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  • Consulting
    • Deep Time Data Mining
    • Earth Evolution Modelling
    • Inversion and Uncertainty Quantification
  • Contact
  • News
    • Expedition to the Coral Sea
      • People
      • Motivation and impact
      • Current location
      • Virtual tour
      • Onboard camera
      • Sunrise & Sunsets
      • Food porn
      • RV Investigator
      • Day 1 - The departure
      • Day 2 - Food! Glorious Food!
      • Day 3 - Our first samples
      • Day 4 - Our first (basalt) samples
      • Day 5 - Choppy waters
      • Day 6 - Dredge ten
      • Day 7 - Spectacular sunrise
      • Day 8 - National Science Week
      • Day 9 - Last of the Tasmantids
      • Day 10 - Graduations & Grooming
      • Day 11 - Dredgement Day
      • Day 12 - Entering PNG waters
      • Day 13 - Educational outreach
      • Day 14 - Rocks galore!
      • Day 15 - The Louisiad Plateau
      • Day 16 - Transit North
      • Day 17 - T-shirts!
      • Day 18 - RIP Snappy
      • Day 19 - Solomon Islands
      • Day 20 - Engine room tour
      • Day 21 - Limited icecream!
      • Day 22 - Nouvelle-Calédonie
      • Day 23 - Booby sanctuary
      • Day 24 - Carbonate cake
      • Day 25 - Bollywood class
      • Day 26 - Pet rock day
      • Day 27 - Final day
      • Day 28 - Farewell!
    • Tracing ancient groundwater to discover copper
    • Our latest paper reveals how plate tectonics has driven Earth's climate shifts
    • Mapping craton edges to find critical metals
    • Ray + Zarr: a better way to scale plate reconstruction workflows
    • GPlately 2.0 is here
    • How deep can carbon hide in the Pacific?
    • Seafloor scars point to where copper deposits form
    • A billion-year carbon budget for the solid Earth
    • How mantle plumes steer spreading ridges
    • What kept Earth frozen for 57 million years?
    • Installing Python on Mac M1
    • Turning up the heat on Earth temperature modelling
    • Introducing Stripy
    • Continuous Integration with Travis CI
    • May the 4th be with you...
    • Multiprocessing in Python
    • The effect of palaeoclimate on heat flow data
    • Invert geology
    • Curie point depth
    • Convert images to arrays
    • Analytical conduction adjoint
    • Implicit heat conduction
  • Posts
    • Installing Python on Mac M1
    • Turning up the heat on Earth temperature modelling
    • Introducing Stripy
    • Continuous Integration with Travis CI
    • May the 4th be with you...
    • Multiprocessing in Python
    • The effect of palaeoclimate on heat flow data
    • Invert geology
    • Curie point depth
    • Convert images to arrays
    • Analytical conduction adjoint
    • Implicit heat conduction
  • Projects
    • Go with the flow
    • STELLAR
    • DP20
    • Basin Genesis Hub
    • G.O.THERM.3D
    • Underworld
  • Publications
    • Carbon emissions along divergent plate boundaries modulate icehouse-greenhouse climates
    • Craton boundary detection from full-waveform tomography model reveals links to critical metal deposits
    • Regional carbonate compensation depth variability in the Pacific Ocean since the Oligocene
    • Subducting seafloor anomalies promote porphyry copper formation
    • Solid Earth Carbon Degassing and Sequestration Since 1 Billion Years Ago
    • Spreading ridge migration enabled by plume-ridge de-anchoring
    • Spatio-temporal copper prospectivity in the American Cordillera predicted by positive-unlabeled machine learning
    • Duration of Sturtian 'Snowball Earth' glaciation linked to exceptionally low mid-ocean ridge outgassing
    • Flexural isostatic response of continental-scale deltas to climatically driven sea level changes
    • Determining subsurface temperature & lithospheric structure from joint geophysical-petrological inversion: A case study from Ireland
    • Global Hydrogen Production During High-Pressure Serpentinization of Subducting Slabs
    • Kimberlite eruptions driven by slab flux and subduction angle
    • Deep time spatio-temporal data analysis using pyGPlates with PlateTectonicTools and GPlately
    • The isotopic origin of Lord Howe Island reveals secondary mantle plume twinning in the Tasman Sea
    • Anomalously High Heat Flow Regions Beneath the Transantarctic Mountains and Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica Inferred From Curie Depth
    • Iron isotope systematics during igneous differentiation in lavas from Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, Hawai'i
    • Evolution of Earth’s tectonic carbon conveyor belt
    • Constraining the response of continental-scale groundwater flow to climate change
    • Intraplate volcanism triggered by bursts in slab flux
    • An Early Cretaceous subduction-modified mantle underneath the ultraslow spreading Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean
    • Adjoint inversion of the thermal structure of Southeastern Australia
    • PyCurious: A Python module for computing the Curie depth from the magnetic anomaly
    • Stripy: A Python module for (constrained) triangulation in Cartesian coordinates and on a sphere.
    • Constraining the geotherm beneath the British Isles from Bayesian inversion of Curie depth: Integrated modelling of magnetic, geothermal and seismic data
    • Probabilistic surface heat flow estimates assimilating palaeoclimate history: new implications for the thermochemical structure of Ireland
    • Variations and controls on lithospheric thermal regimes in Southeast Australia
  • Recent & Upcoming Talks
    • Subducting seafloor anomalies promote porphyry copper emplacement
    • Unravelling the origins of enigmatic volcanism to discover critical metals
    • Understanding the deep-time tectonic carbon cycle by linking thermodynamic and plate tectonic models
    • Subducting seafloor anomalies promote porphyry copper emplacement
    • UTas Maydena workshop
    • Water in the mantle
    • Continent-scale groundwater models
    • Subduction of seafloor features
    • The role of plume-ridge decoupling on rapid plate motion
    • The role of plume-ridge decoupling on rapid plate motion and intraplate volcanism
    • Accelerating spatio -temporal data analysis using pyGPlates
    • Geodynamic modelling update
    • Unravelling the origins of volcanism along Eastern Australia and the Tasman Sea
    • Volcanoes Downunder
    • Continent-scale groundwater models: constraining flow pathways across eastern Australia
    • Plume-slab interaction
    • The Role of Slab Dip on the Formation of Porphyry Copper Deposits
    • Parallel volcanic chains generated by plume-slab interaction (invited)
    • GPlates and pyGPlates workshop
    • GA showcase
    • Slab-induced plume branching connects parallel hotspot chains
    • Constraining the response of continental-scale groundwater flow to climate extremes
    • STELLAR – Spatio TEmporaL expLorAtion for Resources
    • Intraplate volcanism triggered by bursts in slab flux
    • Bayesian inversion of 3D groundwater flow within the Sydney-Gunnedah-Bowen Basin (keynote)
    • Intraplate volcanism triggered by bursts in slab flux (invited speaker)
    • Integrating geophysical observations with tectonic plate reconstructions
    • Intraplate volcanism triggered by subducted volatiles during bursts in slab flux
    • The Role of Stagnant Slabs at the Transition Zone on Widespread Volcanism in Eastern Australia and Zealandia
    • Stagnant slabs at the transition zone linked to widespread volcanism in Eastern Australia and Zealandia
    • All models are wrong: Testing your assumptions (keynote)
    • Stagnant slabs in the transition zone linked to widespread volcanism in Eastern Australia and Zealandia
    • The origin of intraplate mafic volcanism along the eastern margin of Australia
    • Reducing the uncertainty of lithospheric thermal structure: integrated modelling from geothermal, magnetic, and seismic data
    • Introduction to Quagmire
    • NCRIS Workshop 3 - Update of AuScope research
    • G.O.THERM Project: an integrated approach to probe the deep thermal structure of Ireland
    • Adjoint inversion of geothermal potential in Ireland assimilating surface heat flow, seismic velocity, and Curie depth
    • Uncertainty reduction of geothermal heat flux from assimilating seismic tomography and depth to Curie temperature
    • Probing the geothermal potential of Ireland
    • Estimating the depth to the Curie isotherm: a synthesis of the methodology and its application to Ireland.
  • Expedition to the Coral Sea
    • People
    • Motivation and impact
    • Current location
    • Virtual tour
    • Onboard camera
    • Sunrise & Sunsets
    • Food porn
    • RV Investigator
    • Day 1 - The departure
    • Day 2 - Food! Glorious Food!
    • Day 3 - Our first samples
    • Day 4 - Our first (basalt) samples
    • Day 5 - Choppy waters
    • Day 6 - Dredge ten
    • Day 7 - Spectacular sunrise
    • Day 8 - National Science Week
    • Day 9 - Last of the Tasmantids
    • Day 10 - Graduations & Grooming
    • Day 11 - Dredgement Day
    • Day 12 - Entering PNG waters
    • Day 13 - Educational outreach
    • Day 14 - Rocks galore!
    • Day 15 - The Louisiad Plateau
    • Day 16 - Transit North
    • Day 17 - T-shirts!
    • Day 18 - RIP Snappy
    • Day 19 - Solomon Islands
    • Day 20 - Engine room tour
    • Day 21 - Limited icecream!
    • Day 22 - Nouvelle-Calédonie
    • Day 23 - Booby sanctuary
    • Day 24 - Carbonate cake
    • Day 25 - Bollywood class
    • Day 26 - Pet rock day
    • Day 27 - Final day
    • Day 28 - Farewell!
  • Tracing ancient groundwater to discover copper
  • Our latest paper reveals how plate tectonics has driven Earth's climate shifts
  • Mapping craton edges to find critical metals
  • Ray + Zarr: a better way to scale plate reconstruction workflows
  • GPlately 2.0 is here
  • How deep can carbon hide in the Pacific?
  • Seafloor scars point to where copper deposits form
  • A billion-year carbon budget for the solid Earth
  • How mantle plumes steer spreading ridges
  • What kept Earth frozen for 57 million years?
  • Installing Python on Mac M1
  • Turning up the heat on Earth temperature modelling
  • Introducing Stripy
  • Continuous Integration with Travis CI
  • May the 4th be with you...
  • Multiprocessing in Python
  • The effect of palaeoclimate on heat flow data
  • Invert geology
  • Curie point depth
  • Convert images to arrays
  • Analytical conduction adjoint
  • Implicit heat conduction
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