grimm, R, mikolajewicz, U et al 2016, 'The timing of Mediterranean sapropel deposition relative to insolation, sea-level and African monsoon changes', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 140, pp. 125-141.
- Satow, C, Tomlinson, E, Grant, K et al. 2015, 'A new contribution to the Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphy of the Mediterranean: Aegean Sea core LC21', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 117, pp. 96-112.
- Rohling, E, Marino, G & Grant, K 2015, 'Mediterranean climate and oceanography, and the periodic development of anoxic events (sapropels)', Earth-Science Reviews, vol. 143, pp. 62-97.
- Grimm, R, Maier-Reimer, E, mikolajewicz, U et al. 2015, 'Late glacial initiation of Holocene eastern Mediterranean sapropel formation', Nature Communications, vol. 6.
- Lowe, J, Bronk Ramsey, C, Housley, R et al. 2015, 'The RESET project: constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 118, pp. 1-17.
- Marino, G, Rohling, EJ, Grant, KM, Heslop, D, Roberts AP, Stanford, JD & Yu, J 2015, 'Bipolar seesaw control on last interglacial sea level', Nature, vol. 522, no. 7555, pp. 197-201.
- Grant, KM, Rohling, EJ, Bronk Ramsey, C, Cheng, H, Edwards, RL, Florindo, F, Heslop, D, Marra, F, Roberts, AP, Tamisiea, ME & Williams, F 2014, 'Sea-level variability over five glacial cycles', Nature Communications, vol. 5, 5076, doi:10.1038/ncomms6076.
- Rohling, EJ, Foster, GL, Grant, KM, Marino, G, Roberts AP, Tamisiea, M & Williams, F 2014, 'Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years', Nature, vol. 508, no. 7497, pp. 477-482.
- Rohling, EJ, Grant, KM, Roberts, AP & Larrasoaña JC 2013, 'Paleoclimate variability in the Mediterranean and Red Sea regions during the last 500,000 years: implications for hominin migrations', Current Anthropology, vol. 54, Supplement 8, pp. S183-S201.
- Rohling, EJ, Haigh, ID, Foster, GL, Roberts AP & Grant, KM 2013, 'A geological perspective on potential future sea-level rise', Scientific Reports, vol. 3, 3461, doi:10.1038/srep03461.
- Grant, K, Rohling, E, Bar-Matthews, M et al. 2012, 'Rapid coupling between ice volume and polar temperature over the past 150,000 years', Nature, vol. 491, no. 7426, pp. 744-747.
- Lowe, J, Barton, N, Blockley, S et al. 2012, 'Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 109, 13532-13537.
- Trommer, G, Siccha, M, Rohling, E et al 2011, 'Sensitivity of Red Sea circulation to sea level and insolation forcing during the last interglacial', Climate of the Past, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 941-955.
- Roberts, AP, Rohling, EJ, Grant, KM et al. 2011, 'Atmospheric dust variability from major global source regions over the last 500,000 years', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 30, pp. 3537-3541.
- Rohling, E, Braun, K, Grant, K et al 2010, 'Comparison between Holocene and Marine Isotope Stage-11 sea-level histories', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 291, no. 1-4, pp. 97-105.
- Trommer, G, Siccha, M, Rohling, E et al 2010, 'Millennial scale variability in Red Sea circulation in response to Holocene insolation forcing', Paleoceanography, vol. 25, pp. PA3203.
- Rohling, EJ, Grant, K, Bolshaw, M, Roberts, AP et al. 2009, 'Antarctic temperature and global sea level closely coupled over the past five glacial cycles', Nature Geoscience, vol. 2, pp. 500-504.
- Rohling, E, Grant, K, Hemleben, C et al 2008, 'High rates of sea-level rise during the last interglacial period', Nature Geoscience, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 38-42.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Understanding the Geodynamo: Putting Australia on the Map (Secondary Investigator)
- Oxygen isotope stratigraphy of IODP Site U1464 (Primary Investigator)
- Australian monsoon variability through the Pleistocene (Primary Investigator)
- Long-term variability of the Australian monsoon (Primary Investigator)
- African Humid Periods through the Pliocene (Primary Investigator)
- Paleo-temperature reconstructions in the Mediterranean Sea across TII using planktic foraminifera (Primary Investigator)
