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The EarthByte ‘Big Data Knowledge Discovery Project’ is on the front cover of the current issue of the Australian Journal of Mining. Download the Paper – pdf Read more about the Big Data Knowledge Discovery project here
Ex-Earthbyter Dr Joanne Whittaker was awarded the L’Oréal Fellowship for Women in Science for research on ‘How India and Australia Broke up over the last 100 million years’. Congratulations Jo! Royal Society Annual Awards Dinner 2013, left to right: The President, Donald Hector, Judith Wheeldon AM, Professor Marilyn Renfree AO, John Hardie MRSN, Dr Joanne … Read more…
Ex-Earthbyter Dr Joanne Whittaker was awarded the L’Oréal Fellowship for Women in Science for research on ‘How India and Australia Broke up over the last 100 million years’. Congratulations Jo! Royal Society Annual Awards Dinner 2013, left to right: The President, Donald Hector, Judith Wheeldon AM, Professor Marilyn Renfree AO, John Hardie MRSN, Dr Joanne … Read more…
Congratulations to Grace Shephard who submitted her PhD thesis this month! Well done! Grace will be taking up a post-doctoral position in Norway at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED) and will continue to work on plate motion modelling and numerical simulations of mantle flow.
Brune, S., & Autin, J. (2013). The rift to break-up evolution of the Gulf of Aden: Insights from 3D numerical lithospheric-scale modelling. Tectonophysics, 607, 65-79. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.06.029. The rift to break-up evolution of the Gulf of Aden: Insights from 3D numerical lithospheric-scale modelling
Brune, S., Popov, A. A., & Sobolev, S. V. (2013). Quantifying the thermo-mechanical impact of plume arrival on continental break-up. Tectonophysics, 604, 51-59. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.02.009. Quantifying the thermo-mechanical impact of plume arrival on continental break-up
Heine, C., Zoethout, J., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Kinematics of the South Atlantic rift. arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.2096. doi:10.5194/se-4-215-2013. Kinematics of the South Atlantic rift Supplementary maps
Müller, R. D., Dutkiewicz, A., Seton, M., & Gaina, C. (2013). Seawater chemistry driven by supercontinent assembly, breakup, and dispersal. Geology, 41(8), 907-910. doi: 10.1130/G34405.1. Seawater chemistry driven by supercontinent assembly, breakup, and dispersal
Williams, S. E., Whittaker, J. M., Granot, R., & Müller, D. R. (2013). Early India‐Australia spreading history revealed by newly detected Mesozoic magnetic anomalies in the Perth Abyssal Plain. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118(7), 3275-3284. doi:10.1002/jgrb.50239. Early India‐Australia spreading history revealed by newly detected Mesozoic magnetic anomalies in the Perth Abyssal Plain
Shephard, G. E., Müller, R. D., & Seton, M. (2013). The tectonic evolution of the Arctic since Pangea breakup: Integrating constraints from surface geology and geophysics with mantle structure. Earth-Science Reviews, 124, 148-183. doi:10.1.1016/j.earscirev.2013.05.012. The tectonic evolution of the Arctic since Pangea breakup: Integrating constraints from surface geology and geophysics with mantle structure
Sarah MacLeod joins the EarthByte team to undertake a PhD with Dietmar Müller. Sarah’s project focuses on reconstructing the evolution of mid-ocean ridges and passive margins in the Indian Ocean for the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous and implementing a deforming plate model.
Launch of the $12million, 3-year collaboration between NICTA (Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Centre of Excellence), The University of Sydney, SIRCA, and Macquarie University. This is a ground-breaking project that will use big-data and machine learning to deliver new insights to the natural sciences – the geoscience thread is being led by Prof Dietmar Müller.
Assoc Prof Patrice Rey generates global media coverage with his paper about the formation of opals in the SMH, The Australian, SkyNews, Australian Geographic, and many others. Rey, P. F. (2013). Opalisation of the Great Artesian Basin (central Australia): an Australian story with a Martian twist. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences,60(3), 291-314. Opalisation of the … Read more…
Quevedo, L., Hansra, B., Morra, G., Butterworth, N., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Oblique mid ocean ridge subduction modelling with the parallel fast multipole boundary element method. Computational Mechanics, 51(4), 455-463. DOI 10.1007/s00466-012-0751-5. Oblique mid ocean ridge subduction modelling with the parallel fast multipole boundary element method
GPlates 1.3 Released. A major release with new functionality including volume visualisation of 3D scalar fields, data-mining functionality, surface relief lighting and many other enhancements. Download latest version of GPlates
Morra, G., Seton, M., Quevedo, L., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Organization of the tectonic plates in the last 200 Myr. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 373, 93-101. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.020. Organization of the tectonic plates in the last 200 Myr
Whittaker, J. M., Goncharov, A., Williams, S. E., Müller, R. D., & Leitchenkov, G. (2013). Global sediment thickness data set updated for the Australian‐Antarctic Southern Ocean. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(8), 3297-3305. doi:10.1002/ggge.20181. Global sediment thickness data set updated for the Australian‐Antarctic Southern Ocean
Seton, M., Williams, S., Zahirovic, S., & Micklethwaite, S. (2013). Obituary: Sandy Island (1876–2012). Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 94(15), 141-142. DOI: 10.1002/2013EO150001. Obituary: Sandy Island (1876–2012)
Merdith, A. S., Landgrebe, T. C., Dutkiewicz, A., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Towards a predictive model for opal exploration using a spatio-temporal data mining approach. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 60(2), 217-229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2012.754793. Towards a predictive model for opal exploration using a spatio-temporal data mining approach Supplementary data
Congratulations to Simon Williams and co-PIs, awarded 5-weeks of ship time on Australia’s new Marine National Facility the vessel RV Investigator in Oct-Nov, 2014. This expedition will return to the western edge of the survey the Gulden Draak Knoll, a micro-continent at the western edge of the Perth Abyssal Plain. The aim is to collect … Read more…
Ex-EarthByter Dr Joanne Whittaker awarded the 2012 Edgeworth David Medal by the Royal Society of NSW. Congratulations Jo!
Wright, N., Zahirovic, S., Müller, R. D., & Seton, M. (2013). Towards community-driven paleogeographic reconstructions: integrating open-access paleogeographic and paleobiology data with plate tectonics. Biogeosciences, 10(3), 1529-1541. doi:10.5194/bg-10-1529-2013. Towards community-driven paleogeographic reconstructions: integrating open-access paleogeographic and paleobiology data with plate tectonics
Whittaker, J. M., Williams, S. E., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Revised tectonic evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(6), 1891-1909. doi:10.1002/ggge.20120. Revised tectonic evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean
EarthByte welcomes new PhD student Gemma Roberts who will be working with Patrice Rey.
EarthByte welcomes new PhD student Rakib Hassan. Rakib’s PhD title is ‘Palaeo-topography: effects of mantle convection and lithospheric deformation’ and his supervisors are Dietmar Müller and Nicolas Flament.
A GPlates short course was held at the National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India, from 19-20 February 2013.
Flament, N., Gurnis, M., & Müller, R. D. (2013). A review of observations and models of dynamic topography. Lithosphere, 5(2), 189-210. doi:10.1130/L245.1. Download the paper – pdf
Bower, D. J., Gurnis, M., & Seton, M. (2013). Lower mantle structure from paleogeographically constrained dynamic Earth models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(1), 44-63. doi:10.1029/2012GC004267. Download the paper – pdf
Gibbons, A. D., Whittaker, J. M., & Müller, R. D. (2013). The breakup of East Gondwana: Assimilating constraints from Cretaceous ocean basins around India into a best‐fit tectonic model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118(3), 808-822. doi:10.1002/jgrb.50079. Download the paper – pdf Access supplementary materials here
Landgrebe, T. C. W., Merdith, A., Dutkiewicz, A., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Relationships between palaeogeography and opal occurrence in Australia: A data-mining approach. Computers & Geosciences, 56, 76-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2013.02.002. Download the paper – pdf