Contact Information
Email: 
gale_s(at)usp.ac.fj
Phone: +679 323 2215
Office: Room 14, SGESE Building, Lower Campus
Research interests
Stephen Gale has research interests in environmental change over timescales extending up to hundreds of millions of years. Most of his work, however, deals with the last few decades and centuries, and with the environmental impact of human activity over this period. He is interested in dating the recent past and in reconstructing detailed records of environmental change in order to tackle modern environmental problems. He has investigated the behaviour of hydrological systems, particularly in response to human activity. He has worked in glaciated, karstic and alpine terrains, in tropical humid landscapes and in arid and lacustrine environments. He has undertaken research in Canada, the USA, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Greece, Libya, Malaysia, Australia, Fiji and Samoa.
Selected publications
Gale, S.J., Cook, D.E. and Dorrington, N.J. 2013. The eastern Australian magnetic inclination record: dating the recent past and re-assessing the historical geomagnetic archive. The Holocene 23, 397–414.
Gale, S.J. and Hoare, P.G. 2012. The stratigraphic status of the Anthropocene. The Holocene 22, 1478–1481.
Gale, S.J. and Penny, D.A. 2012. Clastic spring sediments: a tool for palaeoflood reconstruction? Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 56, 387–400.
Gale, S.J. and Hoare, P.G. 2011. Quaternary Sediments: Petrographic Methods for the Study of Unlithified Rocks. Blackburn Press, New Jersey, 2nd ed., xlv + 325 pp.
Gale, S.J. 2009. Dating the recent past. Quaternary Geochronology 4, 374–377.
Hoare, P.G., Gale, S.J., Robinson, R.A.J., Connell, E.R. and Larkin, N.R. 2009. Marine Isotope Stage 7–6 transition age for beach sediments at Morston, north Norfolk, UK: implications for Pleistocene chronology, stratigraphy and tectonics (Rapid Communication). Journal of Quaternary Science 24, 311–316.
Gale, S.J. 2009. Event chronostratigraphy: a high-resolution tool for dating the recent past. Quaternary Geochronology 4, 391–399.
Gale, S.J. and Hoare, P.G. 2007. The age and origin of the Blakeney esker of north Norfolk: implications for the glaciology of the southern North Sea Basin. In Hambrey, M.J., Christoffersen, P., Glasser, N.F. and Hubbard, B.P. (eds) Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 39, 203–234.
Williams, N.J., Harle, K.J., Gale, S.J. and Heijnis, H. 2006. The vegetation history of the last glacial–interglacial cycle in eastern New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Quaternary Science 21, 735–750.
Gale, R.J.B., Gale, S.J. and Winchester, H.P.M. 2006. Inorganic pollution of the sediments of the River Torrens, South Australia. Environmental Geology 50, 62–75.
Cook, D.E. and Gale, S.J. 2005. The curious case of the date of introduction of leaded fuel to Australia: implications for the history of Southern Hemisphere atmospheric lead pollution. Atmospheric Environment 39, 2553–2557.
Gale, S.J. and Haworth, R.J. 2005. Catchment-wide soil loss from pre-agricultural times to the present: transport- and supply-limitation of erosion. Geomorphology 68, 314–333.
Gale, S.J., Haworth, R.J., Cook, D.E. and Williams, N.J. 2004. Human impact on the natural environment in early colonial Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 39, 148–156.
Gale, S.J. and Haworth, R.J. 2002. Beyond the Limits of Location: human environmental disturbance prior to official European contact in early colonial Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 37, 123–136.
Gale, S.J. and Pisanu, P.C. 2001. The late-Holocene decline of Casuarinaceae in southeast Australia. The Holocene 11, 485–490.
Gale, S.J. 1999. The Snowy Water Inquiry: food, power, politics and the environment. Australian Geographical Studies 37, 301–313.
Gale, S.J. and Hoare, P.G. 1997. The glacial history of the northwest Picos de Europa of northern Spain. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie N.F. 41(1), 81–96; 41(4), vi–vii.
Gale, S.J., Haworth, R.J. and Pisanu, P.C. 1995. The 210Pb chronology of late Holocene deposition in an eastern Australian lake basin. Quaternary Science Reviews 14, 395–408.
Gale, S.J. 1992. Long-term landscape evolution in Australia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 17, 323–343.
Gale, S.J. and Bainbridge, S. 1990. The floods in eastern Australia. Nature, London 345, 767.
Gale, S.J., Hoare, P.G., Hunt, C.O. and Pye, K. 1988. The Middle and Upper Quaternary deposits at Morston, north Norfolk, U.K. Geological Magazine 125, 521–533.
Gale, S.J. and Hunt, C.O. 1985. The stratigraphy of Kirkhead Cave, an Upper Palaeolithic site in northern England. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 51, 283–304.
Gale, S.J. 1984. The hydraulics of conduit flow in carbonate aquifers. Journal of Hydrology 70, 309–327.
