Griffith University

BAppSci (Hons), PhD

Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute

Contact details for Dr Timothy Pietsch

Research expertise

• Fluvial geomorphology
  
• OSL dating
  

Publications

• Pietsch, T.J., Nanson, G.C. (Accepted) Bankfull hydraulic geometry; the role of in-channel vegetation and downstream declining discharges in the anabranching and distributary channels of the Gwydir distributive fluvial system, southeastern Australia. Geomorphology.
• Croke, J., Jansen, J.D., Amos, K., Pietsch, T.J. (Accepted) A 100 ky record of fluvial activity in the Fitzroy River Basin, tropical northeastern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews.
• Douglas, G.B., Kuhnen, M., Radke, L.C., Hancock, G., Brooke, B., Palmer, M.J., Pietsch, T., Ford, P., Trefry, M.G., Packett, R. (2010) Delineation of sediment sources to a coastal wetland in the Great Barrier Reef catchment: influence of climate variability and land clearing since European arrival. Environmental Chemistry 7, 190–206.
• Hughes A.O., Croke J.C., Pietsch T.J., Olley J.M. (2010) Changes in the rates of floodplain and in-channel bench accretion in response to catchment disturbance, central Queensland, Australia. Geomorphology 114, 338-347.
• Wasson R.J., Furlonger L., Parry D., Pietsch T., Valentine E., Williams D. (2010) Sediment sources and channel dynamics, Daly River, Northern Australia. Geomorphology 114, 161-174.
• Cohen, T.J., Nanson, G.C., Larsen, J.R., Jones, B.G., Price, D.M., Coleman, M., Pietsch, T.J. (2010) Late Quaternary aeolian and fluvial interactions on the Cooper Creek Fan and the association between linear and source-bordering dunes, Strzelecki Desert, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 455-471.
• Pietsch, T.J. (2009) Optically stimulated luminescence dating of young (<500 years old) sediments: Testing estimates of burial dose. Quaternary Geochronology 4, 406-422.
• Pietsch, T.J., Olley, J.M., Nanson, G.C. (2008) Fluvial transport as a natural luminescence sensitiser of quartz. Quaternary Geochronology 3, 365-376.
• Nanson, G.C., Price, D.M., Jones, B.G., Maroulis, J.C., Coleman, M., Bowman, H., Cohen, T.J., Pietsch, T. (2008) Alluvial evidence for major climate and flow-regime changes during the Middle and Late Quaternary in eastern central Australia. Geomorphology 101, 109-129.
• Tooth, S., Jansen, J.D., Coulthard, T.J., Nanson, G.C., Pietsch, T. (2008) Riparian vegetation and the late Holocene development of an anabranching river: Magela Creek, northern Australia. Geological Society of America Bulletin 120, 1021-1035.
• Brooke, B., Ryan, D., Pietsch, T., Olley, J., Douglas, G., Packett, R., Radke, L., Flood, P. (2008). Influence of climate fluctuations and changes in catchment land use on Late Holocene and modern beach-ridge sedimentation on a tropical macro-tidal coast: Keppel Bay, Queensland, Australia. Marine Geology 251, 195-208.
• Brooke, B., Lee, R., Cox, M., Olley, J. , Pietsch, T. (2008) Rates of shoreline progradation during the last 1700 years at Beachmere, southeastern Queensland, Australia, based on optically stimulated luminescence dating of beach ridges. Journal of Coastal Research 24, 640-648.
• Brooke, B., Preda, M., Lee, R., Cox, M., Olley, J., Pietsch, T., Price, D. (2008) Development, composition and age of indurated sand layers in the Late Quaternary deposits of northern Moreton Bay, Queensland. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 55, 141-157.
• Rustomji, P., Pietsch, T. (2007). Alluvial sedimentation rates from southeastern Australia indicate post-European settlement landscape recovery. Geomorphology 90, 73-90.
• Bostock, H.C., Brooke, B., Ryan, D.A., Hancock, G., Pietsch, T., Packett, R., Harle, K. (2007) Holocene and modern sediment storage in the subtropical macrotidal Fitzroy River estuary, Southeast Queensland, Australia. Sedimentary Geology 201, 321-340.
• Page, K., Frazier, P., Pietsch, T., Dehaan, R. (2007). Channel change following European settlement: Gilmore Creek, southeastern Australia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 32: 1398-1411.
• Maroulis, J., Nanson, G., Price, D., Pietsch, T. (2007). Aeolian-fluvial interaction and climate change: Source-bordering dune development over the past 100ka on Cooper Creek, Central Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 386-404.
• Eriksson, M., Olley, J., Kilham, D., Pietsch, T., Wasson, R. (2006). Aggradation and incision since the very late Pleistocene in the Naas River, south-eastern Australia. Geomorphology 81, 66-88.
• Hollands, C., Nanson, G., Price, D., Jones, B., Pietsch, T., Bristow, C. (2006). Aeolian– fluvial interaction: evidence for Late Quaternary channel change and wind-rift linear dune formation in the northwestern Simpson Desert, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 25, 142-62.
• Eriksson, M., Olley, J., Kilham, D., Pietsch, T., and Wasson, R. (2006). Aggradation and incision since the very late Pleistocene in the Naas River, south-eastern Australia. Geomorphology, 81 (no. 1-2): 66-88.
• Nanson, G., Jones, B., Price, D., and Pietsch, T. (2005). Rivers turned to rock: Late Quaternary alluvial induration influencing the behaviour and morphology of an anabranching river in the Australian monsoon tropics. Geomorphology, 70 (no. 3-4): 398-420.
• Olley, J.M., Pietsch, T., Roberts, R.G., (2004). Optical dating of Holocene sediments from a variety of geomorphic setting using single grains of quartz.  Geomorphology, 60, 337-358