Hon. Assoc. Prof. Robert Burne

Contacts
March 2018 - Present
Guest Professor
Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China
Department of Sedimentology and Hydrocarbon Accumulation,
March 2018 - Present
Honorary Associate Professor
Australian National University
Research School of Earth Sciences
Jan 2015 - present
Honorary Profesor
The University of Queensland
School of Earth Sciences
Dec 2014 - Dec. 2015
Guest Professor
Chongqing University, PRC
Centre for Modern Physics
Jan 1998 - February 2018
Visiting Fellow
The Australian National University,
Research School of Earth Sciences
Jan 1994 – Dec 1998
Visiting Fellow
The Australian National University
Department of Earth & Marine Science
Aug 1994- Jan1997
Visiting Fellow
The Australian National University
Department of Geology
August 1991 - January 1997
Senior Research Fellow (Adjunct)
The Australian National University,
Department of Biogeography & Geomorphology, RSPacS 1994-1997,
Dec 1990 – Dec 1996
Principal Research Scientist
Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Environmental Geoscience
Australia
Jan 1988 – Dec 1990
Principal Research Scientist
Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology & Geophysics, Groundwater Programme
Australia
Aug 1986 – Sep 1989
Project Leader
IGCP, 261, “Stromatolites”
Oct 1982 – Jan 1984
Marine Geologist
United Nations Development Programme, CCOP/SOPAC,
Fiji
Jan 1978 – Dec 1987
Principal Research Scientist
Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology & Geophysics,
Baas Becking Geobiological Research Laboratory,
Australia
Jun 1974 – Dec 1977
Senior Research Scientist
Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology & Geophysics, Petroleum Exploration Branch.
Australia
Jan 1974 – Jun 1974
Senior Research Fellow
University of Oxford, Department of Geology and Mineralogy,
Oxford, United Kingdom
Dec 1969 – Dec 1973
Lecturer
The University of the West Indies at Mona, Department of Geography and Geology
Kingston, Jamaica
Research interests
Microbialites, Geobiology, Facies Analysis, Coastal Geoscience, Turbidites and Gravity Flow Deposits
Groups
- Visitor and affiliate, Biogeochemistry
- Visitor and affiliate, Palaeoenvironments
A downloadable archive of my publications can be found at – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Burne
Citation statistics for my publications can be found at – http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=14atOhwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Selected Publications
- Chagas, A.A., Webb, G.E., Burne, R.V. and Southam, G., 2016. Modern lacustrine microbialites: Towards a synthesis of aqueous and carbonate geochemistry and mineralogy. Earth-Science Reviews, 162, pp.338-363.
- Burne, R.V., 2016. The Role and Significance of Authigenic Magnesium Silicates in the Organomineralisation of Microbialites in the Yalgorup Lakes, Western Australia. M.Phil. Thesis, ANU Open Access Theses, http://hdl.handle.net/1885/107317
- Burne, R.V., Moore, L.S., Christy, A.G., Troitzsch, U., King, P.L., Carnerup, A.M. and Hamilton, P.J., 2014. Stevensite in the modern thrombolites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia: A missing link in microbialite mineralization?. Geology, 42(7), pp.575-578.
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Burne, R. V., & Johnson, K. (2012). Sea-level variation and the zonation of microbialites in Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Western Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 63(11), 994-1004.
- Burne, R.V., Eade, C.J. Paul, J., (2012). The Natural History of Ooliths: Franz Ernst Brückmann’s Treatise of 1721 and its Significance for the Understanding of Oolites. Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften. v. 34, pp. 93-114.
- Batchelor, M. T., Burne, R. V., Henry, B. I., & Slatyer, T. (2005). Statistical physics and stromatolite growth: new perspectives on an ancient dilemma. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 350(1), 6-11.
- Batchelor, M. T., Burne, R. V., Henry, B. I., & Watt, S. D. (2003). Mathematical and image analysis of stromatolite morphogenesis. Mathematical geology, 35(7), 789-803.
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Burne, R. V., & Parvey, C. A. (2002). Marine geography and the benthic habitat: Domains of the Australian Ocean Territory. Marine geography: GIS for the oceans and seas, 127-36.
- Burne, R.V. , (1995). The Return of ‘The Fan That Never Was’: Westphalian Turbidite Systems in the Variscan Culm Basin: Bude Formation (Southwest England). Sedimentary Facies Analysis: A Tribute to the Research and Teaching of Harold G. Reading, pages 101 - 135; , ISBN: 9781444304091
- Moore, L. S., & Burne, R. V. (1994). The modern thrombolites of Lake Clifton, western Australia. In Phanerozoic stromatolites II (pp. 3-29). Springer Netherlands.
- Burne, R. V., & Moore, L. S. (1993). Microatoll microbialites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia: Morphological analogues ofCryptozoön proliferum Hall, the first formally-named stromatolite. Facies, 29(1), 149-168.
- Bierwirth, P. N., Lee, T. J., & Burne, R. V. (1993). Shallow sea-floor reflectance and water depth derived by unmixing multispectral imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 59(3), 331-338.
- Burne, R.V., Collot, J-Y. and Daniel, J., (1988). Superficial structures and stress regimes of the downgoing plate associated with subduction-collision in the central New Hebrides (Vanuatu). In Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs - Vanuatu region. Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources Earth Science Series, AAPG, Houston, Texas, USA. Pages 357 - 376;
- Burne, R.V. and Moore, L.S., (1987).Microbialites; organosedimentary deposits of benthic microbial communities. Palaios, v. 2(3), pp. 241-254.
- Collot, J. Y., Daniel, J., & Burne, R. V. (1985). Recent tectonics associated with the subduction/collision of the D'Entrecasteaux zone in the central New Hebrides. Tectonophysics, 112(1), 325-356.
- Burne, R.V. and Colwell, J.B., (1982). Temperate carbonate sediments of Northern Spencer Gulf, South Australia: a high salinity ‘foramol’ province. Sedimentology, v. 29(2) pp. 223 - 238.
- Burne, R.V., Bauld, J. and De Deckker:, P., (1980). Saline lake charophytes and their geological significance. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology. v. 50(1), pp. 281-293.
- Burne, R. V. (1970). The origin and significance of sand volcanoes in the Bude Formation (Cornwall). Sedimentology, 15(3‐4), 211-228.
- Ziegler, A. M., McKerrow, W. S., Burne, R. V., & Baker, P. E. (1969). Correlation and environmental setting of the Skomer Volcanic Group, Pembrokeshire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 80(4), 409-439.