Dr Emma Rehn

Articles and Explainers

Rehn, E. 2023 Australian bushfires burning hotter, more often in recent decades compared to past millennia. ABC Science. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-01-13/bushfires-australia-history-lakes-sediment-cores-charcoal/101588236

Rehn, E. 2023 Curious rats solve puzzles. Double Helix 67: 8. https://www.publish.csiro.au/book/8183/

Rehn, E. 2022 Correcting Critter Misconceptions with Comics. POPSICULE. https://popsicule.weblogs.anu.edu.au/correcting-critter-misconceptions-with-comics. DOI: 10.25911/QVMF-2924

Rehn, E. 2022 ‘I hope you like disco’: Tips from speed-drawing science cartoons. EMCR Pathways 27. https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/newsletters/emcr-pathways-newsletter/issue-27-june-2022/i-hope-you-like-disco

Rehn, E. 2022 Getting Drawn into Archaeology for National Archaeology Week. Queensland Museum Network Blog. https://blog.qm.qld.gov.au/2022/05/20/getting-drawn-into-archaeology-for-national-archaeology-week/

Rehn, E. 2021 How To: Record Fires That Burned Thousands of Years Ago [graphic]. Past Global Changes Horizons Magazine 1: 41-43. https://pastglobalchanges.org/publications/pages-magazines/pages-horizons/13194

Rehn, E. & Rivera Araya, M. 2020 Wetland Rewind: Learning from the Past at Sanamere Lagoon, Cape York Peninsula. Protected 27: 12-13. https://npaq.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/FINAL-Issue-27-Autumn-2020-PROTECTED-Web.pdf

Rehn, E. 2019 Mid-INQUA Congress Fieldtrip Report: Brú Na Bóinne and the Hill of Tara. Quaternary Australasia 36(2): 14-16.

Rehn, E. 2019 An Open Letter to New Artists [graphic]. Sūdō Journal 1: 92-95. https://sudojournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1.16-An-Open-Letter-to-New-Artists.pdf

Radio and Podcasts

ABC Radio National (14 October 2022). Deep Past Meets Deep Future – Science Fiction Star Becky Chambers in Conversation with Dr Emma Rehn. Science Friction. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sciencefriction/science-friction-becky-chambers-science-fiction-author/14079666

ABC Sydney (22 September 2022). Mornings with Cassie McCullagh.

Bunsen and Beaker (14 April 2022). Animal Emotions, Allergy Busting and Dr Emma Rehn on Archeology! The Science Pawdcast. https://bunsenbernerbmd.buzzsprout.com/413041/10441332-season-4-episode-11-animal-emotions-allergy-busting-and-dr-emma-rehn-on-archeology

Pantropica (23 March 2022). Dr Emma Rehn. Talkin’ Tropics. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pantropica/episodes/Talkin-Tropics-Ep–5-Dr–Emma-Rehn-e1g1ss2

Peer-reviewed Papers

Saktura, W.M., Rehn, E., Linnenlucke, L., Munack, H., Wood, R., Petchey, F., Codilean, A.T., Jacobs, Z., Cohen, T.J., Williams, A.N. & Ulm, S. 2023 SahulArch: A geochronological database for the archaeology of Sahul. Australian Archaeology 89(1): 1-13. DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2022.2159751

Vachula, R.S. & Rehn, E. 2023 Modelled dispersal patterns for wood and grass charcoal are different: Implications for paleofire reconstruction. The Holocene 33(2): 159-166. DOI: 10.1177/09596836221131708.

Rehn, E., Rowe, C., Ulm, S., Woodward, C., Zawadzki, A., Jacobsen, G. & 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: 37-48. DOI:10.1007/s00334-021-00836-z.

Rowe, C., Rehn, E., Brand, M., Hutley, L.B., Comley, R., Levchenko, V., Zwart, C., Wurster, C.M. & Bird, M.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): e13158. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.13158.

Rehn, E., Rowe, C., Ulm, S., Gadd, P., Zawadzki, A., Jacobsen, G., Woodward, C. & Bird, M. 2021 Multiproxy Holocene fire records from the tropical savannas of northern Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:771700. DOI:10.3389/fevo.2021.771700.

Rehn, E., Rowe, C., Ulm, S., Woodward, C. & Bird, M. 2021 A late Holocene multiproxy fire record from a tropical savanna, eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. The Holocene 31(5): 870-883. DOI: 10.1177/0959683620988030.

Rehn, E., Rehn, A. & Possemiers, A. 2019 Fossil charcoal particle identification and classification by two convolutional neural networks. Quaternary Science Reviews 226:106038. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106038.

Conference Presentations

Boyd, K., Cadd, H., Rehn, E., Wall, A. & Wales, J. (2023). Science communication for community engagement in Australian Quaternary Science. Poster presented to the International Union for Quaternary Research Congress XXI, Rome, Italy, 14-20 July.

Rehn, E. (2023). Picturing deep time research. Paper and poster presented to the Australian Science Communicators Conference, Canberra, 15-17 February.

Rehn, E., Munack, H., Saktura, W., Linnenlucke, L., Codilean, A. Jacobs, Z. & Ulm, S. (2022). SahulArch: Age determinations from archaeological sites from Sahul in the OCTOPUS database. Paper presented to the Australasian Quaternary Association Conference, Adelaide, 6-8 December in conjunction with Contact: Learning from Entangled Encounters; Australian Archaeological Association Conference, Darwin, 7-9 December.

Rehn, E., Miller, V., Stevenson, J., Grono, E. & Bird, M. (2021). More to charcoal than meets the eye: Testing techniques for the separation of fire products as proxies for occurrence and intensity. Paper presented to the Australasian Quaternary Association Conference, online, 8-9 July. [Awarded Australasian Quaternary Association ECR Conference Presentation Award: CHRONOS ¹⁴Carbon-Cycle Facility Internship]

Rehn, E., Bird, M., Rowe, C. & Ulm, S., Woodward, C. & Jacobsen, G. (2019). Fire and Fuels in Holocene Northern Australian Tropical Savannas. Paper presented to the International Union for Quaternary Research Congress XX, Dublin, Ireland, 25-31 July.

Rehn, E., Bird, M., Rowe, C. & Ulm, S. (2017). Fire Under the Microscope: A Method of Charcoal Particle Analysis Beyond Abundances. Paper presented to Island to Inland: Connections Across Land and Sea; Australian Archaeological Association Conference, Melbourne, 6-8 December.

Rehn, E., Ulm, S. & Collard, M. (2014). Environmental Risk and Toolkit Variability in Australian Contexts. Paper presented to Culture, Climate, Change: Archaeology in the Tropics; joint Australian Archaeological Association/Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Cairns, 29 November-4 December.

Theses

Rehn, E. 2020 Fire and Environmental Change in Northern Australian Savannas during the Holocene. Unpublished PhD thesis, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/68212/

Rehn, E. 2014 An Analysis of the Risk Hypothesis and its Application to Hunter-Gatherer Toolkits through an Australian Dataset. Unpublished BA(Hons) thesis, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns.