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EarthByte attends Third Decadal Plan Interridge meeting

14 March, 20152 December, 2011 by Michael Chin

Maria Seton is attending the Third Decadal Plan Interridge meeting in San Francisco.

EarthByte to attend AGU 2011

14 March, 20151 December, 2011 by Michael Chin

EarthByte group members Dietmar Müller, Adriana Dutkiewicz, Nicolas Flament, Leonardo Quevedo, Maria Seton, Simon Williams, Nathaniel Butterworth, Kayla Maloney and Kara Matthews are attending the AGU Fall Meeting 2011 in San Francisco, USA from 5-9 December, 2011. Click here for more details about the AGU Fall Meeting

Nature Geoscience – Origin of Indian Ocean Seamount Province by shallow recycling of continental lithosphere

16 December, 20155 November, 2011 by Michael Chin

Hoernle, K., Hauff, F., Werner, R., van den Bogaard, P., Gibbons, A. D., Conrad, S., & Müller, R. D. (2011). Origin of Indian Ocean Seamount Province by shallow recycling of continental lithosphere. Nature Geoscience, 4(12), 883-887. doi:10.1038/ngeo1331. Download the paper – link

Indian Ocean cocktail party leaves trail of party hats behind

14 March, 20155 November, 2011 by Michael Chin

Ana Gibbons, Dietmar Müller and colleagues from IfM-GEOMAR Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Germany research into Indian Ocean Cocktail Party leaves trail of party hats behind has been highlighted on the USyd News page. See the USyd News article ‘Indian Ocean Cocktail Party leaves trail of party hats behind’ here

DICTA – A spatio-temporal knowledge-discovery platform for Earth-Science data

16 December, 20154 November, 2011 by Michael Chin

Landgrebe, T. C. W., & Muller, R. D. (2011, December). A Spatio-Temporal Knowledge-Discovery Platform for Earth-Science Data, Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications (DICTA). In 2011 International Conference on (pp. 6-8). doi:10.1109/DICTA.2011.73. Download the paper – pdf

Kara Matthews’ microplates project features in Stories of Australian Science

17 March, 20154 November, 2011 by Michael Chin

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 features in Stories of Australian Science

4 November, 2011 by Ruken

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 features in Stories of Australian Science

17 March, 20154 November, 2011 by Michael Chin

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 features in Stories of Australian Science

4 November, 2011 by Ruken

Subaqueous continental flood basalts paper recognition

14 March, 20153 November, 2011 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Nicolas Flament and Patrice Rey for their interesting Geology paper on subaqueous continental flood basalts. Download the paper – link

EarthByte successful in grant submissions

14 March, 20152 November, 2011 by Michael Chin

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 features in Nature Geoscience

14 March, 20151 November, 2011 by Michael Chin

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

Maria Seton successfully bids for $1m ship time

14 March, 20151 October, 2011 by Michael Chin

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…

Lithosphere – Mantle dynamics of continent-wide Cenzoic subsidence and tilting of Australia

16 December, 20155 September, 2011 by Michael Chin

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

EarthByte welcomes Florian Wobbe

14 March, 20154 September, 2011 by Michael Chin

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.

Journal of Climate – Modelling the Miocene climatic optimum, Part 1: land and atmosphere

16 December, 20153 September, 2011 by Michael Chin

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 to attend GSA Fragile Earth conference 2011

14 March, 20153 September, 2011 by Michael Chin

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 to attend Geological Society’s Dynamic Topography conference

14 March, 20152 September, 2011 by Michael Chin

EarthByte PhD students Aedon Talsma, Logan Yeo and Grace Shephard are attending the Geological Society’s Dynamic Topography conference in London.

EarthByte to attend Geological Society's Dynamic Topography conference

2 September, 2011 by Ruken

EarthByte PhD students Aedon Talsma, Logan Yeo and Grace Shephard are attending the Geological Society’s Dynamic Topography conference in London.

Luke Mondy submits his Honours Thesis

14 March, 20151 September, 2011 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Luke Mondy who finished his Honours Thesis! Well done!

Leonardo Quevedo to attend Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics workshop

14 March, 20156 August, 2011 by Michael Chin

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

EarthByte welcomes Fabian Stenzel

14 March, 20155 August, 2011 by Michael Chin

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…

Recognition for the geodynamic modelling team

14 March, 20154 August, 2011 by Michael Chin

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.

Kara Matthews scheduled to visit Caltech

14 March, 20153 August, 2011 by Michael Chin

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 welcomes Matthew Huber

15 March, 20152 August, 2011 by Michael Chin

EarthByte is pleased to welcome Matthew Huber from Purdue University for a half day visit during his super-short stay in Sydney.

EarthByte members successfully seek STEPs funding

15 March, 20151 August, 2011 by Michael Chin

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.