Research projects
Below we list current research topics in RSES, with links to relevant researchers, supervisors and research groups.
Visit the research groups for broader information: Research Groups.
Displaying 76 - 90 of 103 project(s).
Can physically based surface-water models improve early warning of hydrological hazards?
How did deep-Earth processes shape mineral systems along eastern Australia?
Is the grain boundary and interstitial component (GBIC) a significant repository for volatile elements and other incompatible trace elements?
The rocks of the Sydney Basin and Lachlan Fold Belt exposed along the south coast of NSW contain numerous basaltic (basalt and dolerite) intrusions (e.g. Bingie Bingie Point, Dolphin Point, Snake Bay, Long Reef, North Bondi). The ages of these dykes and sills are unknown, however, they are assumed to be Tertiary...
The Australian Seismometers in Schools project (AuSIS) is an outreach program to install 50 research quality broadband seismometers in Australian Schools. The goal of the program is to raise awareness of geoscience through observing our dynamic earth in motion. Students are required to look after their own...
People
- Associate Professor David Heslop, Researcher
- Dr Sima Mousavi, Supervisor
- Professor Malcolm Sambridge, Principal investigator
Lake Tyrrell is a large salt lake in outback Australia . We aim to make the lake one of the most completely understood hypersaline ecosystems in the world. To achieve this, we are combining environmental genomics where the genome of all predominant microorganism in the lake water are sequenced (>1 billion base...
The carbonate geology of the critical metal niobium
Group
People
- Dr Laura Miller, Researcher
- Professor Andrew Berry, Researcher
- Professor Greg Yaxley, Principal investigator
The ocean-atmosphere interface is a highly complex and extremely important part of the climate system. The dynamics and thermodynamics of the sea surface govern fluxes of heat, momentum and CO2 between the atmosphere.
Group
People
- Dr Callum Shakespeare, Principal investigator
- Dr Kial Stewart, Researcher
- Professor Michael Roderick, Principal investigator
The Earth’s inner core is a planet within a planet: a hot sphere with a mass of one hundred quintillion tons of iron and nickel that lies about 5150 kilometres beneath our feet, still waiting to be discovered. Modern global seismology serves as an inverted telescope with which we can probe the Earth's deepest shell.
Understanding present-day melting patterns of polar ice caps and the contribution to present-day sea level variations requires first unravelling the puzzle of how the continents are still adjusting after the melting that has occurred since the Last Glacial Maximum around 10,000 years ago. This is a complicated...
Many carbonatites contain the mineral magnetite. This project aims to understand its formation using high pressure experimental and detailed mineralogical studies of natural samples.
New analytical techniques, developed to analyse the platinum group elements (PGEs) at the ultra low levels in which they are found in granitic rocks, allow us to make the first reliable analyses of the PGEs in these rocks. The aim of this fundamental research is to identify the timing of, and understand the causes...
The project aims to develop a comprehensive mineral system conceptual model for supergene ennrichment of the critical metal niobium in carbonatites. This will inform future mineral exploration strategies worldwide.
Understanding present-day melting patterns of polar ice caps and the contribution to present-day sea level variations requires first unravelling the puzzle of how the continents are still adjusting after the melting that has occurred since the Last Glacial Maximum around 10,000 years ago. This is a complicated...
Reading the Shark Bar-code: Sclerochronology of elasmobranch vertebrae through in-situ elemental and isotopic techniques.
