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EarthByte News Archive
May 2010
EarthByte is pleased to announce the release of GPlates0.9.9 Download software
March 2010
Congratulations to Patrice Rey and Dietmar Müller who have been highlighted in a recent media release on "Kiwis reconsider ancient split with Australia" View Page
February 2010
Welcome to Thomas Landgrebe who has joined the EarthByte Group as a postdoc. Thomas will be working closely with all members of the EarthByte group including the GPlates development team in the field of data-mining.
Welcome to Enoch Lau who has joined the GPlates development team.
Welcome to the following students who are starting their PhDs: Grace Shephard, Kara Matthews and Nathaniel Butterworth.
Welcome to the following masters students: Charmaine Thomas and Florian Jouno.
Grace Shephard is on a research visit to the University of Munich as part of her PhD project.
January 2010
GPlates 0.9.8 has been released! View Page
Welcome to Simon Williams who has joined the EarthByte Group as a postdoc. Simon’s expertise is in the analysis of potential field data particularly applied to continental margins.
Welcome to Michael Qin who has joined the GPlates development team.
Welcome to Nicolas Flament who recently received his PhD from the University of Lyon, France. He has joined the EarthByte Group as a postdoc working on an industry-funded South America project.
Congratulations to Dietmar and Ana for their successful FAST (French-Australian Science and Technology) project application.
Dietmar has started his 6 month sabbatical as the Mercator Visiting Professor at the University of Munich. He will be working wtih Prof. Hans-Peter Bunge and his group on incorporating plate kinematic models with their Terra software.
December 2009
Welcome to Leonardo Quevedo who has joined the EarthByte Group as a postdoc. Leonardo will be working with Gabriele Morra and Dietmar Müller on the ARC funded 100 Ma plate reorganization project.
Dietmar Müller, Adriana Dutkiewicz and Gabriele Morra are attending the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
October 2009
EarthByte would like congratulate Patrice Rey on his promotion to Associate Professor!
EarthByte would like to welcome Sue Taylor who has joined us as an administrative assistant.
EarthByte would like to welcome Rolf Mjelde. Rolf is a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Bergen, Norway and has joined the EarthByte group for a 6
month sabbatical.
EarthByte is pleased to release a global, present-day 'Plate Polygon' dataset. This dataset can be downloaded from the EarthByte Plate Model webpage, which provides background information and future areas of development regarding the EarthByte global plate model.
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September 2009
Paper by Donna Whitney, Christian Teyssier and Patrice Rey published in Lithosphere on The consequences of crustal melting in continental subduction.
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A paper published in Geology, by Maria Seton, Carmen Gaina, Dietmar Müller and Christian Heine has resulted in a research highlight in Nature Geosciences "Spreading and Sealevel"
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EarthByte welcomes Fabio Capitanio from Monash University who will collaborating with Gabriele Morra (21st - 24th September) on modeling the interaction between the subducting and upper plate.
EarthByte welcomes Paul Wessel from SOEST (University of Hawaii) who is collaborating with EarthByte on an International Visiting Research Fellowship.
EarthByte welcomes Heather Wright from Monash University who will be collaborating with Gabriele Morra (2nd - 4th September). Dr. Morra has recently developed a fast-multipole boundary element method which is used to study the fate and interaction of bubbles and crystals and their relationship with rheology.
August 2009
EarthByte is expanding! Click here for positions vacant and PhD opportunities.
Paper by Maria Seton, Carmen Gaina, Dietmar Müller and Christian Heine published in Geology (Mid-Cretaceous seafloor spreading pulse: Fact or fiction?)
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June 2009
Congratulations to Prof. Dietmar Müller who has been awarded one of only 15 Australian Laureate Fellowships.
EarthByte welcomes Dr. Joanne Whittaker who has just started an industry-funded postdoc position working on Indian Ocean reconstructions after a year working overseas.
May 2009
EarthByte Online Movies Updated.
April 2009
Paper by You, Huber, Müller, Poulsen, Ribbe published in
Geophysical Research Letters (Simulation of the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum).
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Paper by Tong, You, Müller and Seton in press.
Climate Model Sensitivity to Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations for the Middle
Miocene, Global and Planetary Change, in press (accepted 3 February 2009)
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February 2009
Paper by DiCaprio, Gurnis and Müller published in EPSL (Long-wavelength tilting of the Australian continent since the Late Cretaceous) Download Paper
Paper by Becker, Conrad, Buffet and Müller published in EPSL (Past and present seafloor age distributions and the temporal evolution of plate tectonic heat transport) Download Paper
January 2009
Paper by DiCaprio, Müller, Gurnis and Goncharov published in GCubed (Linking active margin dynamics to overriding plate deformation: Synthesizing geophysical images with
geological data from the Norfolk Basin) Download Paper
An article titled "Pair to resolve the great opal debate" about the recent funding that Patrice Rey and Adriana Dutkiewicz were awarded appeared in The Australian Newspaper. View Article
Congratulations to our co-tutelle student Nicolas Flament and Patrice Rey whose recent article in Earth and Planetary Science Letters was featured in an article published in the New Scientist. View Article
Congratulations to Dietmar Müller on his promotion to Professor.
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December 2008
Paper by Whittaker, Müller, Roest, Wessel and Smith published in Nature (How supercontinents and superoceans affect seafloor roughness) Download Paper Download Data 
November 2008
Alina Hale is organising the Earth Systems Dynamics Network (ESDN) meeting in Brisbane which will be held on 20-21 November Click for more info
EarthByte is pleased to announce the release of GPlates0.9.3.1 Download software
A paper published in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, by Heine, Müller, Steinberger and Torsvik, has resulted in a news article in the latest "Petroleum News" edition View Article
Paper by Heine, Müller, Steinberger and Torsvik published in Physics of the Earth and Planetary
Interiors (Anomalous subsidence in intracontinental basins) Download Paper
October 2008
EarthByte is pleased to welcome Dr. Alina Hale, who has transferred her APD to the University of Sydney. Her main research focus is on numerical modelling of lava domes and subduction.
Paper by Herold. Seton, Müller, You and Huber published in G-Cubed (Middle Miocene tectonic boundary conditions for use in
climate models) Download Paper Download Data
Congratulations to EarthByters Dietmar Müller, Patrice Rey and Maria Seton for their successful ARC funding.
September 2008
EarthByte is pleased to welcome John Cannon, a software developer, who has started working on the AuScope GPlates project.
Paper by Rey and Müller published in EABS III Conference Proceedings (Late Cretaceous–Paleocene evolution of the East Gondwana margin, a new dynamic model for the formation of marginal basins) Download Paper
Paper by Whittaker, Müller and Gonchorov published in EABS III Conference Proceedings (Australian-Antarctic rifting) Download Paper
Paper by Heine and Müller published in EABS III Conference Proceedings (The IntraCONtinental basinS (ICONS) atlas – applications in eastern Australia) Download Paper
Paper by Seton and Müller published in EABS III Conference Proceedings (Reconstructing the junction between Panthalassa and Tethys since the Early Cretaceous) Download Paper
EarthByters Dietmar Müller, Patrice Rey and Maria Seton will be attending the PESA Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III in Sydney.
August 2008
Paper by Torsvik, Müller, Van der Voo, Steinberger and Gaina published in Reviews of Geophysics (Global plate motion frames: Toward a unified model) Download Paper
A paper published in Geology, by Patrice Rey and Nicolas Coltice, has resulted in a research highlights news article in Nature "The end of flat earth" View Article
Paper by Rey and Coltice published in Geology (Neoarchean lithospheric strengthening and the coupling of Earth's geochemical reservoirs) Download Paper
Nick Herold is attending an international palaeoclimate workshop in Cambridge, UK.
Dietmar Müller and James Boyden are attending the 33rd International Geological Congress followed by a GPlates workshop in Oslo, Norway.
Ana Gibbons is onboard the German research vessel Sonne for 6 weeks exploring the ocean floor around Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
July 2008
Paper by Maus, Yin, Lühr, Manoj, Rother, Rauberg, Michaelis, Stolle and Müller published in the GCubed (Resolution of direction of oceanic magnetic lineations by the sixth-generation lithospheric magnetic field model from CHAMP satellite magnetic measurements) Download Paper
A Response to Comment Paper by Whittaker, Müller, Leitchenkov, Stagg, Sdrolias, Gaina and Goncharov has been published in Science (Response to Comment on: Major Australian-Antarctica Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time) Download Paper
Paper by Clark and Müller published in the Journal of Geodynamics (Convection models in the Kamchatka region using imposed plate
motion and thermal histories) Download Paper
Patrice Rey and Nicolas Flament are currently undertaking fieldwork in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Dietmar Müller, Patrice Rey, Nicolas Flament and Sian Smith are attending the Australian Earth Sciences Convention in Perth, Australia.
June 2008
A paper published in Geology, by Scott Dyksterhuis and Dietmar Müller, has resulted in a research highlights news article in Nature "Geophysics: Mysterious mountains" View Article
Paper by Dyksterhuis and Müller published in Geology (Cause and evolution of intraplate orogeny in Australia) Download Paper Download Supplementary Section
April 2008
Paper by Spasojevic, Liu, Gurnis and Müller published in Geophysical Research Letters (The case for dynamic subsidence of the U.S east coast since the Eocene) Download Paper
Paper by Müller, Sdrolias, Gaina and Roest published in G-Cubed (Age, spreading rates, and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust) Download Paper Download Data
March 2008
A paper published in Science, led by Dietmar Müller, has resulted in an article in the New York Times, entitled "Sea Levels Are Falling Over the Long Term Because of Lower Basins" View Article
A paper published in Science, led by Dietmar Müller, has resulted in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, entitled "Rising oceans, she'll be right - in 80 million years" View Article
A paper published in Science, led by Dietmar Müller, has resulted in an article in Reuters Environment News , entitled "Oceans to Fall Not Rise, Over Millions of Years" View Article
A paper published in Science, led by Dietmar Müller, has resulted in an article in National Geographic, entitled "Sea Levels to Plunge Long Term, Study of Dino Era Says" View Article
A Podcast associated with the Müller et. al. (2008) Science Article has been released. Listen to Podcast
Paper by Müller, Sdrolias, Gaina, Steinberger and Heine published in Science (Long-Term Sea-Level Fluctuations Driven by Ocean Basin Dynamics) Download Paper Download Data
EarthByte welcomes Ana Gibbons who has started her Masters with Dietmar Müller and will be working on reconstructing the Indian Ocean.
February 2008
EarthByte would like to welcome Carmen Gaina who will be working with the EarthByte Group for the next 6 weeks.
January 2008
We would like to draw your attention to a special session on VIRTUAL GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORIES IN 4D at the upcoming International Geological Congress in Oslo 6-14 August 2008. Conveners: R. Dietmar Müller (Sydney, Australia), Mike Gurnis (CalTech, USA), Trond H. Torsvik (Centre for Geodynamics, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim); (e-mail: dietmar@geosci.usyd.edu.au; gurnis@gps.caltech.edu; trond.torsvik@.ngu.no). The abstract deadline is 1 Feb 2008. Click here to view session summary
Paper by Xie, Müller, Ren, Jiang and Zhang published in Marine Geology (Stratigraphic architecture and evolution of the continental slope system in offshore Hainan, northern South China Sea) Download Paper
Lachlan O'Brian, a 2007 3rd year student in our School, won the Australian International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) Student Competition with an instrumental piece called 'Rondosymbiosis', representative of the origin and evolution of life on the Planet Earth throughout geological time, and presented as an mp3 recording. He will act as ambassador for Australia at the IYPE Launch in Paris. If you'd like to listen to his piece, please contact him directly for obtaining the mp3 file: lobr8028@mail.usyd.edu.au. Well done, Lachlan!
December 2007
The GPlates Project has made the first public release of GPlates! Congratulations to the GPlates development team!
This release of GPlates v0.9 includes the ability to load multiple PLATES4 Line format files, PLATES4 rotation files, and ESRI Shapefiles, as well as being able to save in PLATES4 formats. Several data sets can be loaded at simultaneously, and can be interactively reconstructed and queried.
Please be aware that this is an "alpha" release, and thus is not intended for everyday use. No pre-compiled binaries are available and we cannot offer any support; this release is intended to demonstrate the current state of GPlates development.
There will shortly be available a 0.9.1 "technology preview" version, with the ability to take snapshots of the current reconstruction as scalable vector graphics (SVG) files, ready for import to vector graphics programs such as Adobe Illustrator.
Get GPlates from SourceForge.net
New data files, including EarthByte global coastline and rotation files in PLATES format, are available on the Resources page. Go to Resources
Dietmar will represent EarthByte at the upcoming AGU in San Francisco (11-15th December 2006).
October 2007
Glen Fernandes, a University of Sydney software engineering student and part-time software developer for the AuScope NCRIS project in the School of Geosciences, has won a prestigious summer internship with Microsoft. Glen is one of 12 Australian students selected by Microsoft for an extremely competitive 3-month internship in Seattle. See attached article in 21 October 2007 (Saturday) Telegraph: Career Section. Well done, Glen! View Article
Guillaume Duclaux has accepted a permanent position to join in Perth CSIRO Exploration and Mining. Guillaume will defend his PhD thesis end of November and will be back in Australia next January. In Perth, he will join Nicolas Thébaud who was recently recruited at the Center for Exploration Targeting at Curtin University. Well done Guillaume.
An article based on the Nature News and Views piece by Dietmar Muller entitled "Speedy continental collision explained" has been published in Nature News View Article
An article based on the Nature News and Views piece by Dietmar Muller has been published in the National Geographic News, entitled "Slimmer Indian Continent Drifted Ten Times Faster" View Article
A News and Views Piece by Dietmar Müller has been published in Nature (An Indian Cheetah) Download Article
A paper published in Science, led by PhD student, Joanne Whittaker, has resulted in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, entitled "We're hot stuff, thanks to Japan" View Article
Paper by Whittaker, Müller, Leitchenkov, Stagg, Sdrolias, Gaina and Goncharov published in Science (Major Australian-Antarctica Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time) Download Paper
Paper by Müller and Eagles published in Mathematical Geology (Mapping seabed geology by textural image/neural network classification of acoustic backscatter mosaics) Download Paper
September 2007
Carmen Gaina will be attending the Fifth International Conference on Arctic Margins in Tromso, Norway between 3-5 September. Click here to see the abstracts that were submitted by EarthByte participants.
Paper by Müller, Gohl, Cande, Goncharov, and Golynsky published in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (Eocene to Miocene geometry of the West Antarctic Rift System) Download Paper Download Data 
EarthByte farewells Stuart Clark who completed his PhD with Dietmar Müller and has now joined Simula in Oslo, Norway. We wish him all the best.
August 2007
Paper by Dyksterhuis, Müller, and Rey published in Computers and Geosciences (A Graphical User Interface for Particle-in-Cell Finite Element Analysis of lithospheric deformation and mantle convection in two dimensions) Download Paper
Paper by Gaina, Müller, Brown, Ishihara and Ivanov published in Geophysical Journal International (Breakup and early seafloor spreading between India and Antarctica, Antarctica) Download Paper
Paper by Gaina and Müller published in Earth Science Reviews (Cenozoic tectonic and depth/age evolution of the Indonesian gateway and associated back-arc basins) Download Paper
Paper by Goyette, Takatsuka, Clark, Müller, Rey and Stegman published in Visual Geosciences (Increasing the Usability and Accessibility of Geodynamic Modelling Tools to the Geoscience Community: UnderworldGUI) Download Paper
July 2007
Paper by Dyksterhuis, Rey, Müller and Moresi published in Geological Society of London Special Publication: Imaging, Mapping and Modelling Continental Lithosphere Extension and Breakup (Effects of Initial Weakness on Rift Architecture) Download Paper
Paper by Duclaux, Rey, Guilot and Menot published in Geology (Orogen-parallel flow during continental convergence: numerical experiments and Archean field examples) Download Paper
Paper by Menot, Duclaux, Peucat, Rollond, Guilot, Fanning, Bascou, Gapais, Pecher published as a US Geological Survey and National Academies Short Paper (Geology of the Terre Adelie (135-146degE)) Download Paper
Nicholas Herold will attend the 8th Association of Pacific Rims Universities (APRU) Doctoral Students Conference (DSC) in Tokyo from 30th July to 3rd August.
Maria Sdrolias will be attending the IODP LIPs Workshop in Coleraine, Northern Ireland from 21-26th July, 2007.
Dietmar Müller and Jo Whittaker will be attending the Emerging Plays in Australasia Conference held by the Geological Society in London in July. Click here to see the abstracts that were submitted by EarthByte participants
June 2007
EarthByte extends a warm farewell to Scott Dyksterhuis who completed a one year postdoc with Dietmar Müller and has now joined ExxonMobil in Melbourne. Good luck Scott!
May 2007
Congratulations to Joanne Whittaker who has been awarded the University of Sydney Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Jo will attend a prize night hosted by the Faculty of Science on the 9th May to receive her award. Well done Jo!
A recent Geology paper by Coltice and others (including Patrice Rey) has been featured in Discovery News "Why Supercontinents Self-Destruct". Click here to find out more.
April 2007
Paper by Coltice, Phillips, Bertrand, Ricard and Rey published in Geology (Global warming of the mantle at the origin of flood basalts over supercontinents) Download Paper
Congratulations to Nicholas Herold who was awarded the Earth Resources Foundation Elliston Medal. The Elliston Medal is awarded to the honours graduate showing exceptional standards of observation and the ability to analyse and interpret such observations from first principles. Well done Nick!
Congratulations to Joshua Knight who was awarded the Earth resources Foundation Ken Richards Memorial Scholarship for an exceptional third year student entering into their Honours year. Well done Josh!
EarthByte welcomes back Honours Student Joshua Knight from a 2 month stint at sea to Antarctica. Joshua will be working on palaeo-stress modelling of the Indo-Australian plate.
Congratulations to Christian Heine who submitted his PhD thesis on "Formation and Evolution of Intracontinental Sedimentary Basins".
Honours course: Dietmar and Maria will run a 4-day course on "Data Processing & Plotting using Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)". Where: University of Sydney. When: 7-10th May 2007
March 2007
Congratulations to Stuart Clark who submitted his PhD thesis on "The Time-Dependant Evolution of Subduction Zones: Interactions of the Lithosphere and Mantle".
EarthByte welcomes Judy Tong who has started her PhD on palaeo-climate modelling under the supervision of Dietmar Müller and John You.
February 2007
Paper by Whittaker, Müller, Sdrolias and Heine published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters (Sunda-Java trench kinematics, slab window formation and overriding plate deformation since the Cretaceous) Download Paper
EarthByte welcomes Nicholas Herold who has started his PhD under the supervision of Dietmar Müller after completing his honours in palaeo-climate modelling last year.
EarthByte warmly farewells Christian Heine who left the School of Geosciences to join Norwegian oil company, Norsk-Hydro. Good luck Christian!
January 2007
Postgraduate course: Patrice will run a 5-day course on "Numerical Simulation of Lithospheric Processes Using Ellipsis". Where: University of Minneapolis. When: January 22nd to 26th 2007
December 2006
Dietmar, Patrice, Scott and Christian will represent EarthByte at the upcoming AGU in San Francisco (11-15th December 2006).
November 2006
Upcoming 33rd International Geological Congress in Oslo, Norway (5-14th August 2008). Click here for more information.
October 2006
Paper by Duclaux, Menot, Guillot, Agbossoumonde and Hilairet published in Precambrian Research (The mafic layered complex of the Kabye Massif: evidence of a Pan-African granulitic continental arc root) Download Paper
Paper by Thébaud, Philippot, Rey, and Cauzid published in Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology (Composition and orign of fluids associated with ode gold deposits in a Mesoarchaean greenstone belt (Warrawoona Syncline, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia) using synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence) Download Paper
Paper by Xie, Müller, Li, Gong and Steinberger published in Marine and Petroleum Geology (Origin of anomalous subsidence along the northern South China Sea Margin and its relationship to dynamic topography) Download Paper
Postgraduate course: Patrice will run an course on Numerical Simulation of Lithospheric Processes using Ellipsis. Where: University of Minneapolis. When: October 16th to 20th 2006
September 2006
Honours Project Available for 2007 on the structural geology, tectonics and gold mineralization in the Warrawoona syncline of the Pilbara craton. This project is funded by Jupiter Mines Limited, a Sydney-based exploration company. There is possibility of a couple of month internship and real prospect for employment at completion of the project. Click here for more info about the project
Paper by O'Neill, Moresi, Müller, Albert and Dufour published in Computers and Geosciences (Ellipsis 3D: A particle-in-cell finite-element hybrid code for modelling mantle convection and lithospheric deformation) Download Paper
Gone but not forgotten...Patrice has taken a visiting fellowship at the University of Minneapolis his new home until March 2007.
August 2006
Honours Project Available for 2007 to survey the Ross Sea, Antarctica. If you are a GEOS3016 student and interested in this project, you need to apply to Dietmar ASAP. Click here for more info about the project
Paper by Whittaker and Müller published in Marine Geology (Seismic Stratigraphy of the Adare Trough Area, Antarctica) Download Paper
EarthByte warmly welcomes Pascal Philippot from the Université Paris VI-VII-IPGP for a one year sabbatical. Pascal will be working with Patrice Rey and Adriana Dutkiewicz on an ARC Linkage project titled "Chemistry of the Archaean Ocean and its Impact on Earth's Early Atmosphere and Ecosystems".
July 2006
EarthByte congratulates Scott Dyksterhuis who successfully obtained his PhD this month with his thesis: "Finite Element Modelling of Lithospheric Stress and Deformation". Scott has been working on an industry-funded post-doc at the University of Sydney on the reactivation and inversion history of the north-west Australian shelf using palaeo-stress modelling. More information about Scott's work can be found at http://www.scott.dyksterhuis.com
GEOS3003 E-Reports have been published online. Click here to view reports.
June 2006
Paper by Exon, Hill, Lafoy, Heine and Bernardel published in AJES (Kenn Plateau off Northeast Australia: A Continental Fragment in the Southwest Pacific Jigsaw) Download Paper
Paper by Rey and Houseman published in Geological Society of London Special Publication No 253 (Lithospheric Scale Gravitational Flow: the Impact of Body Forces on Orogenic Processes from Archaean to Phanaerozoic) Download Paper
EarthByte congratulates Nicolas Thebaud who successfully defended is cotutelle Ph.D. thesis titled "From Synchrotron Characterisation of Gold-Bearing Fluids to Archaean Geodynamics: Investigating Rock-Fluid interactions in a mid-Archaean Foliation Triple Junction (Warrawoona Syncline, WA)". Nicolas was awarded the highest possible distinction for his thesis. Nicolas has now moved to Perth were he works for Vearncombe & Vearncombe within a team of gold explorationists.
March 2006
Congratulations to Christian Heine who has been awarded the GSA Young Authors' Award for 2005 for his paper in the Australian Journal of Earth Sceince (Heine C & Müller R D 2005. Late Jurassic rifting along the Australian North West Shelf: margin geometry and spreading ridge configuration. 52, 27-39). The award will be made at the AESC 2006 in Melbourne in July.
Paper by Sdrolias and Müller published in GCubed (Controls on Back-arc Basin Formation) Download Paper
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EarthByte welcomes Nicholas Herold who has started his honours project with Dietmar Müller and John You on Oceanic Proxies for Global Palaeo-climate Models
Patrice Rey has submitted two ARC Discovery Grant Applications. One is with P. Philippot on Crustal-Scale Fluid Flow and Archaean Geodynamics: An Integrated Study in the Eastern Pilbara Craton (WA). The second is with N. Coltice, O. Alard and P. Philippot on Mantle Geodynamics and Global Changes in the Late Archaean: Prelude to the Birth of Modern Earth. Good luck Patrice!
February 2006
EarthByte welcomes James Matthew Farrow who takes up the position of Senior Software Developer for the GPlates project.
Congratulations to Scott Dyksterhuis who submitted his PhD thesis this month on "Finite Element Modelling of Lithospheric Stress and Deformation". Scott will shortly begin a one year post-doc at the University of Sydney working on the palaeo-stress of the Australian plate in conjunction with TOTAL.
EarthByte congratulates Nicolas Thebaud who has submitted his PhD thesis this month on "From synchrotron characterisation of gold-bearing fluids to Archaean Geodynamics: a study of rock-fluid interaction in an Archaean foliation triple junction in the Pilbara". Nicolas' PhD defense will be held at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris on the 21th June 2006. The Jury includes the co-directors: Dr P. Rey and Dr P. Philippot, the reviewers (Prof. C. Teyssier and Prof. M. Catelineau), and Prof. L. Jolivet and Prof. P. Agrinier both from the IPGP.
January 2006
Congratulations to Dietmar Müller who has been elected as a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Dietmar will be attending a ceremony at the AGU Spring Meeting in Baltimore later this year for the presentation of the fellowship certificate.
Paper by Brown, Gaina and Müller published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Circum-Antarctic Palaeobathymetry: Illustrated Examples From Cenozoic to Recent Times) Download Paper
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December 2005
Geologists have pushed past dentists as the
highest-paid graduates in the country, thanks to the boom in the resources industry and the ageing of its workforce. Some geologists are stepping out of university into jobs paying $80,000, while optometry, medicine and engineering graduates all earned more than $44,000, a survey by Graduate Careers Australia showed.
Guillaume Duclaux spent another four weeks in Antartica. This time around, he invited Rian Dutch a fellow PhD candidate from the University of Adelaide.
Patrice Rey negotiated a 2006 Honours project with XStrata (Mt Isa) for Anita Roediger. Anita will be co-supervised by Patrice Rey and Dietmar Müller.
Poster by Dyksterhuis, Müller and Rey presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Fransisco (Ellipsis ... Geodynamic Modelling for the Masses) Download Poster
Poster by May, Heine, Moresi and Müller presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Fransisco (Shedding Light on the Real World With Underworld) Download Poster
November 2005
Patrice Rey and Nicolas Coltice sent a join application to FAST-EGIDE. If successful Nicolas Coltice will spend one month at the School of Geosciences in 2006, and Patrice Rey will spend one month at the University of Lyon in 2007.
EarthByte hosted a visit by Dr. Stephane Guillot (French CNRS and University of Grenoble) and Dr. Bascou (University of St Etienne) after their return from Antartica.
Paper by Rey and Houseman published in a Geological Society Special Publication on Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Crustal-Scale Processes (Lithospheric Scale Graviational Flow, The Impact of Body Forces on Orogenic Processes from Archaean to Phanaerozoic).
Paper by Müller, Cande, Stock and Keller published in GCubed (Crustal Structure and Rift Flank Uplift of the Adare Trough, Antarctica) Download Paper
Congratulations to Maria Sdrolias who graduated this month. Maria's thesis was on "The Mechanisms Behind Back-arc Basin Formation" under the supervision of Dietmar Müller. Maria has taken up a post-doc position at the University of Sydney working on subduction process modelling.
June 2005
Patrice Rey and Guillaume Duclaux (Ph.D. cotutelle) visit the Archaean basement of the Gawler Craton. Despite dreadful weather conditions the pair went on to discover kyanite-bearing assemblages and craton-scale constrictional deformation... more on that soon.
EarthByte has the privilege of hosting Paul Wessel from the University of Hawaii (and GMT fame) for a one year sabbatical
Paper by Müller, Goncharov and Kritski published in EPSL (Geophysical Evaluation of the Enigmatic Bedout Basement High, Offshore Northwestern Australia) Download Paper
Patrice Rey together with co-wrokers (Philippot, Dutkiewciz, Marshall and Kranendonk) receive ARC International Linkage Grant funding for a project titled "Chemistry of the Archaean Ocean and its Impact on Earth's Early Atmosphere and Ecosystems". Thanks to this $130,000 grant, Phillippe Philippot will spend 12 months at the School of Geosciences in 2006-2007.
January 2006
Congratulations to Dietmar Müller who has been elected as a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Dietmar will be attending a ceremony at the AGU Spring Meeting in Baltimore later this year for the presentation of the fellowship certificate.
Paper by Brown, Gaina and Müller published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Circum-Antarctic Palaeobathymetry: Illustrated Examples From Cenozoic to Recent Times) Download Paper 
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2005
December 2005
Geologists have pushed past dentists as the
highest-paid graduates in the country, thanks to the boom in the resources industry and the ageing of its workforce. Some geologists are stepping out of
university into jobs paying $80,000, while optometry, medicine and engineering graduates all earned more than $44,000, a survey by Graduate Careers Australia showed.
Poster by Dyksterhuis, Müller and Rey presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Fransisco (Ellipsis ... Geodynamic Modelling for the Masses) Download Poster
Poster by May, Heine, Moresi and Müller presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Fransisco (Shedding Light on the Real World With Underworld) Download Poster
November 2005
Paper by Müller, Cande, Stock and Keller published in GCubed (Crustal Structure and Rift Flank Uplift of the Adare Trough, Antarctica) Download Paper
Congratulations to Dr. Maria Sdrolias who graduated this month. Maria's thesis was on "The Mechanisms Behind Back-arc Basin Formation" under the supervision of A/Prof. Dietmar Müller. Maria has taken up a post-doc position at the University of Sydney working on subduction process modelling.
October 2005
GeoInformatics Showcase held at the University of Sydney Download Showcase Presentations
September 2005
EarthByte e-Research Pilot Project Receives ARC funding Download Research Proposal
Paper by O'Neill and Heine published in AJES (Reconstructing the Wolfe Creek Meteorite Impact: Deep Structure of the Crater and Effects on Target Rock) Download Paper
June 2005
EarthByte has the privilege of hosting Prof. Paul Wessel from the University of Hawaii (and GMT fame) for a one year sabbatical
Paper by Müller, Goncharov and Kritski published in EPSL (Geophysical Evaluation of the Enigmatic Bedout Basement High, Offshore Northwestern Australia) Download Paper
Rey et al. International Linkage Project on Archaean Ocean Chemistry receives ARC Funding
April 2005
Poster by Müller, Torsvik, Gurnis, Roest, Coffin, Lawver and Moresi presented at the EGU Meeting in Vienna (GPlates: Open Source Software and Data Base for Plate Reconstructions) Download Poster
Paper by Heine and Müller published in AJES (Late Jurassic Rifting Along the Australian Northwest Shelf: Margin Geometry and Spreading Ridge Configuration) Download Paper
Congratulations to Dr. Belinda Brown who graduated this month. Belinda's thesis was on "The Early Tectonic Evolution of the Central and Southeast Indian Ocean" under the supervision of A/Prof. Dietmar Müller. Belinda recently completed a post-doc at the University of Sydney working on Antarctic palaeobathymetry.
February 2005
Müller Presents Science Alliance Lecture on the Aceh Tsunami Download Lecture
EarthByte welcomes 2 new PhD students, Joanne Whittaker and Lydia Di Caprio, who will both be working under the supervision of Dietmar Müller. Jo will be working on Indian Ocean tectonics and the subduction history of the Java-Sunda margin. Lydia will be working on dynamic topography around the Australian plate.
EarthByte warmly farewells Dr. Carmen Gaina who has taken up a research position at the Norwegian Geological Survey after 8 years at the University of Sydney. She will be greatly missed.
January 2005
EarthByte e-Research Strategy Completed Download Stategy Document
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