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Professor Pat Quilty

Honorary Research Professor

Contact Details

Contact Campus Sandy Bay Campus
Building Geology/Geography
Room Reference 331
Telephone +61 3 6226 2814
Fax +61 3 6226 2547
Email P.Quilty@utas.edu.au

Teaching Responsibilities

Career Summary

Professor Patrick Quilty was ANARE Chief Scientist with the Antarctic Division of the Department of the Environment and Heritage, and is now Honorary Research Professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Tasmania and recently Distinguished Visiting Professor at California State University. He is a geologist, with a BSc (Hons) from the University of Western Australia and a PhD from the University of Tasmania. He has worked in academia at the University of Tasmania and at Macquarie University, and in industry with West Australian Petroleum (WAPET). He participated in both the Deep Sea Drilling Project (Leg 34 East Pacific, 1973-1974) and the Ocean Drilling Program (Leg 120 Indian Ocean, 1988; Leg 188, Prydz Bay, Antarctica, 2000).

He chaired the organising committees for the XXth meeting of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) in 1988, the Vestfold Hills and Macquarie Island Symposia, and has been on state and federal councils of ANZAAS. He recently convened the 17th Australian Geological Convention in Hobart (February 2004) and is federal secretary of the Geological Society of Australia.

He was senior vice-president of the Royal Society of Tasmania, president of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, and was vice-president of SCAR for a four-year term. He has published over 180 scientific papers. He has four species, a range of nunataks and a bay named in his honour.

He received the Royal Society of Tasmania Medal (1996), US Antarctic Services Medal (1974), was Distinguished Lecturer (1986) for the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia. He was invited speaker in the North American Speaker Series (organised by the Education Office of the Australian Embassy in Washington) for 1998-1999. He is now a patron of the University of Western Australia Geoscience Foundation.

In 1997 he was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List and was made inaugural Distinguished Alumnus from the University of Tasmania.

He first visited Antarctica in 1965-1966 with the University of Wisconsin and has made 14 other working trips south in addition to being used as commentator on 19 tourist overflights and two tourist ship voyages to the Antarctic. He has recently acted as guide for a visit to Tasmania of a group from the Royal Society of Victoria and commonly accompanies other excursions to provide expert commentary. He gives some 15-20 guest lectures per year to a wide variety of functions/conferences and in 2000 was host in a 50-minute national ABC TV special entitled South of No North. He has also appeared on Gardening Australia. He is used regularly by the media to comment on Antarctic and geological issues.

Several recent books, such as Richard Bennett's Tasmania Wild Island have included contributions by Patrick.

Research Activity

  • Stratigraphy/palaeontology/palaeoenvironment of Neogene of East Antarctica and of Pliocene across southern Australia
  • Distribution of modern foraminifera along East Antarctic margin
  • Exploration history of Antarctica
  • Completion as co-editor of the new edition of Geology of Tasmania

Publications

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The early days

  • SPRY, A.H. & QUILTY, P.G. 1963. The significance of deformed Permian fossils in Tasmania. Australian Journal of Science 25,(9): 413-414.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 1966. The Age of Tasmanian Tertiary marine rocks. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 143-144.
  • LAUDON, T.S., LACKEY, L.L. & QUILTY, P.G. 1966. Geology of eastern Ellsworth Land Antarctica. Proc. 11th Pacific Science Congress 4, div.1, p.29.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 1969. On two recorded species of Foraminifera from Fossil Bluff, Wynyard. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 103: 97,98.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 1969. Upper Eocene Planktonic Foraminiferida from Albany, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of W.A. 52: 41-58.
  • VARNE, R., GEE, R.D. & QUILTY, P.G. 1969. Macquarie Island and the cause of linear magnetic anomalies. Science. 164: 230-233.
  • LAUDON, T.S., LACKEY, L.L., QUILTY, P.G. & OTWAY, P.M. 1969. The Geologic map of eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. American Geographical Society Antarctic Map Folio Series, folio 12, plate 3.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 1970. Jurassic Ammonites from Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. Journal of Paleontology 44: 110-116.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 1970. Triangulina. n. gen. (Problematica) from the Tertiary of southern Australia. Micropaleontology.16: 179-184.
  • GEE, C.E., JAGO, J.B. & QUILTY, P.G. 1970. Age of the Mt. Read Volcanics in the Que River area, Western Tasmania. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 16: 761-763.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 1971. Cambrian and Ordovician dendroids and hydroids of Tasmania. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia.17: 171-189, pls.13,14.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 1972. Middle Jurassic brachiopods from Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. N.Z. Journal of Geology and Geophysics 15(1): 140-147.
  • QUILTY, P.G. (1972. Pentacrinites and (?) Apiocrinus from the Jurassic of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. Neues Jahrb. Geol. Palaont. Monatsh. (1972) 8: 484-489.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 1972. A Middle Cambrian xiphosuran (?) from western Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 106: 21-23.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 1972. The biostratigraphy of the Tasmanian marine Tertiary. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania.106: 25-44.
  • JAGO, J.B., REID, K.O., QUILTY, P.G. et al. 1972. Fossiliferous Cambrian limestone from within the Mt. Read Volcanics, Mt. Lyell mine area, Tasmania. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 19: 379-382.
  • QUILTY, P.G., RUBENACH, M. & WILCOXON, J.A. 1973. Miocene ooze from Macquarie Island. Search 4(5): 163,164.

Since retirement

  • QUILTY, P.G. 1999. Book review. Meteorites: flux with time and impact effects. The Australian Geologist 110: 31.
  • O'BRIEN, P.E., DE SANTIS, L., HARRIS, P.T., DOMACK, E. & QUILTY, P.G. 1999. Ice shelf grounding zone features of western Prydz bay, Antarctica: sedimentary processes from seismic and sidescan images. Antarctic Science 11: 78-91.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 1999. Geophysics as centrepiece: its role in the Australian Antarctic Territory. Exploration Geophysics 30: 68-75
  • HARRIS, P., O'BRIEN, P.E., QUILTY, P., McMINN, A., HOLDWAY, D., EXON, N.F., HILL, P.J., & WILSON, C.W. 1999. Sedimentation and continental slope processes in the vicinity of an ocean waste disposal site, southeastern Tasmania. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 46: 577-591.
  • QUILTY, P.G., TRUSWELL, E.M., O'BRIEN, P.E. & TAYLOR, F. 2000. Paleocene-Eocene biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments: new data from Mac. Robertson Shelf and western parts of Prydz Bay East Antarctica. AGSO Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics 17: 133-143.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2000. Book review. Ramsay, A.T.S. & Baldauf, J.G. Reassessment of the Southern Ocean Biochronology. The Australian Geologist114: 51,52.
  • QUILTY, P.G. & WHELLER, G.E. 2000. Heard Island and the McDonald Islands: a window on the Kerguelen Plateau. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 133(2):1-12.
  • QUILTY, P.G., LIRIO. J.M. & JILLETT, D. 2000. Stratigraphy of the Pliocene Sørsdal Formation, Marine Plain, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science 12: 205-216.
  • HARWOOD, D.M., McMINN, A. & QUILTY P.G. 2000. Diatom stratigraphy and age of the Pliocene Sørsdal Formation, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science 12: 443-462.
  • KERSHAW, A.P., QUILTY, P.G., VAN HUET, S., DAVID, B., & McMINN, A. 2001. The Quaternary 'Palaeobiogeography of Australasia. In Wright, A.J., Talent, J.A., Young, G.C. & Laurie, J.R. (eds.) Palaeobiogeography of Australasian Faunas and Floras. Memoir of the Association of AustralasianPalaeontologists 23: 471-515.
  • WHITEHEAD. J.M., QUILTY, P.G., HARWOOD, D.M. & McMINN, A. 2001. Early Pliocene paleoenvironment of the Sørsdal Formation, Vestfold Hills, based on diatoms. Marine Micropaleontology 41: 125-152.
  • SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC PARTY, 2001. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Report, 188. College Station TX (Ocean Drilling Program).
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2001. Late Eocene foraminifera and paleoenvironment, Cascade Seamount, southwest Pacific Ocean. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 48: 633-641.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2001. Reworked Paleocene and Eocene Foraminifera, Mac. Robertson Shelf, East Antarctica: Paleoenvironmental implications. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 31: 369-384.
  • FORDYCE, R.E., QUILTY, P.G. & DANIELS, J. 2002. Australodelphis mirus, a bizarre new toothless ziphiid-like fossil dolphin (Cetacea: Delphinidae) from the Pliocene of Vestfold Hills, east Antarctica. Antarctic Science 14: 37-54.
  • PUJANA, I. & QUILTY, P.G. 2002. High latitude, Late Campanian radiolaria from offshore south-eastern Tasmania. Alcheringa 26: 249-260.
  • QUILTY, P.G. Late Cretaceous foraminifera from a dredge and from ODP Site 1138, Kerguelen Plateau, southern Indian Ocean. Now available on http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/183_SR/003/003.htm
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2002. Book review. Hince, B. 2000. The Antarctic dictionary: a complete guide to Antarctic English. Polar Record 38(204): 67,68.
  • MARCHANT, H.J., LUGG, D.J. & QUILTY, P.G. (eds.) 2003. Australian Antarctic Science: the first 50 years of ANARE. Artemis Press: Hobart, 622 pp.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2003. Solid Earth Geophysics: Its Role in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ). In MARCHANT, H.J., LUGG, D.J. & QUILTY, P.G. (eds.) Australian Antarctic Science: the first 50 years of ANARE. 203-223. Proceedings of the ANARE Jubilee meeting. Artemis Press:
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2003. Opening address, 20 July 1997. Antarctic Science - the ANARE perspective. In MARCHANT, H.J., LUGG, D.J. & QUILTY, P.G. (eds.) Australian Antarctic Science: the first 50 years of ANARE. 21-26. Proceedings of the ANARE Jubilee meeting. Artemis Press:
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2003. Jubilee closing speech, Tuesday 22 July 1997. Influences on the future directions of Australian Antarctic Research In MARCHANT, H.J., LUGG, D.J. & QUILTY, P.G. (eds.) Australian Antarctic Science: the first 50 years of ANARE. 579-588. Proceedings of the ANARE Jubilee meeting. Artemis Press:
  • O'BRIEN, P., BORISOVA, I., QUILTY, P., BARDSLEY, T., CONSTABLE, & HARRIS, P. 2003. History of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic continental shelf - the ANARE contribution. Research In MARCHANT,
  • H.J., LUGG, D.J. & QUILTY, P.G. (eds.) Australian Antarctic Science: the first 50 years of ANARE. 139-163. Proceedings of the ANARE Jubilee meeting. Artemis Press:
  • BUSETTI, M., CARBURLOTTO, A., ARMAND, L., DAMIANI, D., GIORGETTI, G., LUCCHI, R.G., QUILTY, P.G. and VILLA, G. 2003. Plio-Quaternary sedimentation on the Wilkes Land continental rise. Preliminary results. Deep Sea ResearchII, 50: 1529-1562.
  • QUILTY, P.G. & BANKS, M.R. 2003. S. Warren Carey. Historical Records of Australian Science.14: 313-335.
  • FREY, F.A., COFFIN, M.F., WALLACE, P.J. & QUILTY, P.G. (eds.) 2003. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 183. Available from: Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 7845-9547, USA.
  • QUILTY, P.G. & BANKS, M.R. 2003. Obituary: Samuel Warren Carey AO 1911-2002. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 137: 95-98.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2003. Neogene foraminifers and accessories from ODP Leg 188, Sites 1165, 1166 and 1167, Prydz Bay, Antarctica. Proceedings of the ODP Scientific Results (also formally published 2004).
  • WARNKE, D.A., RICHTER, C., FLORINDO, F., DAMUTH, J.E., BALSAM, W.L., STRAND, K., RUIKKA, M., JUNTILA, J., THEISSEN, K. & QUILTY, P.G. 2004. Data report: HiRISC (High-Resolution Integrated Stratigraphy Committee) Plio-Pleistocene interval, 0-50 m mbsf, at ODP Leg 188 Site 1165, Prydz Bay, Antarctica: a data report. Proceedings of the ODP Scientific Results
  • AMINI, Z.Z., ADABI, M.H., BURRETT, C.F. & QUILTY, P.G. 2004. Bryozoan distribution and growth form associations as a tool inenvironmental interpretation, Tasmania, Australia. Sedimentary Geology 167:1-15.
  • QUILTY, P.G. & GODDARD, P. 2004. Diary of H.V. Goddard, crew memberof S.Y. Aurora on Antarctic voyage to retrieve Dr Douglas Mawson, 19November 1913 - 19 March 1914. Polar Record 40: 193-203.
  • EXON, N, QUILTY, P.G., LAFOY, Y., CRAWFORD, A. & AUZENDE, J.-M., 2004. Miocene volcanic seamounts on northern Lord Howe Rise: lithology, age, and origin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 51: 291-300.
  • QUILTY, P.G., MURRAY-WALLACE, C. & WHITEHEAD, J.M. 2004. Austrochlamys heardensis (Fleming, 1957) from Central Kerguelen Plateau, Indian Ocean: palaeontology and possible tectonic significance. Antarctic Science 16: 329-338.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2004. Book Review. Sea Ice: an introduction to its physics, chemistry, biology and geology. David N. Thomas and Gerhard S. Dieckmann. Blackwell Publishing, 2003. 402 pp. $345.40! The Australian Geologist 132: 30-31.
  • EXON, N., HILL, P., LAFOY, Y., BURCH, G., POST, A., HEINE, C., QUILTY, P., HOWE, R. & TAYLOR, L. 2005. The geology of the Kenn Plateau off northeast Australia: results of Southern Surveyor Cruise SS5/2004 (Geoscience Australia Cruise 270). Geoscience Australia Record 2005/04: 172pp.
  • GALLAGHER, S.J., DUDDY, I.R., QUILTY, P.G., SMITH, A.J., WALLACE, M.W., HOLDGATE, G.R. & BOULT, P.J. 2005. The use of Foraminiferal Colouration Index (FCI) as a thermal indicator and correlation with vitrinite reflectance in the Sherbrook Group, Otway basin, Victoria. Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Eastern Australasian basins Symposium II, 643-653.
  • TRUSWELL, E.M., QUILTY, P.G., McMINN, A., MACPHAIL, M.K. & WHELLER. G. 2005. Late Miocene vegetation and palaeoenvironments of the Drygalski Formation, Heard Island, Indian Ocean: evidence from palynology. Antarctic Science 17: 427-442.
  • *GALLAGHER, S.J., TAYLOR, D., APTHORPE, M., STILWELL, J.D., BOREHAM, C.J., HOLDGATE, G.R., WALLACE, M.W., QUILTY, P.G. 2005. Late Cretaceous dysoxia in a southern high latitude siliciclastic succession, the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
  • WHITEHEAD, J.M., QUILTY, P.G., McKELVEY, B. & O.BRIEN, P.E. 2006. A review of the Cenozoic stratigraphy and glacial history of the Lambert Graben-Prydz Bay region, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science 18: 83-99.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2006. Landform evolution in the Marine Plain region, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science 18: 239-259.
  • WHITEHEAD, J.M., EHRMANN, W., HARWOOD, D.M., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., QUILTY, P.G., HART, C., TAVIANI, M, THORN, V. & McMINN, A. 2006. Late Miocene paleoenvironment of the Lambert Graben embayment, East Antarctica, evidence from mollusc paleontology, sedimentology and geochemistry. Global and Planetary Change 50: 127-147.
  • EXON, N., BERNADEL, G., BROWN, J., CORTESE, A., FINDLAY, C., HOFFMANN, K., HOWE, R., & QUILTY, P. 2006. The geology of the Mellish Rise region off northeast Australia: a key piece in a tectonic puzzle. Southern Surveyor Cruise SS02/2005. Geoscience Australia Survey 274. Geoscience Australia Record 2006/08, 204 pp. (PQ contribution p. 109-131). ISSN: 1448-2177; ISBN: 1 920871 79 9
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2006. Heard Island and the McDonald Islands: built on the Kerguelen Plateau foundation. In Green, K. (ed.) Heard Island; Sentinel of the Southern Ocean. Surrey Beattie: Sydney. 1-9.
  • QUILTY, P.G., & PACKHAM, G.H. 2006. Late Paleocene foraminiferal faunas with Chapmanina and Reticulophragmium from offshore southeastern Australia: a Tethyan influence. Alcheringa 30: 315-341
  • QUILTY, P.G. & HOSIE, G. 2006. Recent foraminifera of the Swan River estuary, Western Australia. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 36: 291-314.
  • KEMP, A.E.S., PEARCE, R.B., GRIGOROV, I., RANCE, J., LANGE, C.B.,QUILTY, P. & SALTER, I. 2006. Production of giant marine diatoms andtheir export at oceanic frontal zones: Implications for Si and C flux from stratified oceans, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 20: GB4S04,doi:10.1029/2006GB002698
  • SELKIRK, P., QUILTY, P.G. & DAVIES, M. (eds) The sub-Antarctic. Papersand Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 141(1): 181 pp.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2007. Origin and Evolution of the sub-Antarctic Islands: theFoundation. In: Selkirk, P., Quilty, P.G. & Davies, M. (eds) The sub-Antarctic. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 141(1):35-58.
  • QUILTY, P. G. 2007. Georg Neumayer (1826-1909) in Tasmania, 1864. Papersand Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 141(2): 203-212.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2007. Book review. Slicing the silence: voyaging to Antarctica. Tom Griffiths (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007). Pp. 399 $34.95, paperback. Australian Journal of Politics and History 53: 481, 482.
  • QUILTY, P.G., CRUNDWELL, M. & WISE, S.W. Jr. 2008. Microplanktonprovide 9 Ma age for sediments in the Macquarie Island ophiolite complex. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 55: 1119-1125.
  • GIBSON, J., QUILTY, P.G., SWADLING, K.M., NEWMAN, L. & PATERSON, K.S. 2008. Paratrochammina minutissima n. sp.in brackish,marine-derived lakes of the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 38: 292-297.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2008. Book review. Looking South, Federation Press. Polar Record, 44: 378-379.
  • BAMBARADENIYA, C., FLORES, C., GINSBERG, J., HOLING, D., LUMPKIN, S., McKAY, G., MUSICK, J., QUILTY, P., STONEHOUSE, B., WOEHLER, E.J. & WOODRUFF, D. 2009. The Illustrated Atlas of World Wildlife. University of California Press, Berkeley. 288 pp.
  • HERZER, R.H., DAVY, B.W., MORTIMER, N., QUILTY, P.G.,CHAPRONIERE, G.C.H., JONES, C.M., CRAWFORD, A.J. & HOLLIS,C.J. 2009. Seismic stratigraphy and structure of the Northland Plateau and the development of the Vening Meinesz transform margin, SW Pacific Ocean. Marine Geophysical Researches 30: 21-60. DOI: 10.1007/s11001-009-9065-1
  • COLHOUN, E.A., KIERNAN, K.W., McCONNELL, A, QUILTY, P.G.,FINK, D., MURRAY-WALLACE, C. & WHITEHEAD, J. 2009. Late Pliocene age of glacial deposits at Heidemann Valley, East Antarctica: evidence for the last major glaciation in the Vestfold Hills. Antarctic Science 22: 53-64 doi:10.1017/S0954102009990526
  • LEWIS, D. & QUILTY, P.G. 2009. Foraminifera and Palaeoenvironment of Elevated Late Pleistocene sands, White Rock Point, South-EasternTasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 143: 95-100.
  • DAVIES, M., QUILTY, P.G. & SELKIRK, P.
  • M. (editors) 2009.Environmental change in the sub-Antarctic. Proceedings of the
  • secondinternational forum on the sub-Antarctic. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 143: 1-55.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2009. Extended abstract. Paleocene-Eocene age and paleoenvironments, north-eastern margin of Australia - work in progress. In Crouch, E., Strong, P. & Hollis, C. (eds) Climatic and biotic events of the Paleogene, GNS Science Miscellaneous Series 18: 107-110.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2010. Foraminifera from Late Pliocene sediments of Heidemann Valley, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 40:
  • 193-205.
  • QUILTY, P.G. & SEYMOUR, D.B. 2010. Early Miocene Silicified Limestone from Temma, Northwestern Tasmania: further evidence of substantial post- Early Miocene uplift or tilting of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 144: 43-50.
  • QUILTY, P.G. 2011. Late Jurassic Foraminifera, Wallaby Plateau, Offshore Western Australia. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 41: 182-195
  • STILLWELL, J.D., QUILTY, P.G. & MANTLE, D. Paleontology of Early Cretaceous samples dredged from the deepwater Wallaby Plateau: new perspectives of Gondwana break-up along the Western Australian margin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 59: 29-48
  • *QUILTY, P.G. & WINTER, G. 2012. Robert Falcon Scott: a Tasmanian Connection. Polar Record