Emma Rehn

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.