Research in Earth Sciences
Earth Sciences encompasses a wide range of interdisciplinary research focusing on many aspects of our natural environment. Joint research exists with CSIRO Marine Research, CSIRO Land and Water, Mines and Energy, Department for Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation, and others.
Geophysics
- Marine Geophysics: marine electromagnetism, marine geophysical exploration, fluid flow in continental margins, modelling and inversion
- Crystal Geophysics: magneto-meter array studies, micro-pulsation and airborne geomagnetism, microgravity surveys, high-frequency electro-magnetism methods
- Environmental Geophysics: ground penetrating radar for engineering and archaeological problems
Field measurements and numerical modelling related to: water and thermal energy budgets of surfaces, solar and terrestrial radiation streams, land/sea breeze dynamics, atmosphere/ocean interaction, maritime meterology.
Oceanography
Field measurements and numerical modelling related to: the role of water masses in climate research, water mass formation processes, ocean circulation, dynamics of oceanic fronts, sea level variability and climate change, coastal and estuarine processes, upwelling.
Hydrology
- Regional and catchment scale hydrologic investigation
- Hydrological characteristics of the vadose zone
- Chemical reactions and transport in soils
- Simulating chemical transport in soil
- Land use and water quality
- Environmental tracers: hydro-chemistry and isotopes
- Groundwater recharge and residence times
- Natural salt lakes hydro-chemistry
- Groundwater hydrology
- Groundwater contamination and variable-density groundwater flow and solute transport
- Groundwater flow and solute transport simulation models
- Salt lakes and saline disposal basins, salinity issues
- Fractured rock flow and transport processes
- Heterogeneity and stochastic subsurface hydrogeology
- Visual flow and transport laboratory experimentation Geology/Geochemistry
- Geochemistry of aquifer storage and recovery
- Geochemistry of soils and fossil soils including stable isotopes of C, O and Sr
- Surficial processes, landscape evolution, and regolith studies
- Clay sedimentology and palaeoclimate of Southern continents
- Cave processes and sedimentology of stable isotopic analysis (Sr, O, C, N) and dating of speleothems, clay minerals and fossil bone
