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Dietmar Müller, Leonardo Quevedo and Thomas Landgrebe from EarthByte have been successful in applying for resources on the new iVEC supercomputer “Fornax” located at UWA through a merit allocation project built around GPlates new data mining capabilities. GPlates performance as a data-intensive application and its potential for generating a high impact research outcome by taking … Read more…
Dietmar Müller, Leonardo Quevedo and Thomas Landgrebe from EarthByte have been successful in applying for resources on the new iVEC supercomputer “Fornax” located at UWA through a merit allocation project built around GPlates new data mining capabilities. GPlates performance as a data-intensive application and its potential for generating a high impact research outcome by taking … Read more…
Congratulations to Daniel Clark for winning the Deas-Thomson Scholarship in Mineralogy.
The UNCOVER Searching the Deep Earth: A vision for exploration geoscience in Australia document was officially launched by the Minister for Resources, Energy and Tourism, Martin Ferguson, at the 34th International Geological Congress in Brisbane last week. This important policy document is a call for Australian earth scientists to cooperate in an innovative, structured and … Read more…
Congratulations to Joel Potter for winning the Leo A Cotton Prize in Exploration Geophysics.
EarthByte would like to welcome Ashish Agarwal who has just started an AISRF funded PhD with Dietmar Muller on Indian ocean plate reconstructions.
Congratulations to Sabin Zahirovic for winning the Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement (Faculty of Science). Sabin also picked up the George Harris Scholarship (School of Geosciences). Well done Sabin!
EarthByte would like to welcome Judith Sippel (GFZ Postdam), Kenni Petersen (Aarhus University), Nicolas Coltice (University Lyon 1), Nick Mortimer (GNS), Bruce Eglington (University of Saskatchewan) who will be visiting the EarthByte group in the weeks after the IGC meeting in Brisbane.
Maria Seton, Dietmar Muller, Jo Whittaker and Jonathan Aitchinson attended the first Back-arc Basin and Island Arc Interridge working group meeting in Brisbane.
Over 15 members of EarthByte attended the International Geological Congress meeting in Brisbane and were heavily involved in the organisation of symposia and sessions.
EarthByte would like to welcome Paul Wessel from the University of Hawaii who is visiting for several weeks to work on a project on African absolute plate motions.
Seton, M., Müller, R. D., Zahirovic, S., Gaina, C., Torsvik, T., Shephard, G., … & Chandler, M. (2012). Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma. Earth-Science Reviews, 113(3), 212-270. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.03.002. Download the paper – pdf
Butterworth, N. P., Quevedo, L., Morra, G., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Influence of overriding plate geometry and rheology on subduction. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13(6). doi:10.1029/2011GC003968. Download the paper – pdf
Williams, S., Musgrave, R., & Müller, R. D. Application of open-source software and high-resolution geophysical images to explore the plate tectonic evolution of Australia. 6th eResearch Australasia Conference, Sydney, 28 Oct-1 Nov 2012. Download the paper – pdf
Flament, N., Gurnis, M., Williams, S.E., Seton, M. and Müller, R.D., (2012). Evolution of Earth’s topography from models of global mantle flow and lithospheric deformation, 6th eResearch Australasia Conference , Sydney, 28 Oct-1 Nov 2012. Download the paper – pdf
Müller, R. D., Cannon, J., Landgrebe, T. C. W., & Qin, X. An open innovation platform for deep time spatio-temporal knowledge-discovery. In 6th eResearch Australasia Conference, Sydney (Vol. 28). 28 Oct-1 Nov 2012. Download the paper – pdf
EarthByte would like to welcome Sarah Maher from the University of Hawaii who will be working with Dietmar Müller and Maria Seton on African absolute plate motions.
Thébaud, N., & Rey, P. F. (2013). Archean gravity-driven tectonics on hot and flooded continents: controls on long-lived mineralised hydrothermal systems away from continental margins. Precambrian Research, 229, 93-104. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2012.03.001. Download the paper – pdf
Herold, N., Huber, M., Greenwood, D. R., Müller, R. D., & Seton, M. (2011). Early to middle Miocene monsoon climate in Australia. Geology, 39(1), 3-6. doi: 10.1130/G33384Y.1. Download the paper – pdf
Olivier, N., Dromart, G., Coltice, N., Flament, N., Rey, P., & Sauvestre, R. (2012). A deep subaqueous fan depositional model for the Palaeoarchaean (3.46 Ga) Marble Bar Cherts, Warrawoona Group, Western Australia.Geological Magazine, 149(04), 743-749. doi:10.1017/S0016756812000131. Download the paper – pdf
Gibbons, A. D., Barckhausen, U., den Bogaard, P., Hoernle, K., Werner, R., Whittaker, J. M., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Constraining the Jurassic extent of Greater India: Tectonic evolution of the West Australian margin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13(5). doi:10.1029/2011GC003919. Download the paper – pdf
Müller, R. D., & Landgrebe, T. C. W. (2012). The link between great earthquakes and the subduction of oceanic fracture zones. Solid Earth, 3(2), 447-465. doi:10.5194/se-3-447-2012. Link to download the paper
Chandler, M. T., Wessel, P., Taylor, B., Seton, M., Kim, S. S., & Hyeong, K. (2012). Reconstructing Ontong Java Nui: Implications for Pacific absolute plate motion, hotspot drift and true polar wander. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 331, 140-151. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.017. Download the paper – pdf
A joint University of Sydney-National Taiwan University will be held at the University of Sydney between 7-8 June, 2012. The workshop will focus on plate reconstructions of SE Asia, Tethys and western North Pacific, mapping and reconstructing slabs, and ideas and applications for GPlates.
EarthByte is pleased to welcome Laura Alisic from Caltech for a short research visit. Laura will be working primarily with Kara Matthews on plate reorganisations.
Kara Matthews joins the Einstein A Go Go RRR Fm radio program to discuss plate tectonics 100,000,000 years ago. Listen to Kara’s episode of Einstein A Go Go RRR here
Zahirovic, S., Müller, R. D., Seton, M., Flament, N., Gurnis, M., & Whittaker, J. (2012). Insights on the kinematics of the India‐Eurasia collision from global geodynamic models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13(4). doi:10.1029/2011GC003883. Download the paper – pdf
Congratulations to Ana Gibbons for submitting her PhD thesis. Well done Ana!
Dietmar Müller, Nicolas Flament, Christian Heine, Logan Yeo and Maria Seton will be attending the EGU meeting in Vienna.
Morra, G., Quevedo, L., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Spherical dynamic models of top‐down tectonics. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13(3). doi:10.1029/2011GC003843. Download the paper – pdf