Fields of Research

Marine geoscience
Structural geology and tectonics
Geochronology
Geodynamics
Seismology and seismic exploration
Computational methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer (incl. computational fluid dynamics)
Inorganic geochemistry
Stratigraphy (incl. biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis)
Igneous and metamorphic petrology
Isotope geochemistry
Sedimentology
Geology
Geophysics
Palaeoclimatology
Physical oceanography
Chemical oceanography
Surveying (incl. hydrographic surveying)
Probability theory
Fuzzy computation
Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
Computational modelling and simulation in earth sciences
Glaciology
Volcanology
Exploration geochemistry
Gender studies
Maritime engineering
Geothermics and radiometrics
Natural hazards
Pattern recognition
Oceanography
Drama, theatre and performance studies
Biological oceanography
Microbial genetics
Social and personality psychology

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences
Effects of climate change on Antarctic and sub-Antarctic environments (excl. social impacts)
Assessment and management of terrestrial ecosystems
Marine systems and management
Geological hazards (e.g. earthquakes, landslides and volcanic activity)
Hydrological hazards (e.g. avalanches and floods)
Climate change models
Other environmental management
Natural hazards
Copper ore exploration
International relations
Precious (noble) metal ore exploration
Effects of climate change on Australia (excl. social impacts)
Expanding knowledge in psychology
Expanding knowledge in human society
Measurement and assessment of marine water quality and condition
Climate variability (excl. social impacts)
Oil and gas exploration
Other mineral resources (excl. energy resources)
Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Oceanic processes (excl. in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean)
Effects of climate change on the South Pacific (excl. Australia and New Zealand) (excl. social impacts)
Communication
Mineral exploration
Antarctic and Southern Ocean oceanic processes

Career Best Publications

A cryptic Gondwana-forming orogen located in Antarctica; Scientific Reports
Eastern Indian Ocean microcontinent formation driven by plate motion changes; Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Global sediment thickness data set updated for the Australian-Antarctic Southern Ocean; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
How supercontinents and superoceans affect seafloor roughness; Nature
Long-term interaction between mid-ocean ridges and mantle plumes; Nature Geoscience
Major Australian-Antarctic Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time; Science
Onset of Antarctic Circumpolar Current 30 million years ago as Tasmanian Gateway aligned with westerlies; Nature
Ridge subduction sparked reorganization of the Pacific plate-mantle system 60-50 million years ago; Geophysical Research Letters
Sunda-Java trench kinematics, slab window formation and overriding plate deformation since the Cretaceous; Earth and Planetary Science Letters
The breakup of East Gondwana: Assimilating constraints from Cretaceous ocean basins around India into a best-fit tectonic model; Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
The hydrangeas of plate tectonics; Nature Geoscience

Research Publications

344 - Towards a reconciled heat flow map for Antarctica: Aq1; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference 2020: Antarctic - Global Connections
345 - The Wilkes Land sector including the Aurora Basin, and its most probable subglacial geology; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference 2020: Antarctic - Global Connections
A cryptic Gondwana-forming orogen located in Antarctica; Scientific Reports
A forward geodynamic modelling approach to understand the history of subduction along the east Asian margin; 6th eResearch Australasia Conference 2012
A global data set of present-day oceanic crustal age and seafloor spreading parameters; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
A multi-domain lithospheric model of East Antarctica; POLAR2018
A multivariate approach for mapping lithospheric domain boundaries in East Antarctica; Geophysical Research Letters
A new heat flux model for the Antarctic Peninsula incorporating spatially variable upper crustal radiogenic heat production; Geophysical Research Letters
A new heat flux model for the Antarctic Peninsula incorporating variable crustal radiogenic heat production; TACtical Workshop: Taking the Temperature of the Antarctic Continent
A new heat flux model incorporating variable crustal radiogenic heat production; POLAR2018
A tectonic model reconciling evidence for the collisions between India, Eurasia and intra-oceanic arcs of the central-eastern Tethys; Gondwana Research
Acoustic predictors of active fluid expulsion from a hydrothermal vent field, offshore Taupo; Volcanic Zone, New Zealand; Frontiers in Earth Science
Age constraints from the Rocky Cape Group: putting Tasmania on the Mesoproterozoic map; 22nd Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2014
An interdisciplinary approach to constructing models of the lithosphere across the Australia-Antarctica conjugate margin; Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC 2016)
An open-source software environment for visualizing and refining plate tectonic reconstructions using high-resolution geological and geophysical data sets; GSA Today
Anatomy of the Kuunga Orogen in East Antarctica; Australian Geoscience Council Convention
Antarctic Geothermal Heat Flow Model: Aq1; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Australian-Antarctic breakup and seafloor spreading: balancing geological and geophysical constraints; Earth Science Reviews
Australian-Antarctic rifting; PESA Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium III
Australo-Antarctica in Gondwana: a view from the edge; Rodinia 2017: Supercontinent Cycles and Global Geodynamics
Authigenic monazite and detrital zircon dating from the Proterozoic Rocky Cape Group, Tasmania: links to the Belt-Purcell Supergroup, North America; Precambrian Research
Award in geophysics
Cenozoic lithospheric deformation in Northeast Asia and the rapidly-aging Pacific Plate; Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Combining interpolated and locally observed contributions to heat flow models; TACtical Workshop
Combining upper crust and lithosphere contributions to heat flow models; POLAR2018
Community infrastructure and repository for marine magnetic identifications; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
Constraining the Jurassic extent of Greater India: Tectonic evolution of the West Australian margin; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
Crustal velocity and sediment thickness asymmetries along and between the conjugate Australian-Antarctic margins; Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV
Data-driven tectonic regionalization of Antarctica: appreciate the similarity; Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2021 - 'Core to Cosmos'
Deciphering Ontong Java Atoll, Nukumanu Atoll, and Kroenke Canyon, Western Equatorial Pacific final project report for RV Falkor FK141015 15 October – 3 November 2014
Developing a consistent sequence stratigraphy for the Wilkes Land and Great Australian Bight margins; Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV
Development of the Australian‐Antarctic depth anomaly; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
Discovery of a microcontinent (Gulden Draak Knoll) offshore Western Australia: implications for East Gondwana reconstructions; Gondwana Research
Displacement along the Red River Fault constrained by extension estimates and plate reconstructions; Tectonics
Early India-Australia spreading history revealed by newly detected Mesozoic magnetic anomalies in the Perth Abyssal Plain; Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth
East Gondwana breakup and microcontinent formation; Rodinia 2017: Supercontinent Cycles and Global Geodynamics
Eastern Indian Ocean microcontinent formation driven by plate motion changes; Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Eos: Editors' Highlights
Erosional and depositional processes on the submarine flanks of Ontong Java and Nukumanu atolls, western equatorial Pacific Ocean; Marine Geology
Fingerprinting Proterozoic bedrock in interior Wilkes Land, East Antarctica; Scientific Reports
Full‐fit, palinspastic reconstruction of the conjugate Australian‐Antarctic margins; Tectonics
Full-fit reconstruction of the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay; Solid Earth
Full-fit reconstructions of the southern Australian margin and Antarctica – implications for correlating geology between Australia and Antarctica; Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV
Gateway-driven weakening of ocean gyres leads to Southern Ocean cooling; Nature Communications
Geologic and kinematic constraints on Late Cretaceous to mid Eocene plate boundaries in the southwest Pacific; Earth Science Reviews
Global sediment thickness data set updated for the Australian-Antarctic Southern Ocean; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
GlobSed: updated total sediment thickness in the world's oceans; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
How Australia and India broke up - 100 million years ago
How supercontinents and superoceans affect seafloor roughness; Nature
Insights on the kinematics of the India-Eurasia collision from global geodynamic models; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
Intraplate Magmatism; Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences
Linking Antarctic geological observations and geophysical data in a probabilistic space; 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences
Long-term interaction between mid-ocean ridges and mantle plumes; Nature Geoscience
Longest continuously erupting large igneous province driven by plume-ridge interaction; Geology
Major Australian-Antarctic Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time; Science
Mantle plumes and their role in Earth processes; Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
Mapping Tertiary mid-ocean ridge subduction and slab window formation beneath Sundaland using seismic tomography; ASEG 2010 Geophysical Conference Proceedings
Micro-continents offshore Western Australia: implications for East Gondwana reconstructions; European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014
Micro-continents offshore Western Australia: insights into the make-up and break-up of East Gondwana; XII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science (ISAES 2015)
Microcontinents offshore Western Australia: insights into the make-up and break-up of East Gondwana; Riding the Wave: GSA Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology Conference
Multivariate geothermal heat flow models of Antarctica, towards Aq2; American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2020
Naturaliste Plateau: constraints on the timing and evolution of the Kerguelen Large Igneous province and its role in Gondwana breakup; Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
New geological insights fingerprint high heat producing crust in the remote interior of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica; TACtical Workshop
New insights into the subglacial geology of the remote interior of Western Wilkes Land, East Antarctica; Australian Geoscience Council Convention
Newly-recognised Continental Fragments Rifted from the West Australian Margin; West Australian Basins Symposium 2013
Onset of Antarctic Circumpolar Current 30 million years ago as Tasmanian Gateway aligned with westerlies; Nature
Pangea rifting shaped the East Antarctic landscape; Tectonics
Permian-Triassic rifting shaped subglacial landscape of western Wilkes Land, East Antarctica; XIII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences
Plateaus from seafloor spreading; Nature Geoscience
Poster JG01 p-415 - Introducing ‘agrid’: a multidimensional model and framework for investigating the Antarctic crust and lithosphere, and interdisciplinary research; 27th International Union of Goedesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly
Provenance of Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous strata in the Mentelle Basin, southwestern Australia, reveals a trans-Gondwanan fluvial pathway; Gondwana Research
Response to Comment on “Major Australian-Antarctic Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time”; Science
Restoring the continent-ocean boundary: constraints from lithospheric stretching grids and tectonic reconstructions; ASEG 2010
Revised plate tectonic history of the west Australian margin reveals how the Gascoyne Terrane docked at West Burma; ASEG 2010
Revised tectonic evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
Revisiting the Australian-Antarctic ocean-continent transition zone using petrological and geophysical characterization of exhumed subcontinental mantle; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
Ridge subduction sparked reorganization of the Pacific plate-mantle system 60-50 million years ago; Geophysical Research Letters
Rocks from the Cascade Seamount: an archive of the unzipping of Gondwana and the initiation of the ACC?; AGU Chapman Conference on Submarine Volcanism: New Approaches and Research Frontiers
Sea-level fluctuations driven by changes in global ocean basin volume following supercontinent break-up; Earth Science Reviews
Sediment provenance and tectonic evolution of the Eastern Mentelle Basin: insights into the early rifting history of East Gondwana; Australian Geoscience Council Convention
Seismic facies and stratigraphy of the Cenozoic succession in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: Implications for tectonic, climatic and glacial history; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology: An International Journal for The Geo-Sciences
Seismic stratigraphy of the Adare Trough area, Antarctica; Marine Geology: International Journal of Marine Geology, Geochemistry and Geophysics
Semi-automatic fracture zone tracking; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
Shallow seafloor gas emissions near Heard and McDonald Islands on the Kerguelen Plateau, Southern Indian Ocean; GeoHab
Shallow seafloor gas emissions near Heard and McDonald Islands on the Kerguelen Plateau, southern Indian Ocean; Earth and Space Science
Solid Earth-cryosphere interaction with a focus on East Antarctica; POLAR2018
Southern Ocean biogenic blooms freezing-in Oligocene colder climates; Nature Communications
Strike-slip tectonics during the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian assembly of East Gondwana: evidence from a newly discovered microcontinent in the Indian Ocean (Batavia Knoll); Gondwana Research
Structural Architecture of Australia's Southwest Continental Margin and Implications for Early Cretaceous Basin Evolution; West Australian Basins Symposium 2013
Submarine geology and geomorphology of active Sub-Antarctic volcanoes: Heard and McDonald Islands; American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Submarine glacial landforms and interactions with volcanism around Sub-Antarctic Heard and McDonald Islands; AGU Fall Meeting
Submarine sedimentary bedforms and benthos surrounding the Heard and McDonald Islands World Heritage Site; Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat
Sunda-Java trench kinematics, slab window formation and overriding plate deformation since the Cretaceous; Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Tectonic drivers and the influence of the Kerguelen plume on seafloor spreading during formation of the early Indian Ocean; Gondwana Research
Tectonic Evolution and Continental Fragmentation of the Southern West Australian Margin; West Australian Basins Symposium 2013
Tectonic history of mid-Miocene to present southern Victoria Land Basin, inferred from seismic stratigraphy in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica; 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences
Tectonic, oceanographic, and climatic controls on the Cretaceous-Cenozoic sedimentary record of the Australian-Antarctic Basin; Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
The Antarctic crust and upper mantle: a flexible 3D model and software framework for interdisciplinary research; Frontiers in Earth Science
The breakup of East Gondwana: Assimilating constraints from Cretaceous ocean basins around India into a best-fit tectonic model; Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
The evolving paleobathymetry of the circum-Antarctic Southern Ocean since 34 Ma: a key to understanding past cryosphere-ocean developments; Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
The forgotten component of sub-glacial heat flow: upper crustal heat production and resultant total heat flux on the Antarctic Peninsula; 19th EGU General Assembly (EGU2017)
The hydrangeas of plate tectonics; Nature Geoscience
The Louisiade ophiolite: a missing link in the western Pacific; Terra Nova
The Neoproterozoic East Gondwana suture: reconciling geological and geophysical evidence; Riding the Wave: GSA Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology Conference
The Ontong Java Plateau uncovered: evidence for mass wasting on the flanks of Ontong Java and Nukumanu atolls; Australian Earth Science Convention
The peaks and patterns of Antarctic crustal heat production; Australian Geoscience Council Convention
The tectonic fabric of the ocean basins; Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics
The world’s largest submarine canyon—Kroenke Canyon in the Western Equatorial Pacific; American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Timing and causes of the mid-Cretaceous global plate reorganization event; Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Towards a multi-domain lithospheric model of East Antarctica; TACtical Workshop
Uncovering terra incognita: new insights into the evolution of Antarctica and constraints for ice sheet models; Geological Society of Australia
Unraveling the unusual morphology of the Cretaceous Dirck Hartog extinct mid-ocean ridge; AGU 2015 Fall Meeting
Warm, warmer, hot! Antarctic crustal radiogenic heat production; TACtical Workshop
What can potential field data really tell us about Continent-Ocean transitions?; ASEG 2010
What is it really like under the Indian Ocean

Research Projects

Antarctic Gateway Partnership Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Operational Trials; Australian Antarctic Division (AAD)
Australian Membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Australian Membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Characterization of sedimentary-tectonic evolution of Ridge A and its role in the late rifting/breakup process of the South China Sea (IODP Expedition 367/368 'South China Sea Rifted Margin'); Australian and New Zealand Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Consortium (ANZIC)
Deciphering Ontong Java Atoll, Nukumanu Atoll, and Kroenke Canyon, Western Equatorial Pacific; Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI)
Development of Williams Ridge, Kerguelen Plateau: tectonics, hotspot magmatism, microcontinents, and Australias Extended Continental Shelf; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
East Tasman Plateau - Key to unravelling the onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
East Tasman Plateau - key to unravelling the onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current ; Australian and New Zealand Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Consortium (ANZIC)
Episodic mantle plumes: driving plate tectonics and continental margin evolution?; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Formation of Williams Ridge, Kerguelen Plateau tectonics, and Australias Extended Continental Shelf; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Geochemical affinity of dredged rocks from the Perth Abyssal Plain; University of New England (UNE)
Gigantic submarine landslide offshore western Tasmania: risk mitigation for shelf-derived tsunami in Australia; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Hotspot dynamics in the Coral Sea: connections between the Australian plate and deep Earth; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
How the complexity of continental breakup controls ocean circulation; Australian Research Council (ARC)
IODP pre proposal writing workshop Completing the Australian-Antarctic transect: Ocean drilling to reveal the nature of Gondwana breakup and the development of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Australian and New Zealand Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Consortium (ANZIC)
Marine Heat Flow measuring system; AuScope Ltd (AUSC)
Onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Ore deposits and tectonic evolution of the Lachlan Orogen, SE Australia; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Reconstructing East Antarctica in Gondwana: ground-truthing a new tectonic model; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Reconstructing the submarine and subglacial East Gondwanan mountain chain; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Seamounts in the Tasman Sea and Southwest Pacific: Deep seated Balleny plume vs. Pacific Superswell; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Sedimentation at its extreme: how powerful are submarine caldera-forming eruptions (Kermadec arc)?; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Submarine volcanism and hydrothermalism around Heard and McDonald Islands; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Tectonic Evolution and Sediment Provenance on the West Australian Margin: Bringing East Antarctica back into the Equation; Australian and New Zealand Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Consortium (ANZIC)
Tectonics Erosion and Topography in East Antarctica; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
The Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science; Australian Research Council (ARC)
The Australian Southern Margin: Understanding how Australia and Antarctica broke-up; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
The Balleny mantle plume: key role in Tasmania-Antarctic breakup?; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
The global consequences of subduction zone congestion; Australian Research Council (ARC)
The Kerguelen Large Igneous Province: dynamics of a pulsating mantle plume; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
The Lost Atlantis between Australia and Antarctica Pin down the subsidence of the South Tasman Rise; Australian and New Zealand Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Consortium (ANZIC)
The Perth Abyssal Plain: Understanding Eastern Gondwana Break-up; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Addressing information gaps in Australias Unresolved Extended Continental Shelf. Williams Ridge, Kerguelen Plateau
Antarctic / Indian Ocean Geophysics Research

Research Candidate Supervision