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AMS dating of ancient plant residues from experimental stone tools: a pilot study (with Andrea Yates, Andrew M. Smith, Anja Scheffers, and Renaud Joannes-Boyau), Journal of Archaeological Science (2013)

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Phytolith occluded carbon and silica variability in wheat cultivars (with Leigh A. Sullivan), Plant and Soil (2011)

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Carbon bio-sequestration within the phytoliths of economic bamboo species (with Leigh A. Sullivan, Bihua Chen, Gongfu Ye, and Zheng Wiepeng), Global Change Biology (2010)

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Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea: practice, potential and prospects (with Tim Denham, Jennifer Atchison, Jeremy Austin, Sheahan Bestel, Doreen Bowdery, Alison Crowther, Nic Dolby, Andrew Fairbairn, Judith Field, Amanda Kennedy, Carol J. Lentfer, Carney Matheson, Sue Nugent, Matiu Prebble, Gail Robertson, Jim Specht, Robin Torrence, Huw Barton, Richard Fullagar, Simon Haberle, Mark Horrocks, Tara Lewis, and Peter Matthews), Australian Archaeology (2009)

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Human adaptive responses to catastrophic landscape disruptions during the Holocene, Numundo, PNG (with William E. Boyd, Vicki Harriott, and Robin Torrence), Geographical Research (2009)

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Sugarcane phytoliths: Encapsulation and sequestration of a long-lived carbon fraction (with Leigh A. Sullivan and Robert Quirk), Sugar Tech (2009)

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Sugarcane the champion crop at carbon sequestration (with Leigh A. Sullivan), Canegrower (2007)

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Effect of fire on phytolith coloration, Geoarchaeology (2006)

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Geochemistry (δ13C, δ15N, 13C NMR) and residence times ( 14C and OSL) of soil organic matter from red-brown earths of South Australia: implications for soil genesis (with Evelyn S. Krull, Erick A. Bestland, Jan O. Skjemstad, and A C. Mee), Geoderma (2006)

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Using palaeobotanical techniques to guide peatland restoration. A case study from Byron Bay, Australia (with Kathryn H. Taffs and Keith G. Bolton), Ecological Management and Restoration (2006)

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Interactions between human activity, volcanic eruptions and vegetation during the Holocene at Garua and Numundo, West New Britain, PNG (with William E. Boyd and Carol J. Lentfer), Quaternary Research (2005)

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Soil carbon sequestration in Phytoliths (with Leigh A. Sullivan), Soil Biology and Biochemistry (2005)

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A microwave digestion technique for the extraction of fossil diatoms from coastal lake and swamp sediments (with Kathryn H. Taffs and Christopher M. Lane), Journal of Paleolimnology (2004)

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Morphometric and visual fossil phytolith identification using a regionally specific digital database, Phytolitharian (2004)

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Pleistocene colonisation of the Bismarck Archipelago: new evidence from West New Britain (with Robin Torrence, Vince Neall, Trudy Doelman, Ed Rhodes, Chris McKee, Hugh Davies, Roberto Bonetti, Alessandra Guglielmetti, Alberto Manzoni, Massimo Oddone, and Cleland Wallace), Archaeology in Oceania (2004)

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13C-depleted charcoal from C3 and C4 grasses and the role of occluded carbon in phytoliths (with Evelyn S. Krull, Jan O. Skjemstad, D Graetz, K Grice, W Dunning, and G D. Cook), Organic Geochemistry (2003)

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Phytolith and starch analysis of sediment samples from two archaeological sites on Dauar Island, Torres Strait, northeastern Australia (with M Carter), Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (2003)

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Response to Cotter and Cotter: Confirming the probable industrial origin of archaeological daub at an Iron Age site in northeast Thailand (with William E. Boyd), Geoarchaeology (2003)

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A comparison of heavy liquid floatation and microwave digestion techniques for the extraction of fossil phytoliths from sediments, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology (2002)

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The identification of Xanthorrhoea resins by starch morphology: Prospects for archaeological and taxonomic applications, Economic Botany (2002)

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The probable industrial origin of archaeological daub at an Iron Age site in Northeast Thailand (with William E. Boyd), Geoarchaeology (2002)

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A comparative analysis of wet and dry ashing techniques for the extraction of phytoliths from plant material (with Carol J. Lentfer and William E. Boyd), Journal of Archaeological Science (2001)

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A microwave digestion method for the extraction of phytoliths from herbarium specimens (with V Dolic, Graham Lancaster, and William E. Boyd), Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology (2001)

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Spatial patterning of a Lapita landscape at an archaeological site in West New Britain province, Papua New Guinea (with Carol J. Lentfer and William E. Boyd), Domodomo: Journal of the Fiji Museum (2001)

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Once, twice maybe, but not three times: Reheating xanthorrhoea australis resin - not viable, Australian Archaeology (1999)

Fires impact on an acidic peatland in northeastern NSW: implications for the interpretation of fire histories, pyrite formation and loss of organic carbon (with Geoffrey Kerr, J Arthur, and Kathryn H. Taffs), Interdisciplinary nuances in phytolith and other microfossil studies (2008)

Geochemical analysis of fragments of burnt and impressed cay (with William E. Boyd), The origins of the civilization of Ankor: Excavation of Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao (2007)

Morphological characteristics observed in the leaf phytolith of select gymnosperms of Eastern Australia (with Loraine Watson), Plants, people and places: Recent studies in phytolithic analysis (2007)

Microwave extraction of starch, Ancient starch research (2006)

Starch in resins, Ancient starch research (2006)

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Raman, infrared and XPS study of bamboo phytoliths after chemical digestion (with Kym M. Watling, Llew Rintoul, Christopher L. Brown, and Leigh A. Sullivan), GeoRaman 2010, 9th International Conference on the Application of Raman Spectroscopy to the Earth Science, published in Spectrochimica Acta: Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy (2011)

Encapsulation of a long-lived carbon fraction in phytoliths (with Leigh A. Sullivan and Robert Quirk), Meeting the Challenges of Sugar Crops and Integrated Industries in Developing Countries: Proceedings of International Sugar (IS 2008) Conference (2008)

Deposition of plant silica, a long-lived soil fraction containing easily quantifiable carbon (with Leigh A. Sullivan), Proceedings International Symposium on Organic Matter Dynamics in Agro-Ecosystems (2007)

Green geosequestration: secure carbon sequestration via plant silica biomineralisation (with Leigh A. Sullivan), Awards Ceremony Speeches and Abstracts of the 17th Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference (2007)

Management of silica biomineralisation in crops to enhance soil carbon sequestration in agro-ecosystems (with Leigh A. Sullivan), Proceedings International Symposium on Organic Matter Dynamics in Agro-Ecosystems (2007)

Increasing long term soil carbon sequestration in agriculture and forestry (with Leigh A. Sullivan), Proceedings 18th World Congress of Soil Science (2006)

Phytolith-occluded carbon and the long-term soil organic carbon sequestration potential (with Leigh A. Sullivan), Soil science solving problems : ASSSI-ASPAC-ACMS National Soils Conference: book of abstracts (2006)

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Carbon sequestration in plantstones (with Leigh A. Sullivan), Proceedings Managing the Carbon Cycle (2005)

Reconstructing fire histories: methods, interpretation and common on-ground across fire history research in Australia (with Geoffrey Kerr, J Arthur, Keith G. Bolton, Geraldine Jacobsen, and Kathryn H. Taffs), Australasian Archaeometry Conference (2005)

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The potential of soil to securely sequestrate carbon: expanding the horizon (with Leigh A. Sullivan), Proceedings Managing the Carbon Cycle (2005)

Holocene vegetation dynamics in West New Britain, PNG (with William E. Boyd, Carol J. Lentfer, and C F. Jago), XI International Palynological Congress (2004)

Chronology and palaeoecology of an acidic wetland peat in northeastern NSW (with Kathryn H. Taffs and Keith G. Bolton), ESA ecology 2003 conference (2003)

Fires and their implications for acidic peatlands, northeastern NSW (with Kathryn H. Taffs, Geoffrey Kerr, and J Arthur), ESA ecology 2003 conference : abstracts, University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W., Australia, 8-10 December (2003)

Waste reduction and value adding during fossil phytolith extraction and palaeo-environmental analysis of volcanic sediments and tephra using Microwave Digestion and ICPMS (with K Farrugia), Proceedings : the state of the art in phytolith and starch research in the Australian-Pacific-Asian regions (2003)

Spatial analysis of fossil phytolith assemblages at an archaeological site in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea (with Carol J. Lentfer and William E. Boyd), The archaeology of Lapita dispersal in Oceania : papers from the fourth Lapita Conference (2001)

Forensics report (with Kathryn H. Taffs), Forensics Department, NSW Police (2007)

West Byron wetland vegetation history report. Unpublished. (with Kathryn H. Taffs), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (2002)