About Dr Daniel Penny
Asia is a critical component in the Earth System, regulating atmospheric and oceanic circulation, and driving global climatic change. It is also extraordinarily diverse in its environments and cultures both over space and through time. The history and dynamics of environment and culture in the Asian region – and the many ways in which these interact – is a fascinating area of research and one with enormous currency as Asia, both populous and exposed to climatic change, moves into an uncertain environmental future
Dan is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geosciences, who specialises in long-term environmental and cultural change in the Southeast Asian region
Dan came to the University of Sydney in 2001 as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow. In total, he has held six consecutive Fellowships at various Universities in Australia and the UK, and has been awarded over two million dollars in research funding, both as an individual scholar and as part of collaborative research groups. He began working in the Southeast Asian region in 1993, attracted by the scale and significance of the environmental processes at work in the region, and fascinated by the interaction between climate, ecology and people over long time scales. He became a Director of the Greater Angkor Project (http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/angkor/gap) in 2005, as is currently using palaeo-botanical techniques to reconstruct land-cover change during the decline of Angkor.
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Selected publications
- Penny, D. (2008) The Mekong at climatic crossroads: lessons from the geological past. Ambio. 37(3): 164-169.
- Penny, D., Pottier, C., Kummu, M., Fletcher, R., Zoppi, U., Barbetti, M., Tous. S. (2007) Hydrological history of the West Baray, Angkor, revealed through palynological analysis of sediments from the West Mebon. Bulletin de l’École Française d’Extrême-Orient 92: 497-521
- Penny, D., Pottier, C., Fletcher, R.J., Barbetti, M.F., Fink, D., Hua, Q. (2006) Vegetation and land-use at Angkor, Cambodia: a dated pollen sequence from the Bakong temple moat. Antiquity, 80 (309): 599-614
- Penny, D. (2006) The Holocene history and development of the Tonle Sap, Cambodia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25: 310-322
- Penny, D., Cook, G. & Im, S.S. (2005) Long-term rates of sediment accumulation in the Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia: a threat to ecosystem health? Journal of Paleolimnology 33(1): 95-10
- Penny, D. & Kealhofer, L. (2005) Microfossil evidence of land-use intensification in north Thailand. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32: 69-82
- White, J.C., Penny, D., Maloney, B. & Kealhofer, L. (2004). Vegetation changes from the Terminal Pleistocene through the Holocene from three areas of archaeological significance in Thailand. Quaternary International, 113: 111-132
- Bishop, P, Penny, D., Stark, M. and Scott, M. (2003) A 3.5ka record of paleoenvironments and human occupation at Angkor Borei, Mekong delta, southern Cambodia. Geoarchaeology, 18(3): 359-393
- Penny, D. (2001) A 40,000 year palynological record from north-east Thailand; implications for biogeography and palaeo-environmental reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 171: 97-128
- Kealhofer, L. & Penny, D. (1998) 14,000 years of vegetation change in Northeast Thailand. Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology, 103: 83-93