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Cool fire: unlocking old burning secrets
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t’s field-based research that I love. Getting out on Country. My parents used to remark that as a kid no toy of mine ever lasted a week before I’d be pulling it apart and trying to put it back together. I just love knowing how things work, and that extends into the world around us – trying to understand how our environments work, and what the dynamics are. My coring devices are personal designs that I’ve hodge-podged together from different equipment. If you’re working in a lake, you’ll need a drilling rig that can handle the sloppy sediments, but also retrieve a column of sediment from the bottom of the lake, and
MICHAEL-SHAWN FLETCHER
Sediment core samples paint a picture of the healthy relationship between humans, vegetation and fire across millennia in Australia. By Michael-Shawn Fletcher
