RSES - ANU

Copper-Gold deposits linked to gas-solid reactions and salts

The research is part of a series of new international studies on how copper forms, published in Nature Geoscience

Turning up the heat in the world’s oceans

A comprehensive synthesis of marine palaeoclimate records has revealed how tropical ocean temperatures evolved over the past four centuries.

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Field trip to Paradise - One Tree Island

Starting the year with a field trip is a great introduction to studying Earth Sciences. Students traveled to One Tree Island in the Great Barrier Reef in order to study a unique and complex ecosystem.

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How copper forms around volcanoes

RSES scientists have discovered how copper ore forms around volcanoes.

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Carbon release from ocean helped end ice age

Scientists have found a release of carbon dioxide stored deep in the ocean helped warm the planet and bring it out of the last ice age.

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Evidence from warm past confirms IPCC estimates of climate sensitivity

Scientists have for the first time constructed a detailed record of carbon dioxide fluctuations from the Pliocene epoch, around three million years ago, when the Earth was most recently warmer than today.

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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 and offers undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as Higher Degree Research opportunities.