Here are all the latest EarthByte news posts. See News Archive for recent years.
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Kara Matthews’ microplates project is featured and the GPlates software itself is also highlighted in the ‘Stories of Australian Science’ publication for 2011. Download the paper – pdf
Kara Matthews’ microplates project is featured and the GPlates software itself is also highlighted in the ‘Stories of Australian Science’ publication for 2011. Download the paper – pdf
Sabin Zahirovic’s India-Asia collision project is featured and the GPlates software itself is also highlighted in the ‘Stories of Australian Science’ publication for 2011. Download the paper – pdf
Sabin Zahirovic’s India-Asia collision project is featured and the GPlates software itself is also highlighted in the ‘Stories of Australian Science’ publication for 2011. Download the paper – pdf
Congratulations to Nicolas Flament and Patrice Rey for their interesting Geology paper on subaqueous continental flood basalts. Download the paper – link
Congratulations to the EarthByte group who has been successful in two multi-Chief Investigator Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant submissions. Well done!
EarthByte research into the tilting of the Australian continent toward the northeast over the past 50 million years has been featured in the ‘Nature Geoscience’ research highlights section. Download the paper – link
Congratulations to Maria Seton and her team who have been successful in a bid for ~$1M in ship time on the Southern Surveyor, the Australian Marine National Facility. Maria and her team will investigate the ‘Tectonic framework for the easternmost Coral Sea and northern extent of the Lord Howe hotspot’ during a ~3-week long cruise … Read more…
DiCaprio, L., Gurnis, M., Müller, R. D., & Tan, E. (2011). Mantle dynamics of continentwide Cenozoic subsidence and tilting of Australia. Lithosphere, 3(5), 311-316. doi: 10.1130/L140.1. Download the paper – pdf
The EarthByte Group would like to welcome PhD student Florian Wobbe who is visiting our research group for 2 months from AWI Bremerhaven, Germany working on circum-Antarctic palaeo-bathymetry reconstructions.
Herold, N., Huber, M., & Müller, R. D. (2011). Modeling the Miocene Climatic Optimum. Part I: Land and Atmosphere*. Journal of Climate, 24(24), 6353-6372. doi:10.1175/2011JCLI4035.1. Download the paper – pdf
EarthByte group members Dietmar Müller, Christian Heine, Nicolas Flament, Aedon Talsma, Logan Yeo and Grace Shephard are attending the GSA Fragile Earth conference in Munich, Germany from 4-7 September, 2011. Click here for details about the GSA conference
EarthByte PhD students Aedon Talsma, Logan Yeo and Grace Shephard are attending the Geological Society’s Dynamic Topography conference in London.
EarthByte PhD students Aedon Talsma, Logan Yeo and Grace Shephard are attending the Geological Society’s Dynamic Topography conference in London.
Congratulations to Luke Mondy who finished his Honours Thesis! Well done!
Leonardo Quevedo is attending the 12th International Workshop on Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics in Germany from 20-25 August. Click here for details about the 12th International workshop on Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics
The EarthByte group welcomes research student Fabian Stenzel from the Technical University Munich (Germany) who was awarded a competitive “RISE worldwide” scholarship (Research assistantships in Science and Engineering) from the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD. Fabian will be staying with the group for about 3 months and work together with Christian on assimilating global datasets … Read more…
Congratulations to the geodynamic modelling team for their successful application for computing resources from the Pawsy Centre (iVEC) at Perth as well as a successful follow-up NCI resource allocation.
PhD student Kara Matthews is on a 3 week research visit to Caltech to work with Prof. Mike Gurnis and his group on a project related to the 100 Ma plate reorganisation.
EarthByte is pleased to welcome Matthew Huber from Purdue University for a half day visit during his super-short stay in Sydney.
Simon Williams, Christian Heine, Leonardo Quevedo and Dietmar Müller were successful in a University of Sydney STEPs teaching enhancement program funding starting next year which will go towards the development of field-based geophysical data acquisition practicals for 3rd year students.
Michael Rubey begins his PhD with Prof Dietmar Müller and Dr Sascha Brune. The title of Michael’s PhD is ‘Plate Tectonic and Geodynamic Environments for Geological Resource Formation’.
Great news! Jo Whittaker has given birth to a healthy baby boy. Daniel Walker was born on Sunday, 17th July. Congratulations Jo and Sharik!
Matthews, K. J., Hale, A. J., Gurnis, M., Müller, R. D., & DiCaprio, L. (2011). Dynamic subsidence of Eastern Australia during the Cretaceous. Gondwana Research, 19(2), 372-383. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.06.006. Download the paper – pdf
PhD student Sabin Zahirovic is attending the International Congress on the Permian and Carboniferous in Perth.
Müller, R.D., (2011). Plate motion and mantle plumes, Nature. Download the paper – pdf
EarthByte warmly welcomes new PhD student Maral Hoseinpour who has started her PhD on plate deformation models of passive margins.
Congratulations to PhD student Logan Yeo and honours student Allison Thomas who have both been awarded a PESA Tertiary Study Grant. Logan won the award for his PhD project on Integrating deep earth and surface processes for frontier basin exploration and Allison Thomas won hers for her Honours thesis on “Oil Migration in the Late Archaean Witwatersrand … Read more…
Congratulations to Grace Shephard who won the PESA Tertiary Study Grant for her PhD project on Linking deep Earth structure and surface topography through geodynamic models. Well done Grace!
GPlates has been accepted by Softpedia which is a popular library of over 400,000 free and free-to-try software programs and is one of the top 500 websites (according to Alexa traffic rankings). Since GPlates’ acceptance yesterday (30th June) it has already been downloaded over 1,000 times according to Softpedia. This is significant considering that the … Read more…