Research Projects
Plate kinematics to plate dynamics: understanding plate boundary processes at the global scale
A/Prof LN Moresi (Chief Investigator), in collaboration with external researcher Prof. H. Muhlhaus
Funding for 2006: $150,000 (received in School of Mathematics) (ARC Discovery Project)
This proposal aims to create geodynamic models which can be used a basis for a new, smart resource exploration and extraction industry which uses simulation to help characterize regions where traditional geophysical imaging alone is not able to penetrate. It provides essential scientific underpinnings for The Australian Computational Earth System Simulator Major National Research Facility (ACcESS).
The Australian Computational Earth System Simulator (ACcESS)
Assoc. Prof. L. Moresi
Funding for 2006: $96,155 (MNRF)
ACcESS is a national earth sciences initiative, one of the fifteen new major national research facilities (and one of the two facilities funded in the physical sciences) established by the Australian Government in 2001. The facility is jointly funded by the Federal Government, MNRF core partners, the Victorian and Western Australian governments, and MNRF affiliates.
Previously unachievable simulations of the dynamics of the entire earth will lead to breakthroughs in the understanding of the earth's evolution at various scales; the physics of crustal fault systems; and geological processes such as tectonics and mineralisation.
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