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An ice-age rainfall seesaw in Australasia

Research published in the journal Nature Communications has revealed that well-known climate oscillations in the Northern Hemisphere appeared as rainfall variations in tropical Australasia around 20,000 years ago.

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Earth Sciences Reunion at AGU in San Francisco 10 December 2013

For the first time, ANU Earth Sciences will hold an Alumni and Friends Reception during the 2013 Fall Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

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Two degree warming too much

The long-term temperature consequences of the Earth warming by 2°C by the year 2100 have been severely underestimated and urgent strategies of emission reduction are needed to reach a more sustainable target.

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Alumna Dr Catherine McCammon reflects on her time at ANU

Reflecting on her extensive research career, ANU Alumna Dr Catherine McCammon recalls her first inspiration to study geophysics. “Since I liked the outdoors, I gravitated to geophysics and looked for a suitable graduate school,” she explains.

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Innovation Challenge Winners

The Australian Seismometers in Schools team has won the Education category of the 2013 Australian Innovation Challenge

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A coral reef in Canberra

Dr Stephen Eggins is looking at how ocean acidity changes the makeup of coral ecosystems. Find out more in his interview with ABC radio.

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Welcome to the Research School of Earth Sciences

Planet Earth is an amazing place - it is constantly moving and its surface is always changing. At the centre of the Earth, temperatures are as high as they are on the surface of the Sun. Over billions of years, this has caused continents to drift apart and oceans to open and close. The study of Earth and marine sciences is fundamental to our understanding of the precious balance of life on Earth and how the Solar System in which we live was formed.

Our focus is on both earth processes and environmental science. The Research School of Earth Sciences has many world leading researchers in the Earth Sciences and offers undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as Higher Degree Research opportunities.

Earth Science profiles

Catherine McCammon

RSES Alumna

"Since I liked the outdoors, I gravitated to geophysics"

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Events

Dec

2013

RSES SEMINAR SERIES: Diffusion and solubilities of some trace elements in olivine

Irina Zhukova (RSES, Earth Materials and Processes)