Matej Lipar, PhD | ZRC SAZU

Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, 2015
- School Teacher of Geography and History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2010

Research fields

Karstology, speleology, geomorphology, physical geography, geology, geochemistry, palaeoclimatology, sedimentology, geochronology

Selected presentations and lectures

MedGU (Mediterranean geosciences Union Annual Meeting): 2021 (Istanbul) - Syngenetic karst, a global overview. (main author: Lipar, M.)
IKS (International Karstological School Conference): 2021 (Postojna) - Imaging solution pipes : case study from Miocene calcarenites in Poland. (main author: Lipar, M.; co-authors: Kowalczyk, S.; Oryński, S.; Owoc, B.; Prakash Sharma, R.; Szymczak, P.)
EGU (European Geosciences Union General Assembly): 2021 (Vienna) - Impact crater versus bioherm on the Nullarbor Plain, Australia. (main author: Lipar, M.; co-authors: Ferk, M.; Šmuc, A.)
DSO (Long Term Environmental Change Conference): 2021 (Ljubljana) – Stalagmites and palaeoclimate in Slovenia : current research. (main author: Lipar, M.; co-authors: Lojen, S.; Ferk, M.; Tičar, J.; Hrvatin, M.; Zorn, M.)
AESC (Australian Earth Science Convention): 2021 (Australia) – Solution pipes and focussed vertical water flow in carbonates with high matrix porosity. (main author: White, S.; co-authors: Lipar, M.; Szymczak, P.; Webb, J.)
EGU (European Geosciences Union General Assembly): 2020 (Vienna) - Recently exposed subglacial carbonate deposits at the retreating Triglav Glacier, Slovenia. (main author: Lipar, M.; co-authors: Martín-Pérez, A.; Tičar, J.; Pavšek, M.; Gabrovec, M.; Hrvatin, M.; Komac, B.; Zorn, M.; Zhao, J.; Drysdale, R.N.; Ferk, M.)
INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research Congress): 2019 (Dublin) - The preliminary results of the Holocene stalagmite paleoenvironmental record from Postojna Cave, Slovenia. (main author: Lipar, M; co-authors: Drysdale, RN; Zhao, J.)
ANZGG (Australian & New Zealand Geomorphology Group Conference): 2019 (Inverloch) - Deep caves on the Nullarbor Plain, Australia. (main author: Lipar, M; co-authors: Ferk, M.; Lojen, S.; Barham, M.)
IKS (International Karstological School Conference): 2019 (Postojna) - Water-rock interaction in Postojna Cave: can we use stable oxygen isotopes as palaeothermometer? (main author: Lipar, M; co-authors: Dolenc Batagelj, K.; Drysdale, R.; Zhao, J.)
DSO (Long Term Environmental Change Conference): 2019 (Ljubljana) - Subglacial carbonate deposits: their implication on palaeoenvironment from the Last Glacial Maximum. (main author: Lipar, M.; co-authors: Ferk, M.; Martín-Pérez, A.; Tičar, J.; Pavšek, M.; Gabrovec, M.; Hrvatin, M.; Komac, B.; Zorn, M.; Zhao, J.; Drysdale, R.N.)

La Trobe University Full Fee Research Scholarship (2011-2015)

La Trobe University Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2011-2015)

Department of Geography Award (University of Ljubljana) for special achievements during geography study (for diploma Geomorphological features, developed on Tamala Limestone in surroundings of Cervantes and Jurien Bay, Western Australia) (2009)

Department of Geography Award (University of Ljubljana) for special achievements during geography study (for a seminar Land use change, based on the distance of town centres in Slovenia according to Von Thünen model – using Esri ArcGis) (2007)

Slovene Research Initiative Exchange award with Ohio State University (2020)

Best presentation award at 25th Victorian universities Earth and Environmental Sciences Conference (2012)

La Trobe University Postgraduate Writing-up Award (Web of Science) (2014)

Lipar M, Szymczak, P, White SQ, Webb J, 2021. Solution pipes and focused vertical water flow : geomorphology and modelling. Earth-Science Reviews 218.
Lipar M, Martín-Pérez A, Tičar J, Pavšek M, Gabrovec M, Hrvatin M, Komac B, Zorn M, Zupan Hajna N, Zhao J-x, Drysdale RN, Ferk M, 2021. Subglacial carbonate deposits as a potential proxy for a glacier's former presence. The Cryosphere 15.
Lipar M, Zupanič Pajnič I, Cotman M, Zabavnik Piano J, Zhao J-x, Pekarovič D, Leskovar T, 2020. DNA, spectroscopic and geochemical analyses of bone fragments and associated speleothems in Postojna cave, Slovenia. Acta Carsologica 49.
Lipar M. Stepišnik U, Ferk M, 2019. Multiphase breakdown sequence of collapse doline morphogenesis: an example from Quaternary aeolianites in Western Australia. Geomorphology 327.
Lipar M, Ferk M, Lojen S, Barham M, 2019. Sulphur (34S/32S) isotope composition of gypsum and implications for deep cave formation on the Nullarbor Plain, Australia. International Journal of Speleology 48.
Lipar, M, Webb, JA, Cupper, ML, Wang, N, 2017: Aeolianite, calcrete/microbialite and karst in southwestern Australia as indicators of Middle to Late Quaternary palaeoclimates. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 470.
Lipar, M, 2016: A contribution to Slovenian terminology of karst and its features developed in eogenetic Quaternary calcarenites. Geographical Bulletin 88.
Lipar, M, Ferk, M, 2015: Karst pocket valleys and their implications on Pliocene-Quaternary hydrology and climate : examples from the Nullarbor Plain, southern Australia. Earth-Science Reviews 150.
Lipar, M, Webb, JA, 2015: The formation of pinnacle karst in Pleistocene calcarenites (Tamala Limestone) in southwestern Australia. Earth-Science Reviews 140.
Lipar, M, Webb, JA, White, SQ, Grimes, KG, 2015: The genesis of solution pipes: Evidence from the Middle-Late Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation calcarenite, southeastern Australia. Geomorphology 246.

Geography of Slovenia - national research programme (research programme • 01. january 2015 - 31. december 2021)
Collection and interpretation of data from stalagmites to interpret palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment (podoktorski_raziskovalni • 01. june 2017 - 31. may 2020)
Karst artefacts of the remote northern part of the Nullarbor Plain (raziskovalni • 06. november 2017 - 05. november 2023)
Geomorphological characteristics on eogenetic carbonate rocks in Slovenia and United States of America (bilateralni • 01. october 2019 - 30. september 2021)
Novel proxies of the Holocene climate variability in stalagmites in Slovenia (temeljni_raziskovalni • 01. september 2020 - 31. august 2023)
Geomorphological peculiarities of AEOLianite KARST and their palaeoclimatic significance (temeljni_raziskovalni • 01. september 2020 - 31. august 2022)
Solution pipes as a novel palaeoclimate proxy (temeljni_raziskovalni • 01. november 2021 - 31. october 2023)