LYDIA L. MACKENZIE

Dr. Lydia Mackenzie is a Lecturer in Biogeography & Conservation at the University of Tasmania. She previously worked at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, where she opened the Palaeo Lab. She completed her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Queensland in 2016, which reconstructed past vegetation change and human-environment interactions during the Holocene on sensitive island ecosystems in tropical northern Australia. Her research focuses on paleoenvironmental indicators, environmental geochemistry, and paleoecology.

Lydia’a research incorporates a range of proxies to understand terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem dynamics, past climate change, and the long-term relationship between humans and the environment. The new Palaeoecology Laboratory at ZJU analyses pollen, phytoliths, charcoal, radioisotopes, sedimentology, and micro-XRF geochemical analysis. Currently, her research projects focus on understanding alpine ecosystems’ response to past and present climate change and anthropogenic land use in remote regions of northern China and Australia.

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