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., Cadd, H., Mooney, S., Cohen, T. 2023 Introducing SahulCHAR: A palaeofire collection for Sahul and New Zealand. Quaternary Australasia 40(2): 16-21.

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 Publications

Rehn, E. & Glade-Wright, R. 2024 Environmental Art and Falling from the Sky. w/k–Between Science & Art Journal. DOI: 10.55597/e9487

Rehn, E. (2023). Mosaic [graphic]. Consilience 15. https://www.consilience-journal.com/conciliarte-issue-13-x/mosaic

Sayedi, S., Abbott, B., Vannière, B., Leys, B., Colombaroli, D., Gil Romera, G., Słowiński, M., Aleman, J., Blarquez, O., Feurdean, A., Brown, K., Aakala, T., Alenius, T., Allen, K., Andric, M., Bergeron, Y., Biagioni, S., Bradshaw, R., Bremond, L., Brisset, E., Brooks, J., Brugger, S., Brussel, T., Cadd, H., Cagliero, E., Carcaillet, C., Carter, V., Catry, F., Champreux, A., Chaste, E., Chavardès, R., Chipman, M., Conedera, M., Connor, S., Constantine, M., Courtney Mustaphi, C., Dabengwa, A., Daniels, W., de Boer, E., Dietze, E., Estrany, J., Fernandes, P., Finsinger, W., Flantua, S., Fox-Hughes, P., Gaboriau, D., Gayo, E., Girardin, M., Glenn, J., Glückler, R., González-Arango, C., Groves, M., Hamilton, D., Hamilton, R., Hantson, S., Hapsari, K., Hardiman, M., Hawthorne, D., Hoffman, K., Inoue, J., Karp, A., Krebs, P., Kulkarni, C., Kuosmanen, N., Lacourse, T., Ledru, M.-P., Lestienne, M., Long, C., López-Sáez, J., Loughlin, N., Niklasson, M., Madrigal, J., Maezumi, S., Marcisz, K., Mariani, M., McWethy, D., Meyer, G., Molinari, C., Montoya, E., Mooney, S., Morales-Molino, C., Morris, J., Moss, P., Oliveras, I., Pereira, J., Pezzatti, G., Pickarski, N., Pini, R., Rehn, E., Remy, C., Revelles, J., Rius, D., Robin, V., Ruan, Y., Rudaya, N., Russell-Smith, J., Seppä, H., Shumilovskikh, L., Sommers, W., Tavşanoğlu, Ç., Umbanhowar, C., Urquiaga, E., Urrego, D., Vachula, R., Wallenius, T., You, C., Daniau, A.-L. 2024 Assessing changes in global fire regimes. Fire Ecology 20(18). DOI: 10.1186/s42408-023-00237-9

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.