Geophysics William Edward (Will) Featherstone Professor Will Featherstone passed away on 13 May 2022 in Perth after a brief illness. He was 54 at the time he died but he had behind him a thirty year research and teaching track record and over twenty years as full Professor in Geodesy.
Geophysics Victorian Earthquake Round-up Last week's Woods Point earthquake in Victoria was a quite a surprise for most Australians outside the geophysical community and even among Earth scientists, an event of this magnitude was unexpected.
Geophysics Australian Seismometers in Schools - Noise monitoring dashboard How we built a simple dashboard using Github actions with open source software and openly available (FAIR) data.
Education Lava Lamps & Thermochemical Convection Hands-on experiments explore the details of thermochemical convection. Build your own Lava Lamp and learn why the continents don't get sucked down into the deep Earth.
News Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards in Geoscience, 2022 ARC Chief Executive Officer, Professor Sue Thomas, has welcomed the approval by the Minister for Education and Youth, the Hon Alan Tudge MP of $83 million in funding through the ARC’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme.
Geology Metals for an Electrifying Future The transition to a low-carbon / below-zero-emissions future presents many challenges for the industries "behind the scenes" that provide the raw materials for the innovative technical solutions that will become a part of our everyday lives.
News Australian Research Council Future Fellowships 2021 One hundred researchers will receive Australian Government funding to focus on finding solutions for key industry challenges and training the next generation of researchers under the ARC Future Fellowships scheme.
Geophysics Probing the Australian-Pacific Plate Boundary: Macquarie Ridge in 3D (Updated) A team of Australian researchers are about to set off on a landmark voyage to discover more about the Earth beneath our oceans, and what triggers underwater earthquakes. Read live updates of the cruise as they go — both personal reflections and scientific background to the cruise.
Editorial Australian Earth Science facing a very uncertain future (updated) Earth Science - everyone should know a little, but it is also important for Australia to have access to deep expertise.
Geology Earth science on a quest for critical metals Rare Earth Elements are critical for low-carbon transport and energy generation. What are they, how do we find them and extract them ?
Opinion A decadal vision, a decade later Research in the Earth Science faces an extremely uncertain future in Australian Universities. The financial shock of 2020 has turned into an existential crisis for Earth Science departments across the country.
Geodynamics How is 'social distancing' maintained between strike-slip faults? Haibin Yang, Louis Moresi and Mark Quigley provide a scaling relationship for the fault spacing in continental strike-slip shear zones.
Geodynamics On the destructive tendencies of cratons Katie Cooper, Rebecca Farrington and Meghan Miller explain how cratonic lithosphere can be sculpted by flow from a passing subducting slab.
Geophysics Rocky icebergs and deep anchors – new research on how planetary forces shape the Earth’s surface A recent article in The Conversation by Simon Lamb from Victoria University of Wellington "uncovers the fundamental forces that control the Earth’s surface". They use Crust 1.0, ETOPO1, and the McKenzie and Priestley lithosphere model to compute their "Whole Layer Isostasy" model.
Publications COVID lockdowns and seismic noise in Australia A new study by an international team of scientists has found lockdown measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 led to a 50 per cent…
Seismology Australian cities are quiet during lockdown. Earthquake scientists are making the most of it Meghan S. Miller, Australian National University and Louis Moresi, Australian National University
Seminars, talks and conferences Research School of Earth Sciences Seminars Online The ANU Research School of Earth Sciences is moving all seminars online for the duration of the corona virus emergency
Publications JOSS publication — Underworld 2 A new paper by John Mansour and others has just been published in the Journal of Open Source Software.
Publications Turning up the heat on Earth temperature modelling — AuScope Modelling temperature in the Earth’s crust is accomplished by populating a geological model with thermal properties, such as thermal…
Publications Alaska Moho Model (Reproducible research with containers) Making your research reproducible means that you provide the entire workflow from data, through software and post-processing freely…
Underworld is on Zenodo Zenodo is a repository for immutable versions of software that are provided with a persistent DOI for the purposes of citation and…
Publications Craton Formation and the Onset of Plate Tectonics Cratons are anomalously-strong regions of the continents that have largely resisted tectonic forces for billions of years. How such strong…
Publications The Dynamics of Continental Accretion In a recent paper [1], we used Underworld models to examine subduction congestion associated with the ingestion of a continental ribbon…
