Dr Stephen Gale, MA, PhD

Senior Lecturer

Madsen Building (F09), Rm 441
Phone: +61 2 9351 3308
Fax: +61 2 9351 3644
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Research Interests

Stephen Gale has research interests in Quaternary environmental history, human environmental impact during the late Holocene, long-term geomorphic evolution and sedimentary geomorphology. He has investigated the behaviour of hydrological systems, particularly in response to human activity. He has worked in glaciated, karstic and alpine terrains, and, more recently, in arid and lacustrine environments. He has undertaken research in Canada, the USA, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Greece, Libya, Malaysia and in many parts of Australia.

Selected Publications

• Gale, S.J., 2009. Dating the recent past. Quaternary Geochronology 4, 374–377.
• Hoare, P.G., Gale, S.J., Robinson, R.A.J., Connell, E.R., Larkin, N.R., 2009. Marine Isotope Stage 7–6 transition age for beach sediments at Morston, north Norfolk, UK: implications for Pleistocene chronology, stratigraphy and tectonics. Journal of Quaternary Science 24, 311–316.
• Gale, S.J., 2009. Event chronostratigraphy: a high-resolution tool for dating the recent past. Quaternary Geochronology 4, 391–399.
• Gale, S.J. and Hoare, P.G. 2007. The glacial stratigraphy of lowland southern and eastern Britain: temperate-stage deposits at Morston and Kirmington. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 56, 245–251.
• Gale, S.J. and Hoare, P.G. 2007. The age and origin of the Blakeney esker of north Norfolk: implications for the glaciology of the southern North Sea Basin. In Hambrey, M.J., Christoffersen, P., Glasser, N.F. and Hubbard, B.P. (eds) Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 39, 203–234.
• Gale, R.J.B., Gale, S.J. and Winchester, H.P.M. 2006. Inorganic pollution of the sediments of the River Torrens, South Australia. Environmental Geology 50, 62–75.
• Williams, N.J., Harle, K.J., Gale, S.J. and Heijnis, H. 2006. The vegetation history of the last glacial–interglacial cycle in eastern New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Quaternary Science 21, 735–750.
• Gale, S.J. and Haworth, R.J. 2005. Catchment-wide soil loss from pre-agricultural times to the present: transport- and supply-limitation of erosion. Geomorphology 68, 314–333.
• Gale, S.J., Haworth, R.J., Cook, D.E. and Williams, N.J. 2004. Human impact on the natural environment in early colonial Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 39, 148–156.
• Gale, S.J. 2003. Making the European landscape: early contact environmental impact in Australia. In Geography’s New Frontiers. Geographical Society of New South Wales Conference Papers 17, 7–16. Hosted with permission
• Gale, S.J. and Haworth, R.J. 2002. Beyond the Limits of Location: human environmental disturbance prior to official European contact in early colonial Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 37, 123–136.
• Gale, S.J. and Pisanu, P.C. 2001. The late-Holocene decline of Casuarinaceae in southeast Australia. The Holocene 11, 485–490.
• Gale, S.J. 2000. Classic Landforms of Morecambe Bay. Geographical Association, Sheffield, 47 pp.
• Gale, S.J. and Hoare, P.G. 1997. The glacial history of the northwest Picos de Europa of northern Spain. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie N.F. 41(1), 81–96; 41(4), vi–vii.
• Gale, S.J., Haworth, R.J. and Pisanu, P.C. 1995. The 210Pb chronology of late Holocene deposition in an eastern Australian lake basin. Quaternary Science Reviews 14, 395–408.
• Gale, S.J. 1992. Long-term landscape evolution in Australia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 17, 323–343.
• Gale, S.J. and Hoare, P.G. 1991. Quaternary Sediments. Wiley, Chichester and New York, 323 pp.
• Gale, S.J. and Bainbridge, S. 1990. The floods in eastern Australia. Nature, London 345, 767.
• Gale, S.J., Hoare, P.G., Hunt, C.O. and Pye, K. 1988. The Middle and Upper Quaternary deposits at Morston, north Norfolk, U.K. Geological Magazine 125, 521–533.
• Gale, S.J. 1985. The Late- and Post-glacial environmental history of the southern Cumbrian massif and its surrounding lowlands. In Johnson, R.H. (ed.) The Geomorphology of North-West England. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 282–298.
• Gale, S.J. and Hunt, C.O. 1985. The stratigraphy of Kirkhead Cave, an Upper Palaeolithic site in northern England. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 51, 283–304.
• Gale, S.J. 1984. The hydraulics of conduit flow in carbonate aquifers. Journal of Hydrology 70, 309–327.

Units Taught

• GEOS 2113 - Making the Australian Landscape
• GEOS 3015/3915 - Environmental Change