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Special Issue: Carbonate response to sea-level and environmental changes: Reading the past, informing the future

January 28, 2015by jodywebster Leave a comment

Hi All, For those interested in coral reefs and carbonate dominated sedimentary systems. Check out the link below to the special issue Gilbert Camoin and I guest edited in SEDIMENTOLOGY […]

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New GBR research published in the journal GEOLOGY

January 28, 2015by jodywebster Leave a comment

Hi all, Please check out the links below to media associated with the new GRG paper just published in GEOLOGY. http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newscategoryid=2&newsstoryid=14522 And for those fluent in Spanish! (go Ana) http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2354134/0/gran-barrera-coral/calentamiento-global/aumento-mar/ […]

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The Investigator having a break

December 21, 2014by ghinestrosa Leave a comment

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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The story of Helen the Hydra and the five groovy pirates

December 16, 2014by anavilaconcejo Leave a comment

I spent the last week on One Tree Island Research Station. A little paradise on Earth. We were a team of five including myself, Steph Duce, Allison Phillips, Tommy Fellowes […]

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Field Work, GRG Activities, Research
Allison and Tommy looking into the microscopes searching for foraminifera

Counting Sand

November 21, 2014by anavilaconcejo Leave a comment

Tommy Fellowes, Allison Phillips and I spent much of our time this semester staring down a microscope in a basement laboratory on the hunt for foraminifera. We have spent hours […]

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In case you missed it: women in science

November 19, 2014by anavilaconcejo Leave a comment

Just over a week ago, National Geographic published a thought-provoking article about the importance of women in science.  They make the case that it is not only about social equality, […]

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GRG and life
Mantoloking Bridge, New Jersey connecting to the Ocean County barrier island immediately after Hurricane Sandy (left), and the 100 days after the storm (right). Source: http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/07/16885463-100-days-after-hurricane-sandy-the-jersey-shore-slowly-recovers?lite

New GRG event: ‘Failure to Adapt! The US experience following Hurricane Sandy’

November 11, 2014by anavilaconcejo 1 Comment

‘Failure to Adapt! The US experience following Hurricane Sandy’ Monday 17 November 2014, 6 – 7:30pm History Room S223, The Quadrangle University of Sydney I am happy to announce that […]

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Update from Heron Island. Pulling up those fossil coral monsters!

November 6, 2014by Geocoastal Research Group Leave a comment

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 […]

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Drilling begins! Unlocking the history of Holocene climate change and reef growth in the Southern GBR

October 28, 2014by jodywebster Leave a comment

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) […]

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The Flipped Classroom

October 27, 2014by Samantha Clarke 1 Comment

A bit of news from the teaching and learning side of things… Last week I attended the launch of the Education Portfolio’s #edtech talks at The University of Sydney – a […]

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