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20 May 2014
Australian Seismometers in Schools allows students to watch and monitor distant earthquakes in the classroom.
20 May 2014
New research linking deep-sea temperature and ice-volume has revealed how ice ages can come about, with Dr Gavin Foster from the Ocean and Earth Science...
14 Feb 2014
Reflecting on her extensive research career, ANU Alumna Dr Catherine McCammon recalls her first inspiration to study geophysics.
25 Nov 2013
Andrew Hogg, of the Research School of Earth Sciences, has discovered that a temperature gradient across the Southern Ocean, combined with the Earth’s spin,...
25 Nov 2013
Scientists at the Australian National University have used the radiocarbon method to date lungfish scales in work critical to the conservation of the “living...
25 Nov 2013
"Until I got to university, I didn’t know what area of science I wanted to specialise in, I just knew that I loved science," explains Nerilie Abram...
25 Nov 2013
Michael Ellwood, a geochemist at the Research School of Earth Sciences, says methods proposed to use iron to stimulate the growth of phytoplankton, the ocean’s...
21 Nov 2013
Australian National University scientist Mallory Young, of the Research School of Earth Sciences, is investigating the use of these vibrations as a way to...
21 Nov 2013
The experience of doing a PhD at RSES has been fully immersive. I have completed every aspect of my research project in-house using RSES resources. Sample...
21 Nov 2013
When Weidong commenced his PhD at RSES he identified that the behaviour of Rhenium was not very well understood.
21 Nov 2013
I graduated at the bottom of the mid 1970’s mining boom and after a year of pushing to launch a career in geology, during which I worked on the 25th ...
21 Nov 2013
At the Fall Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in December 2012, David Simpson was one of three former staff and students of the School to...