News – Page 25 – EarthByte

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.

Michael Rubey commences his PhD with EarthByte

15 March, 201531 July, 2011 by Michael Chin

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’.

New baby EarthByter

15 March, 201518 July, 2011 by Michael Chin

Great news! Jo Whittaker has given birth to a healthy baby boy. Daniel Walker was born on Sunday, 17th July. Congratulations Jo and Sharik!

Gondwana Research – Dynamic subsidence of Eastern Australia during the Cretaceous

16 December, 201513 July, 2011 by Michael Chin

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

Sabin Zahirovic to attend International Congress in Perth

15 March, 20156 July, 2011 by Michael Chin

PhD student Sabin Zahirovic is attending the International Congress on the Permian and Carboniferous in Perth.

Nature – Plate motion and mantle plumes

16 December, 20155 July, 2011 by Michael Chin

Müller, R.D., (2011). Plate motion and mantle plumes, Nature. Download the paper – pdf

EarthByte welcomes Maral Hosseinpour

15 March, 20154 July, 2011 by Michael Chin

EarthByte warmly welcomes new PhD student Maral Hoseinpour who has started her PhD on plate deformation models of passive margins.

Students awarded PESA Tertiary Study Grants

15 March, 20152 July, 2011 by Michael Chin

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…

PESA Tertiary Study Grant awarded to Grace Shephard

15 March, 20151 July, 2011 by Michael Chin

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 accepted by Softpedia

6 September, 20151 July, 2011 by Michael Chin

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…

Journal of Metamorphic Geology – Crustal growth during back-arc closure: Cretaceous exhumation history of Cordillera Darwin, southern Patagonia

16 December, 201515 June, 2011 by Michael Chin

Maloney, K. T., Clarke, G. L., Klepeis, K. A., Fanning, C. M., & Wang, W. (2011). Crustal growth during back‐arc closure: Cretaceous exhumation history of Cordillera Darwin, southern Patagonia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology,29(6), 649-672. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2011.00934.x. Download the paper – pdf

EarthByte welcomes Jerome Dyment and Roi Granot

15 March, 20153 June, 2011 by Michael Chin

EarthByte is pleased to have Jerome Dyment and Roi Granot from IPG Paris visiting our research group as part of the Indian Ocean project.

EarthByte welcomes Prof Tony Watts

15 March, 20152 June, 2011 by Michael Chin

EarthByte is pleased to have Prof Tony Watts from Oxford University visiting our research group and presenting a seminar on “Plate Flexure and Dynamic Topography”.

Pyrites of the Caribbean win soccer comp

15 March, 20151 June, 2011 by Michael Chin

Great news! The Pyrites of the Caribbean won the Sydney Uni Social Lunchtime mixed soccer comp!!! The semi-final was 6-5 with the Pyrites beating the undefeated team “The Pretenders”, and the final game score was 1-1 and went to golden goal. Nathan scored the winning goal with one minute to spare! Woo! Well done to … Read more…

Faculty of Science Award for Citizenship picked up by Sabin and Aedon

15 March, 201515 May, 2011 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to PhD students Sabin Zahirovic and Aedon Talsma who both received the University of Sydney, Faculty of Science Award for Citizenship for their contribution to extra-curricular activities at the university. Well done!

Kayla Maloney awarded University of Sydney Postgraduate Research Prize

15 March, 201514 May, 2011 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to PhD student Kayla Maloney who has been awarded a University of Sydney Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement, based on her paper “Crustal growth during back-arc closure: Cretaceous exhumation history of Cordillera Darwin, southern Patagonia” in J. Metamorphic Petrology (Maloney et al., 2011). Well done Kayla!

‘Towards a unified East Gondwanaland reconstruction and its implications for Himalayan Orogeny’ wins funding

15 March, 201513 May, 2011 by Michael Chin

EarthByte’s Dietmar Müller, Joanne Whittaker and Ana Gibbons along with Gordon Lister and Lloyd White of the Research School of Earth Sciences at ANU, Canberra, have won funding for their project “Towards a unified East Gondwanaland reconstruction and its implications for Himalayan Orogeny” from the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF). This project will involve a close collaboration with Yatheesh Vadakkeyakath, K.A. Kamesh Raju, G.C. Bhattacharya and S. Kiranmai of the National Institute of Oceanography in Goa, India. The project follows on from a successful French-Australian collaboration that unraveled a new high-resolution plate model of the Australia-Antarctica-India plate boundaries, while similar information was obtained for the India-Antarctica-Africa plate boundaries under two recently concluded Indo-French collaborations. … Read more…

'Towards a unified East Gondwanaland reconstruction and its implications for Himalayan Orogeny' wins funding

13 May, 2011 by Ruken

EarthByte attends EGU 2011

15 March, 201530 April, 2011 by Michael Chin

Post-docs Nicolas Flament, Christian Heine, Jo Whittaker and Simon Williams, along with students Ana Gibbons, Charmaine Thomas and Luke Mondy presented their research at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna, which this year attracted 10,725 scientists geoscientists. Christian Heine and Ana Gibbons co-chaired the session “Unresolved problems in plate tectonics: kinematic reconstructions, plate driving forces, … Read more…

Geology – Viscous collision in channel explains double domes in metamorphic core complexes

16 December, 201515 April, 2011 by Michael Chin

Rey, P. F., Teyssier, C., Kruckenberg, S. C., & Whitney, D. L. (2011). Viscous collision in channel explains double domes in metamorphic core complexes. Geology, 39(4), 387-390. doi:10.1130/G31587.1. Download the paper – pdf

Cambridge University Press – Next-generation plate-tectonic reconstructions using GPlates

16 December, 201515 March, 2011 by Michael Chin

Boyden, J., Müller, R. D., Gurnis, M., Torsvik, T. H., Clark, J. A., Turner, M., … & Cannon, J. S. (2011). Next-generation plate-tectonic reconstructions using GPlates. Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences. Keller, G. R., & Baru, C. (Eds.). (2011). Geoinformatics: cyberinfrastructure for the solid Earth sciences. Cambridge University Press. Download the paper – pdf

Patrice attends Auscope meeting

15 March, 201515 March, 2011 by Michael Chin

Patrice attended an Auscope meeting to present the view of Structural Geologists and Tectonicists on Underworld.

IODP workshop on Indian Ocean Drilling scheduled for late 2011

15 March, 201515 February, 2011 by Michael Chin

An Integrated Ocean Drilling (IODP) workshop on Indian Ocean Drilling to be held in late 2011 in Goa, India has just been approved, funded by $33,000 from IODP, and supported by the Australian IODP Office, which plans to send 15 Australians and Kiwis to the meeting, including EarthByte’s Dietmar Müller, and Stephen Gallagher (UMelb), Neville Exon (ANU), Richard Arculus (ANU), Mike Coffin (Tasmania) and Richard Wysoczanski (NZ, NIWA). The workshop is timed to suit an April 2012 drilling proposal submission deadline. … Read more…

EarthByte welcomes Logan Yeo

15 March, 201514 February, 2011 by Michael Chin

We welcome a new PhD student Logan Yeo who will be working with Dietmar and Christian!

Patrice Rey joins editorial board of Lithosphere

15 March, 201515 January, 2011 by Michael Chin

Patrice joined the editorial board of Lithosphere, a new journal published by the Geological Society of America.

EarthByte attends 2010 Theo Murphy High Flyers Think Tank

15 March, 201514 January, 2011 by Michael Chin

This month saw the release of the proceedings of the 2010 Theo Murphy High Flyers Think Tank, which was held at the Australian Academy of Sciences in August 2010 and brought together the nation’s top geoscience researchers, including EarthByte’s Prof. Dietmar Müller and Dr Thomas Landgrebe, to address challenges in mineral exploration. Dietmar and Thomas … Read more…