30 June 2014 Page 1 of 15 PERSONAL PARTICULARS Professor Robert James Wasson EDUCATION Ph.D (Earth Sciences) Macquarie University, Australia B.A. (First Class Honours, Geomorphology) University of Sydney, Australia PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2011- Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, National 2013 University of Singapore 2004- 2011 Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Charles Darwin University, Australia. Responsible for the Research and International Portfolios. 1999- 2004 Professor and Director, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University (ANU). Responsible for the strategic direction and performance of the Centre. 1999 Dean of Science, ANU. Responsible for strategic planning and budget control for the Faculty. 1996- 1999 Professor and Head, Department of Geography, School of Resources, Environment, and Society, Australian National University. Responsible for the strategic direction, teaching program, performance and budget for the Department. 1982- 1996 Research Scientist, CSIRO, Division of Water Resources from 1982. Appointed Program Leader 1987, and Assistant Chief (SPRS) 1993. Responsible for personal and then Program research planning and performance. As Assistant Chief, responsible for the planning, finances, and smooth operation of the Canberra Laboratory of the Division. 1978- 1981 Research Fellow, Department of Biogeography and Geomorphology, Australian National University. September 1979 to February 1980, Visiting Scientist, Physical Research Laboratory, and Ahmedabad, India. Responsible for a research program on arid landscape development (both in Australia and India) within the context of the Department’s focus.
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30 June 2014 Page 1 of 15
PERSONAL PARTICULARS
Professor Robert James Wasson
EDUCATION
Ph.D (Earth Sciences) Macquarie University, Australia
B.A. (First Class Honours, Geomorphology) University of Sydney, Australia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011- Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, National
2013 University of Singapore
2004-
2011
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Charles Darwin
University, Australia. Responsible for the Research and
International Portfolios.
1999-
2004
Professor and Director, Centre for Resource and
Environmental Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies,
Australian National University (ANU). Responsible for
the strategic direction and performance of the Centre.
1999 Dean of Science, ANU. Responsible for strategic
planning and budget control for the Faculty.
1996-
1999
Professor and Head, Department of Geography, School of
Resources, Environment, and Society, Australian
National University. Responsible for the strategic
direction, teaching program, performance and budget for
the Department.
1982-
1996
Research Scientist, CSIRO, Division of Water Resources
from 1982. Appointed Program Leader 1987, and
Assistant Chief (SPRS) 1993. Responsible for personal
and then Program research planning and performance. As
Assistant Chief, responsible for the planning, finances,
and smooth operation of the Canberra Laboratory of the
Division.
1978-
1981
Research Fellow, Department of Biogeography and
Geomorphology, Australian National University.
September 1979 to February 1980, Visiting Scientist,
Physical Research Laboratory, and Ahmedabad, India.
Responsible for a research program on arid landscape
development (both in Australia and India) within the
context of the Department’s focus.
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1977 Lecturer in Geomorphology (untenured), Monash
University, Melbourne. Responsible for a third and a first
year undergraduate unit, and a personal research profile.
1976 Postdoctoral Fellow, Auckland University, New Zealand.
Responsible for personal research on landslides, and a
Masters course in Advanced Geomorphology.
1971-
1975
Tutor and doctoral student, School of Earth Sciences,
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Responsible for
tutoring in first year undergraduate earth science, second
year undergraduate soils, and third year fluvial
geomorphology units. And the completion of a PhD.
1970 Investigations Officer, NSW National Parks and Wildlife
Service. Responsible for the earth science component of
investigations of areas suitable for reservation.
Current Position: Principal Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Research into flood hazard and human vulnerability in Asia.
Co teaching of the Senior Climate Change Seminar at Tembusu Residential College.
CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE OR SERVICES RENDERED
CONSULTANCY REPORTS: Pickup, G, Wasson, R.J., Warner, R.F., Tongway, D. 'Geomorphic Research for the Long Term
Management of Uranium Mill Tailings'. CSIRO Division of Water Resources Research
OFFICIAL POSITIONS HELD IN ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Member, then Vice-Chair, International Geosphere and Biosphere Program
(IGBP) - Science Committee (1992-2000)
Vice-Chair, PAGES (Past Global Changes) a core project of the IGBP (1991-
1997)
Member, IGBP Review Task Force (1996)
Member, Australian Academy of Science, IGBP Committee (1992–2004)
Chair, then Member, Australian Academy of Science, National Committee for
Quaternary Research (1992-1995)
Member, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Working Group
on Land Use, Deforestation, Erosion and Sedimentation (1996-1999)
Chair, Inland Waters Reference Group, Australian Commonwealth State of the
Environment Reporting (1995-1997)
Member, Core Team for Divisional Management Design, Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Division of Water
Resources (1987)
Member, Promotions Committee, Faculty of Science, Australian National
University (ANU) (1997-1999)
Member, Faculty of Arts Restructuring Group, Australian National University
(1998)
Gender Equity Officer, Faculty of Science, Australian National University
(1998)
Member, Healthy Rivers Advisory Group, Environment Australia (1997-1999)
Convenor, National Institute for Environment, ANU (2002-2005)
Education Program Leader, Co-operative Research Centre for Greenhouse
Accounting (1999-2001)
Member, Academic Board, IT Committee, Equity and Diversity Committee,
ANU (1998-1999).
Member International Student Recruitment Committee, ANU (1998 - 1999).
Member, Australian Environment Institute, Australian and New Zealand
Geomorphology Group, British Geomorphology Research Group.
Co-Convenor The Oslo Group, an international working group of the IGBP
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and the IHDP (International Human Dimensions of Global Change Program)
for interdisciplinary understanding (1999 – 2004).
Member, Australian Capital Territory (ACT) State of the Environment Report
Assessment Group (2001-2004)
Chair, ACT Government Sustainability Expert Reference Group (2003-2004)
Member, ACT Government Non-Urban Fire Affected Land Use Steering
Committee (2003).
Member, Board of Management, Arafura Timor Seas Research Facility, a
collaboration between the Australian National University, the Australian
Institute of Marine Science, Charles Darwin University, and the Northern
Territory Government (1999 to 2011).
Member, Darwin Harbour Advisory Committee (DHAC), and Chair
Ecosystem Research Group of the DHAC (2005 to 2011).
Member of Board of Management of the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)
for Aboriginal Health, CRC Tropical Savannas and CRC for Tropical Plant
Protection (2005 to 2011).
Member of the Participants Fora of the CRC for Desert Knowledge and CRC
Plant Biosecurity (2005 to 2011).
Chair of the CRC for Aboriginal Health Finance Committee (2007 to 2011).
Member, Kakadu National Park Board of Management (2009 to 2011).
Chair Charles Darwin University Animal and Human Research Ethics
Committees (2004 to 2011).
Chair, Charles Darwin University Research Panel (2004 to 2011).
Member, sometimes Chair, of CDU Professorial Promotions and
Appointments Committees (2004 to 2011).
Member Graduate Studies Committee, Outreach Committee and Ethics
Committee, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
(2011-2013).
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Professor Wasson is a Principal Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute and an Associate at Tembusu Residential College at the National University of Singapore. He has taught at Macquarie University, University of Auckland, Monash University, the Australian National University, and the National University of Singapore. Prior to moving to Singapore, he was Deputy Vice Chancellor at Charles Darwin University, Australia. He was trained in geomorphology and has spent a large part of his career doing applied research, particularly in
catchment management. His research interests are: long-term landscape change; documenting
the pathways by which water, sediment, nutrients, carbon and pollutants move through river
catchments and to the coast; the role of land use and climate change in landscape change;
human causes of and responses to landscape change; catchment management systems; extreme
hydrologic events in the Australian and Asian tropics; and cross-disciplinary methods. He has
done research in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Malaysia, India, Nepal,
Pakistan, China, Myanmar and Thailand. At ARI, his focus is on flood risk in monsoon Asia.
CONFERENCES ORGANISED WHILE AT ARI
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23-24 September 2013. Flood Risk in monsoon Asia: Hazard and Vulnerability in the past and future. A Planning Workshop. NUS-ARI Prof Y.P Sundriyal, Prof. A.K Singhvi, Dr A. Katuri (India) Prof Wasan Jompakdee, Prof Somchot Ongsakul, Dr L. Lebel (Thailand) Prof. D. Higgitt, Prof A. Ziegler, Dr Lim Han She, Mr Z. A, Smith, Ms S. Ng (NUS)
KEYNOTES & PLENARIES
25 June 2013 ‘Towards a Unified Earth Surface Science’. Distinguished Lecture at the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Conference 2013. Brisbane Convention Centre. Brisbane, Australia. Organized by the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society.
RESEARCH PROJECTS / PROGRAMMES / INITIATIVES & COLLABORATIONS
1. 2009-2011
‘Assessing soil formation and erosion balances in the Top End with an
expanded toolkit’.
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (AUD 290,000)
Collaborators: Prof K. Fifield, Dr. S. Timms, Mr. R. Lal (ANU).
2012-2013
2. ‘From Rainforest to Oil Palm Plantation: Geomorphic Transformation of
the Upper Johor River catchment Malaysia’ (SGD 10,000).
FASS Staff Research Support Scheme FY 2012.
Collaborator: Prof A. Ziegler
3. ‘Flood Risk in monsoon Asia: hazard and vulnerability: a planning
workshop’. (SGD 10,000).
ARI Workshop Funding.
TEACHING, STUDENTS SUPERVISION
Tutor in first year plate tectonics, climatology, biogeography, second year
pedology, and third year fluvial geomorphology and hydrology units - Macquarie
University, Sydney, Australia (1971-1975).
Lecturer and Tutor in third year Fluvial Geomorphology, and a Masters course in
Advanced Geomorphology - Auckland University, New Zealand. (1976).
Lecturer and Tutor in first year Introductory Geomorphology, third year Fluvial
Geomorphology and Methods in Geomorphology - Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia. (1977).
Lecturer, Short Courses in Geoarchaeology at the National Museum of the
Philippines, and in Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies at the Physical
Research Laboratory in India. (1979-1980).
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Lecturer and Tutor in third year Geomorphology (Rivers and Catchments) first
year Earth Systems and third year Environmental History at the Australian
National University. (1996-1999).
Lecturer in modules in River Catchment Processes and Management, the Nature
of Physical Geography, Research Methods, Natural Hazards, and Earth Surface
Processes and Landforms, and a graduate seminar entitled Paradigms and
Knowledge, in the Geography Department, the National University of Singapore.
(2011-2013).
Graduate Supervision: 25 PhD candidates at ANU, CDU and NUS. 5 Masters
candidates at ANU and NUS (1999-2013).
PUBLICATIONS
Authored Book and Monograph (for co-authored list as ‘with XY’)
Steffen, W., Sanderson, A., Tyson, P., Jager, J., Matson, P., Moore, B., Oldfield, F., Richardson,
K., Schellnhuber, J., Turner, B., Wasson, R. Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet
Under Pressure. Springer, 2003, 366pp.
Edited Book
Wasson, R.J. (ed) Quaternary Dust Mantles of China, New Zealand and Australia, ANU, 1982.
253pp.
Wasson, R.J. (ed. and major contributor) Modern Sedimentation, Late Quaternary History of the
Ziegler, A.D., Gillen, J., Newell, B., Wasson, R.J. Comprehensive research in Geography. Area
doi:10.1111/area.12021.
Wasson, R.J., Chauhan, M.S., Sharma, C., Jaiswal, M., Srivastava, P., and Singhvi, A.K. (2013).
‘Erosion of River Terraces as a component of large catchment sediment budgets: a pilot study’.
Asian Journal of Earth Sciences 67-68, 18-25.
Alongi, D., da Silva, M., Wasson, R.J., Wirasantosa, S. Sediment discharge and export of fluvial
carbon and nutrients into the Arafura and Timor Seas: a regional synthesis. Marine Geology (in
press).
Wasson, R.J., Weaver, D., Throne, J., Sediment budgets in small salinized agricultural
catchments in the southwest of Australia. Journal of Environmental Management (in review)
Furuichi, T. and Wasson, R.J. Caesium-137 activity in surface soils in Southeast Asia: Can the
radionuclide be used for the study of soil and sediment movement in the region? Journal of
Asian Earth Sciences (in review).
Wasson, R.J., Sundriyal, Y.P., Chaudhary, S., Jaiswal, M., Morthekai, P., Sati, S.P., Juyal, N. A
1000-year history of floods in the Upper Ganga catchment, central Himalaya, India.
Hydrological Processes (in review).
Wasson, R.J., Ziegler, A. Large floods and the dubious promise of reforestation: an Austral-Asia
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perspective. Hydrological Processes (in review).
Ziegler, A., Petney, T.N., Grundy-Warr, C., Andrews, R.H., Baird, I., Wasson, R.J.,
Sithithaworn, P. (2013). Dams and disease triggers on the lower Mekong River. PLOS Neglected
Tropical Diseases 7(60, e2166, 4pp.
**Furuichi, T. and Wasson, R.J (2014). Caesium-137 in Southeast Asia: Is there enough left for soil erosion and sediment redistribution studies? Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 77, 108-116.
*Warrick, J.A., Milliman, J.D.,Wasson, R.J., Walling, D.E., Wasson, R.J.,Syvitski, J.P.M.,and Aalto, R.E.(2014). Earth is (mostly) flat: Apportionment of the flux of continental sediment over millennial time scales Geology Forum, Geological Society of America. DOI:10.1130/G34846C.1
*Wasson, R.J. Y. P. Sundriyal, S. Chaudhary, M. K. Jaiswal, P. Morthekai, S. P. Sati, and N. Juyal. (2014). A 1000-year history of large floods in the Upper Ganga catchment, central Himalaya, India Quaternary Science Reviews, 77, 156-166.
*Ziegler, A.D., Terry, J., Oliver, G., Friess, D., Chuah, J., Chow, W., Wasson, R. (2014). Increasing Singapore’s resilience to drought. Hydrological Processes, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10212.
*Gillen, J., Ziegler, A.D., Friess, D., Wasson, R.J. (in press). Geography’s role in nurturing postgraduate students. Geographical Journal.
*Wasson, R.J and Newell, B. (in review). Too little, Too Much, Too polluted: Links between
floods and other water-related disasters in the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau Region. Pacific
Affairs
**Wasson, R.J., Brooks, A., Olley, J., Rustomji, P. (2014). Erosion, sediment transport and
deposition in the Daly River catchment: Implications for catchment management. Report to the
Daly River Catchment Advisory Committee, Northern territory, Australia.
ANY OTHER INFORMATION
Australian Capital Territory Soil Conservation Award