Kevin Kiernan
NationalityAustralian
Occupation(s)Writer, Geomorphologist, Conservationist
Organization(s)United Tasmania Group, Tasmanian Wilderness Society

Kevin Kiernan is an Australian writer, geomorphologist, and conservationist.

He has written about the West Coast Range and Mount Field National Park[1] of Tasmania.

His honours thesis at the University of Tasmania was about glaciation in Western Tasmania.[2] His subsequent 1985 Phd thesis was concerned with glaciation in Central Tasmania.[3]

In the 1980s he was involved in researching indigenous sites in caves in the South West of Tasmania, including Kutikina Cave[4][5][6][7]

He was involved in various overviews of karst - cave environments of Tasmania, and other states of Australia.[8][9][10] He was an academic geomorphologist at the University of Tasmania.[11] He has written and co-authored about conservation of glacial landforms.[12]

He was one of the individuals present at the change of the focus of the former South West Tasmania Action Committee that led to the founding of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society in 1976, and was the first director.[13]

References

  1. ↑ Kiernan, Kevin (June 2018), Eroding the edges of nature : Mount Field and the Florentine Valley : Tasmania's first national park and a century of lessons, Fullers Publishing (published 2018), ISBN 978-0-648-21802-9
  2. ↑ Kiernan, Kevin (1980), Pleistocene glaciation of the central West Coast Range, Tasmania, retrieved 18 November 2018
  3. ↑ Kiernan, Kevin (1985), Late Cainozoic glaciation and mountain geomorphology in the central highlands of Tasmania, retrieved 28 March 2023
  4. ↑ Kiernan, Kevin; Jones, Rhys, 1941-2001; Ranson, Don (1982), Glacial age man in south-west Tasmania : new evidence from Fraser Cave, Franklin River, Hobart, retrieved 30 June 2023{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ McKinnon, John, photographer; Australian Information Service (1981), Kevin Kiernan cleaning stone tools recovered during an archaeological survey in the southwest wilderness of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 27 February 1981, retrieved 28 March 2023{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ Kiernan, Kevin; Hamilton-Smith, Elery, 1929-2015, (interviewer.) (1994), Kevin Kiernan interviewed by Elery Hamilton-Smith in Caves of Australia oral history project, retrieved 28 March 2023 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ Jones, Rhys, 1941-2001 (1981), Don Ranson, Kevin Kiernan, Rhys Jones, retrieved 28 March 2023{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ Kiernan, Kevin; Tasmanian Forest Research Council (1995), An atlas of Tasmanian karst, Tasmanian Forest Research Council, ISBN 978-0-7246-3550-4
  9. ↑ Kiernan, Kevin (1984), Land use in karst areas : forestry operations and the Mole Creek Caves : a report to the Forestry Commission and National Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania, Forestry Commission, retrieved 28 March 2023
  10. ↑ Hamilton-Smith, Elery; Kiernan, Kevin; Spate, Andy; Western Australia. Department of Environmental Protection; Hamilton-Smith, Elery; Western Australia (1998), Karst management considerations for the Cape Range Karst province Western Australia : a report prepared for the Western Australia Department of Environmental Protection, The Dept, ISBN 978-0-7309-8064-3
  11. ↑ "Profile: Kevin Kiernan". ResearchGate.
  12. ↑ Kiernan, Kevin (1996), Conserving geodiversity and geoheritage : the conservation of glacial landforms, [K. Kiernan], ISBN 978-0-7246-3559-7
  13. ↑ The group was established in 1976 from the members of the South West Tasmania Action Committee see - The Wilderness Society (tasmania Inc) NG2155 [Records], LINC Tasmania, 1976, retrieved 17 November 2018
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