Research projects
Below we list current research topics in RSES, with links to relevant researchers, supervisors and research groups.
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Displaying 16 - 30 of 103 project(s).
Congested subduction happens whenever buoyant material such as an oceanic plateau gets caught up on a moving plate and eventually arrives at a subduction zone. The buoyant material may be scraped off or subducted, but it always puts up a fight which leaves characteristic scars on the over-riding plate.
Group
People
- Professor Louis Moresi, Principal investigator
- Professor Meghan S. Miller, Collaborator
Planetary cores govern magnetic fields, thermal evolution, and habitability, yet remain among the least understood regions of any world. By pushing seismic imaging to the limits, this program interrogates planetary cores at unprecedented resolution across Earth, the Moon, Mars, and icy moons.
How can we make large mantle inversions faster, more reliable, and scientifically useful?
Group
People
- Dr Sia Ghelichkhan, Supervisor
- Professor Rhodri Davies, Supervisor
- Riik Basu, Student researcher
The objective of this ARC Linkage project with Geoscience Australia and GSWA is to provide a compilation of 3-D models of the crustal and lithospheric structure from new broadband data obtained with deployment of 25 seismometers in Southwest WA.
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People
- Dr Ping Zhang, Researcher
- Dr Robert Pickle, Researcher
- Professor Brian L. N. Kennett, Collaborator
- Professor Meghan S. Miller, Supervisor
Understanding the formation of silica-enriched cratonic lithospheric mantle using high pressure experimental approaches.
Experimental petrology is about subjecting rocks and minerals to pressure, temperature and other conditions that occur in the Earth, in order to investigate and understand processes that lead to diverse processes including volcanism, plate tectonics, ore deposit formation, differentiation of the Earth and many others.
Use physical experiments in the Climate & Fluid Physics Laboratory to further our understanding of Earth's climate system.
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People
- Dr Callum Shakespeare, Principal investigator
- Dr Kial Stewart, Principal investigator
- Dr Nicola Maher, Principal investigator
- Mr Angus Rummery, Technician
- Professor Michael Roderick, Collaborator
- Professor Ross Griffiths FAA, Collaborator
ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship
Increasing anthropogenic impacts on the global water cycle are threatening fresh-
water environments such as wetlands. Monitoring the extent, depth and frequency of inundation within these environments is therefore critical for maintaining the ecological, social and economic value they provide.
How does buoyant mantle flow create the topographic swells around hotspots?
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People
- Dr Mark Hoggard, Supervisor
- Dr Sia Ghelichkhan, Supervisor
- Haining Chang, Student researcher
- Professor Rhodri Davies, Supervisor
Which deep-Earth processes create fertile mineral-forming environments?
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People
- Dr Grace Shephard, Supervisor
- Dr Mark Hoggard, Supervisor
- Dr Sia Ghelichkhan, Supervisor
- Professor Rhodri Davies, Supervisor
The Himalaya are the world’s largest mountain belt formed in response to Cenozoic collision of the Indian continent & the Eurasian plate. This project assesses uplift history of the Himalaya, its erosional landscape response, & the preservation potential of critical mineral systems in this region.
Magnetotactic bacteria biomineralise magnetic nanoparticles. They are ubiquitous in aquatic environments, so their inorganic remains (magnetofossils) should give rise to sedimentary palaeomagnetic signals. Ancient magnetofossil identifications were sparse until new techniques recently demonstrated their extensive...
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People
- Associate Professor David Heslop, Researcher
- Professor Andrew P Roberts, Principal investigator
Revising the chlorite geothermometer to understand the formation mechanisms of ore deposits
How does Earth's viscoelastic response to ice loss alter future regional sea-level change?
Group
People
- Dr Mark Hoggard, Supervisor
- Dr Sia Ghelichkhan, Supervisor
- Professor Rhodri Davies, Supervisor
- William Scott, Supervisor
