The Investigator having a break
Some of my fellow ‘spies’ have just sent me a photo from Hobart… the Investigator, the new CSIRO’s purpose-built research vessel, resting at her mother port! This photo took me […]
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Update from Heron Island. Pulling up those fossil coral monsters!
After some initial mechanical troubles and bad weather, the Heron Island reef coring is now going well. Over the last days we have been recovering some beautiful sequences of insitu […]
Drilling begins! Unlocking the history of Holocene climate change and reef growth in the Southern GBR
Today the team from UQ has arrived at Heron Island to commence the drilling of the Holocene reef sequence. This is part of a joint UQ/USYD/QUT Australian Research Council Discovery (ARCD) […]
Guest appearance on The Landslide Blog!
This week my research has made a guest appearance on AGU Blogosphere’s The Landslide Blog run by Professor Dave Petley. Dave is a landslide expert and our international collaborator on this research […]
Uncovering the River Murray’s rivertrade past through multibeam bathymetry
Multibeam bathymetric datasets have been acquired of the lower River Murray as part of an ongoing investigation into widespread riverbank collapse that occurred during the peak of the Millennium Drought […]
Up Up and Away: Geocoastal Researchers Aim High
Stephanie Duce “Up through the atmosphere, Up where the air is clear, Oh, let’s go fly a kite” That is just what researchers from the Geocoastal Research Group (GRG) have […]
The microbial signature of a reef
Hey guys, I came accross this article about ongoing research on the microbiota of coral (and algal!) reefs… click here Enjoy, Gus.
Brief anatomy of swell: a Sydney storm event
Winter has arrived in Sydney with the temperature actually dropping below 20 degrees throughout the day after what was an absurdly warm Autumn. The onset of winter means the coming of waves for […]
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