Nicky M. Wright

Nicky M. Wright

ARC Early Career Industry Fellow
Nicky Wright is a marine geoscientist and palaeoclimate researcher who reconstructs past Earth surface elevation, with expertise in plate tectonics, past ocean circulation, and long-term sea level change. She is a Superstar of STEM (2023-2024).
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Regional carbonate compensation depth variability in the Pacific Ocean since the Oligocene

Reconstructing regional carbonate compensation depth variability in the Pacific Ocean since the Oligocene to understand deep-sea carbon cycling.

Faranak Dalvand
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Subducting seafloor anomalies promote porphyry copper formation

Plate tectonic reconstructions and machine learning show that subducting seafloor anomalies promote porphyry copper deposit formation.

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Dr. Ben Mather
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Kimberlite eruptions driven by slab flux and subduction angle

Machine learning reveals that the volume and angle of subducted oceanic plates control where and when diamond-bearing kimberlite eruptions occur.

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Dr. Ben Mather
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Deep time spatio-temporal data analysis using pyGPlates with PlateTectonicTools and GPlately

GPlately: a Python interface for deep-time spatio-temporal data analysis using pyGPlates, simplifying plate tectonic reconstructions.

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Dr. Ben Mather