Dr Anthony Purcell
B Sc (Hons), PhD
Research Fellow
ANU College of Science
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(02) 6125 5445
Areas of expertise
- Seismology And Seismic Exploration 040407
- Palaeoclimatology 040605
- Glaciology 040602
- Palaeontology (Incl. Palynology) 040308
- Real And Complex Functions (Incl. Several Variables) 010111
- Geochronology 040303
- Geomorphology And Regolith And Landscape Evolution 040601
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 040403
- Physical Oceanography 040503
Research interests
Sea level change.
Glacio-isostatic adjustment.
Geodesy.
Paleo-climatology.
Ice sheets.
Climate change.
Researcher's projects
Validation of the CarbonNet Probability Approach for Reservoir Dynamic Modelling CMS 160620592
Ground validation and background models for GRACE data analysis
The Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Generalised mascon analysis of GRACE data
Separation of Ice and Water Loads
Hydrology from Space: Where is the Water?
Publications
- McGirr, R, Tregoning, P, Allgeyer, S et al. 2022, 'Mitigation of thermal noise in GRACE accelerometer observations', Advances in Space Research, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 386-401.
- Lin, Y, Hibbert, F, Whitehouse, P et al. 2021, 'A reconciled solution of Meltwater Pulse 1A sources using sea-level fingerprinting', Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-11.
- Yokoyama, Y & Purcell, A 2021, 'On the geophysical processes impacting palaeo-sea-level observations', Geoscience Letters, vol. 8, no. 1.
- Fukuyo, N, Clark, G, Purcell, A et al. 2020, 'Holocene sea level reconstruction using lagoon specific local marine reservoir effect and geophysical modeling in Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 244, pp. 1-10.
- Lambeck, K, Purcell, A & Zhao, J 2017, 'The North American Late Wisconsin ice sheet and mantle viscosity from glacial rebound analyses', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 158, pp. 172-210pp.
- Kallenberg, B., Tregoning, P, Hoffmann, J. F., Purcell, A., Allgeyer, S. 2017, 'A new approach to estimate ice dynamic rates using satellite observations in East Antarctica', Cryosphere, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 1235-1245.
- Purcell, A, Tregoning, P & Dehecq, A 2016, 'An assessment of the ICE6G_C(VM5a) glacial isostatic adjustmentmodel', Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 121, no. 5, pp. 3939-3950.
- Gowan, E, Tregoning, P, Purcell, A et al 2016, 'A model of the western Laurentide Ice Sheet, using observations of glacial isostatic adjustment', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 139, pp. 1-16.
- Gowan, E, Tregoning, P, Purcell, A et al 2016, 'ICESHEET 1.0: a program to produce paleo-ice sheet reconstructions with minimal assumptions', Geoscientific Model Development, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 1673-1682.
- Nakada, M, Okuno, J, Lambeck, K et al 2015, 'Viscosity structure of Earth's mantle inferred from rotational variations due to GIA process and recent melting events', Geophysical Journal International, vol. 202, no. 2, pp. 976-992.
- Lambeck, K, Rouby, H, Purcell, A et al 2014, 'Sea level and global ice volumes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 111, no. 43, pp. 15296-15303.
- Simms, A, Anderson, J, DeWitt, R et al 2013, 'Quantifying rates of coastal subsidence since the last interglacial and the role of sediment loading', Global and Planetary Change, vol. 111, pp. 296-308.
- Reeves, Jessica M., Helen C. Bostock, Linda K. Ayliffe, Timothy T. Barrows, Patrick De Deckker, Laurent S. Devriendt, Gavin B. Dunbar, Russell N. Drysdale, Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons, Michael K. Gagan, Michael L. Griffiths, Simon G. Haberle, John D. Jansenk, Claire Krause, Stephen Lewis, Helen V. McGregor, Scott D. Mooney, Patrick Moss, Gerald C. Nanson, Anthony Purcell, Sander van der Kaars. “Palaeoenvironmental change in tropical Australasia over the last 30,000 years – A synthesis by the OZ-INTIMATE group”. Quaternary Science Reviews, v.74, pp 97
- Reeves,J. M., Bostock, H. C., Ayliffe L.K. , Barrows,T. T., De Deckker,P., Devriendt, L. S.,Dunbar, G. B. et al. 2013, 'Palaeoenvironmental change in tropical Australasia over the last 30,000 years e a synthesis by the OZ-INTIMATE group', Quaternary Science Reviews, pp. 1-18.
- Lambeck, K, Purcell, A & Dutton, A 2012, 'The anatomy of interglacial sea levels: The relationship between sea levels and ice volumes during the Last Interglacial', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 315, pp. 4-11.
- Fleming, K, Tregoning, P, Kuhn, M et al. 2012, 'The effect of melting land-based ice masses on sea-level around the Australian coastline', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 457-467.
- Darbeheshti, N, Zhou, L, Tregoning, P et al 2012, 'The ANU GRACE visualisation web portal', Computers and Geosciences, vol. 52, pp. 227-233.
- Lambeck, K, Purcell, A, Flemming, N et al 2011, 'Sea level and shoreline reconstructions for the Red Sea: isostatic and tectonic considerations and implications for hominin migration out of Africa', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 30, no. 25-26, pp. 3542-3574.
- Purcell, A, Dehecq, A, Tregoning, P et al 2011, 'Relationship between glacial isostatic adjustment and gravity perturbations observed by GRACE', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 38, pp. L18305-5.
- Lambeck, K, Purcell, A, Zhao, J et al 2010, 'The Scandinavian Ice Sheet: from MIS 4 to the end of the last Glacial Maximum', Boreas: an international journal of quaternary research, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 410-435.
- Simms, A, Lambeck, K, Purcell, A et al 2007, 'Sea-level history of the Gulf of Mexico since the Last Glacial Maximum with implications for the melting history of the Laurentide Ice Sheet', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 26, no. 7-8, pp. 920-940.
- Lambeck, K, Sivan, D & Purcell, A 2007, 'Timing of the last Mediterranean Sea - Black Sea connection from isostatic models and regional sea-level data', in V. Yanko-Hombach, A.S. Gilbert, N. Panin, and P.M. Dolukhanov (ed.), The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate and Human Settlement, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 797-808.
- Lambeck, K & Purcell, A 2007, 'Palaeogeographic reconstructions of the Aegean for the past 20,000 years: Was Atlantis on Athens' doorstep?', in St. P. Papamarinopoulos (ed.), The Atlantis Hypothesis: Searching for a Lost Land, Heliotopos Publications, Santorini, Greece, pp. 241-257.
- Lambeck, K, Yokoyama, Y, Johnston, P et al 2000, 'Global ice volumes at the Last Glacial Maximum', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 181, no. 4, pp. 513-527.
- Lambeck, K, Purcell, A, Funder, S et al 2006, 'Constraints on the Late Saalian to early Middle Weichselian ice sheet of Eurasia from field data and rebound modelling', Boreas: an international journal of quaternary research, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 539-575.
- Yokoyama, Y, Purcell, A, Marshall, J et al 2006, 'Sea-level during the early deglaciation period in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia', Global and Planetary Change, vol. 53, pp. 147-153.
- Uehara, K, Scourse, J, Horsburgh, K et al 2006, 'Tidal evolution of the northwest European shelf seas from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present', Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 111, no. 9, pp. C09025.
- Lambeck, K & Purcell, A 2005, 'Sea-level change in the Mediterranean Sea since the LGM: model predictions for tectonically stable areas', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 24, pp. 1969-1988.
- Lambeck, K, Antonioli, F, Purcell, A et al 2004, 'Sea-level change along the Italian coast for the past 10,000 years', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 23, pp. 1567-1598.
- Lambeck, K & Purcell, A 2003, POSIVA 2003-10 Glacial Rebound and Crustal Stress in Finland, POSIVA OY.
- Lambeck, K, Yokoyama, Y & Purcell, A 2002, 'Into and out of the Last Glacial Maximum: sea-level change during Oxygen Isotope Stages 3 and 2', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 21, pp. 343-360.
- Lambeck, K, Yokoyama, Y, Purcell, A et al 2002, 'Reply to the comment by W.R. Peltier', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 21, pp. 415-418.
- Lambeck, K, Purcell, A, Johnston, P et al 2002, 'Water-load definition in the glacio-hydro-isostatic sea-level equation', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 22, pp. 309-318.
- Lambeck, K & Purcell, A 2001, 'Sea-Level Change in the Irish Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum: Constraints from isostatic modelling', Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 497-506.
- Yokoyama, Y, Purcell, A, Lambeck, K et al 2001, 'Shore-line reconstruction around Australia during the Last Glacial Maximum and Late Glacial Stage', Quaternary International, vol. 83-85, pp. 9-18.
- Lambeck, K, Yokoyama, Y, Johnston, P et al 2001, 'Corrigendum to Global ice volumes at the Last Glacial Maximum and early Lateglacial', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 190, p. 275.
- Shennan, I, Purcell, A, Horton, B et al 2000, 'Late Devensian and Holocene records of relative sea-level changes in northwest Scotland and their implications for glacio-hydro-isostatic modelling', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 1103-1135.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Sea level around Australia: fingerprints of melting ice sheets (Secondary Investigator)
