🎉 Big congrats to Adele Pentland on taking 3rd place in the international Visualise Your Thesis competition! 🎉Check out her presentation, Pterosaurs from the Early to Mid-Cretaceous of Australia🏆 Curtin Media visualiseyourthesis.figshare.com/articles/prese…

Last Friday, our students Luke Brosnan Morgane Loïs Perret Lévesque, Andy Jian and Hridya Vijay did a brilliant job presenting posters and talks at the GESSS conference! 🌍 Congrats to Luke for winning Best Talk (Paleontology) & Morgane for Best Poster! 🏆 Geological Society of Australia Inc Curtin Media

🌏 A PhD in Australia: a unique journey! Proud to share my story on the Studies Up blog! 🔍 Fossil turtle research on Lord Howe Island 🎓 Life as an international PhD student in Perth ✨ Tips for studying/researching abroad #PhD WA Organic & Isotope Geochemistry Centre Curtin University studiesup.com/doctorat-perth…

🔬✨ Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! ✨🔬 On this 10th #IDWGS, we celebrate the incredible contributions and achievements of women in science and support the push for gender equality in STEM! 🌍💡#WomenInScience

🚀 WA-OIGC is officially a ROC-supported Centre! 🚀 We celebrated this exciting milestone on March 14th with our collaborators, stakeholders, and team members. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us—here’s to the future of geochemistry research! 🌍🔬 Curtin Media

🎉 Congratulations to Hridya Vijay! 🎉 Hridya has been awarded the ASM WA Branch Student Travel Award for her incredible research on exceptional preservation in ginkgo and fern leaves incubated in microbial mats from Shark Bay. 🌿🔬 Curtin Media ASM

🌍 Meet the WA-OIGC team at Cosmos on Campus! 🌌 Join us Fri 2 May at 7:30pm for our panel: Ancient Earth & Remarkable Fossils – where WA-OIGC scientists reveal how past ecosystems help tackle today’s climate challenges. 📍 Curtin University | 🗓️ 2–3 May | 🔗 eventbrite.com.au/e/cosmos-on-ca…

🦕 Curious about a sauropod’s last meal? Join us tonight Fri 2 May at 6pm to hear from Stephen Poropat about about "Judy" the Diamantinasaurus and her fossilised gut contents at #CosmosOnCampus! 🌿🦴 📍Curtin University | 📷2–3 May | 🔗eventbrite.com.au/e/cosmos-on-ca…

We had a stellar time at #CosmosOnCampus! 🌌🌍WA-OIGC shared ancient and modern Earth stories—from Judy the sauropod’s fossilised gut 🦕to ocean floor drilling 🌊. Big thanks to all who joined us for a night of science, fossils & future thinking! Curtin University Curtin Media

🌏 Who are we at WA-OIGC? Meet the team uncovering Earth’s secrets—from ancient fossils to modern environmental change. 🦴🧪🌿 Watch our centre video to see how geochemistry helps us understand the past and shape a sustainable future! 🎥👇 youtu.be/L3nD4OhkeyA

🐢 WA-OIGC is on a fossil hunt at Lord Howe Island! The team is searching for horned turtle Meiolania platyceps fossils. PhD student Morgane Loïs Perret Lévesque will study its anatomy and ecology to uncover how it lived and what it tells us about past ecosystems. 🌿🦴🔬

🦖 We had a blast at WA Museum Boola Bardip’s Dino Lab for WA Day! Three WA-OIGC speakers— Luke Brosnan Luke Brosnan, Adele Pentland Adele Pentland & Rhys Meyerkort—shared fossil insights on bone marrow, pterosaurs & marine reptiles 🦴🌊

🌍WA-OIGC joined the ICDP Workshop: M-JET in Portugal last week! Amy Elson repped Australasia, helping plan a future drill project to unlock Middle Jurassic climate & fossil records from the Cabo Mondego Formation. ICDP ANZIC

Selected as a FameLab Australia semi-finalist! ✨ Honoured to represent Curtin University & share my passion for extinct horned turtles 🐢💀 Thanks to the team for the incredible #SciComm training! WA Organic & Isotope Geochemistry Centre #WomenInSTEM #Fossils

🦕 We’ve uncovered the last meal of a 95-million-year-old sauropod dinosaur! 🌿 Stephen Poropat’s new research reveals Australia’s first gut contents in a sauropod – offering fresh insight into what giants like “Judy” really ate. 📹 Watch more: youtu.be/rew4U1wZLMQ Curtin University

🎉 Congratulations to our staff at the 2024 Science & Engineering PV-C Staff Excellence Awards! 👏 Lisa Smith received the Award for Excellence in Professional Services. 🎓 Stephen Poropat was part of the Applied Geology team that won the Award for Teaching Excellence.

🌟 We're hiring at WA-OIGC – Curtin University! 🌟 🔬 Open Roles: 1️⃣Associate Professor – Microbiologist/Geobiologist 📎 staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancies/… 2️⃣Research Associate – Analytical Chemist/Geochemist 📎 staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancies/…

🐢 What ancient wonders lie beneath Lord Howe Island? Morgane Loïs Perret Lévesque & Dr Stephen Poropat share how we are uncovering the story of the horned turtle Meiolania platyceps 🌍Curtin University youtu.be/2NkWTi5poy4?si…

💩🔬 Ancient droppings, modern science! Research led by Madison Tripp shows iron carbonate grains in 300M-yr-old coprolites acted as tiny time capsules, preserving biomolecules that reveal ancient diets & ecosystems. 🌍✨ Read more 👉 curtin.edu.au/news/media-rel… Curtin Media

🌊📷 It’s been 1 year since Lisa Smith joined #IODPExp405 at the Japan Trench. She’s now heading back to Japan for the post-cruise meeting to hear the latest science 📷📷 JAMSTEC 海洋研究開発機構 ＼海と地球の研究所／ ANZIC CHIKYU 地球深部探査船「ちきゅう」 youtu.be/KMjJ92sWqXw