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
Centre of Translational Data Science and Sydney Informatics Hub Collaborators
Name
Email
Prof Sally Cripps
sally.cripps@sydney.edu.au
Dr Rohitash Chandra
rohitash.chandra@sydney.edu.au
Madhura Killedar
madhura.killedar@sydney.edu.au
Alexander Judge
alexander.judge@sydney.edu.au
Richard Scalzo
richard.scalzo@sydney.edu.au
Nathaniel Butterworth
nathaniel.butterworth@sydney.edu.au
David Kohn
david.kohn@sydney.edu.au
Sebastian Haan
sebastian.haan@sydney.edu.au
PhD/Masters Candidates
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 Andrew Merdith University of Lyon 2014 2017 Hassan Rakib Geoscience Australia 2013 2016 Sarah McLeod 2013 2018 Nicholas Barnett-Moore 2013 2016
Summer Scholarship Students 2018
Name
Email
Christopher Peter Alfonso
calf6244@uni.sydney.edu.au
Sioned Vaughan
svau8875@uni.sydney.edu.au
Summer Scholarship Students 2017
Research Assistants
Current Visiting Scientists
Name
Organisation
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
Visiting Overseas Students
Name
Email
Hongjun Hui
hhdhf@mail.missouri.edu
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
Past Visiting Students
Name
Organisation
Li Wan
The University of Queensland
Software Developers
Name
Email
John Cannon
john.cannon@sydney.edu.au
Michael Chin
michael.chin@sydney.edu.au
Danial Azam
maza4291@uni.sydney.edu.au
Özgür Çekmer
ozgur.cekmar@sydney.edu.au
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
Name
Organisation
Dr Juan-Carlos Afonso
Macquarie 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
Dr Des Fitzgerald
Intrepid Geophysics
Dr Nicolas Flament
University of Wollongong
Dr Alexey Goncharov
Geoscience Australia
Dr Stephen Hardy
Data61/CSIRO
Dr Rakib Hassan
Geoscience Australia
Dr Andy Hogg
Australian National University
Dr Thomas Landgrebe
Image Processing and Vision Systems
Dr Kayla Maloney
The University of Sydney
Prof Louis Moresi
The University of Melbourne
Dr Simon O'Callaghan
Data61/CSIRO
Dr Tim Rawling
The University of Melbourne
Dr Paul Spence
The University of New South Wales
Dr Daniel Steinberg
Data61/CSIRO
Dr Joanne Whittaker
The University of Tasmania
Prof Simon George
Macquarie University
Overseas Collaborators
Name
Orgnaisation
Dr Dan Bower
ETH Zurich
Dr Sascha Brune
GFZ Potsdam
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
Dr Karsten Gohl
Alfred Wegener Institute
Prof Mike Gurnis
Caltech
Prof Vicki Hansen
The University of Minnesota
Dr Christian Heine
Shell
Prof Kaj 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
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 Jakob Skogseid
Statoil
Prof Paul Tackley
ETH Zurich
Prof Christian Teyssier
The University of Minnesota
Dr Yatheesh Vadakkeyakath
National Institute of Oceanography
Prof Paul Wessel
The University of Hawaii
Prof Donna Whitney
The University of Minnesota
Dr Martina Ulvrova
Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon
Dr Judith Sippel
GFGZ Potsdam
Dr Nick Mortimer
GNS Science
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
Rohitash Chandra
Centre for Translational Data Science
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
