Information Sheets
Project Overview (pdf) – One page summary of our project.
River Murray Streamflow Reconstruction (pdf) – A two-page summary of key findings from the paper published in Water Resources Research.
Journal Articles
Gergis, J. (2008). Documentary accounts of the impacts of past climate variability on the early colony of New South Wales, 1788–1791: a preliminary analysis. Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 21(5), 103-107.
Gergis, J. (2009). Leaping forward through the past: how historical documents can help scientists understand climate change. University of Melbourne Collections, 4 42-44.
Gergis, J., Karoly, D.J. and Allan, R.J. (2009). A climate reconstruction of Sydney Cove, New South Wales, using weather journal and documentary data, 1788–1791. Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal 58 83-98.
Gergis, J., Garden, D. and Fenby, C. (2010). The influence of climate on the first European settlement of Australia: a comparison of weather journals, documentary data and palaeoclimate records, 1788–1793. Environmental History, 15 (3): 485-507.
Gergis, J., Brohan, P. and Allan, R.J. (2010). The weather of the First Fleet voyage to Botany Bay, 1787–1788. Weather 65 (12): 315-319.
Gergis, J. (2010). Salvaging sunken treasure. SL Magazine, State Library of New South Wales, Winter 2010, 18-21
Gallant, A. J. E., and Gergis, J. (2011). An experimental streamflow reconstruction for the River Murray, Australia, 1783–1988, Water Resources Research 47, W00G04, doi:10.1029/2010WR009832.
Gergis, J., Gallant, A., Braganza, K., D’Arrigo, R., Allen, K., Cullen, L., Grierson, P., Goodwin, I. and McGregor, S. (2011). On the long-term context of the 1997-2009 ‘Big Dry’ in south-eastern Australia: insights from a 206-year multi-proxy rainfall reconstruction. Climatic Change, doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0263-x
Neukom, R. and Gergis, J. (2011). Southern Hemisphere high resolution palaeoclimate records of the past 2000 years. The Holocene, doi: 10.1177/0959683611427335.
Gergis, J., Neukom, R., Gallant, A., Phipps, S.J., Karoly, D.J. and Aus2K members. Evidence of rapid late C20th warming from an Australasian temperature reconstruction spanning the last millennium. Journal of Climate (in review).
Mills, K., Gell, P., Gergis, J., Baker, P., Finlayson, M., Hesse, P., Jones, R., Kershaw, P., Pearson, S., Treble, P., Barr, C., Brookhouse, M., Drysdale, R., McDonald, J., Haberle, S., Reid, M., Thoms, M., Tibby, J. Palaeoclimate studies and natural resource management in the Murray-Darling Basin II: unravelling past human impact and climate variability. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (in review).
Neukom, R., Gergis J., Gergis, J., Karoly, D., Frank, D., Villalba, R., Zinke, J., Linsley, B., Phipps, S. J., Raible, C., González-Rouco, F. and Steig, E. (2012). Southern Hemisphere temperature variability over the last millennium, Nature (in preparation).
Fenby, C. and Gergis, J. (2012) A rainfall history of south-eastern Australia Part 1: a consolidation of pre-instrumental evidence from documentary sources, 1788–1860. International Journal of Climatology (in final preparation).
Gergis, J., and Ashcroft, L. (2012). A rainfall history of south-eastern Australia Part 2: a comparison of documentary, early instrumental and palaeoclimate records, 1788–2008. International Journal of Climatology (in final preparation).
Books and book chapters
Garden, D. (2009). Droughts, Floods and Cyclones – El Niños that Shaped our Colonial Past, Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Garden, D. (2010). ‘The Federation Drought of 1895-1903, El Niño and Society in Australia’ in Massard-Guilbaud, G. & Mosley, S. (eds), Common Ground: Integrating the Social and Environmental in History, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Reports
Gell, P., Gergis, J. Mills, K., Baker, P., De Deckker, P., Finlayson, M., Hesse, P., Jones, R., Kershaw, P., Pearson, S., Treble, P., Barr, C., Brookhouse, M., Drysdale, R., Haberle, S. Karoly, D.J., McDonald, J., Reid, M., Thoms, M., and Tibby, J. (2009). Palaeoclimate studies relevant to natural resource management in the Murray–Darling Basin, in Murray‐Darling Basin Authority Science Review (pdf, 1.7MB), Canberra, Australia.
Phipps, S., Gergis, J. and Petherick, L. (2009). PAGES 1st Young Scientists Meeting and 3rd Open Science Meeting, Quaternary Australasia 26, 8-9.
Gergis, J. and Gallant A. (2010). Communicating climate change: advice from Science meets Parliament 2010. Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 22 (2):4–6
Turney, C., Gergis, J., Lorrey, A., Palmer, J., Phipps, S.J., van Ommen, T. (2010). The 1st Australasia 2k regional workshop: Towards data synthesis, Melbourne Australia, 31 May – 2 June 2010, PAGES news, 18 (2): 91 – 92.
Gergis, J., Grierson, P., Lorrey, A., Palmer, J. and Phipps, S.J. (2011). 2nd Australasia 2k Network workshop: Data synthesis and research planning. Meeting of the PAGES Aus2k Working Group – Perth, Australia, 27–29 April 2011. PAGES News, 19 (2): 74-75.
Gergis, J., Grierson, P., Lorrey, A., Palmer, J. and Phipps, S.J. (2011). 2nd Aus2K regional network workshop: data synthesis and research planning. Quaternary Australasia 28(1): 21-22.
Reports for project members
Meeting reports and newsletters (password protected)
