Our research unravels the dynamic interface between life, the environment, and the solid Earth. We answer fundamental questions relating to the past and future of the Earth while addressing the pressing need to improve ecosystem resilience, bioremediation, carbon cycling, and food security.
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Archaeological Science
Archaeological science is concerned with the application of various scientific techniques to solve problems related to archaeology, human origins and cultural history.
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Composition
We research the composition of the atmosphere from natural and human emissions and processes.
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AuScope Subsurface Observatory
Providing geophysical monitoring and rock property analysis to support crustal geological modelling, geohazard assessment, mineral exploration, and infrastructure planning.
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Climate Change and Society
Our climate change research is unique in the ways in which it spans the natural sciences, spatial sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and is unified by a commitment to responses that are fair and sustainable.
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Culture, Politics, Place
Developing dynamic understandings of the social, cultural, economic, and political processes that transform places. Individually and collaboratively, our research highlights multiple relations, scales, and times through place-based geography.
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Earthquake Research Group
We investigate active faults and earthquake records to better understand seismic hazards in Australia's stable continental interior.
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Earth Surface Processes
Using observational and modelling research methods to study surface and near-surface geological, geomorphological, meteorological, and anthropogenic phenomena.
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Environment, Wellbeing and Sustainable Communities
Researching how interdependent environmental and social systems affect the wellbeing and sustainability of people and populations.
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Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology
Method development and the application of geochemical techniques to the timing, evolution and rates of geological, biological, and environmental processes.
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Geophysics and Geodynamics
Conducting fundamental and applied research into the structure and dynamics of the solid Earth.
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Geothermal Energy and Heat Flow
The Geothermal Energy and Heat Flow Research Group investigates where and how geothermal energy can be used in Australia and elsewhere around the world.
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Lithospheric Processes Research Group
The lithosphere is the rigid outer layer of the Earth. The Lithospheric Processes research cluster works to understand the lithosphere over many length scales and time scales.
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Noble Gas Geochronology
Application of the 40Ar/39Ar dating method to determine the ages and cooling histories of a variety of rocks, including those associated with young volcanoes, ore deposits and metamorphic terranes.
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Palynology, Palaeoecology and Biogeography
Palaeoecological and biogeographic research developing and integrating high-resolution palaeoenvironmental records from across the Southern Hemisphere, primarily in Australia, to provide comprehensive reconstructions of environmental change over time.
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Past Climates and Environments
Investigating the nature, magnitude and timing of past climate and environmental change, and the interactions between climate, environments and past human populations.
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Power, Justice and Global Inequalities
Researching how global inequalities are produced across time and space, and to analyse how power is exercised and resisted to sustain or overcome inequalities and achieve social justice.
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Quaternary Landscapes and Sediment (QuaLaS)
Investigating a wide range of Earth surface processes over various timescales in the Quaternary to better understand the dynamic evolution of our environment.
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Rock and Paleo Magnetism
Unlocking data from the past to better understand future changes that will impact our societies.
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Speleothem Research Group
Investigating past climate and environmental change using speleothems (cave mineral formations, such as stalagmites and stalactites).