Professor Jon Nott talks about the Aquis project

Professor Jon Nott was interviewed by 4CA host John McKenzie in relation to the Aquis project and possible risks.
Professor Jon Nott is qualified to discuss the for and against and his qualifications are as follows:

Biography

Professor Nott graduated with a PhD in Geomorphology from the University of Wollongong in 1991. He took up a position as lecturer in Geosciences at the Northern Territory University, Darwin in 1991, then moved to a lecturing position at the Australian National University, Canberra between 1993 to 1995 and then to James Cook University, Cairns where he has been since.

Research interests

Professor Nott undertakes research into extreme natural events such as tropical cyclone storm tides and tsunamis and specializes in reconstructing long-term natural records of these events. These records provide a more realistic guide to the long-term behaviour of these hazards and can be used as a basis for estimating their return intervals and for risk assessment. Prof. Nott has published numerous articles on these topics in peer reviewed journals and has provided the first detailed review of the techniques involved in reconstructing these long-term records of natural hazards in his book ‘Extreme Events’ published by Cambridge University Press in 2006.  He has gained over 1.3 million dollars in competitive research grant monies. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading researchers into the long-term history and variability of tropical cyclones.

Projects

• Isotope signatures of tropical cyclones in limestone stalagmites
  

Representative publications

• Nott, J.F. 2006. Extreme Events: A physical reconstruction and risk assessment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge U.K. 300p.
• Nott, J., Haig, J., Neil, H. and Gillieson, D., 2007.  Greater frequency variability of landfalling tropical cyclones at centennial compared to seasonal and decadal scales. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 255, 365-372)
• Nott, J.F. and Hayne, M. 2001. High frequency of ‘super-cyclones’ along the Great Barrier Reef over the past 5,000 years. Nature, 413, 508-512.
• Nott, J.F. and Horton, S. 2000. 180 Ma continental drainage divide in northeastern Australia: Role of passive margin tectonics. Geology, 28, 763-766
• Nott, J.F., and Price, D. M., 1999. Waterfalls, floods and climate change: evidence from tropical Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 171, 267-276.