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PERSONAL PARTICULARS

Professor Robert James Wasson

EDUCATION

Ph.D (Earth Sciences) Macquarie University, Australia

B.A. (First Class Honours, Geomorphology) University of Sydney, Australia

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2011- Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, National

2013 University of Singapore

2004-

2011

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Charles Darwin

University, Australia. Responsible for the Research and

International Portfolios.

1999-

2004

Professor and Director, Centre for Resource and

Environmental Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies,

Australian National University (ANU). Responsible for

the strategic direction and performance of the Centre.

1999 Dean of Science, ANU. Responsible for strategic

planning and budget control for the Faculty.

1996-

1999

Professor and Head, Department of Geography, School of

Resources, Environment, and Society, Australian

National University. Responsible for the strategic

direction, teaching program, performance and budget for

the Department.

1982-

1996

Research Scientist, CSIRO, Division of Water Resources

from 1982. Appointed Program Leader 1987, and

Assistant Chief (SPRS) 1993. Responsible for personal

and then Program research planning and performance. As

Assistant Chief, responsible for the planning, finances,

and smooth operation of the Canberra Laboratory of the

Division.

1978-

1981

Research Fellow, Department of Biogeography and

Geomorphology, Australian National University.

September 1979 to February 1980, Visiting Scientist,

Physical Research Laboratory, and Ahmedabad, India.

Responsible for a research program on arid landscape

development (both in Australia and India) within the

context of the Department’s focus.


1977 Lecturer in Geomorphology (untenured), Monash

University, Melbourne. Responsible for a third and a first

year undergraduate unit, and a personal research profile.

1976 Postdoctoral Fellow, Auckland University, New Zealand.

Responsible for personal research on landslides, and a

Masters course in Advanced Geomorphology.

1971-

1975

Tutor and doctoral student, School of Earth Sciences,

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Responsible for

tutoring in first year undergraduate earth science, second

year undergraduate soils, and third year fluvial

geomorphology units. And the completion of a PhD.

1970 Investigations Officer, NSW National Parks and Wildlife

Service. Responsible for the earth science component of

investigations of areas suitable for reservation.

Current Position: Principal Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Research into flood hazard and human vulnerability in Asia.

Co teaching of the Senior Climate Change Seminar at Tembusu Residential College.

CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE OR SERVICES RENDERED

CONSULTANCY REPORTS: Pickup, G, Wasson, R.J., Warner, R.F., Tongway, D. 'Geomorphic Research for the Long Term

Management of Uranium Mill Tailings'. CSIRO Division of Water Resources Research

Divisional Report 87/2, 1987, 65pp.

Williams, B.G., Plumb, L.A., Barnes, C.J. and Wasson, R.J. 'Noora Seepage Basin: Saline

Water Disposal'. Final Report to AWRAC (Aust. Water Research Advisory Committee) -

Project 86/07.

Wasson, R.J., Murray, A.S., Crockford, H. ‘Sediment Sources in the Lake Burley Griffin

Catchment’, Progress Report to the NSW Soil Conservation Service and ACT Parks and

Conservation Service, 1990, 10pp.

Wasson, R.J., Caitcheon, G.G., Murray, A.S. ‘Gwydir Dam Catchment Management Study -

Reservoir Sedimentation’. Consultancy Report to NSW Department of Water Resources. 1990,

51pp.

Wasson, R.J., Caitcheon, G.G., East, T.J., Murray, A.S. ‘Prediction of Sediment Deposition

Sites in the South Alligator River Valley Downstream of the Proposed Coronation Hill Mine’.

Consultancy Report to the Resource Assessment Commission, 1991, 60pp.

Wasson, R.J., Donnelly, T.H., Olley, J.M., Murray, A.S. Algal Blooms in the Darling River:

‘Run of River’ Study Wentworth to Collarenabri December 1991, Report No.92/13, Murray-

Darling Basin Commission, 1992.

Wasson, R.J., Caitcheon, G.G., Murray, A.S. ‘Sources of Coarse Sediment Reaching the Lower


Snowy River’. Consultancy Report to the Victorian Department of Water Resources. 1991,

18pp.

Wasson, R.J., Caitcheon, G., Murray, A.S. ‘Sedimentation in Lake Argyle - Rates and Sources:

Interim Report of Findings’. Report to W.A. Dept. of Agriculture. 1991, 62pp.

Wasson R.J. (ed) ‘Erosion, Sedimentation and Water Quality in the Snowy River Catchment’.

Report of the Tech. Working Group of SRICCC, 1992, 31p.

Wasson, R.J. (Compiler and Editor). Towards Healthy Rivers. A Report from CSIRO to the

Honourable Ros Kelly, Minister for Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territorians. CSIRO

Division of Water Resources, Consultancy Report No. 92/44, 1992, 103pp.

Wasson, R.J. Towards Healthy Rivers. CSIRO Division of Water Resources Consultancy

Report 92/44 to the Hon. Ros Kelly, Minister for Environment, Sport and Territories, 1992.

(Published as Towards Healthy Rivers, Commonwealth EPA, Canberra, 1992)

Wasson, R.J., Caitcheon, G., Murray, A.S., Wallbrink, P., McCulloch, M., Quade, J. ‘Sources of

Sediment in Lake Argyle’. CSIRO Division of Water Resources Consultancy Report No. 94/8,

1994, 57pp.

Wasson, R.J. ‘World Heritage Values of the L. Eyre Basin - an Earth Science perspective’.

CSIRO Report to the Dept. of Sport, Environment and Territories, 1995.

Wasson, R.J., Walling, D.E., Sidorchuk, A.Yu. ‘Land Use and Climate Impacts on Fluvial

Systems During the Period of Agriculture. Report of an IGBP (PAGES) Workshop, Bern,

Switzerland, 1996.

Vörösmarty, C., Wasson, R.J., Ritchie, J. ‘Modelling the Delivery of Terrestrial Materials to

Freshwater and Coastal Ecosystems’. Report of an IGBP/UNESCO Workshop held in Durham

(USA) 1997.

Wasson, R.J. ‘Land Use and Water Resources’. SASCOM/START/LUCC Workshop, Human

Security and the Indo-Gangetic Plain, Nagpur, India, March 1998.

Donnelly, T.H., Barnes, C.J., Wasson, R.J., Murray, A.S., and Short, D.L. Catchment

Phosphorus Sources and Algal Blooms. An Interpretative Review. CSIRO Land and Water,

Tech. Report 18/98, 1998.

Wasson, R.J., Clark, R.L., Downes, M.T., Olley, J., Outhet, D., Plumb, L., Willet, I.R.

Burrinjuck Reservoir: Interpretations of Change, 1999. Murrumbidgee Catchment Management

Committee, NSW Dept of Land & Water Coneservation.

Starr, B.,Wasson, R.J., Caitcheon, G. (eds) Soil Erosion, Phosphorus & Dryland Salinity in the

Upper Murrumbidgee: Past Change and Current Findings. Murrumbidgee Catchment

Management Committee, NSW Dept of Land & Water Conservation.

Wasson, R. J., Croke, B. F., McCulloch, M. M., Mueller, N., Olley, J., Starr, B., Wade, A.,

White, I., Whiteway, T., ‘Sediment, Particulate and Dissolved Organic Carbon, Iron and

Manganese Input to Corin Reservoir’. Project WF 30014, August 2003. Consultant Report to

ACTEWAGL.

Eriksson M.G., Olley J.M., Kilham D.R. & Wasson R.J. 2002. ‘Late Holocene aggradation and

incision in the Naas River, Australian Capital Territory - preliminary findings’. In: Roach I.C.

ed. Regolith and Landforms in Eastern Australia. Cooperative research Centre for Landscape

Environments and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME), 24-27.

Roth, Christian. H., Visser, Fleur., Wasson, R.J., Reghenzani J., Prosser I., ‘Quantifying and

managing sources of sediments and nutrients in low-lying canelands’, CSIRO Land and Water,

Townsville, Technical Report 52/03, December 2003.

Alongi, D.,Almeida de Carvalho, N., da Silva, M., dos Santos Geterres. H., Inicio, F., Leonito

Amaral A., da Silva, O., McWilliam, A., Tirendi, F., Trott, L., Wasson, R.J. Final Report, River


Catchments and Marine Productivity in Timor Leste (an ATSEF project), 2006.

Alongi, D., Amara, A., Carvalho, N., McWilliam, A., Rouwenhorst, J., Tirendi, F., Trott, F.,

Wasson, R.J. (2009). ‘River Catchments and Marine Productivity in Timor Leste: Caraulun (and

Laclo) Catchment(s): South and North Coasts. An ATSEF Project Report to the Government of

Timor Leste. 81pp.

EDITORIAL & EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND BOOK SERIES

Editorial board, Quaternary International, 1995-1999 Editorial Board, Regional Environmental Change, 2002-2005 Editorial Board, Himalayan Geology. 2011 to present.

OFFICIAL POSITIONS HELD IN ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Member, then Vice-Chair, International Geosphere and Biosphere Program

(IGBP) - Science Committee (1992-2000)

Vice-Chair, PAGES (Past Global Changes) a core project of the IGBP (1991-

1997)

Member, IGBP Review Task Force (1996)

Member, Australian Academy of Science, IGBP Committee (1992–2004)

Chair, then Member, Australian Academy of Science, National Committee for

Quaternary Research (1992-1995)

Member, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Working Group

on Land Use, Deforestation, Erosion and Sedimentation (1996-1999)

Chair, Inland Waters Reference Group, Australian Commonwealth State of the

Environment Reporting (1995-1997)

Member, Core Team for Divisional Management Design, Commonwealth

Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Division of Water

Resources (1987)

Member, Promotions Committee, Faculty of Science, Australian National

University (ANU) (1997-1999)

Member, Faculty of Arts Restructuring Group, Australian National University

(1998)

Gender Equity Officer, Faculty of Science, Australian National University

(1998)

Member, Healthy Rivers Advisory Group, Environment Australia (1997-1999)

Convenor, National Institute for Environment, ANU (2002-2005)

Education Program Leader, Co-operative Research Centre for Greenhouse

Accounting (1999-2001)

Member, Academic Board, IT Committee, Equity and Diversity Committee,

ANU (1998-1999).

Member International Student Recruitment Committee, ANU (1998 - 1999).

Member, Australian Environment Institute, Australian and New Zealand

Geomorphology Group, British Geomorphology Research Group.

Co-Convenor The Oslo Group, an international working group of the IGBP


and the IHDP (International Human Dimensions of Global Change Program)

for interdisciplinary understanding (1999 – 2004).

Member, Australian Capital Territory (ACT) State of the Environment Report

Assessment Group (2001-2004)

Chair, ACT Government Sustainability Expert Reference Group (2003-2004)

Member, ACT Government Non-Urban Fire Affected Land Use Steering

Committee (2003).

Member, Board of Management, Arafura Timor Seas Research Facility, a

collaboration between the Australian National University, the Australian

Institute of Marine Science, Charles Darwin University, and the Northern

Territory Government (1999 to 2011).

Member, Darwin Harbour Advisory Committee (DHAC), and Chair

Ecosystem Research Group of the DHAC (2005 to 2011).

Member of Board of Management of the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)

for Aboriginal Health, CRC Tropical Savannas and CRC for Tropical Plant

Protection (2005 to 2011).

Member of the Participants Fora of the CRC for Desert Knowledge and CRC

Plant Biosecurity (2005 to 2011).

Chair of the CRC for Aboriginal Health Finance Committee (2007 to 2011).

Member, Kakadu National Park Board of Management (2009 to 2011).

Chair Charles Darwin University Animal and Human Research Ethics

Committees (2004 to 2011).

Chair, Charles Darwin University Research Panel (2004 to 2011).

Member, sometimes Chair, of CDU Professorial Promotions and

Appointments Committees (2004 to 2011).

Member Graduate Studies Committee, Outreach Committee and Ethics

Committee, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

(2011-2013).

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Professor Wasson is a Principal Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute and an Associate at Tembusu Residential College at the National University of Singapore. He has taught at Macquarie University, University of Auckland, Monash University, the Australian National University, and the National University of Singapore. Prior to moving to Singapore, he was Deputy Vice Chancellor at Charles Darwin University, Australia. He was trained in geomorphology and has spent a large part of his career doing applied research, particularly in

catchment management. His research interests are: long-term landscape change; documenting

the pathways by which water, sediment, nutrients, carbon and pollutants move through river

catchments and to the coast; the role of land use and climate change in landscape change;

human causes of and responses to landscape change; catchment management systems; extreme

hydrologic events in the Australian and Asian tropics; and cross-disciplinary methods. He has

done research in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Malaysia, India, Nepal,

Pakistan, China, Myanmar and Thailand. At ARI, his focus is on flood risk in monsoon Asia.

CONFERENCES ORGANISED WHILE AT ARI


23-24 September 2013. Flood Risk in monsoon Asia: Hazard and Vulnerability in the past and future. A Planning Workshop. NUS-ARI Prof Y.P Sundriyal, Prof. A.K Singhvi, Dr A. Katuri (India) Prof Wasan Jompakdee, Prof Somchot Ongsakul, Dr L. Lebel (Thailand) Prof. D. Higgitt, Prof A. Ziegler, Dr Lim Han She, Mr Z. A, Smith, Ms S. Ng (NUS)

KEYNOTES & PLENARIES

25 June 2013 ‘Towards a Unified Earth Surface Science’. Distinguished Lecture at the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Conference 2013. Brisbane Convention Centre. Brisbane, Australia. Organized by the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society.

RESEARCH PROJECTS / PROGRAMMES / INITIATIVES & COLLABORATIONS

1. 2009-2011

‘Assessing soil formation and erosion balances in the Top End with an

expanded toolkit’.

Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (AUD 290,000)

Collaborators: Prof K. Fifield, Dr. S. Timms, Mr. R. Lal (ANU).

2012-2013

2. ‘From Rainforest to Oil Palm Plantation: Geomorphic Transformation of

the Upper Johor River catchment Malaysia’ (SGD 10,000).

FASS Staff Research Support Scheme FY 2012.

Collaborator: Prof A. Ziegler

3. ‘Flood Risk in monsoon Asia: hazard and vulnerability: a planning

workshop’. (SGD 10,000).

ARI Workshop Funding.

TEACHING, STUDENTS SUPERVISION

Tutor in first year plate tectonics, climatology, biogeography, second year

pedology, and third year fluvial geomorphology and hydrology units - Macquarie

University, Sydney, Australia (1971-1975).

Lecturer and Tutor in third year Fluvial Geomorphology, and a Masters course in

Advanced Geomorphology - Auckland University, New Zealand. (1976).

Lecturer and Tutor in first year Introductory Geomorphology, third year Fluvial

Geomorphology and Methods in Geomorphology - Monash University,

Melbourne, Australia. (1977).

Lecturer, Short Courses in Geoarchaeology at the National Museum of the

Philippines, and in Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies at the Physical

Research Laboratory in India. (1979-1980).


Lecturer and Tutor in third year Geomorphology (Rivers and Catchments) first

year Earth Systems and third year Environmental History at the Australian

National University. (1996-1999).

Lecturer in modules in River Catchment Processes and Management, the Nature

of Physical Geography, Research Methods, Natural Hazards, and Earth Surface

Processes and Landforms, and a graduate seminar entitled Paradigms and

Knowledge, in the Geography Department, the National University of Singapore.

(2011-2013).

Graduate Supervision: 25 PhD candidates at ANU, CDU and NUS. 5 Masters

candidates at ANU and NUS (1999-2013).

PUBLICATIONS

Authored Book and Monograph (for co-authored list as ‘with XY’)

Steffen, W., Sanderson, A., Tyson, P., Jager, J., Matson, P., Moore, B., Oldfield, F., Richardson,

K., Schellnhuber, J., Turner, B., Wasson, R. Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet

Under Pressure. Springer, 2003, 366pp.

Edited Book

Wasson, R.J. (ed) Quaternary Dust Mantles of China, New Zealand and Australia, ANU, 1982.

253pp.

Wasson, R.J. (ed. and major contributor) Modern Sedimentation, Late Quaternary History of the

Magela Plain and Mine Tailings Management, Alligator Rivers Region, N.T. (6 chapters, 17

contributors), The Office of the Supervising Scientist for the Alligator Rivers Region,

Commonwealth of Australia. Research Report 6, 1992, 322pp.

Wasson, R.J. (ed). In: Inland Waters. Chapter 7 of the Australian Commonwealth State of the

Environment Report, Dept. of Environment, Sports and Territories, CSIRO Publishing,

Melbourne 1996. 55pp.

Wasson, R.J. (ed) Water in the Top End: Opportunities and Constraints. CDU Press, 2010. 55pp.

Grafton, Q., Robin, L. and Wasson, R.J. (eds). Understanding the Environment UNSW Press,

2005, 229 pp.

Lahiri-Dutt, K. and Wasson, R.J., (eds) Water Resources in South Asia: Issues and Challenges

for Nations and Communities Sage Publications, Delhi 2008, 435 pp.

Book Chapter

Wasson, R.J., Cochrane, R.M. 'Geological and Geomorphological Perspectives on

Archaeological Sites in the Cagayan Valley, the Philippines'. In: G-J. Bartstra and W.A.

Casparie (eds) Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia, Vol. 5, 1980, 1-26, Balkema,

Rotterdam.

Crozier, M.J., Gage, M., Pettinga, J.R., Selby, M.J., Wasson, R.J. ‘The Stability of Hillslopes’ in

M. Selby and J. Soons (eds) Landforms of New Zealand, 1982, Longman Paul, New Zealand.

Hyde, R., Wasson, R.J. 'Radiative and meteorological control of the movement of sand at Lake

Mungo, N.S.W., Australia'. In: M.E. Brookfield and T.S. Ahlbrandt (eds) Aeolian Sediments

and Processes, Elsevier, Amsterdam. 1983, 165-195.


Bowler, J.M., Wasson, R.J. 'Glacial Age environments of inland Australia'. In: Vogel, J.C. (ed)

Late Cainozoic Palaeoclimates of the Southern Hemisphere, Balkema, 1984, pp. 183-208.

Wasson, R.J. ‘Landscape Denudation in Australia in the Late Holocene’. In: B.Thom (ed)

Global Change, Australian Academy of Science, 1988, 56-68.

Wasson, R.J. ‘The Contribution of Dust to Quaternary Valley Fills at Belarabon, Western New

South Wales’. In: R.J. Wasson (ed) Quaternary Dust Mantles of China, New Zealand and

Australia, ANU, 1982, 191-196.

Cochrane, R.M., Wasson, R.J. 'Geology, Geomorphology and Sediments of Lapuz Lapuz Cave,

the Philippines. In: P. Coutts 'An Archaeological Perspective of Panay Island, Philippines. San

Carlos Publications, Univ. of San Carlos, 1983, 179-183.

Wasson, R.J. 'Late Quaternary Palaeoenvironments in the Australian desert dunefields'. In: J.C.

Vogel (ed) Late Cainozoic Palaeoclimates of the Southern Hemisphere, Balkema, 1984, pp. 419-

432.



432.

Wasson, R.J. 'Landform development in Australia'. In: Evolution of the Flora and Fauna of

Arid Australia. W.R. Barker and P.J.M. Greenslade (eds)1982, Peacock Publications, pp.23-34.

Wasson, R.J. ‘Landforms of the Mallee’. In: Mediterranean Landscapes of Australia: Mallee

Ecosystems and their Management. Noble, J.C. and Bradstock, R.D. (eds) CSIRO Publications,

Melbourne. pp.13-34.

Wasson, R.J. 'Dune sediment types, sand colour, sediment provenance and hydrology in the

Strzelecki-Simpson dunefield, Australia'. In: M.E. Brookfield and T.S. Ahlbrandt (eds) Aeolian

Sediments and Processes, Elsevier, Amsterdam .1983, pp.165-195.

Wasson, R.J. 'Detection and Measurement of Land Degradation Processes'. In: Land

Degradation: Problems and Policies. A. Chisholm and R. Dumsday (eds) Cambridge University

Press, 1987, 49-69.

Clark, R.L., Wasson, R.J. 'Reservoir Sediments'. In: Perspectives on Australian Limnology.

W.D. Williams and P. De Deckker (eds) CSIRO Publications, Melbourne, 1987, pp.497-507.

Wasson, R.J. and Clark, R.L. 'The Quaternary in Australia - Past, Present and Future'. In:

E.P.Shelley (ed) Australian Geoscience 1986-87, 1987, Bureau of Mineral Resources, pp.29-34.

Wasson, R.J. 'Erosion and Sedimentation'. In: Australian Hydrology. Body, D.N. (ed) 1975-

1986. UNESCO, pp.159-173.

Wasson, R.J., Fleming, P.M., Srikanthan, R. 'Sediment delivery and Stream Behaviour, with a

note on wind erosion'. In: Greenhouse Planning for Climate Change. Pearman, G.I. (ed) CSIRO

and Brill, 1988, pp.231-237.

Ross, A., Donnelly, T.H., and Wasson, R.J. 'The peopling of the arid zone: human-environment

interactions'. In: J. Dodson (ed) The Naive Lands, Academic Press, 1992, pp.76-114, Longman

Cheshire, Melbourne.

Wasson, R.J. (ed). In: Inland Waters. Chapter 7 of the Australian Commonwealth State of the

Environment Report, Dept. of Environment, Sports and Territories, CSIRO Publishing,

Melbourne 1996. 55pp.

Wasson, R.J., McLaughlin, M.J., Kookana, R.S., Donnelly. ‘Land degradation processes and

water quality effects: organic matter, soil and nutrient loss, and chemical residues’. In: Farming

Action Catchment Reaction. The Effect of Dryland Farming on the Natural Environment. (eds)

Williams, J., Hook, R.A., Gascoigne, H.L. 1998, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne., pp. 191-214.


Wasson, R.J. ‘Dryland farming, erosion and stream sediments – the problem of catchment scale’.

In: Williams, J., Hook, R.A. and Gascoigne, H.L. (eds) Farming Action Catchment Reaction:

The Effect of Dryland Farming on the Natural Environment, CSIRO Publishing, pp. 215-228,

1998.

Wasson, R. and Sidorchuk, A. ‘History for Soil Conservation and Catchment Management’. In:

Dovers, S.R. (ed) Australian Environmental History: Still Settling Australia. Oxford University

Press, pp.97-117, 2000.

Wasson, R.J. ‘A longer-than-usual view of natural resource management on the Indo-Gangetic

Plain: towards a dynamic framework of analysis’. In: Abrol, Y.P. Sangwan, S. and Tiwari,

M.K. (eds) Land Use, Historical Perspectives: Focus on Indo-Gangetic Plains. 2002. Allied

Publisher, New Delhi, pp.173-188.

Wasson, R.J. ‘Effective policy interventions in environmental systems using material budgets’.

In: S.R. Dovers, Stern, D.I. and Young, M.D. (eds) New Dimensions in Ecological Economics.

Elger, 2003, pp179-192.

Sidorchuk, A., Walling, D., and Wasson, R.J. ‘A LUCIFS Strategy: Modelling the Sediment

Budgets of Fluvial Systems’. In: A. Lang, K Hennrich, R.Dikau (eds). Long Term Hillslope

and Fluvial System Modeling. Springer, Berlin, 2003, pp. 10-36.

Wasson, R.J. ‘Environmental Earth Science’. In Grafton, Q., Robin, L. and Wasson, R.J. (eds.)

2005. Understanding the Environment UNSW Press, pp. 113 – 129.

Wasson, R.J. ‘Application of the catchment concept for integrated rural development’. In

Djoeroemana, S., Myers, B., Russell-Smith, J., Blyth, M, Salean, E.I.T. (eds) Integrated Rural

Development in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, 2007. ACIAR, Canberra, pp.86-96.

Wasson, R.J. ‘Water Quality and Economic Growth in India’. In Lahiri-Dutt, K. and Wasson,

R.J. (eds). Water Resources in South Asia: Issues and Challenges for Nations and Communities.

Sage Publications, Delhi, 2008, pp.125-141.

2006, 81, 66-88.

Visser, F. Roth, C., Wasson, R.J., and Govers, G. ‘A sediment budget for a cultivated floodplain

environment in tropical North Queensland, Australia’. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

2007, 32, 1475-1490.

Wasson, R.J., ‘Upland deforestation, erosion, and downstream impacts’. In Sanchez, I.B. and

Alonso, C.L. (eds) Deforestation Research Progress, 2008, Nova Science Publishers Inc, pp.51-

63.

Wasson, R.J. ‘Human interaction with soil-sediment systems in Australia’. In. McNeill, J. and

Winiwarter, V. (eds.) 2010. Soils and Societies: Perspectives from Environmental History,

White Horse Press, pp. 243-272.

Wasson, R.J. ‘Exploitation and conservation of soil in the 3000 year agricultural and forestry

history of South Asia’. In. McNeill, J and Winiwater, V. (eds.) 2010. Soils and Societies:

Perspectives from Environmental History , White Horse Press, pp 13-50.

Refereed Articles

The Geomorphology and Sedimentology of Rivers and Mass Movements:

Wasson, R.J. 'Intersection Point Deposition on Alluvial Fans: An Australian Example'

Geografiska Annaler, 56, Ser.A., 1974, 1-2, 83-92 (reprinted in: T.H. Nilsen (ed) Modern and

Ancient Alluvial Fan Deposits, Benchmark Papers in Geology v. 87, Van Nostrand Reinhold,

New York).

Wasson, R.J. Australian Landform Example No. 27: 'Alluvial Fan'. Australian Geographer,

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13(2), 1975, 157-159.

Wasson, R.J. Catchment processes and evolution of alluvial fans in the lower Derwent valley,

Tasmania. Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Vol. 21(2), 1977, 147-168 (reprinted in: T.H.

Nilsen, ed., Modern and Ancient Alluvial Fan Deposits, Benchmark Papers in Geology, v.87,

Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York).

Wasson, R.J. Last-glacial alluvial fan sedimentation in the Lower Derwent Valley, Tasmania'

Sedimentology, 24, 1977, 781-799.

Wasson, R.J. The Late Cainozoic evolution of the Carpentaria Plains, North Queensland: A

Discussion'. B.M.R. Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, 4(1), 1978, 77-78.

Wasson, R.J. Australian Landform Example No. 33: 'Leveed Debris Flow'. Australian

Geographer, 14(2), 1978, 125-126.

Wasson, R.J. 'A debris flow at Reshun, Pakistan Hindu Kush'. Geografiska Annaler, 60A, 1978,

151-159.

Wasson, R.J. ‘Sedimentation history of the Mundi Mundi alluvial fans, western New South

Wales’. Sedimentary Geology, 22, 1979, 21-51.

Wasson, R.J., Hall, G. ‘Mudslide Reactivation: Waerenga-o-kuri, New Zealand’. Aust.

Geographical Studies, 19(2), 1981, 217-223.

Crozier, M.J., Gage, M., Pettinga, J.R., Selby, M.J., Wasson, R.J. ‘The Stability of Hillslopes’ in

M. Selby and J. Soons (eds) Landforms of New Zealand, 1982, Longman Paul, New Zealand.

Wasson, R.J. 'A Long Record of Mudslide Movement at Waerenga-o-Kuri, New Zealand'.

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, 26(1), 1982, 73-85.

Wasson, R.J. 'The sedimentological basis of the Mohenjo-daro Flood Hypothesis'. Man and

Environment, 8, 1983, 88-90.

Wasson, R.J. 'The sedimentological basis of the Mohenjo-daro flood hypothesis - a further

comment'. Man and Environment. 11, 1987, 122-23.

Nanninga, P., Wasson, R.J. 'Calculation of the volume of an alluvial fan'. Mathematical

Geology, 17, 1985, 53-65.

Murray, A.S., Johnston, A., Wasson, R.J., Leaney, F. 'Holocene Sedimentation Rates using the

Decay of Radium-226 Excess, Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 25, 1993, 251

Whiteway, T.G., Laffan, S.W., Wasson, R.J. ‘Using sediment budgets to investigate the

pathogen flux through catchments’, Environmental Management, 2004 Oct, 34(4): 516-27

Aeolian Processes and Landforms:

Wasson, R.J. 'Holocene aeolian landforms in the Belarabon area, southwest of Cobar, N.S.W.'

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of N.S.W., 109 (3 & 4), 1976, 91-102.

Wasson, R.J. Termination of dune building in the Strzelecki desert, South Australia, 15-10KA;

Alluvial and aeolian record in semi-arid and arid south-eastern Australia, 7+2KA. In: Chappell,

J.M.A. and Grindrod, A. (eds). CLIMANZ 1, A.N.U. Canberra. 1983, p. 86, 118.

Wasson, R.J., Hyde, R. 'Factors determining desert dune type'. Nature, 304, 1983, 337-339.

(recently identified as a ‘Classic in Physical Geography’: Bullard, J.E. and Livingstone, 1. 2010;

Progress in Physical Geography, August 13, 1-6).

Wasson, R.J., Hyde, R. 'Factors determining desert dune type - a reply to comments by D.M.

Rubin'. Nature, 309, 1984, 92.

Wasson, R.J., Rajaguru, S.N., Misra, V.N., Agrawal, D.P., Dhir, R.P., Singhvi, A.K.,

Kameswara Rao, K. 'Geomorphology, late Quaternary stratigraphy and palaeoclimatology of the

Thar dunefield'. Zeit. Geomorph., Suppl. Bd. 45, 1983, 117-151.

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Ash, J.E., Wasson, R.J. 'Vegetation and sand mobility in the Australian desert dunefield'. Zeit.

Geomorph. Suppl. Bd. 45, 1983, 7-25.

Wasson, R.J. 'The Cainozoic history of the Strzelecki and Simpson dunefields (Australia), and

the origin of the desert dunes'. Zeit. Geomorph. Suppl. Bd. 45, 1983, 85-115.

Wasson, R.J. Hyde, R. 'A test of granulometric control of desert dune geometry'. Earth Surface

Processes and Landforms, 8, 1983, 301-312.

Wasson, R.J., Nanninga, P. 'Estimating wind transport of sand on vegetated surfaces'. Earth

Surface Processes and Landforms, 11, 1986, 505-514.

Wasson, R.J. 'Geomorphology and Quaternary History of the Australian Continental

Dunefields'. Geographical Review of Japan, 1986, 59 (Ser. B) 1, 55-67.

Gardner, G.J., Mortlock, A.J., Price, D.M., Readhead, M.L., Wasson, R.J. 'Thermoluminescence

and Radiocarbon Dating of Australian Desert Dunes'. Aust. J. Earth Sciences, 1987, 34, 343-

357.

Buckley, R., Wasson, R.J., Grubb, A. 'Phosphorus Concentrations in Sodium Bicarbonate and

Citric Acid Extracts from Arid Sandy Soils'. Communications in Soil Science and Plant

Analysis, 17, 1986, 491-496.

Buckley, R., Grubb, A., Wasson, R.J. 'Parallel dunefield ecosystems: predicted soil nitrogen

gradient test'. J. Arid Environments, 12, 1987, 105-110.

Wasson, R.J., Fitchett, K., Mackey, B., Hyde, R. 'Large-scale patterns of dunetype, spacing and

orientation in the Australian continental dunefield. Aust. Geographer, 1988, 19, 89-104.

Kalma, J.D., Speight, J.G., Wasson, R.J. 'Potential wind erosion in Australia: A continental

perspective'. J. Climatology, 8, 1988, 411-428.

Past Environments and Climatic Change:

Wasson, R.J., Cochrane, R.M. 'The Cagayan Valley, the Philippines'. Bulletin Indo-Pacific

Prehistory Association, 1, 1980, 5-10.

Thom, B.G and Wasson, R.J. (eds.). ‘Holocene Research in Australia, 1978-1982’. Occasional

Paper No. 33, Department fo Geography, University of New South Wales, Duntroon.1982,

134pp.

Wasson, R.J., Smith, G.I., Agrawal, D.P. 'Late Quaternary sediments, minerals, and inferred

geochemical history of Didwana Lake, Thar Desert, India'. Palaeogeography,

Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 46, 1984, 345-372.



432.

Rao, K.K., Wasson, R.J., Kutty, M.K. 'Foraminifera from Late Quaternary dune sands of the

Thar Desert, India’. Palaios, 3 (4), 1988.

Singh, G., Wasson, R.J., and Agrawal, D.P. 'Vegetational and seasonal climatic changes since

the last full glacial in the Thar Desert, northwestern India’. Review of Palaeobotany and

Palynology, 64, 1990, 351-358.

Kale, V.S., Mazari, R.K., Rajaguru, S.N. and Wasson, R.J. 'Environmental Changes in

SouthernAsia during the Holocene: Fluvial and Aeolian Deposits'. J. of Palynology, 1990, 26, 1-

23.

Smith, M.A., Williams, E. and Wasson, R.J. 'The archaeology of the JSN site: some

implications for the dynamics of human occupation in the Strzelecki Desert during the Late

Pleistocene'. Records of the South Australian Museum, 1991, 25 (2), 175-192.

Thom, B.G., and Wasson, R.J. (eds) ‘Introduction to a Special Issue on Australian Quaternary

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Studies’ Quaternary Science Reviews, 1991.

Wasson, R.J. 'The Asian Monsoon During the Late Quaternary: A Test of Orbital Forcing and

Palaeo-analogue Forecasting'. Memoir Geol. Soc. India, 32:22-35, 1995.

Srivastava, P., Juyal, N., Singhvi, A.K., Wasson, R.J. and Bateman, M.D. ‘Luminescence

chronology of river adjustment and incision of Quaternary sediments in the alluvial plain of the

Sabarmati River, North Gujarat, India'. Geomorphology, Elsevier. 2001, vol. 36, Issue 3-4, 217-

229.

Wasson, R.J., Claussen, M. 'Earth System Models: A Test Using the Mid Holocene in the

Southern Hemisphere'. Quat. Sci. Reviews, 21: 819-824, 2002.

Wasson, R. J., Bayliss, P. Miloshis, M., Singhvi, A.K., Stream flow, Extreme Floods, and

Climate Change during the past 1ka in the ‘Top End’, Australia. Geology (in press).

Slopes, Coasts, Soils, Regional Landform Development:

Clark, M.F., Wasson, R.J., Williams, M.A.J. 'Point Stuart Chenier Plain and Holocene sea levels

in Northern Australia'. Search, 1979, 90-92.

Wasson, R.J., Hunt, P.A., Clarke, M.F. 'A re-evaluation of the "silcretes" of the Cobar area,

Australia'. Geoderma, 22, 1979, 137-159.

Wasson, R.J. 'Stratified Debris Slope Deposits in the Hindu Kush, Pakistan'. Zeitschrift fur

Geomorphologie, 23(3), 1979, 301-320.

Callen, R.A., Wasson, R.J., Gillespie, R. 'Reliability of Radiocarbon Dating of Pedogenic

Carbonate in the Australian Arid Zone'. Sedimentary Geology, 35, 1983, 1-14.

Natural Resource and Environmental Management

Wasson, R.J., Clark, R.L. 'Environmental History for Explanation and Prediction'. Search, 16,

1985, 258-263.

Wasson, R.J., Galloway, R.W. 'Sediment Yield in the Barrier Range before and after European

Settlement'. Aust. Rangelands J., 8(2), 1986, 79-90.

Wasson, R.J., Clark, R.L., Nanninga, P.M., Waters, J. `Pb-210 as a Chronometer and Tracer,

Burrinjuck Reservoir, Australia'. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 12, 1987, 399-414.

Clark, R.L., Wasson, R.J. 'Reservoir Sediments'. In: Perspectives on Australian Limnology.

W.D. Williams and P. De Deckker (eds) CSIRO Publications, Melbourne, 1987, 497-507.

Wasson, R.J. 'Erosion and Sedimentation'. In: Australian Hydrology. Body, D.N. (ed) 1975-

1986. UNESCO, 159-173.

Chambers, L.A., Williams, B.G., Barnes, C.J. and Wasson, R.J. ‘The effects of irrigation waste-

water disposal in a former discharge zone of the Murray Basin, Australia’. J. of Hydrology, 136,

1992, 303-332.

Wasson, R.J. (ed. and major contributor) Modern Sedimentation, Late Quaternary History of the

Magela Plain and Mine Tailings Management, Alligator Rivers Region, N.T. (6 chapters, 17

contributors), The Office of the Supervising Scientist for the Alligator Rivers Region. Research

Report 6, 1992, 322pp.

Murray, A.J., Olive, L.J., Olley, J.M., Caitcheon, G.G. Wasson, R.J., Wallbrink, P.J. 'Tracing

the source of suspended sediment in the Murrumbidgee River, Australia’. In: Tracers in

Hydrology, IAHS Publ 215, 1993, 293-302.

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Wasson, R.J. 'Living with the Past. Uses of History for Understanding Landscape Change and

Degradation'. Land Degradation and Rehabilitation, 5, 1994, 79-87.

Wasson, R.J. 'Annual and Decadal Variation of Sediment Yield in Australia, and some Global

Comparisons.' In: Variability in Stream Erosion and Sediment Transport. L.J. Olive, R.J.

Loughran, J.A. Kesby (eds), IAHS Publ. No. 224, 1994, 269-279.

Wasson, R.J., Olive, L.J., Rosewell, C. ‘Rates of Erosion and Sediment Transport in Australia’.

In: Erosion and Sediment Yield: Global and Regional Perspectives. D.E. Walling and R. Webb

(eds) IAHS Publ. No. 236, 1996, pp 139-148.

Wasson, R.J., Mazari, R.K., Clifton, G., Starr, B. ‘The recent history of erosion and

sedimentation on the Southern Tablelands of southeastern Australia: sediment flux dominated by

channel incision’. Geomorphology, 24,1998, 291-308.

Wasson, A and Wasson, R.J. ‘Riparian vegetation and river channel size’. Natural Resource

Management, 3 (1), 2000, 3-7.

Wasson, R.J., Caitcheon, G., Murray, A.S., McCulloch, M., Quade, J. ‘Sourcing sediment using

multiple tracers in the catchment of Lake Argyle, north western Australia’. Envir Management

29(5): 2002, 634-646.

Wasson, R.J. ‘Sediment Budgets, Dynamics, and Variability’. In: The Structure, Function and

Management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems. IAHS Publication 276, 2002, 471-

478.

Newell, B. and Wasson, R.J. ‘Social System vs Solar System: Why policy Makers Need

History’. In: Castelein, S. and Otte, A. (eds) Conflict and Co-operation Related to International

Water Resources: Historical Perspectives. UNESCO, 2002, SC2002/WS/53.

Visser, F., Roth, C.H., Wasson, R.J. & I.R. Prosser. ‘Quantifying sediment sources in low-lying

sugarcane land: a sediment budget approach’. In: The Structure, Function and Management

Implications of fluvial Sedimentary Systems. IAHS Publication 276, 2002, 169-176

Wasson, R.J. ‘A Sediment Budget for the Ganga-Brahmaputra Catchment’. Current Science.

2003, 84, 8, 1041-1047.

Olley, J.M. and Wasson, R.J. ‘Changes in the flux of sediment in the Upper Murrumbidgee

Catchment, Southeastern Australia, since European settlement’. Hydrological Processes, 2003,

17 (16), 3307 – 3320.

Whiteway, T.G., Laffan, S.W. and Wasson, R.J. ‘Using sediments budgets to investigate the

pathogen flux through catchments’. Environmental Management, 2004, 34, 516 – 527.

Newell, B., Crumley, C., Hassan, N., Lambin, E.F., Pahl-Wostl, C., Underdal, A. and Wasson,

R.J. ‘A conceptual template for integrative human-environment research’. Global

Environmental Change, 2005, 15, 299 – 307.

Wasson, R.J., and Dovers, S. ‘Integrative research in the university context: Centre for Resource

and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University’. Journal of Research Practice. 1

(2), Article M4, 2004, 20pp.

White, I., Wade, A., Worthy, M., Mueller, N., Daniell, T., Wasson, R.J. ‘The vulnerability of

water supply catchments to bushfires: impacts of the January 2003 wildfires on the ACT’.

Australian Journal of Water Resources, 2006, 10 (2), 179-193.

Eriksson, M.G., Olley, J.M., Kilham, D.R., Pietsch, T., Wasson, R.J. ‘Aggradation and incision

since the very late Pleistocene in the Naas River, south-eastern Australia’. Geomorphology,

Wasson, R.J., Jain, V., Jaiswal, M., Juyal, N., McCulloch, M., Sarin, M.M., Singhvi, A.K. and

Srivastava, P. ‘The Mountain-Lowland Debate: Deforestation and Sediment Transport in the

Upper Ganga Catchment’. Journal of Environmental Management, 2008, 88 (1), 53-61.

White, I., Macdonald, B., Somerville, P., Wasson, R. ‘Evaluation of salt sources and loads in the

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upland areas of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia’. Hydrological Processes, 2009, 23(17),

2485-2495.

Fifield, L.K., Wasson, R.J., Pillans, B., Stone, J.O.H., ‘The longevity of hillslope soil in SE and

NW Australia’ Catena, 2010, 81,32-42.

Furuichi, T., Win, Z., Wasson, R. J., ‘Discharge and suspended sediment transport in the

Ayeyarwady River, Myanmar: Centennial and decadal changes’, Hydrological Processes, 2009,

23(11), 1631-1641.

R.J. Wasson, L. Furlonger, D. Parry, T. Pietsch, E. Valentine, and D. Williams. Sediment

Sources and Channel Dynamics, Daly River, Northern Australia. Geomorphology 2010, 114,

161-174.

Furuichi, T. and Wasson, R.J. Placing sediment budgets in the socio-economic context for

management of sedimentation in Lake Inle, Myanmar (Burma). In Sediment Problems and

Sediment Management in Asian River Basins. 2011. IAHS Publication 349.

Samani, A.N.,Wasson, R.J.,Malekian, A. Application of multiple sediment fingerprinting

techniques to determine the sediment source contribution of gully erosion: Review and case

study from Boushehr province, southwestern Iran. Progress in Physical Geography, 2011, 35,

375-391.

Wasson, R.J. Geomorphic histories for river and catchment management. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc.

A., 2012, 370, 2240-2263.

Ziegler, A.D., Lim, Han She, Jachowski, N.R., Tantasarin, C., Wasson, R.J. (2012). Floods, false

hopes, and the future. Hydrological Processes. 26, 2012, 1748-1750.

Wade, A., White, I., Worthy, M., Gill, A.M, Mueller, N., Taylor, P., Wasson, R.J. (2013). Land

management impacts on water quality following fire in a major water supply catchment.

Australian Journal of Water Resources 16(2), 121-140.

Lal, R.R., Tims, S., Fifield, K., Wasson, R.J., Howe, D. (2013). Applicability of 239

Pu as a tracer

for soil erosion in the wet-dry tropics of northern Australia. Beam Interaction with Materials and

Atoms, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B 294, 577-583.

Lal, R., Fifield, L.K., Tims, S.G., Wasson, R.J., Howe, D. (2012). A study of soil formation rates

using 10

Be in the wet-dry tropics of northern Australia. European Physical Journal Web of

Conferences v35, 0100.doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123501001.

Ziegler, A.D., Gillen, J., Newell, B., Wasson, R.J. Comprehensive research in Geography. Area

doi:10.1111/area.12021.

Wasson, R.J., Chauhan, M.S., Sharma, C., Jaiswal, M., Srivastava, P., and Singhvi, A.K. (2013).

‘Erosion of River Terraces as a component of large catchment sediment budgets: a pilot study’.

Asian Journal of Earth Sciences 67-68, 18-25.

Alongi, D., da Silva, M., Wasson, R.J., Wirasantosa, S. Sediment discharge and export of fluvial

carbon and nutrients into the Arafura and Timor Seas: a regional synthesis. Marine Geology (in

press).

Wasson, R.J., Weaver, D., Throne, J., Sediment budgets in small salinized agricultural

catchments in the southwest of Australia. Journal of Environmental Management (in review)

Furuichi, T. and Wasson, R.J. Caesium-137 activity in surface soils in Southeast Asia: Can the

radionuclide be used for the study of soil and sediment movement in the region? Journal of

Asian Earth Sciences (in review).

Wasson, R.J., Sundriyal, Y.P., Chaudhary, S., Jaiswal, M., Morthekai, P., Sati, S.P., Juyal, N. A

1000-year history of floods in the Upper Ganga catchment, central Himalaya, India.

Hydrological Processes (in review).

Wasson, R.J., Ziegler, A. Large floods and the dubious promise of reforestation: an Austral-Asia

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perspective. Hydrological Processes (in review).

Ziegler, A., Petney, T.N., Grundy-Warr, C., Andrews, R.H., Baird, I., Wasson, R.J.,

Sithithaworn, P. (2013). Dams and disease triggers on the lower Mekong River. PLOS Neglected

Tropical Diseases 7(60, e2166, 4pp.

**Furuichi, T. and Wasson, R.J (2014). Caesium-137 in Southeast Asia: Is there enough left for soil erosion and sediment redistribution studies? Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 77, 108-116.

*Warrick, J.A., Milliman, J.D.,Wasson, R.J., Walling, D.E., Wasson, R.J.,Syvitski, J.P.M.,and Aalto, R.E.(2014). Earth is (mostly) flat: Apportionment of the flux of continental sediment over millennial time scales Geology Forum, Geological Society of America. DOI:10.1130/G34846C.1

*Wasson, R.J. Y. P. Sundriyal, S. Chaudhary, M. K. Jaiswal, P. Morthekai, S. P. Sati, and N. Juyal. (2014). A 1000-year history of large floods in the Upper Ganga catchment, central Himalaya, India Quaternary Science Reviews, 77, 156-166.

*Ziegler, A.D., Terry, J., Oliver, G., Friess, D., Chuah, J., Chow, W., Wasson, R. (2014). Increasing Singapore’s resilience to drought. Hydrological Processes, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10212.

*Gillen, J., Ziegler, A.D., Friess, D., Wasson, R.J. (in press). Geography’s role in nurturing postgraduate students. Geographical Journal.

*Wasson, R.J and Newell, B. (in review). Too little, Too Much, Too polluted: Links between

floods and other water-related disasters in the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau Region. Pacific

Affairs

**Wasson, R.J., Brooks, A., Olley, J., Rustomji, P. (2014). Erosion, sediment transport and

deposition in the Daly River catchment: Implications for catchment management. Report to the

Daly River Catchment Advisory Committee, Northern territory, Australia.

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