Staff profile

Ms Anne-Marie Tosolini

Lecturer, Environmental Geoscience

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Life Sciences
Department of Environmental Science

Room 286 Physical Sciences 4 Building, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

B.Sc.(Hons) Melb, PhD Syd

Area of study

Environmental Science

Brief profile

Dr Tosolini graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from The University of Melbourne, Department of Earth Sciences, in 1996 - Thesis: The Palaeoecology of the Rocky Camp Member of the Buchan Group, East Gippsland, southeastern Australia. She completed her PhD at The University of Melbourne, School of Botany, in 2001 - Thesis: Biofacies analysis of the Lower Cretaceous, non-marine, hydrocarbon source rocks of the Otway and Strzelecki Groups, southeastern Australia.

Dr Tosolini developed interests in sedimentology and palaeontology through herundergraduate course in Geology and Zoology. Her Honours focused on ecology of corals in limestones. Her PhD allowed her to diversify her interests in past environments by studying Cretaceous plants and sediments of Victoria, in order to reconstruct the forests roamed by dinosaurs. Dr Tosolini went to U.K. to do research at the Centre for Polar Science, Leeds University and British Antarctic Survey. After two months collecting fossil plants in Antarctica, she researched palaeoclimates and biodiversity of the flora from the Palaeocene-Eocene interval.

Dr Tosolini's teaching experience includes a DipEd and first year Environmental Science at both Deakin and La Trobe Universities.

Teaching units

GEO1PRO - Processes that Shape the Earth

GEO1ERS - Earth Structure, Resources and History of Life

Recent publications

Refereed Papers McLoughlin, S. & Tosolini, A-M. (in press). Jurassic and Early Cretaceous macrofloras of Australia. In, Anderson, J.M. & Anderson, H.M. (eds), Gondwana Alive: Biodiversity and the evolving terrestrial biosphere. Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg.

Tosolini, A-M.P., McLoughlin, S. & Drinnan, A.N. 2003. Early Cretaceous megaspore assemblages from southeastern Australia. Cretaceous Research, 23: 807-844.

McLoughlin, S., Tosolini, A-M., Nagalingum, N. & Drinnan, A.N. 2002. The Early Cretaceous (Neocomian) flora and fauna of the lower Strzelecki Group, Gippsland Basin, Victoria, Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoirs, 26: 1-144.

McLoughlin, S., Tosolini, A-M. & Drinnan, A.N. 2000. Revision of an Early Cretaceous macroflora from the Maryborough Formation, Maryborough Basin, Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 45: 483-503.

Refereed papers in conference proceedings Francis, J. E., Ashworth, A., Cantrill, D. J., Crame, J. A., Howe, J., Stephens, R., Tosolini, A-M., Thorn, V. 2008. 100 million years of Antarctic climate evolution: evidence from fossil plants. In, Cooper A. K. and Barrett, P., et al. (eds), Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, U.S.G.S. Santa Barbara, California, August 26 to September 1, 2007, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. U.S.A.

Book Chapters McLoughlin, S. & Tosolini, A-M. (in press). Jurassic and Early Cretaceous macrofloras of Australia. In, Anderson, J.M. & Anderson, H.M. (eds), Gondwana Alive: Biodiversity and the evolving terrestrial biosphere. Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg.

Tosolini, A-M. 2002. Boola Boola Forest Neocomian plant fossil locality. Pp. 87-94. In, McLoughlin, S. (compiler). Cretaceous-Cenozoic Floras and Landscapes of Southeastern Australia. First International Palaeontological Congress; Pre-Congress Fieldtrip 1, Excursion Guidebook. Melbourne. 117 pp. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Geological Society of Australia Incorporated.

Reports Francis, J.E., Tosolini, A-M. & Cantrill, D.J. Report of AFI project - highlights of field season 2000-1. http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/afi/fieldreport_2000-01.htm

Abstracts in conference proceedings Tosolini, A-M.P., McLoughlin, S. and Drinnan, A.N. 2008. Cheirolepidiaceaen foliage from Cretaceous high-latitudes of southeastern Australia. 12th International Palynological Congress (IPC-XII 2008) and 8th International Organisation of Palaeobotany Conference (IOPC-VIII 2008). Bonn, Germany, August 30 - September 5, 2008. Abstract.

Francis, J., Askin, R., Tosolini, A-M., Cantrill, D.J., & Raine, I. 2003. Antarctic vegetation and climate through the Cenozoic. Nice, France, April, 2003. EGS/AGU/EUG Joint Assembly, Abstract.

Cantrill, D.J., Francis, J.E. & Tosolini, A-M. 2002. Response of floristic diversity to environmental change during the Tertiary: an example from Seymour Island, Antarctica. Sydney, Australia, July, 2002. First International Palaeontological Congress, Geological Society of Australia. Abstracts 68: 000-000.

Francis, J.E., Tosolini, A-M. & Cantrill, D.J. 2002. Biodiversity response and climate change in Palaeogene Antarctica floras. Athens, Greece, August, 2002. 6th European Paleobotany-Palynology Conference, Abstract.

Francis, J.E., Tosolini, A-M. & Cantrill, D.J. 2002. Biodiversity response to climate change in Palaeogene floras of Antarctica. Cambridge, U.K., September, 2002. Antarctic Funding Initiative Workshop, Abstract.

Tosolini, A-M., McLoughlin, S. & Drinnan, A.N. 2002. Floristic changes associated with climate and other environmental fluctuations in the Early Cretaceous of southeastern Australia. Sydney, Australia, July, 2002. First International Palaeontological Congress, Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 68: 111-112.

Tosolini, A-M., Francis, J.E. & Cantrill, D.J. 2002. Antarctic palaeoclimates from Paleocene floras. Christchurch, New Zealand, August, 2002. Gondwana 11, Abstract.

Tosolini, A-M., Francis, J.E. & Cantrill, D.J. 2002. Biodiversity and climate change in Antarctic Palaeogene floras. Cambridge, U.K., December, 2002. The Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, Abstract.

Tosolini, A-M., Francis, J.E. & Cantrill, D.J. 2002. Biodiversity response to climate change: biodiversity and climate significance of Tertiary forest communities of Antarctica. University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K. Earth Surface Processes Conference, Abstract.

Tosolini, A-M., Francis, J.E. & Cantrill, D.J. 2002. Leeds, U.K. Biodiversity response to climate change: biodiversity and climate significance of Tertiary forest communities of Antarctica. White Rose Meeting, Abstract.

Tosolini, A-M., McLoughlin, S. & Drinnan, A.N. 2000. Neocomian floras and sedimentary facies of the lower Strzelecki Group, Gippsland Basin, southeastern Australia. Edinburgh, U.K., December, 2000. The Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, Abstract.

 

Older publications

Refereed Papers

Tosolini, A-M., McLoughlin, S. & Drinnan, A.N. 1999. Stratigraphy and fluvial sedimentary facies of the Neocomian lower Strzelecki Group, Gippsland Basin, Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 46: 951-970.

Video presentations

McLoughlin, S., Vadala, A. & Tosolini, A-M.P. 1997. Fossil Plants in Society. Victorian Education Department, Gifted Horizons Series, educational video for advanced secondary school studies. 60 minutes.

Abstracts in conference proceedings

Tosolini, A-M., McLoughlin, S. & Drinnan, A.N. 1998. Neocomian floras and sedimentary facies of the lower Strzelecki Group, Gippsland Basin, southeastern Australia. Gondwana 10: Event Stratigraphy of Gondwana. Cape Town, South Africa, June-July, 1998. African Journal of Earth Sciences 27(1A): 197-200 (abstract).

Tosolini, A-M., Nagalingum, N., McLoughlin, S. & Drinnan, A.N. 1997. An Early Cretaceous flora from the lower Strzelecki Group, Gippsland Basin, Victoria. Conference on Palaeobiogeography of Australasian Faunas and Floras. University of Wollongong, N.S.W., December, 1997. Geological Society of Australia Abstract Series 48: 73-74 (abstract).