Research School of Earth Sciences

The great oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere revisited

To understand when, how, and how quickly oxygen has become a component of our atmosphere between about 2.5 and 2.2 billion years ago, an international research team involving RSES-ANU has studied the systematics of the...

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The role of convection on the basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves

Melting of Antarctic ice shelves has a large impact on ocean circulation, future sea level rise and the global climate.

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New satellites with ANU laser technology launched into space

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have helped design new satellite instruments that are part of a joint NASA and German mission launched into space today to study changes in water levels on Eart

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ANU laser technology launched into space

Negative Emissions Conference 2018

Registrations are now open for the Negative Emissions Conference 2018 to be held at the Shine Dome on 30th and 31st October 2018.

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New research rewrites Southern Ocean mixing calculations

World-first modelling research– which used several million CPU hours in Australia’s fastest supercomputer, Raijin, and ran calculations non-stop for over a year – has revealed the Southern Ocean mixes water between th

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RSES-based research wins Best Paper Award from the Organic Geochemistry Division of the Geochemical Society

As part of a larger collaborative effort (ANU, MIT, MPI and others) with work largely performed at RSES, French et al.

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Unearthed Newsletter - Summer 2018

The Summer 2018 Unearthed newsletter is now out!

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Buckingham Palace built with mineralised microbes from the Jurassic period

A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found that the building blocks of Buckingham Palace in London and many other iconic buildings were made by microbes that lived up to 200 million years ag

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Welcome to the Research School of Earth Sciences

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.