Contact our project leads for more information about these highlighted projects and the other work we do within this node.
The Great Barrier Reef through the Quaternary
Using dated reef and sediment cores we identify the impact of environmental conditions on the health and composition of the Great Barrier Reef over the past hundreds of thousands of years.
Project lead: Gregory Webb
Palaeoecology of reef corals
We investigate long-term environmental data over broad spatial scales to discover the past and to predict future influences of natural variability, human impact and climate change on coral reefs.
Project lead: John Pandolfi
Sediment cores
We study past changes in ocean circulation, temperature, nutrients, and onshore climate to understand the evolution of Queensland’s climate, and the formation of the Great Barrier Reef.
Project lead: Patrick Moss
Southern Ocean
We seek to understand past changes at the polar front (Southern Ocean) over glacial/interglacial timescales to understand the mechanisms of past changes in CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.
Project lead: Helen Bostock
Antarctic margin
Working collaboratively with colleagues and the RV Investigator, we are studying past changes in ocean circulation, and glacial advance and retreat at the Antarctic margin.
Project lead: Helen Bostock
Weathering of ancient oceanic lithosphere
Using new kinematic, geochronologic and petrological data we investigate the efficiency of ophiolitic massifs in the SW Pacific region in capturing carbon.
Project leads: Derya Guerer, Mark Kendrick
Seafloor mapping
We are studying the seafloor topography to reconstruct plate tectonic histories based on kinematic data preserved in the oceans, namely marine magnetic anomalies, fracture zone geometries and hotspot tracks.
Project lead: Derya Guerer
