Probing Earth's Deep Structure

By digging a hole around half a metre deep, Dr Nick Rawlinson can peer down and figure out the nature of the Earth below to a depth of around 300 km! Well, maybe that's oversimplifying things.

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Sticking to the Stars

Modern astronomers believe that stars are born in the dense cores of molecular clouds, which are essentially regions of space with relatively high density gas and dust, such as those in the famous Orion nebula.

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Scientists sign up for secrets of the seas

Australian scientists are better placed to discover the secrets of the seas after Australia and New Zealand signed up to the world's largest ocean research program - The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).

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Gogo Fish Rewrites Evolutionary History

The Gogo formation in the Kimberley region of Western Australia presents a unique snapshot of an ancient tropical reef that existed back in the Devonian Period some 370 million years ago.

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RSES Seismic Stations

RSES installs and monitors seismic stations in the Australian Antarctic Territory that enable researchers to learn about the continent deep beneath the ice using energy from distant earthquakes.

Southern Lake Eyre

The sand here contains abundant eggshell fragments of the extinct giant bird Genyorinis newtoni, which has been dated by RSES researchers at about 50,000 years ago using OSL and AAR methods.

Giant Porites Corals

These giant Porites corals located on the northwest coast of the island of Nias, Sumatra, have been uplifted more than two metres by the force of the magnitude 8.7 earthquake that occurred there in March 2005.

RSES Seismic Deployments on Google Maps

The RSES Seismology group has been leading Australian field seismology since the 1990s and has gained impressive coverage of the continent at unprecedented resolution in some areas.

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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 Postgraduate Courses, as well as Higher Degree Research opportunities.

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Earth Science profiles

Dr. Michael Ellwood

Research Fellow

Geo-engineering of the ocean could have big side-effects, scientist warns

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