Emma Rehn
- emma.rehn@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9097-0232- Research Support Officer
- Tropical Water & Ecosystems
Projects
2
Publications
9
Awards
4
Biography
Emma is a Research Communications Officer with the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER). 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. Her postdoctoral projects included compiling radiometric age determinations from archaeological sites in New Guinea for the SahulArch database, and developing the SahulCHAR database of sedminetary charcoal records from Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand.
Research
Research Interests
science communication
Australian archaeology
palaeofire
human-environment interactions
Projects
International Travel Support - INQUA 2019 (Old ID 26424)
04 Apr 2019 - 01 Sep 2019
Fire and Environmental Change in Northern Australia during the Late Holocene (Old ID 23372)
01 Jul 2017 - 30 Jun 2019
Activities
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, James Cook University
2016 - 2020
Bachelor of Arts (Hons), James Cook University
2011 - 2014
Associations
Australasian Quaternary Association
2021 - 2025
Awards
Outreach
Media
Output
Rehn, Emma Caitlin (2020) Fire and environmental change in northern Australian savannas during the Holocene. [Thesis] [DOI]
Sayedi, Sara Sayedi; Abbott, Benjamin W.; Vannière, Boris; Leys, Bérangère; Colombaroli, Daniele; Gil Romera, Graciela; Słowiński, Michał; Aleman, Julie C.; Blarquez, Olivier; Feurdean, Angelica; Brown, Kendrick; Aakala, Tuomas; Alenius, Teija; Allen, Kathryn; Andric, Maja; Bergeron, Yves; Biagioni, Siria; Bradshaw, Richard; Bremond, Laurent; Brisset, Elodie; Brooks, Joseph; Brugger, Sandra O.; Brussel, Thomas; Cadd, Haidee; Cagliero, Eleonora; Carcaillet, Christopher; Carter, Vachel; Catry, Filipe X.; Champreux, Antoine; Chaste, Emeline; Chavardès, Raphaël Daniel; Chipman, Melissa; Conedera, Marco; Connor, Simon; Constantine, Mark; Courtney Mustaphi, Colin; Dabengwa, Abraham N.; Daniels, William; de Boer, Erik; Dietze, Elisabeth; Estrany, Joan; Fernandes, Paulo; Finsinger, Walter; Flantua, Suzette G. A.; Fox-Hughes, Paul; Gaboriau, Dorian M.; Gayo, Eugenia M.; Girardin, Martin P.; Glenn, Jeffrey; Glückler, Ramesh; González-Arango, Catalina; Groves, Mariangelica; Hamilton, Douglas S.; Hamilton, Rebecca Jenner; Hantson, Stijn; Hapsari, K Anggi; Hardiman, Mark; Hawthorne, Donna; Hoffman, Kira; Inoue, Jun; Karp, Allison T.; Krebs, Patrik; Kulkarni, Charuta; Kuosmanen, Niina; Lacourse, Terri; Ledru, Marie-Pierre Ledru; Lestienne, Marion; Long, Colin; López-Sáez, José Antonio; Loughlin, Nicholas; Niklasson, Mats; Madrigal, Javier; Maezumi, S. Yoshi; Marcisz, Katarzyna; Mariani, Michela; McWethy, David; Meyer, Grant; Molinari, Chiara; Montoya, Encarni; Mooney, Scott; Morales-Molino, Cesar; Morris, Jesse; Moss, Patrick; Oliveras, Imma; Pereira, José Miguel; Pezzatti, Gianni Boris; Pickarski, Nadine; Pini, Roberta; Rehn, Emma; Remy, Cécile C.; Revelles, Jordi; Rius, Damien; Robin, Vincent; Ruan, Yanming; Rudaya, Natalia; Russell-Smith, Jeremy; Seppä, Heikki; Shumilovskikh, Lyudmila; Sommers, William T.; Tavşanoğlu, Çağatay; Umbanhowar, Charles; Urquiaga, Erickson; Urrego, Dunia; Vachula, Richard S.; Wallenius, Tuomo; You, Chao; Daniau, Anne-Laure; (2024) 'Assessing changes in global fire regimes'. Fire Ecology, 20 :1-22. [DOI]
Vachula, Richard S.; Rehn, Emma (2023) 'Modelled dispersal patterns for wood and grass charcoal are different: implications for paleofire reconstruction'. The Holocene, 33 (2):159-166. [DOI]
Saktura, Wanchese M.; Rehn, Emma; Linnenlucke, Lauren; Munack, Henry; Wood, Rachel; Petchey, Fiona; Codilean, Alexandru T.; Jacobs, Zenobia; Cohen, Tim J.; Williams, Alan N.; Ulm, Sean (2023) 'SahulArch: A geochronological database for the archaeology of Sahul'. Australian Archaeology, 89 (1):1-13. [DOI]
Rehn, Emma; Rowe, Cassandra; Ulm, Sean; Woodward, Craig; Zawadzki, Atun; Jacobsen, Geraldine; Bird, Michael I. (2022) 'Integrating charcoal morphology and stable carbon isotope analysis to identify non-grass elongate charcoal in tropical savannas'. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 31 (1):37-48. [DOI]
Rowe, Cassandra; Rehn, Emma; Brand, Michael; Hutley, Lindsay B.B.; Comley, Rainy; Levchenko, Vladimir; Zwart, Costijn; Wurster, Christopher M.M.; Bird, Michael I. (2022) 'Holocene climate-fire-vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia'. Journal of Vegetation Science, 33 (6). [DOI]
Rehn, Emma; Rowe, Cassandra; Ulm, Sean; Woodward, Craig; Bird, Michael (2021) 'A late-Holocene multiproxy fire record from a tropical savanna, eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia'. The Holocene, 31 (5):870-883. [DOI]
Rehn, Emma; Rowe, Cassandra; Ulm, Sean; Gadd, Patricia; Zawadzki, Atun; Jacobsen, Geraldine; Woodward, Craig; Bird, Michael (2021) 'Multiproxy Holocene fire records from the tropical savannas of northern Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia'. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9 . [DOI]
Fossil charcoal particle identification and classification by two convolutional neural networks
2019
Rehn, E.; Rehn, A.; Possemiers, A. (2019) 'Fossil charcoal particle identification and classification by two convolutional neural networks'. Quaternary Science Reviews, 226 . [DOI]