Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher

michael.fletcher@unimelb.edu.au
Find an Expert profile

Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher initially joined the Indigenous Knowledge Institute in October 2020 as the Director (Research Capability) and now leads the Healthy Country Theme. He is a Wiradjuri man, a physical geographer and Assistant Dean (Indigenous) in the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne.

Michael’s interests are in the long-term interactions between humans, climate, disturbance, and vegetation at local, regional, and global scales. His current work involves developing and integrating high-resolution palaeoenvironmental records from across the Southern Hemisphere using multiple proxies, including microfossil, charcoal, geochemical, and isotopic analyses to provide comprehensive reconstructions of environmental change.