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…
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EarthByte attends EGU 2011
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
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
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
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
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
We welcome a new PhD student Logan Yeo who will be working with Dietmar and Christian!
Patrice Rey joins editorial board of Lithosphere
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
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…
GPlates 1.0 now available to download
GPlates 1.0 has been released! Click here to download the latest version of GPlates
EarthByte presents at AGU
Ana Gibbons, Kayla Maloney, Grace Shephard, Jo Whittaker & Simon Williams presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California.
Honours students submit theses
Congratulations to our Honours students for handing in their theses! Well done!
Jo Whittaker receives 2010 NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award
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
GPlates 0.9.10 now available to download
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
EarthByte welcomes Prof David Gubbins
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.
Ben Dickinson awarded Earth Resources Foundation 2nd Year Scholarship
Congratulations to Ben Dickinson who was awarded the Earth Resources Foundation 2nd Year Scholarship. Well done Ben!
Aedon Talsma to attend International Symposium
Aedon Talsma is attending The 14th International Symposium on “Deep Seismic Profiling of the Continents and their Margins” in Cairns, QLD.
Ana Gibbons awarded George Harris Scholarship
Congratulations to Ana Gibbons who was awarded the George Harris Scholarship. Well done Ana!
EarthByte welcomes Christian Heine
EarthByte welcomes Christian Heine who has joined the EarthByte Group from Statoil.
Luke Mondy to visit Houston, Texas
Luke Mondy is attending the Madagascar School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics in Houston, Texas as part of his Honours project.
3rd GPlates short course at the LMU Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences
A 3rd GPlates short course was held at the LMU Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in July 2010.
Balraj Hansra awarded Suunto Prize
Congratulations to Balraj Hansra who was awarded the Prospectors Supplies Pty Ltd – Suunto Prize. Well done Balraj!
EarthByte to attend Australian Earth Sciences Convention
The EarthByte Group is attending the 2010 Australian Earth Sciences Convention in Canberra.
Kara Matthews awarded L. A. Richardson Memorial Prize
Congratulations to Kara Matthews who was awarded the L. A. Richardson Memorial Prize. Well done Kara!
Grace Shephard awarded L. A. Richardson Memorial Prize
Congratulations to Grace Shephard who was awarded the L. A. Richardson Memorial Prize. Well done Grace!
Dietmar Müller awarded Mercator Professor Fellowship
Congratulations to Dietmar Müller who was awarded the Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) Mercator Professor Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany).
Aedon Talsma visits University of Munich
Aedon Talsma is on a 2nd research visit to the University of Munich as part of his Honours project.
Aedon Talsma wins Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Study Grant and Leo A Cotton Prize
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!
Aaron Tyler wins the Quodling Testimonial Prize
Congratulations to Aaron Tyler for winning the Quodling Testimonial Prize for Crystallography and Petrology. Well done Aaron!
Sabin Zahirovic visits Caltech
Sabin Zahirovic is currently on a research visit to the California Institute of Technology as part of his Honours project.