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Find out about the latest news, announcements and stories about earth sciences at ANU.
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor David Green on 6 September 2024.
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A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometres beneath our feet within Earth’s liquid core has been discovered by ANU scientists, providing new clues about the dynamics of our planet’s magnetic field.
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More than 100 years on from Queensland's largest earthquake, researchers are re-writing history having discovered the epicentre was more than 250 kilometres away from where they thought it was.
- Research story
A newly published study in the international Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research offers an alternative mechanism that triggered the 15 January 2022 Hunga (Tonga) eruption, proposing the powerful eruption was caused by a gas-driven climactic explosion rather than a phreatomagmatic one - where magma and water react violently through the water column.
- Analysis and opinion
This new research uses gravity-sensing satellites to track how changes in water storage on land can cause unexpected fluctuations in sea levels.
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A number of talented ANU researchers have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science.
- Analysis and opinion
Earth’s inner core holds the secrets to the planet’s past. But how can scientists analyse something that's impossible to see from the surface?
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Scientists from ANU and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago.
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Professor Cox has demonstrated a consistent commitment to sharing his knowledge via undergraduate teaching, training research students, and providing training courses for minerals industry geoscientists, both nationally and internationally.