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EarthByte News Archive
2006
December 2006
Dietmar, Patrice, Scott and Christian will represent EarthByte at the upcoming AGU in San Francisco (11-15th December 2006).
November 2006
Upcoming 33rd International Geological Congress in Oslo, Norway (5-14th August 2008). Click here for more information.
October 2006
Paper by Duclaux, Menot, Guillot, Agbossoumonde and Hilairet published in Precambrian Research (The mafic layered complex of the Kabye Massif: evidence of a Pan-African granulitic continental arc root) Download Paper 
Paper by Thébaud, Philippot, Rey, and Cauzid published in Contribution to Mineralogy and Petrology (Composition and orign of fluids associated with ode gold deposits in a Mesoarchaean greenstone belt (Warrawoona Syncline, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia) using synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence) Download Paper
Paper by Xie, Müller, Li, Gong and Steinberger published in Marine and Petroleum Geology (Origin of anomalous subsidence along the northern South China Sea Margin and its relationship to dynamic topography) Download Paper
Postgraduate course: Patrice will run an course on Numerical Simulation of Lithospheric Processes using Ellipsis. Where: University of Minneapolis. When: October 16th to 20th 2006
September 2006
Honours Project Available for 2007 on the structural geology, tectonics and gold mineralization in the Warrawoona syncline of the Pilbara craton. This project is funded by Jupiter Mines Limited, a Sydney-based exploration company. There is possibility of a couple of month internship and real prospect for employment at completion of the project. Click here for more info about the project
Paper by O'Neill, Moresi, Müller, Albert and Dufour published in Computers and Geosciences (Ellipsis 3D: A particle-in-cell finite-element hybrid code for modelling mantle convection and lithospheric deformation) Download Paper
Gone but not forgotten...Patrice has taken a visiting fellowship at the University of Minneapolis his new home until March 2007.
August 2006
Honours Project Available for 2007 to survey the Ross Sea, Antarctica. If you are a GEOS3016 student and interested in this project, you need to apply to Dietmar ASAP. Click here for more info about the project
Paper by Whittaker and Müller published in Marine Geology (Seismic Stratigraphy of the Adare Trough Area, Antarctica) Download Paper
EarthByte warmly welcomes Pascal Philippot from the Université Paris VI-VII-IPGP for a one year sabbatical. Pascal will be working with Patrice Rey and Adriana Dutkiewicz on an ARC Linkage project titled "Chemistry of the Archaean Ocean and its Impact on Earth's Early Atmosphere and Ecosystems".
July 2006
EarthByte congratulates Scott Dyksterhuis who successfully obtained his PhD this month with his thesis: "Finite Element Modelling of Lithospheric Stress and Deformation". Scott has been working on an industry-funded post-doc at the University of Sydney on the reactivation and inversion history of the north-west Australian shelf using palaeo-stress modelling. More information about Scott's work can be found at http://www.scott.dyksterhuis.com
GEOS3003 E-Reports have been published online. Click here to view reports.
June 2006
Paper by Exon, Hill, Lafoy, Heine and Bernardel published in AJES (Kenn Plateau off Northeast Australia: A Continental Fragment in the Southwest Pacific Jigsaw) Download Paper
Paper by Rey and Houseman published in Geological Society of London Special Publication No 253 (Lithospheric Scale Gravitational Flow: the Impact of Body Forces on Orogenic Processes from Archaean to Phanaerozoic) Download Paper
EarthByte congratulates Nicolas Thebaud who successfully defended is cotutelle Ph.D. thesis titled "From Synchrotron Characterisation of Gold-Bearing Fluids to Archaean Geodynamics: Investigating Rock-Fluid interactions in a mid-Archaean Foliation Triple Junction (Warrawoona Syncline, WA)". Nicolas was awarded the highest possible distinction for his thesis. Nicolas has now moved to Perth were he works for Vearncombe & Vearncombe within a team of gold explorationists.
March 2006
Congratulations to Christian Heine who has been awarded the GSA Young Authors' Award for 2005 for his paper in the Australian Journal of Earth Sceince (Heine C & Müller R D 2005. Late Jurassic rifting along the Australian North West Shelf: margin geometry and spreading ridge configuration. 52, 27-39). The award will be made at the AESC 2006 in Melbourne in July.
Paper by Sdrolias and Müller published in GCubed (Controls on Back-arc Basin Formation) Download Paper
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EarthByte welcomes Nicholas Herold who has started his honours project with Dietmar Müller and John You on Oceanic Proxies for Global Palaeo-climate Models
Patrice Rey has submitted two ARC Discovery Grant Applications. One is with P. Philippot on Crustal-Scale Fluid Flow and Archaean Geodynamics: An Integrated Study in the Eastern Pilbara Craton (WA). The second is with N. Coltice, O. Alard and P. Philippot on Mantle Geodynamics and Global Changes in the Late Archaean: Prelude to the Birth of Modern Earth. Good luck Patrice!
February 2006
EarthByte welcomes James Matthew Farrow who takes up the position of Senior Software Developer for the GPlates project.
Congratulations to Scott Dyksterhuis who submitted his PhD thesis this month on "Finite Element Modelling of Lithospheric Stress and Deformation". Scott will shortly begin a one year post-doc at the University of Sydney working on the palaeo-stress of the Australian plate in conjunction with TOTAL.
EarthByte congratulates Nicolas Thebaud who has submitted his PhD thesis this month on "From synchrotron characterisation of gold-bearing fluids to Archaean Geodynamics: a study of rock-fluid interaction in an Archaean foliation triple junction in the Pilbara". Nicolas' PhD defense will be held at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris on the 21th June 2006. The Jury includes the co-directors: Dr P. Rey and Dr P. Philippot, the reviewers (Prof. C. Teyssier and Prof. M. Catelineau), and Prof. L. Jolivet and Prof. P. Agrinier both from the IPGP.
January 2006
Congratulations to Dietmar Müller who has been elected as a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Dietmar will be attending a ceremony at the AGU Spring Meeting in Baltimore later this year for the presentation of the fellowship certificate.
Paper by Brown, Gaina and Müller published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Circum-Antarctic Palaeobathymetry: Illustrated Examples From Cenozoic to Recent Times) Download Paper
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December 2005
Geologists have pushed past dentists as the
highest-paid graduates in the country, thanks to the boom in the resources industry and the ageing of its workforce. Some geologists are stepping out of university into jobs paying $80,000, while optometry, medicine and engineering graduates all earned more than $44,000, a survey by Graduate Careers Australia showed.
Guillaume Duclaux spent another four weeks in Antartica. This time around, he invited Rian Dutch a fellow PhD candidate from the University of Adelaide.
Patrice Rey negotiated a 2006 Honours project with XStrata (Mt Isa) for Anita Roediger. Anita will be co-supervised by Patrice Rey and Dietmar Müller.
Poster by Dyksterhuis, Müller and Rey presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Fransisco (Ellipsis ... Geodynamic Modelling for the Masses) Download Poster
Poster by May, Heine, Moresi and Müller presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Fransisco (Shedding Light on the Real World With Underworld) Download Poster
November 2005
Patrice Rey and Nicolas Coltice sent a join application to FAST-EGIDE. If successful Nicolas Coltice will spend one month at the School of Geosciences in 2006, and Patrice Rey will spend one month at the University of Lyon in 2007.
EarthByte hosted a visit by Dr. Stephane Guillot (French CNRS and University of Grenoble) and Dr. Bascou (University of St Etienne) after their return from Antartica.
Paper by Rey and Houseman published in a Geological Society Special Publication on Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Crustal-Scale Processes (Lithospheric Scale Graviational Flow, The Impact of Body Forces on Orogenic Processes from Archaean to Phanaerozoic).
Paper by Müller, Cande, Stock and Keller published in GCubed (Crustal Structure and Rift Flank Uplift of the Adare Trough, Antarctica) Download Paper
Congratulations to Maria Sdrolias who graduated this month. Maria's thesis was on "The Mechanisms Behind Back-arc Basin Formation" under the supervision of Dietmar Müller. Maria has taken up a post-doc position at the University of Sydney working on subduction process modelling.
June 2005
Patrice Rey and Guillaume Duclaux (Ph.D. cotutelle) visit the Archaean basement of the Gawler Craton. Despite dreadful weather conditions the pair went on to discover kyanite-bearing assemblages and craton-scale constrictional deformation... more on that soon.
EarthByte has the privilege of hosting Paul Wessel from the University of Hawaii (and GMT fame) for a one year sabbatical
Paper by Müller, Goncharov and Kritski published in EPSL (Geophysical Evaluation of the Enigmatic Bedout Basement High, Offshore Northwestern Australia) Download Paper
Patrice Rey together with co-wrokers (Philippot, Dutkiewciz, Marshall and Kranendonk) receive ARC International Linkage Grant funding for a project titled "Chemistry of the Archaean Ocean and its Impact on Earth's Early Atmosphere and Ecosystems". Thanks to this $130,000 grant, Phillippe Philippot will spend 12 months at the School of Geosciences in 2006-2007.
January 2006
Congratulations to Dietmar Müller who has been elected as a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Dietmar will be attending a ceremony at the AGU Spring Meeting in Baltimore later this year for the presentation of the fellowship certificate.
Paper by Brown, Gaina and Müller published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Circum-Antarctic Palaeobathymetry: Illustrated Examples From Cenozoic to Recent Times) Download Paper 
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2005
December 2005
Geologists have pushed past dentists as the
highest-paid graduates in the country, thanks to the boom in the resources industry and the ageing of its workforce. Some geologists are stepping out of
university into jobs paying $80,000, while optometry, medicine and engineering graduates all earned more than $44,000, a survey by Graduate Careers Australia showed.
Poster by Dyksterhuis, Müller and Rey presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Fransisco (Ellipsis ... Geodynamic Modelling for the Masses) Download Poster
Poster by May, Heine, Moresi and Müller presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Fransisco (Shedding Light on the Real World With Underworld) Download Poster
November 2005
Paper by Müller, Cande, Stock and Keller published in GCubed (Crustal Structure and Rift Flank Uplift of the Adare Trough, Antarctica) Download Paper
Congratulations to Dr. Maria Sdrolias who graduated this month. Maria's thesis was on "The Mechanisms Behind Back-arc Basin Formation" under the supervision of A/Prof. Dietmar Müller. Maria has taken up a post-doc position at the University of Sydney working on subduction process modelling.
October 2005
GeoInformatics Showcase held at the University of Sydney Download Showcase Presentations
September 2005
EarthByte e-Research Pilot Project Receives ARC funding Download Research Proposal
Paper by O'Neill and Heine published in AJES (Reconstructing the Wolfe Creek Meteorite Impact: Deep Structure of the Crater and Effects on Target Rock) Download Paper
June 2005
EarthByte has the privilege of hosting Prof. Paul Wessel from the University of Hawaii (and GMT fame) for a one year sabbatical
Paper by Müller, Goncharov and Kritski published in EPSL (Geophysical Evaluation of the Enigmatic Bedout Basement High, Offshore Northwestern Australia) Download Paper
Rey et al. International Linkage Project on Archaean Ocean Chemistry receives ARC Funding
April 2005
Poster by Müller, Torsvik, Gurnis, Roest, Coffin, Lawver and Moresi presented at the EGU Meeting in Vienna (GPlates: Open Source Software and Data Base for Plate Reconstructions) Download Poster
Paper by Heine and Müller published in AJES (Late Jurassic Rifting Along the Australian Northwest Shelf: Margin Geometry and Spreading Ridge Configuration) Download Paper
Congratulations to Dr. Belinda Brown who graduated this month. Belinda's thesis was on "The Early Tectonic Evolution of the Central and Southeast Indian Ocean" under the supervision of A/Prof. Dietmar Müller. Belinda recently completed a post-doc at the University of Sydney working on Antarctic palaeobathymetry.
February 2005
Müller Presents Science Alliance Lecture on the Aceh Tsunami Download Lecture
EarthByte welcomes 2 new PhD students, Joanne Whittaker and Lydia Di Caprio, who will both be working under the supervision of Dietmar Müller. Jo will be working on Indian Ocean tectonics and the subduction history of the Java-Sunda margin. Lydia will be working on dynamic topography around the Australian plate.
EarthByte warmly farewells Dr. Carmen Gaina who has taken up a research position at the Norwegian Geological Survey after 8 years at the University of Sydney. She will be greatly missed.
January 2005
EarthByte e-Research Strategy Completed Download Stategy Document
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