Members of the GRG gathered at Jody’s house for a BBQ last Sat. The occasion was to celebrate the New Year (ok so a bit late so maybe Chinese New […]

A few nights ago I finally sat to watch the new BBC documentary on the Great Barrier Reef. Three episodes, all amazing, with great images of the reef and very cool […]

The Australian marine geoscience community got some truly exciting news recently. We heard that Australia’s membership to International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) was funded by the Australian Research Council (via […]

Hi All, It has been a very hectic last week with the safe arrival of Scarlet Rose last Thursday. Both mum and Scarlet are both doing well and we are […]

Beyond “publish or perish” – book review in Science. An interesting US perspective on the situation of not enough academic jobs for the numbers of PhD’s produced. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6256/49.full?utm_campaign=email-sci-toc Jody

For those interested in the GBR and siliciclastic-carbonate sedimentation, check out the new paper from our GRG international colleagues below (Harper et al., 2015). This is a very interesting paper […]

So in addition to the “Long core” Holocene drilling campaign taking place at One Tree Reef, members of the GRG have also been busy coring the “spur and groove” formation, […]

After a day of mobilising reef drilling has commenced in earnest on One Tree. The first site selected was a large patch reef in the lagoon. Several cores have been […]

Today the valiant team led by Dr Trevor Graham (UQ/GeoCoastal Group) successfully towed the drilling platform from Gladstone to One Tree Reef (see the pic). Just getting the platform there […]