The Structure Tectonics Team

The Structure and Tectonics Team at the Research School of Earth Sciences, is led by Professor Gordon Lister and includes a diverse range of people, interests and project fields.

Staff

Professor Gordon Lister
Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geochronology.

Dr Marnie Forster
Australian Research Fellow,
Structural Geology, Argon Geochronology and Tectonics

Dr Joe Kurtz
Senior Scientific Programmer, AuScope SAM
Pplates software for geophysically self-consistent geodynamically
constrained tectonic reconstruction

Sam Hart
Scientific Programmer, AuScope SAM
Pplates software for geophysically self-consistent geodynamically
constrained tectonic reconstruction

Vacant Position
Research Assistant, AuScope
Building the Virtual Earth

Students

Lloyd White PhD Candidate
The character of episodicity in the Himalaya Orogeny

Jia-Urnn Lee PhD Candidate
Mapping in space and time: A microstructural study of the the major tectonic contacts below the MCT, NW India

Iona Stenhouse PhD Candidate
Diffusion modelling of garnet

Tomas O'Kane PhD Candidate
4D of  South America

Clemens Augenstein PhD Candidate
Essays on Alpine orogeny - Formation of the European Alps

RESEARCH INTERN:
Melissa Olin
Differential geothermobarometry on Syros, Cyclades, Greece

International Collaborators:

Professor Robert Hall and Dr Michael Cottam
Southeast Asia Research Group
Royal Holloway University of London

Professor Talat Ahmad
Department of Geology,
University of New Delhi, India

Konstantinos Soukis
Athens University, Greece

Dr Stylianos Lozios
Athens University, Greece

Elena Moutsaka MSc
Athens University, Greece

Professor Guiting Hou
Peking University, Beijing, China

Professor Roberto Compagnoni
Dipartimento di Scienze Mineralogiche e Petrologiche,
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italie

Visitors:

Professor Talat Ahmad, Delhi University, India

Former students

Marco Beltrando - PhD candidate
Evolution of the European Alps

David Wood - PhD candidate
Evolution and exhumation of the Anakie Inlier, Ql.

Daniel Viete PhD Candidate,
Barrovian metamorphism, Scotland

Andrew Barker Honours student
Three-dimensional evolution of the lithosphere of the Aegean Sea, Greece

Gordon Lister at the MCT, NW India

Marnie Forster and Jia-Urnn Lee at Mt Kinabalu, Malaysia

HIM 2008 team in NW Himalaya, India

Lloyd White and Mukesh Mishra (Delhi University) at Nakandra in NW India

Gordon Lister and Manolis Skourtsos at Athens University

Iona Stenhouse, Ios Island Greece.