GPlates short course at National Institute of Oceanography, India
A GPlates short course was held at the National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India, from 19-20 February 2013.
Lithosphere – A review of observations and models of dynamic topography
Flament, N., Gurnis, M., & Müller, R. D. (2013). A review of observations and models of dynamic topography. Lithosphere, 5(2), 189-210. doi:10.1130/L245.1. Download the paper – pdf
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems – Lower mantle structure from paleogeographically constrained dynamic Earth models
Bower, D. J., Gurnis, M., & Seton, M. (2013). Lower mantle structure from paleogeographically constrained dynamic Earth models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(1), 44-63. doi:10.1029/2012GC004267. Download the paper – pdf
Journal of Geophysical Research – The breakup of East Gondwana: assimilating constraints from Cretaceous ocean basins around India into a best-fit tectonic model
Gibbons, A. D., Whittaker, J. M., & Müller, R. D. (2013). The breakup of East Gondwana: Assimilating constraints from Cretaceous ocean basins around India into a best‐fit tectonic model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118(3), 808-822. doi:10.1002/jgrb.50079. Download the paper – pdf Access supplementary materials here
Computers & Geoscience – Relationships between palaeogeography and opal occurrence in Australia: a data-mining approach
Landgrebe, T. C. W., Merdith, A., Dutkiewicz, A., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Relationships between palaeogeography and opal occurrence in Australia: A data-mining approach. Computers & Geosciences, 56, 76-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2013.02.002. Download the paper – pdf
Computers & Geoscience – Relationships between palaeogeography and opal occurrence in Australia: a data-mining approach
Landgrebe, T. C. W., Merdith, A., Dutkiewicz, A., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Relationships between palaeogeography and opal occurrence in Australia: A data-mining approach. Computers & Geosciences, 56, 76-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2013.02.002. Download the paper – pdf
Geophysical Journal International – Forward modelling of oceanic lithospheric magnetisation
Masterton, S. M., Gubbins, D., Müller, R. D., & Singh, K. H. (2013). Forward modelling of oceanic lithospheric magnetization. Geophysical Journal International, 192(3), 951-962. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggs063. Download the paper – pdf
Earth and Planetary Science Letters – A global-scale plate reorganization event at 105- 100 Ma
Matthews, K. J., Seton, M., & Müller, R. D. (2012). A global-scale plate reorganization event at 105− 100Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 355, 283-298. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.023. Download the paper – pdf
Jo Whittaker features in The Age
Jo Whittaker explains the Indo-Australian plate breakup to The Age.
Gondwana to Asia 2012 GPlates short course
Date and time: 2012 November 21, 9am-1pm Venue: Mawson Building, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Description: An introductory course to GPlates at the International Association for Gondwana Research Annual Convention and 9th International Symposium on Gondwana to Asia.
Southern Surveyor cruise takes the media by storm
Maria Seton and her team are back from the Southern Surveyor cruise in the Coral Sea, which was investigating the tectonic framework for the easternmost Coral Sea and northern extent of the Lord Howe hotspot for 25 days. The cruise has been featured on Radio Australia, which was then picked up by ABC News, Sydney … Read more…
Michael Chin wins NeCTAR/ANDS #nadojo competition for GPlates
Congratulations to Michael Chin from the Earthbyte group on winning this year’s NeCTAR/ANDS #nadojo competition. Michael demonstrated a new web-enabled GPlates prototype on the NECTAR/ANDS eResearch computing infrastructure, porting some of the powerful plate reconstruction capabilities to the web. The new GPlates competed with several other candidates from universities and research institutes in Australia, and … Read more…
Geoscientific Instrumentation Methods and Data Systems – The GPlates geological information model and markup language
Qin, X., Müller, R. D., Cannon, J., Landgrebe, T. C. W., Heine, C., Watson, R. J., & Turner, M. (2012). The GPlates geological information model and markup language. Geosci. Instrum. Methods Data Syst. Discuss, 2, 365-428. doi:10.5194/gi-1-111-2012. Download the paper – pdf
Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV – Late Cretaceous to present-day opening of the southwest Pacific constrained by numerical models and seismic tomography
Matthews, K. J., Seton, M., Flament, N., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Late Cretaceous to present-day opening of the southwest Pacific constrained by numerical models and seismic tomography. In Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium EABS IV: Exploration—Driving Future Energy Solutions, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (pp. 105-119). Download the paper – pdf
Luke Mondy awarded L. A. Richardson Memorial Prize
Congratulations to Luke Mondy who won the L. A. Richardson Memorial Prize.
Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV – Developing a consistent sequence stratigraphy for the Wilkes Land and Great Australian Bight margins
Lane, H., Müller, R. D., Totterdell, J. M., & Whittaker, J. (2012). Developing a consistent sequence stratigraphy for the Wilkes Land and Great Australian Bight margins. In Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV: Brisbane, Queensland. Download the paper – pdf
Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV – Crustal velocity and sediment thickness asymmetries along and between the conjugate Australian-Antarctic margins
Whittaker, J. M., Goncharov, A., Williams, S. E., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Crustal velocity and sediment thickness asymmetries along and between the conjugate Australian-Antarctic margins. Mares, T.(Ed). Download the paper – pdf
Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV – Full-fit reconstructions of the southern Australian Margin and Antarctica – implications for correlating geology between Australia and Antarctica
Williams, S. E., Whittaker, J. M., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Full-fit reconstructions of the southern Australian margin and Antarctica–implications for correlating geology between Australia and Antarctica. In Proceedings of the Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV, Brisbane Qld (unpubl.). Download the paper – pdf
Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV – Plate Tectonic Consequences of competing models for the origin and history of the Banda Sea subducted oceanic lithosphere
Heine, C., Quevedo, L., McKay, H., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Plate Tectonic Consequences of competing models for the origin and history of the Banda Sea subducted oceanic lithosphere. arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4958. Download the paper – pdf
Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV – Subduction history in the Melanesian borderlands region, SW Pacific
Seton, M., Flament, N., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Subduction history in the Melanesian Borderlands region, SW Pacific. In: Mares, T. (Ed), 2012. Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV. Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publication, 1-12. Download the paper – pdf
EarthByte successful in applying for resources on iVEC supercomputer 'Fornax'
Dietmar Müller, Leonardo Quevedo and Thomas Landgrebe from EarthByte have been successful in applying for resources on the new iVEC supercomputer “Fornax” located at UWA through a merit allocation project built around GPlates new data mining capabilities. GPlates performance as a data-intensive application and its potential for generating a high impact research outcome by taking … Read more…
EarthByte successful in applying for resources on iVEC supercomputer ‘Fornax’
Dietmar Müller, Leonardo Quevedo and Thomas Landgrebe from EarthByte have been successful in applying for resources on the new iVEC supercomputer “Fornax” located at UWA through a merit allocation project built around GPlates new data mining capabilities. GPlates performance as a data-intensive application and its potential for generating a high impact research outcome by taking … Read more…
Daniel Clark wins Deas-Thomson Scholarship in Mineralogy
Congratulations to Daniel Clark for winning the Deas-Thomson Scholarship in Mineralogy.
The UNCOVER Searching the deep Earth – a vision for exploration geoscience in Australia policy document is released
The UNCOVER Searching the Deep Earth: A vision for exploration geoscience in Australia document was officially launched by the Minister for Resources, Energy and Tourism, Martin Ferguson, at the 34th International Geological Congress in Brisbane last week. This important policy document is a call for Australian earth scientists to cooperate in an innovative, structured and … Read more…
Joel Potter awarded Leo A Cotton Prize
Congratulations to Joel Potter for winning the Leo A Cotton Prize in Exploration Geophysics.
EarthByte welcomes Ashish Agarwal
EarthByte would like to welcome Ashish Agarwal who has just started an AISRF funded PhD with Dietmar Muller on Indian ocean plate reconstructions.
Sabin Zahirovic awarded Postgraduate Research Prize and George Harris Scholarship
Congratulations to Sabin Zahirovic for winning the Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement (Faculty of Science). Sabin also picked up the George Harris Scholarship (School of Geosciences). Well done Sabin!
EarthByte welcomes Judith Sippel, Kenni Petersen, Nicolas Coltice, Nick Mortimer and Bruce Eglington
EarthByte would like to welcome Judith Sippel (GFZ Postdam), Kenni Petersen (Aarhus University), Nicolas Coltice (University Lyon 1), Nick Mortimer (GNS), Bruce Eglington (University of Saskatchewan) who will be visiting the EarthByte group in the weeks after the IGC meeting in Brisbane.
EarthByte attends Back-arc Basin and Island Arc Interridge working group
Maria Seton, Dietmar Muller, Jo Whittaker and Jonathan Aitchinson attended the first Back-arc Basin and Island Arc Interridge working group meeting in Brisbane.
EarthByte attends the International Geological Congress meeting
Over 15 members of EarthByte attended the International Geological Congress meeting in Brisbane and were heavily involved in the organisation of symposia and sessions.