Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Director (Research Capability)
Theme Leader — Healthy Country
Indigenous Knowledge Institute

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michael.fletcher@unimelb.edu.au
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Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher joined the Institute in October 2020. Michael is a Wiradjuri man and Director of Research Capability at the Indigenous Knowledge Institute. He is also a physical geographer and Assistant Dean (Indigenous) for the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne. Michael leads the Healthy Country Theme.

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.