EarthByte – The website of EarthByte group at the school of Geosciences of the University of Sydney

What is EarthByte?

The EarthByte Research Group pursues geodata synthesis through space and time, building a deep-time virtual Earth. The group is well-known for open innovation via collaborative software development, “big data” analysis and its global open access digital data collections. The EarthByters lead the collaborative development of open-source virtual Earth software, including GPlates, pyGPlates, GPlately, the GPlates web service and portal, the GPlates App, pyBacktrack, and numerous machine learning workflows for spatial and spatio-temporal data and model analysis (see EarthByte GitHub repository). The GPlates … Read more…

Geo★ Down Under

Geo★ Down Under is an open and self-organising community loosely coordinated by Louis Moresi of the ANU. We welcome new writers, editors and supporters. If you are interested, drop us a line: editors_gdu@agora.geo-down-under.geoscience.education We receive support from AuScope to power the engines behind the website and the community forum and mailing lists. AuScope also provides us with writing support and generating new material. The Specialist Group in Solid Earth Geophysics (SGSEG) of the Geological … Read more…

STELLAR – Spatio TEmporaL expLorAtion for Resources

Project STELLAR (Spatio TEmporaL expLorAtion for Resources) is a collaboration between BHP and the EarthByte Group aimed at implementing big and complex spatio-temporal data analysis and modelling to support the needs of BHP in global resource exploration. Split into multiple phases over the next 3.5 years, the project will connect BHP’s warehouse of global resource knowledge with the EarthByte Group’s expertise in tectonic, geodynamic and surface process modelling. STELLAR is structured into … Read more…

DEEP CARBON

Project Deep Carbon is a Future Fellowship awarded to Adriana Dutkiewicz. The project includes postdoctoral research associate Ehsan Farahbakhsh and PhD student Faranak Dalvand. The deep-sea carbon reservoir through geological time. Despite being by far the largest carbon reservoir on Earth, deep-sea carbonate and its recycling through the Earth system are the most significant missing links in our knowledge of the global carbon cycle. This project aims to track the evolution of … Read more…

PLATO – PLAte Tectonics and Ore deposits

Project PLATO is an ARC Linkage project as a collaboration between the EarthByte Group and Lithodat. CIs, PIs and AIs include Dietmar Müller (Usyd) Maria Seton (Usyd) Sabin Zahirovic (Usyd) Sara Polanco (Usyd) Brent McInnes (Curtin Univ.) Fabian Kohlmann (Lithodat) In addition, Dr Ehsan Farahbakhsh is a research fellow and Elnaz Heidari is a PhD student in the project. Michael Chin (Usyd) is involved in connecting Lithodat and AuScope AusGeochem data … Read more…

GPlates

GPlates is desktop software for the interactive visualisation of plate tectonics. The EarthByte Group leads the development of the open-source plate reconstruction software GPlates. GPlates enables the interactive manipulation of plate tectonic reconstructions and the visualisation of geodata through geological time, and it facilitates interoperability of plate tectonic data and models with geodynamic computing services for applied and fundamental research purposes. The EarthByte Group has now moved GPlates functionality into the … Read more…

GPlates Portal

The GPlates Portal is a free and interactive cloud-based tool that enables the visualisation of cutting-edge geoscience datasets. Using a published plate kinematic model, datasets can be reconstructed back through time to the Jurassic, 200 million years ago. Currently, global satellite-derived vertical gravity gradient data can be visualised via the Portal, and global maps of free-air gravity anomalies and magnetic anomalies can be tectonically reconstructed. The GPlates Portal is also … Read more…

AuScope

GPlates development by the EarthByte Project is part of the AuScope infrastructure-development programme. AuScope Ltd is a non-profit company formed to facilitate the implementation of a world-class infrastructure system for earth science, funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). The EarthByte Project participates in two components of the AuScope programme: the AuScope Grid AuScope Modelling & Simulation As part of this participation, GPlates developers … Read more…