Congratulations to all our PhD students wo were successful in this round of PGRF (Postgraduate Research Fund) proposals:
Sophia Bratenkov, Mehdi Tork Qashqai, Paul Harvey, Carl Peters, Irina Tretiakova, Daria Czaplinska (Faculty PGRF), Samuel Matthews (Faculty PGRF), Konstantinos Kotzakoulakis (Faculty …
Professor Bill Griffin will be giving a seminar at the Department of Physics and Astronomy entitled
From the Solar Nebula to the Deep Earth
Tuesday 5 May at 1 pm in E7B Theatre 5
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We welcome this week’s speaker in the departmental seminar series:
Professor John Evans, Department of Chemistry, Durham University
“Put Your Trust in Powder: New Methods for Probing Structure-Property Relationships in Materials”
The primary
PhD student, Paul Harvey, will have his research into heavy metal contamination of drinking water in NE tasmania featured in the ABC 7.30 program on Thursday 23rd April. His study has revealed potable water lead levels to be well above …
Prof. Alan G. Jones has been appointed Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University in recognition of his expertise, reputation and demonstrated comitment to excellence in research and education. Prof. Jones is a world-leading specialist in magnetotelluric studies of the lithosphere and …
Four staff members (Dick Flood, Kelsie Dadd, Simon George and Simon Clark) and five research students led a successful fieldtrip to the South Coast of NSW (Kioloa) from 13-17 April 2015 for GEOS206 (56 students). The weather was mostly …
A warm welcome to all new PhD candidates and staff who have started work with us over the past few months:
Dilmi Herath (bivalve shells as paleoclimate proxy archives)
Hadrien Henry (deformation of pyroxenites during subduction)
MD Habibur Rahman (biogeochemistry)…
Our PhD student Sophia is currently in the Arabian Sea on an IODP scientific cruise on board of the JOIDES Resolution. Find out what they are up to and keep in touch with Sophia via the official IODP social media …
Join us for the Department Seminar this Friday 20/3/15 at 1pm in E5A210
Professor Herbert Huppert, University of Cambridge will give a seminar entitled:
“The propagation of gigantic volcanic eruptions into the atmosphere”
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Join us for the Department Seminar this Friday at 1pm in E5A210
CCFS Visiting Researcher Dr Bjarne Almqvist (Uppsala University) will be giving a seminar entitled
Using rock physics to link tectonic deformation and geophysical observations in the Central Scandinavian …