Hon. Assoc. Prof. Robert Burne

B.Sc. Honours Geology, 1966 (Wales), D.Phil. Sedimentology, 1969 (Oxon), M,Phil. Geobiology. 2016 (ANU)
Honorary Assoc. Prof. (The Australian National University)
Honorary Professor (University of Queensland)

 

March 2018 - Present

Guest Professor

Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China

Department of Sedimentology and Hydrocarbon Accumulation,

 

March 2018 - Present

Honorary Associate  Professor

Australian National University

Research School of Earth Sciences

 

Jan 2015 - present

Honorary Profesor

The University of Queensland

School of Earth Sciences

 

Dec 2014 - Dec. 2015

Guest Professor

Chongqing University, PRC

Centre for Modern Physics

 

Jan 1998 - February 2018

Visiting Fellow

The Australian National University,

Research School of Earth Sciences

 

Jan 1994 – Dec 1998

Visiting Fellow

The Australian National University

Department of Earth & Marine Science

 

Aug 1994- Jan1997

Visiting Fellow

The Australian National University

Department of Geology

 

August 1991 - January 1997

Senior Research Fellow (Adjunct)
The Australian National University,
Department of Biogeography & Geomorphology, RSPacS 1994-1997,
 

Dec 1990 – Dec 1996

Principal Research Scientist
Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Environmental Geoscience
Australia

Jan 1988 – Dec 1990

Principal Research Scientist
Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology & Geophysics, Groundwater Programme
Australia

Aug 1986 – Sep 1989

Project Leader
IGCP, 261, “Stromatolites”

Oct 1982 – Jan 1984

Marine Geologist
United Nations Development Programme, CCOP/SOPAC,
Fiji

Jan 1978 – Dec 1987

Principal Research Scientist
Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology & Geophysics,
Baas Becking Geobiological Research Laboratory,
Australia

Jun 1974 – Dec 1977

Senior Research Scientist
Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology & Geophysics, Petroleum Exploration Branch.
Australia

Jan 1974 – Jun 1974

Senior Research Fellow
University of Oxford, Department of Geology and Mineralogy,
Oxford, United Kingdom

Dec 1969 – Dec 1973

Lecturer
The University of the West Indies at Mona, Department of Geography and Geology
Kingston, Jamaica

Research interests

Microbialites, Geobiology, Facies Analysis, Coastal Geoscience, Turbidites and Gravity Flow Deposits

Groups

A downloadable archive of my publications can be found at – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Burne

Citation statistics for my publications can be found at – http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=14atOhwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Selected Publications

  • Chagas, A.A., Webb, G.E., Burne, R.V. and Southam, G., 2016. Modern lacustrine microbialites: Towards a synthesis of aqueous and carbonate geochemistry and mineralogy. Earth-Science Reviews162, pp.338-363.
  • Burne, R.V., 2016. The Role and Significance of Authigenic Magnesium Silicates in the Organomineralisation of Microbialites in the Yalgorup Lakes, Western Australia. M.Phil. Thesis, ANU Open Access Theses, http://hdl.handle.net/1885/107317
  • Burne, R.V., Moore, L.S., Christy, A.G., Troitzsch, U., King, P.L., Carnerup, A.M. and Hamilton, P.J., 2014. Stevensite in the modern thrombolites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia: A missing link in microbialite mineralization?. Geology42(7), pp.575-578.
  • Burne, R. V., & Johnson, K. (2012). Sea-level variation and the zonation of microbialites in Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Western Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 63(11), 994-1004.
  • Burne, R.V., Eade, C.J. Paul, J., (2012).  The Natural History of Ooliths: Franz Ernst Brückmann’s Treatise of 1721 and its Significance for the Understanding of Oolites. Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften. v. 34, pp. 93-114.
  • Batchelor, M. T., Burne, R. V., Henry, B. I., & Slatyer, T. (2005). Statistical physics and stromatolite growth: new perspectives on an ancient dilemma. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 350(1), 6-11.
  • Batchelor, M. T., Burne, R. V., Henry, B. I., & Watt, S. D. (2003). Mathematical and image analysis of stromatolite morphogenesis. Mathematical geology, 35(7), 789-803.
  • Burne, R. V., & Parvey, C. A. (2002). Marine geography and the benthic habitat: Domains of the Australian Ocean Territory. Marine geography: GIS for the oceans and seas, 127-36.
  • Burne, R.V. , (1995). The Return of ‘The Fan That Never Was’: Westphalian Turbidite Systems in the Variscan Culm Basin: Bude Formation (Southwest England). Sedimentary Facies Analysis: A Tribute to the Research and Teaching of Harold G. Reading, pages 101 - 135; , ISBN: 9781444304091
  • Moore, L. S., & Burne, R. V. (1994). The modern thrombolites of Lake Clifton, western Australia. In Phanerozoic stromatolites II (pp. 3-29). Springer Netherlands.
  • Burne, R. V., & Moore, L. S. (1993). Microatoll microbialites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia: Morphological analogues ofCryptozoön proliferum Hall, the first formally-named stromatolite. Facies, 29(1), 149-168.
  • Bierwirth, P. N., Lee, T. J., & Burne, R. V. (1993). Shallow sea-floor reflectance and water depth derived by unmixing multispectral imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 59(3), 331-338.
  • Burne, R.V., Collot, J-Y.  and Daniel, J., (1988). Superficial structures and stress regimes of the downgoing plate associated with subduction-collision in the central New Hebrides (Vanuatu). In Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs - Vanuatu region. Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources Earth Science Series, AAPG, Houston, Texas, USA. Pages 357 - 376;
  • Burne, R.V. and Moore, L.S., (1987).Microbialites; organosedimentary deposits of benthic microbial communities. Palaios, v. 2(3), pp. 241-254.
  • Collot, J. Y., Daniel, J., & Burne, R. V. (1985). Recent tectonics associated with the subduction/collision of the D'Entrecasteaux zone in the central New Hebrides. Tectonophysics, 112(1), 325-356.
  • Burne, R.V. and Colwell, J.B., (1982). Temperate carbonate sediments of Northern Spencer Gulf, South Australia: a high salinity ‘foramol’ province. Sedimentology, v. 29(2) pp. 223 - 238.
  • Burne, R.V., Bauld, J. and De Deckker:, P., (1980).  Saline lake charophytes and their geological significance. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology. v. 50(1), pp. 281-293.
  • Burne, R. V. (1970). The origin and significance of sand volcanoes in the Bude Formation (Cornwall). Sedimentology, 15(3‐4), 211-228.
  • Ziegler, A. M., McKerrow, W. S., Burne, R. V., & Baker, P. E. (1969). Correlation and environmental setting of the Skomer Volcanic Group, Pembrokeshire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 80(4), 409-439.