Sea-level change in the Australasian region during the past 6000 years: Understanding the past to present

This project addresses questions of what changes have occurred in ocean volume during the last 6000 years of the present interglacial, what land movements have occurred, and what has been the relative sea level change? Emphasis is on change from millennium to decadal time scales and to extrapolate back from the modern instrumental record. A combination of new geological field evidence with geophysical modelling is used to separate land movements from ocean volume change. The focus is on eastern Australia but the results will be placed in a global framework to separate regional from global change, to separate natural from anthropogenic change, and to project the former component as the background signal for future change.