Research School of Earth Sciences

Winds warm up the West Antarctic, driving ice loss

New research has revealed how strengthening winds on the opposite side of Antarctica, up to 6000kms away, drive the high rate of ice melt along the West Antarctic Peninsula.

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Help Earth Scientists make a brighter future for us all

The Earth Sciences Future Fund has created many opportunities for students and researchers to contribute to the global community.

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Help Earth Scientists make a brighter future for us all

RJL Hawke fellowship awarded to Bishakhdatta Gayen

The prestigious fellowship from the Australian Antarctic Science Program will allow Bishakhdatta to the processes causing subsurface melting of Antarctic ice shelves.

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Exploring for the Future – the minerals-related components

Join us on 18th July for this GSA seminar by Dr. Richard Blewett

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Vale Ken (Kenton SW) Campbell

It is with great sadness the School remembers Professor Kenton S W Campbell (Ken) who died on 17 June 2017 following a stroke.

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Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef

Dr Jennie Mallela and Dr Sophie Lewis have combined biological data with climate data to provide a clearer understanding of what has coral bleaching on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

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Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef

2017 Jaeger-Hales lecture: From water molecules to climate, making sense of Greenland and Antarctic ice core records

Join us on 20th July for the 2017 Jaeger-Hales lecture delivered by Dr Valérie Masson-Delmotte

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The three-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail

Here’s a short video we made, to put recent climate change and carbon dioxide emissions into the context of the past 800,000 years

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Why reducing our carbon emissions matters (a little story about climate change)

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.