Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Life and Environmental Sciences

Dr Mark Warne
  Phone   +61 3 925 17622
Email   mark.warne@deakin.edu.au
Position   Lecturer
Campus   Burwood

My current research is in the field of environmental palaeoecology - in particular the
assessment of late Cenozoic palaeoenvironments and landscape evolution of SE Australia. As
part of this programme I am engaged in research on Australasian and SW Pacific fossil and
living ostracod taxonomy and ecology.

Research interests

  1. Fossil and Living Ostracoda of Australasia
  2. Cenozoic Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of SE Australia
  3. Late Cenozoic History of SE Australian Coastal Environments


Career

B.Sc (Hons) 1983; B.Sc (Education) 1983; University of Melbourne
PhD 1990; University of Melbourne [Studies on the late Tertiary Ostracoda of SE Australia]
Associate Lecturer & Research Fellow 1990 - 1997; School of Earth Sciences; La Trobe University
Lecturer 1999 - present; School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University

Key publications

M. T. Warne, R. C. Whatley and B. Blagden (2006) Ostracoda from Lee Point on Shoal Bay, Northern Australia: Part3. Podocopina (Cytheracea) Revista Espanola de Micropaleontologia 38(1), 103 - 167 Geological Survey of Spain, Madrid

M. T. Warne (2005) The global Mio - Pliocene climatic equability and coastal ostracod faunas of southeast Australia Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 225, 248 - 265 Elsevier, The Netherlands

M. T. Warne, et. al. (2004) Chapter 22; Palaeontology; the biogeohistory of Victoria The Geology of Victoria (Ed. W. D. Birch) Special Publication 23, 605 - 653 Geological Society of Australia (Victorian Division), Australia

M. T. Warne and R. C. Whatley (1996) The evolutionary significance of scale-like spines on the Australian and SW Pacific Cainozoic ostracods Ponticocythereis manis Whatley and Titterton, 1981 and Trachyleberis floridus sp. nov. Journal of Micropalaeontology 15, 161 - 168 The Bristish Micropalaeontological Society, United Kingdom

M. T. Warne and R. C. Whatley (1994) Palaeo-oceanographical significance of Miocene deep-sea Ostracoda from the Kingfish 8 well, Gippsland Basin, southeastern Australia Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 41, 525 - 531 Blackwell Scientific Publications, Australia

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Professional activities

Member - Geological Society of Australia
Member - Association of Australasian Palaeontologists
Member - Royal Society of Victoria

 

PhD students

Student nameThesis title
Michelle Guzel The Mid-Late Cretaceous ostracod faunas and biostratigraphy of the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia (current project in progress) Louise Goldie DivkoSub-surface geology of the Kerang district, Murray Basin, southeast Australia (completed 2008)  

 

Honours students

Student nameThesis title Jayden KirkpatrickA micropalaeontological and stratigraphic reappraisal of the Bookpurnong Beds within the Olney 1 borehole, northwestern Victoria (2005) Brent SoutarPalaeoenvironmental analysis of the Whalers Bluff Formation, south west Victoria through the study of Ostracoda and benthic Foraminifera (2004) Timothy LawtonAn Investigation into the groundwater conduits controlling base-flows within the lower Darebin Creek Catchment (2004) Bryce WebbStudies on the Quaternary ostracod micropalaeontology of the Yarra Delta, Port Phillip district, Victoria (2002) Jennifer GleesonLate Cenozoic Foraminifera of the Black Rock Sandstone, Victoria: Palaeoecology and Sytematics (2002) Matt WhiteFormation of the vertebrate bone beds of the Nelson Bay Formation, Portland, Victoria (2002) Sylvia JoubranA geological and environmental assessment of Landfill No.1 within the Merri Creek catchment in Epping, Victoria (2002)  

 

Teaching areas

Earth Science and Terrain Evaluation
Palaeoecology and Palaeobiology


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8th February 2013