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Research Activities 2007
Earth Physics
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Introduction
Research into the structure and dynamics of the Earth uses a range of physical and mathematical techniques and is grouped into the three main themes of Seismology and Mathematical Geophysics, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, and Geodynamics and Geodesy. The work spans observational, theoretical, laboratory, computational and data oriented studies, all directed towards understanding the structure and physical processes in the earth's interior, the crust or the earth's fluid envelope.
New staff commencing during 2007 include two new continuing faculty members: Dr H. Tkalcic in observational seismology and Dr A. McC. Hogg in ocean modelling. Postdoctoral staff members P. Arroucau and M. Salmon joined the seismology group. PhD students A. Abdulah, J. Hauser and E. Saygin graduated. Read More...
Research Projects
Geodynamics
Enhanced infrasound monitoring stations for CTBT verification - Douglas Christie
Geophysical Applications of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar - John Dawson
Uplift of the Catania Coastline Constrained by Submerged Speleothems and Archaelogical Evidence - Andrea Dutton
Projected sea-level changes from glacier melt in the 21st century - Gisela Estermann
Studies of water signals using space gravity data - Paul Tregoning
Structure and Evolution of the Australian Continent: Geospatial Component - Paul Tregoning
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Mantle Evolution: Integrating Dynamics, Chemistry and Tectonics - Geoffrey Davies
Exchange flows between ocean basins - Ross Griffiths
Glacial Cycles and Carbon Dioxide - Andrew Hogg
Modelling the sensitivity of the ocean thermohaline circulation to changing forcing - Graham Hughes
The stability of strongly tilted mantle plume tails - Ross Kerr
Effects of upstream disturbances on headland wakes in coastal waters - Melanie O'Byrne
Internal Activity and Evolution of Exoplanets -
Andreea Papuc
Kinematics and flow patterns in deep mantle and upper mantle subduction models: Influence of the slab to mantle viscosity ratio and the mantle depth - Wouter Schellart
Seismology & Mathematical Geophysics
AuScope
Tomography with self adaptive parametrisation - Thomas Bodin
Imaging seismic discontinuities of the lithosphere beneath Southern Australia - Fabrice Fontaine
Multi arrival wavefront tracking in three dimensions - Jürg Hauser
Wombat: An evolving seismic array experiment in Australia - Nick Rawlinson
Teleseismic tomography of the upper mantle beneath the southern Lachlan Orogen, Australia - Nick Rawlinson
Use of coda wave interferometry for estimating properties of earthquake sources - David Robinson
Finite-fault Slip Inversions for the Australian Tsunami Warning System - Malcolm Sambridge
Patching the holes in ray-path coverage of the lowermost mantle in the southern hemisphere: PcP waves observed in Antarctica - Hrvoje Tkalcic
On the inner-outer core density ratio from previously unobserved steep-incidence inner core reflections - Hrvoje Tkalcic