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News 2010

EarthByte presents at AGU

6 April, 201515 December, 2010 by Michael Chin

Ana Gibbons, Kayla Maloney, Grace Shephard, Jo Whittaker & Simon Williams presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California.

Categories Conferences, News 2010 Tags Dr Ana Gibbons, Dr Grace Shephard, Dr Joanne Whittaker, Dr Kayla Maloney, Dr Simon Williams

Honours students submit theses

6 April, 201520 October, 2010 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to our Honours students for handing in their theses! Well done!

Categories News 2010

Jo Whittaker receives 2010 NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award

6 April, 201519 October, 2010 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Jo Whittaker who was announced by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science as one of the outstanding young researchers and communicators to receive a 2010 NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award. Download and read the article here – pdf

Categories Awards 2010, Media, News 2010 Tags Dr Joanne Whittaker

GPlates 0.9.10 now available to download

4 February, 201918 October, 2010 by Michael Chin

GPlates 0.9.10 has been released! See the new GPlates demo video for all the latest features. Watch the GPlates 0.9.10 introduction video here

Categories GPlates, GPlates News, GPlates Resources, News 2010, Resources

EarthByte welcomes Prof David Gubbins

6 April, 201517 October, 2010 by Michael Chin

Welcome to Prof. David Gubbins who joins us for 3 months from the University of Leeds as part the Sydney Uni International Visiting Research Fellowship Scheme.

Categories News 2010 Tags Prof David Gubbins

Ben Dickinson awarded Earth Resources Foundation 2nd Year Scholarship

15 March, 201515 August, 2010 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Ben Dickinson who was awarded the Earth Resources Foundation 2nd Year Scholarship. Well done Ben!

Categories Awards, Awards 2010, News 2010

Aedon Talsma to attend International Symposium

8 April, 201514 August, 2010 by Michael Chin

Aedon Talsma is attending The 14th International Symposium on “Deep Seismic Profiling of the Continents and their Margins” in Cairns, QLD.

Categories Conferences, News 2010 Tags Aedon Talsma

Ana Gibbons awarded George Harris Scholarship

15 March, 201514 August, 2010 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Ana Gibbons who was awarded the George Harris Scholarship. Well done Ana!

Categories Awards, Awards 2010, News 2010 Tags Dr Ana Gibbons

EarthByte welcomes Christian Heine

8 April, 201513 August, 2010 by Michael Chin

EarthByte welcomes Christian Heine who has joined the EarthByte Group from Statoil.

Categories News 2010 Tags Dr Christian Heine

Luke Mondy to visit Houston, Texas

8 April, 201515 July, 2010 by Michael Chin

Luke Mondy is attending the Madagascar School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics in Houston, Texas as part of his Honours project.

Categories News 2010 Tags Luke Mondy

3rd GPlates short course at the LMU Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences

6 September, 201515 July, 2010 by Michael Chin

A 3rd GPlates short course was held at the LMU Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in July 2010.  

Categories Courses, GPlates News, News 2010

Balraj Hansra awarded Suunto Prize

15 March, 201515 July, 2010 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Balraj Hansra who was awarded the Prospectors Supplies Pty Ltd – Suunto Prize. Well done Balraj!

Categories Awards, Awards 2010, News 2010 Tags Balraj Hansra

EarthByte to attend Australian Earth Sciences Convention

8 April, 201514 July, 2010 by Michael Chin

The EarthByte Group is attending the 2010 Australian Earth Sciences Convention in Canberra.

Categories Conferences, News 2010

Kara Matthews awarded L. A. Richardson Memorial Prize

15 March, 201514 July, 2010 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Kara Matthews who was awarded the L. A. Richardson Memorial Prize. Well done Kara!

Categories Awards, Awards 2010, News 2010 Tags Dr Kara Matthews

Grace Shephard awarded L. A. Richardson Memorial Prize

15 March, 201514 July, 2010 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Grace Shephard who was awarded the L. A. Richardson Memorial Prize. Well done Grace!

Categories Awards, Awards 2010, News 2010 Tags Dr Grace Shephard

Dietmar Müller awarded Mercator Professor Fellowship

15 March, 201513 July, 2010 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Dietmar Müller who was awarded the Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) Mercator Professor Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany).

Categories Awards, Awards 2010, News 2010 Tags Prof Dietmar Müller

Aedon Talsma visits University of Munich

8 April, 201512 July, 2010 by Michael Chin

Aedon Talsma is on a 2nd research visit to the University of Munich as part of his Honours project.

Categories News 2010 Tags Aedon Talsma

Aedon Talsma wins Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Study Grant and Leo A Cotton Prize

15 March, 201512 July, 2010 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Aedon Talsma who picked up both the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Study Grant and the Leo A. Cotton Prize in Exploration Geophysics. Well done Aedon!

Categories Awards, Awards 2010, News 2010 Tags Aedon Talsma

Aaron Tyler wins the Quodling Testimonial Prize

15 March, 201511 July, 2010 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Aaron Tyler for winning the Quodling Testimonial Prize for Crystallography and Petrology. Well done Aaron!

Categories Awards, Awards 2010, News 2010

Sabin Zahirovic visits Caltech

31 July, 201515 June, 2010 by Michael Chin

Sabin Zahirovic is currently on a research visit to the California Institute of Technology as part of his Honours project.

Categories News 2010 Tags Dr Sabin Zahirovic

Sabin Zahirovic wins GSA-NSW scholarship

15 March, 201515 June, 2010 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Sabin Zahirovic who has won a GSA-NSW scholarship to support his attendance at the 2010 Australian Earth Sciences Convention in Canberra.

Categories Awards, Awards 2010, News 2010 Tags Dr Sabin Zahirovic
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ANZIC Forum 2022 Talk: Deep-sea hiatuses track the vigour of Cenozoic ocean bottom currents

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Geoscience Data Journal: Subduction and carbonate platform interactions

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Terra Nova: Timing of partial melting and granulite formation during the genesis of high to ultra-high temperature terranes: Insight from numerical experiments

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Identifying Characteristic and Anomalous Mantle From the Complex Relationship Between Abyssal Hill Roughness and Spreading Rates

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The use of machine learning in processing remote sensing data for mineral exploration

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When the Earth warms, the ocean speeds up

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Global warming speeds up currents in the ocean’s abyss

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Nature Commmunications: Impact of green clay authigenesis on element sequestration in marine settings

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Geology: Deep-sea hiatuses track the vigor of Cenozoic ocean bottom currents

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Scientific Reports: Constraining the response of continental‐scale groundwater flow to climate change

11:47 am 18 Mar 2022

EPSL: Long-term Phanerozoic sea level change from solid Earth processes

3:37 pm 10 Mar 2022

EarthByte seminar series: Joe Ibrahim

10:00 am 07 Mar 2022

Remote Sensing: A Comparative Study of Convolutional Neural Networks and Conventional Machine Learning Models for Lithological Mapping Using Remote Sensing Data

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Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: The roles and seismic expressions of turbidites and mass transport deposits using stratigraphic forward modeling and seismic forward modeling

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The efficiency of fractal techniques in geochemical anomaly delineation within BLEG and <180 μm stream sediments in Western Turkey

12:43 pm 27 Feb 2022

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Geomorphology: Combining stratigraphic forward modeling and susceptibility mapping to investigate the origin and evolution of submarine canyons

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Elements: Carbonatites and global tectonics

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Terra Nova: The Louisiade ophiolite: A missing link in the western Pacific

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Geochemical anomaly definition using stream sediments landscape modeling

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Nature Geoscience: Dynamics of the abrupt change in Pacific Plate motion around 50 million years ago

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PhD scholarship in Deep-Sea Sediments and Paleoclimate

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Scientific Reports: The evolution of basal mantle structure in response to supercontinent aggregation and dispersal

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EarthByte seminar series: Camilo Montes

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Special Issue: Mineral exploration: a journey from fieldwork, to laboratory work, computational modelling and mineral processing

10:28 am 06 Dec 2021

PNAS: High 3He/4He in central Panama reveals a distal connection to the Galapagos plume

12:24 pm 29 Nov 2021

Communications Earth & Environment: Quaternary landscape dynamics boosted species dispersal across Southeast Asia

11:08 am 24 Nov 2021

Detection of mineralization stages using zonality and multifractal modeling based on geological and geochemical data in the Au-(Cu) intrusion-related Gouzal-Bolagh deposit, NW Iran

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EarthByte seminar series: Lutz Gross

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Remote Sensing of the Enivronment: A review of machine learning in processing remote sensing data for mineral exploration

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EarthByte seminar series: Jiashun Hu

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Earth Surface Dynamics: Tectonically and climatically driven mountain-hopping erosion in central Guatemala from detrital 10Be and river profile analysis

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Geosphere: Fast Pliocene integration of the Central Anatolian Plateau drainage: Evidence, processes, and driving forces

12:54 pm 22 Oct 2021

Marine and Petroleum Geology: Single-phase vs two-phase rifting: Numerical perspectives on the accommodation of extension during continental break-up

12:44 pm 22 Oct 2021

Basin Research: Modelling the role of dynamic topography and eustasy in the evolution of the Great Artesian Basin

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Simulated-multifractal models: A futuristic review of multifractal modeling in geochemical anomaly classification

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5.8 magnitude Mansfield earthquake reflects compressive intraplate stress reactivating deep faults

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EarthByte seminar series: Siavash Ghelichkhan

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G-Cubed: Papanin Ridge and Ojin Rise Seamounts (Northwest Pacific): Dual Hotspot Tracks Formed by the Shatsky Plume

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