Ben Mather

Post-Doctorate

ben.mather@sydney.edu.au

Phone -ext: 40997

Room 418, Madsen Building F09,
School of Geosciences
The University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW 2006
Australia

Ben joined EarthByte and the Sydney Informatics Hub in  2018. Ben has a background in geophysics with a particular focus on integrating geophysical and geochemical observations with numerical solid Earth evolution models to constrain crustal evolution. Currently, Ben is developing numerical simulations of erosion and depositional processes, fluid flow, and geodynamic evolution that can scale to large computing infrastructures. A firm supporter of open source software, many of Ben’s projects are available on GitHub.

See below for EarthByte content related to Ben.

Automated Detection of Mineralization-Related Craton Structures Using Geophysical Data and Unsupervised Machine Learning

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Internal structures and discontinuities within cratons are economically significant due to their history of tectonic reactivation from varying intraplate stress fields, which open pathways for fluid flow and facilitate mineral deposition. However, the complex overprinting tectonic processes that make cratons prospective can also lead to uncertainty regarding their internal geometries. To address this, we take … Read more…

Craton boundary detection from full-waveform tomography model reveals links to critical metal deposits

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Craton margins play a crucial role in mineral exploration as they host faults, fractures, and shear zones that facilitate hydrothermal fluid movement, transporting and depositing dissolved metals into valuable mineral deposits. We use the high-resolution full-waveform seismic inversion model REVEAL to extract horizontal shear wave velocity (VSH), vertical shear wave velocity (VSV), and isotropic P-wave … Read more…

STELLAR – Spatio TEmporaL expLorAtion for Resources

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Project STELLAR (Spatio TEmporaL expLorAtion for Resources) is a collaboration between BHP and the EarthByte Group aimed at implementing big and complex spatio-temporal data analysis and modelling to support the needs of BHP in global resource exploration. Split into multiple phases over the next 3.5 years, the project will connect BHP’s warehouse of global resource knowledge with … Read more…

ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF NEW GPLATES WEBSITE

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We are very excited to announce the launch of the newly designed GPlates website. Visit the new website at www.gplates.org. After a few months of team work and dedication, we have made the new GPlates website more responsive and more mobile-friendly. As the development team of the GPlates open source project, our goal with this … Read more…

Intraplate volcanism triggered by bursts in slab flux

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Long-lived, widespread intraplate volcanism without age progression is one of the most controversial features of plate tectonics. Previously proposed edge-driven convection, asthenospheric shear, and lithospheric detachment fail to explain the ~5000-km-wide intraplate volcanic province from eastern Australia to Zealandia. We model the subducted slab volume over 100 million years and find that slab flux drives … Read more…

PhD Scholarship in Spatio-Temporal Data Mining for Mineral Exploration

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Postgraduate research scholarship at the EarthByte Group Up to $105,000 stipend scholarship to support a PhD student to research spatio-temporal data mining for mineral exploration. Highlights Value Eligibility Open date Closing date $35,000 pa (for up to 3 years) Full-time PhD student at the School of Geosciences Hold an honours or master’s degree 1 September 2020 … Read more…

EarthByte and the Basin GENESIS Hub welcome Dr Ben Mather

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EarthByte and the Basin GENESIS Hub welcome Dr Ben Mather who started last week as a postdoc working on Badlands-Underworld integration, landscape evolution modelling of the Sydney Basin, and implementing new groundwater flow capabilities in Underworld. Ben will be with the team until the end of 2020. Welcome to the EarthByte and the Basin GENESIS Hub, Ben! … Read more…