The EarthByte Group was established within the School of Geosciences at The University of Sydney in 2002. The group is made up of full-time academic staff members and full-time software developers. We supervise postgraduate(PhD and Masters) and honours students. A number of undergraduates also work as research assistants with the group.
The team is led by Prof Dietmar Müller, A/Prof Maria Seton and Prof Patrice Rey. The EarthByte group has a strong collaborative research base, both nationally and internationally. Besides the researchers from Australia, our research collaborations also include researchers from Asia, Oceania, Europe and North America.
Group Coordinators
Academic Staff and Research Fellows
Software Developers
PhD/Masters Candidates
Current Visiting Scientists
Honorary Research Fellows
Sydney Informatics Hub Collaborators
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Nathaniel Butterworth | nathaniel.butterworth@sydney.edu.au |
| Sebastian Haan | sebastian.haan@sydney.edu.au |
Research Assistants
Past Honours Students
Past MPhil students
| Name | Start | Complete | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julian Diaz Rodriguez | julian.diazrodriguez@sydney.edu.au | 2020 | 2021 |
| Carmen Braz | carmen.braz@sydney.edu.au | 2017 | 2022 |
Past PhD Students
| Name | Organisation | Start | Complete |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maelis Arnould | Univ Lyon | 2016 | 2019 |
| Nicholas Barnett-Moore | 2013 | 2016 | |
| Ömer Bodur | Univ of Wollongong | 2017 | 2020 |
| Belinda Brown | NSW Govt. | 2000 | 2005 |
| Nathan Butterworth | Univ. Sydney | 2010 | 2014 |
| Wenchao Cao | United Nations Environment Branch (Montreal) | 2015 | 2018 |
| Stuart Clark | UNSW | 2002 | 2007 |
| Tara Deen | CSIRO | 2000 | 2005 |
| Lydia DiCaprio | Univ. Calgary | 2005 | 2009 |
| Xuesong Ding | UCLA | 2015 | 2019 |
| Scott Dyksterhuis | Oil Search | 2003 | 2006 |
| Michael Fletcher | |||
| Rhiannon Garrett | Molino Stewart | 2016 | 2020 |
| Carmen Gaina | University of Oslo | 1995 | 1998 |
| Ana Gibbons | Senior Researcher- formerly at Statoil ASA (Norway) | 2008 | 2012 |
| Rakib Hassan | Curtin Institute for Computation | 2013 | 2016 |
| Judy Herold | AECOM | 2007 | 2015 |
| Nicholas Herold | Policy officer and climate scientist- NSW State | 2007 | 2011 |
| Christian Heine | Shell | 2003 | 2007 |
| Maral Hosseinpour | VAHPA | 2011 | 2015 |
| Amy I'Anson | Woodside | 2016 | 2019 |
| Joe Ibrahim | Texas A&M University | 2020 | 2024 |
| Dona Mihut | MOQdigital | 1991 | 1995 |
| Alexander Kritski | Statoil | 1996 | 2001 |
| Craig O’Neill | Queensland University of Technology | 2001 | 2004 |
| Maria Seton | Univ. Sydney | 2001 | 2005 |
| Kara Matthews | Earth and Data Scientist Calgary | 2010 | 2013 |
| Grace Shephard | Univ. Oslo | 2010 | 2014 |
| Michael Rubey | Unknown | 2011 | 2015 |
| Andrew Merdith | University of Leeds | 2014 | 2017 |
| Sarah MacLeod | 2013 | 2018 | |
| Michael Tetley | Halliburton Landmark - Neftex | 2014 | 2018 |
| Luke Mondy | Audinate | 2015 | 2020 |
| Amanda Thran | UNSW | 2017 | 2020 |
| Joanne Whittaker | Univ. Tasmania | 2005 | 2008 |
| Nicky Wright | Univ of Sydney | 2014 | 2017 |
| Sabin Zahirovic | Univ. Sydney | 2011 | 2014 |
| Jason Zhao | Geoscience Australia | 1999 | 2002 |
Past Summer Scholarship Students
Past Research Assistants
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Anna Catriona Jamieson | ajam3453@uni.sydney.edu.au |
| Marin Gudmundsdottir | mgud5900@uni.sydney.edu.au |
| Samuel Russell | srus4235@uni.sydney.edu.au |
| Zsanett Szilagyi | zsanett.szilagyi@sydney.edu.au |
| Sue Yu Sum Chan | ycha2152@uni.sydney.edu.au |
| Brittni Nicol | brittni.nicol@sydney.edu.au |
| Rebekah Bradshaw | rbra6893@uni.sydney.edu.au |
| Kaitlyn Eileen McMahon | kmcm6929@uni.sydney.edu.au |
| Grace Elizabeth Ryan | grya6914@uni.sydney.edu.au |
Past Visiting Scientists
| Name | Organisation |
|---|---|
| Dr Eline Le Breton | Free University of Berlin |
| A/Prof Kirsten Nicolaysen | Whitman College |
| Paul Wessel | University of Hawai'i |
| Guoqing Ma | Jilin University |
| Walter Roest | Ifremer Brest |
| Xinong Xie | University of Geosciences Wuhan China |
| Mike Gurnis | Caltech USA |
| Sanzhong Li | Ocean University China |
| A/Prof. Chang Liu | Tongji University |
Visiting Overseas Students
Past Visiting Overseas Students
| Name | Organisation |
|---|---|
| Xianzhi Cao | Ocean University of China |
| Megan Korchinski | The University of Minnesota |
| Qiuge Wang | China University of Geoscience |
| Yongliang "Leo" Bai | China University of Petroleum |
| Shan Yu | Ocean University of China |
| Edward Clennett | Exeter College, Oxford |
| Hongjun Hui | University of Missouri-Columbia |
Past Visiting Students
Past EarthByte Technical Staff and Research Fellows
| Name | Position | Employer |
|---|---|---|
| Danial Azam | Software Developer | Woolworths |
| James Boyden | CEO | Object AI |
| Gilles Brocard | Field Geologist and Geomorphologist | |
| Sascha Brune | Helmholtz Young Investigators Group Leader | GFZ-Potsdam |
| Nathan Butterworth | Senior Research Informatics Officer | Sydney Informatics Hub |
| Dr Roberta Carluccio | ||
| Dr Benedicte Cenki-To | ||
| James Clark | Software developer | Domain.com.au |
| Scott Dyksterhuis | Geoscientist | ExxonMobil |
| Nicolas Flament | A/Prof | Univ. Wollongong |
| Carmen Gaina | Professor | University of Oslo |
| Dr Rhiannon Garrett | Natural Hazard and Spatial Analyst | Molino Stewart |
| Dr Rakib Hassan | Curtin Institute for Computation | |
| Christian Heine | Senior Geodynamicist | Shell |
| Gregory A. Houseman FRS | Emeritus Professor of Geophysics | University of Leeds, UK |
| Ian Howson | Senior Embedded Software Engineer | NVIDIA |
| Hamish Ivey-Law | CSIRO Data61 | |
| Thomas Landgrebe | Image Processing and Vision Systems Engineer | ICM |
| Dr Claire Mallard | BHP | |
| Kayla Maloney | Data Analyst | Univ. Sydney |
| Kara Matthews | Information Analyst | Arctic Institute of North America |
| Matthew Merkas | ||
| Gabriele Morra | Assistant Professor | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| Leonardo Quevedo | Product Development Manager | CGG |
| Yiyan Wang | ||
| Joanne Whittaker | Professor | Univ. of Tasmania |
| A/Prof Simon Williams | A/Professor | Univ. of Tasmania |
Honoraries
Australian Collaborators
| Name | Organisation |
|---|---|
| Dr Rohitash Chandra | The University of New South Wales |
| Prof Chris Clark | Curtin University |
| Prof Mike Coffin | University of Tasmania |
| Prof Alan Collins | University of Adelaide |
| Dr Karol Czarnota | Geoscience Australia |
| Dr Rhodri Davies | Australian National University |
| Prof Chris Elders | Curtin University |
| A/Prof Juraj Farkas | The University of Adelaide |
| A/Prof Nicolas Flament | University of Wollongong |
| Prof Simon George | Macquarie University |
| Dr Sia Ghelichkhan | The Australian National University |
| Dr Rakib Hassan | Geoscience Australia |
| Dr Derrick Hasterok | The University of Adelaide |
| Dr Andy Hogg | Australian National University |
| Dr Fabian Kohlmann | Lithodat Pty Ltd |
| Dr Andrew Merdith | The University of Adelaide |
| Prof Louis Moresi | The University of Melbourne |
| Dr Sergei Pisarevskiy | Curtin University |
| Dr Tim Rawling | The University of Melbourne |
| Dr Michael Tetley | Australian National University |
| Prof Joanne Whittaker | The University of Tasmania |
| A/Prof Simon Williams | The University of Tasmania |
Overseas Collaborators
| Name | Orgnaisation |
|---|---|
| Michele Anthony | BHP |
| A/Prof Slah Boulila | Sorbonne University |
| Dr Dan Bower | ETH Zurich |
| Dr Sascha Brune | GFZ Potsdam |
| Dr Xianzhi Cao | Ocean University of China |
| Pedro Alejandro Cermeño | Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC) |
| Prof Nicolas Coltice | Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris |
| Dr John Conolly | EGI Utah |
| Dr Lydia DiCaprio | The University of Calgary |
| Dr Guillaume Duclaux | University of Nice Sophia Antipolis |
| Prof Jörg Ebbing | Kiel University |
| Dr Karsten Gohl | Alfred Wegener Institute |
| Prof Mike Gurnis | Caltech |
| Peter Haas | GEOMAR |
| Prof Vicki Hansen | The University of Minnesota |
| Dr Bilal Haq | Sorbonne University |
| Dr Christian Heine | Shell |
| Prof Kaj Alexander Hoernle | GEOMAR |
| Prof Matthew Huber | The University of New Hampshire |
| Prof Raymond Levy | EGI Utah |
| Dr Lijun Liu | The University of Illinois |
| Peter Lovely | Chevron |
| Dr Nick Mortimer | GNS Science |
| Shanan E. Peters | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Prof Pascal Philippot | IPG Paris |
| Dr Walter Roest | Ifremer |
| Prof David Sandwell | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| A/Prof Howie Scher | The University of South Carolina |
| Dr Grace Shephard | The University of Oslo |
| Dr Judith Sippel | GFGZ Potsdam |
| Dr Jakob Skogseid | Statoil |
| Prof Paul Tackley | ETH Zurich |
| Prof Christian Teyssier | The University of Minnesota |
| Dr Martina Ulvrova | Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon |
| Dr Yatheesh Vadakkeyakath | National Institute of Oceanography |
| Prof Donna Whitney | The University of Minnesota |
Past Honorary Fellows
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Behnam Sadhegi | b.sadeghi@unswalumni.com |
