Dr Emma Rehn ~ Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Emma is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Archaeology, compiling radiometric age determinations from archaeological sites in New Guinea for the SahulArch database. She is also a scientific communicator and illustrator, specialising in cartoon graphics and infographics to make science accessible and engaging.

Emma received a double-Bachelors in Archaeology and English in 2013 at James Cook University and completed an Honours project in Archaeology in 2014, exploring human-environment interactions through technology. She was awarded a PhD from the College of Science and Engineering at James Cook University in 2020. Her doctoral research incorporated new and emerging palaeoecological methods to record savanna fires in northern Australia in the late Holocene (~4000 years to present) and explore human influence in records of past fire.

Interests

Professional

• science communication

Research

• Australian archaeology
• palaeofire
• human-environment interactions

Research Disciplines

• Physical geography and environmental geoscience (3709)
• Geochemistry (3703)
• Geoinformatics (3704)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding knowledge (2801)

Awards

• 2013 - Academic Medal for Bachelor Coursework, James Cook University
• 2017 to 2019 - Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Postgraduate Research Award

Other

• 2020 - Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) Irinjili Internship for Women

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Rehn E, Rowe C, Ulm S, Woodward C, Zawadzki A, Jacobsen G and Bird M (2022) Integrating charcoal morphology and stable carbon isotope analysis to identify non-grass elongate charcoal in tropical savannas. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 31 (1). pp. 37-48
• Vachula R and Rehn E (in press) Modelled dispersal patterns for wood and grass charcoal are different: implications for paleofire reconstruction. The Holocene,
• Rehn E, Rowe C, Ulm S, Gadd P, Zawadzki A, Jacobsen G, Woodward C and Bird M (2021) Multiproxy Holocene fire records from the tropical savannas of northern Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9. pp. -16
• Rehn E, Rowe C, Ulm S, Woodward C and Bird M (2021) A late-Holocene multiproxy fire record from a tropical savanna, eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. The Holocene, 31 (5). pp. 870-883
• Rehn E, Rehn A and Possemiers A (2019) Fossil charcoal particle identification and classification by two convolutional neural networks. Quaternary Science Reviews, 226.

These are the most recent metadata records associated with this researcher. To see a detailed description of all dataset records, visit Research Data Australia.

• Rehn, E. (2019) PhD dataset: fire and environmental change in Northern Australian savannas during the Holocene. James Cook University
• Rehn, E. (2019) Fossil charcoal particle training data for neural networks. James Cook University