Ben Mather

In time for #EarthScienceWeek our paper published in Nature Communications today explores how mantle plumes can act as an anchor ⚓️ and impede spreading ridge migration.

BUT if the plume weakens, it can de-anchor from the ridge and facilitate rapid ridge migration.

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Very proud of Sydney Uni PhD student, Chris Alfonso, who just published his 1st paper in GSA Bulletin! 👏 This project used spatio-temporal data mining (powered by #pyGPlates + #gplately) and machine learning to help find new porphyry copper deposits.

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Just in time for #EGU24 — GPlates 2.5 has just been released, now with subduction teeth! 🦷 This long awaited feature means there’s no more second-guessing your subduction polarity!

www.earthbyte.org/download-gpl...

The illustrations look amazing! I just pledged on the kickstarter. Can I get a sneak peak at EGU?

QUARTETnary - The card game about the geological time scale Discover the history of the Earth by collecting mountains, animals, and plants to complete your time scale!

We are LIVE on #Kickstarter. I repeat, we are LIVE! This is not a drill!

Support QUARTETnary for as little as €1 and help us bring science to the table! 🦕🌱🌎https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/irisvanzelst/quartetnary/

Interested in how moisture availability tracked temperature over the past 350 ka? Check out our new
Nature paper for some surprising conclusions!🙂
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

University of Sydney conservative club next to the socialist alternative club

1st day of orientation week tomorrow. If this is anything to go by, it’s going to be one to remember!

Very nice to host @geoniette.bsky.social at EarthByte as part of our Sydney Uni 🤝 Glasgow Uni Ignition Grant on how variations in subduction angle affect volcanism and porphyry copper formation. A great start the year with lots of productive conversations and collaborations!

That would be unsyncable!

Microsoft OneDrive is the dumpster fire of file synchronisation 🗑️🔥 Am I right?

Thanks!

Very interesting research! Do you know where I can download the CO2 curve? I can find the proxy data used to generate the CO2 curve linked in the paper, but I missed a link to the curve itself. 🧐

A huge congratulations to Emma Chambers from DIAS, Dublin on uncovering the thermal structure of Ireland 👏 This was a huge effort incorporating many geophysical datasets to help explore for geothermal energy prospects in Ireland 🇮🇪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yes! Great album ❤️
I think ‘Australia’ is one of my all time favs (and I’m not just saying that because I’m from 🇦🇺)

Beautiful. I think it also looks like a slice of bacon 🥓

Did you try a Philly cheesesteak? I thought spray-on cheese was a myth until I saw one with my own 👀

Jacaranda tree

The jacarandas are incredible in Sydney 💜 (even towards the end of their season)

Current Vacancies

Reminder that this Lecturer (~Assistant Prof) position in Geospatial Sciences and 3D analysis is closing on Oct 29 (Hobart time). Come and join the team!

careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/49...

These rocks were harassed at a road cutting near Maydena, Tasmania.

Bang on! 👏👏

This is a HUGE improvement to the DECRA application process. It’s now much shorter and has some welcome tweaks to the weightings for each category.

We just need to convince the ARC to fund such a project!

Ancient groundwater: Why the water you're drinking may be thousands of years old As surface water diminishes in the Western US, people are drilling deeper wells – and tapping into older groundwater that can take thousands of years to replenish naturally.

In Australia, the absence of relief in the interior means that the timescales of groundwater flow can be even older ... maybe even millions of years.

And, interestingly, this means that tilting due to dynamic stresses from the mantle may influence the flow patterns.

You know you’re on a geology field trip when the view takes a back seat #subice2023

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt” - Abraham Lincoln

I can’t help think of this as we approach the referendum to enshrine a Voice in the Australian constitution. If we vote no it could set us back decades. 😨

Woo hoo! Feels good to be flee the nest 🐥 and thanks @phlog-phanatic.bsky.social for the warm welcome 🤗