Honours student Gabby McDonald was one of 16 students world-wide to be awarded a Student Field Trip Travel Grant from the Society of Economic Geologists to participate in “Archean Base and Precious Metal Deposits, Southern Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada”. The field trip was lead by a team of Canadian experts and travelled from Timmins to … Read more…
The EarthByte group is a finalist for the Eureka Prize from the Australian Museum, for its development of GPlates software! The prize is awarded annually for research innovation and GPlates was nominated for providing a “experimental virtual planet” to investigate geological systems through deep time. You can read more about the Eureka Prize here. Watch the … Read more…
Congratulations to Luke Mondy and Mike Tetley. Luke Mondy was awarded the George Harris Award for oustanding efforts and achievement as a post-graduate student in 2013 and Mike Tetley was awarded a University of Sydney Merit Award for excellent achievement in his Honour’s Degree.
Congratulations to Maria Seton, who was awarded the 2014 Dorothy Hill Award from the Australian Academy of Sciences, for her contributions to global plate tectonics, long-term sea-level change and global geodynamics and back-arc basin formation. Well done Maria!