The EarthByte Group was established within the School of Geosciences in 2002. Since then, the group has expanded to include 10 full-time academic staff members, 2 full-time software developers and administration support staff member. There are currently 14 postgraduate students and 6 honours students. A number of undergraduates also work as research assistants with the group.
The team is led by Prof Dietmar Müller and Associate Prof Patrice Rey. The EarthByte group has a strong collaborative research base, both nationally and internationally. Research collaborations include over 30 researchers from Asia, Oceania, Europe and North America, and two overseas software developers.
Group Coordinators
Academic Staff and Research Fellows
Centre of Translational Data Science and Sydney Informatics Hub Collaborators
PhD/Masters Candidates
Honours and Graduate Diploma Students 2020
Honours and Graduate Diploma Students 2019
Honours and Graduate Diploma Students 2018
Past Honours Students
Past PhD Students
| Name |
Organisation |
Year started |
Year completed |
|---|
| Dona Mihut |
MOQdigital |
1991 |
1995 |
| Carmen Gaina |
Univ. Oslo |
1995 |
1998 |
| Alexander Kritski |
Statoil |
1996 |
2001 |
| Jason Zhao |
Geoscience Australia |
1999 |
2002 |
| Craig O’Neill |
Macquarie Univ. |
2001 |
2004 |
| Tara Deen |
CSIRO |
2000 |
2005 |
| Belinda Brown |
NSW Govt. |
2000 |
2005 |
| Maria Seton |
Univ. Sydney |
2001 |
2005 |
| Scott Dyksterhuis |
ExxonMobil |
2003 |
2006 |
| Stuart Clark |
UNSW |
2002 |
2007 |
| Christian Heine |
Shell |
2003 |
2007 |
| Joanne Whittaker |
Univ. Tasmania |
2005 |
2008 |
| Lydia DiCaprio |
Univ. Calgary |
2005 |
2009 |
| Nicholas Herold |
Policy officer and climate scientist- NSW State |
2007 |
2011 |
| Ana Gibbons |
Senior Researcher- formerly at Statoil ASA (Norway) |
2008 |
2012 |
| Kara Matthews |
Earth and Data Scientist Calgary |
2010 |
2013 |
| Nathan Butterworth |
Univ. Sydney |
2010 |
2014 |
| Grace Shephard |
Univ. Oslo |
2010 |
2014 |
| Sabin Zahirovic |
Univ. Sydney |
2011 |
2014 |
| Judy Herold |
AECOM |
2007 |
2015 |
| Michael Rubey |
Unknown |
2011 |
2015 |
| Maral Hosseinpour |
Unknown |
2011 |
2015 |
| Nicholas Barnett-Moore |
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2013 |
2016 |
| Rakib Hassan |
Geoscience Australia |
2013 |
2016 |
| Andrew Merdith |
University of Lyon |
2014 |
2017 |
| Nicky Wright |
ANU |
2014 |
2017 |
| Sarah MacLeod |
|
2013 |
2018 |
Wenchao Cao |
United Nations Environment Branch (Montreal) |
2015 |
2018 |
| Michael Tetley |
Uni Lyon |
2014 |
2018 |
| Maelis Arnould |
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2019 |
Xuesong Ding |
UCLA |
2015 |
2019 |
| Amy I'Anson |
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| Luke Mondy |
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| Amanda Thran |
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| Ömer Bodur |
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| Rhiannon Garrett |
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Summer Scholarship Students 2018
Summer Scholarship Students 2017
Research Assistants
Past Research Assistants
| Name |
Email |
|---|
| 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 |
Current Visiting Scientists
| Name |
Organisation |
|---|
| N/A |
N/A |
Past Visiting Scientists
Visiting Overseas Students
Past Visiting Overseas Students
Past Visiting Students
| Name |
Organisation |
|---|
| Li Wan |
The University of Queensland |
Software Developers
Past EarthByte Technical Staff and Research Fellows
| Name |
Position |
Employer |
|---|
| 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 |
| James Clark |
software developer |
Domain.com.au |
| Scott Dyksterhuis |
Geoscientist |
ExxonMobil |
| Nicolas Flament |
Lecturer |
Univ. Wollongong |
| Carmen Gaina |
Professor |
Univ. Oslo |
| Dr Rakib Hassan |
|
Geoscience Australia |
| Christian Heine |
Senior Geodynamicist |
Shell |
| Ian Howson |
Senior Embedded Software Engineer |
NVIDIA |
| Hamish Ivey-Law |
CSIRO Data61 |
| Kara Matthews |
Information Analyst |
Arctic Institute of North America |
| Kayla Maloney |
Data Analyst |
Univ. Sydney |
| Thomas Landgrebe |
Image Processing and Vision Systems Engineer |
ICM |
| Gabriele Morra |
Assistant Professor |
University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| Leonardo Quevedo |
Product Development Manager |
CGG |
| Joanne Whittaker |
Senior Lecturer |
Univ. of Tasmania |
Honoraries
Australian Collaborators
Overseas Collaborators
Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) Collaborators
| Name |
Organisation |
|---|
| Sascha Brune |
GFZ Potsdam |
| Artur Ionescu |
Babes-Bolyai University |
| Lotta Purkamo |
University of St Andrews |
| Mattia Pistone |
University of Lausanne |
| Micha Ruhl |
University of Oxford |
| Benjamin Tutolo |
University of Calgary |
| Tobias Keller |
University of Stanford |
| Jody Webster |
University of Sydney |
| Nicky Wright |
Australian National University |
| Robert Hazen |
Carnegie Institution for Science |
| Shaunna Morrison |
Carnegie Institution for Science |
| Chao Liu |
Carnegie Institution for Science |
| Simone Runyon |
Carnegie Institution for Science |
| Donato Giovannelli |
Rutgers University |
| Will Leavitt |
Dartmouth College |
| Marshall Bowles |
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium |
| Ery Hughes |
University of Bristol |
| Emily Mason |
University of Cambridge |
| Rhodri Davies |
Australian National University |
