You are invited to join us for a THinking Space seminar series presentation by Joshua Cinner to launch the Thriving Oceans Research Hub tomorrow at 1pm AEST onine and in Madsen. Details below (Zoom ID 81441443721).

Now online and open access, here's a new piece with Mark Riboldi -- Navigating the dilemmas of mutual aid: International student organising in Sydney during the COVID‐19 pandemic #internationalstudents #mutualaid #careinfrastructures onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Oysters are essential for clean estuaries and thriving ecosystems, but overfishing, pollution, and climate change are threatening their existence.

Dr Mitch Gibbs SydneyUniGeo is working with First Nation Elders to explore coastal solutions.

Read more: tinyurl.com/2mt5cwed

Unauthorised road building in tropical forests is accelerating habitat destruction.

Prof Joshua Cinner SydneyUniGeo, with colleagues from James Cook Uni, found that there were up to six times more actual roads than those recorded in official datasets.

Read more: tinyurl.com/4tka6dma

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 in plate reconstructions. AuScope EarthByte SydneyUniGeo

Our next whole of school seminar is on tomorrow (Wed 17 April) online and in person - pleased to have Dr Elizabeth Humphrys (Elizabeth Humphrys) present on high heat stress impacts on workers.

1pm AEST, Madsen and Zoom

Details below, all welcome.

Coral reefs, climate change & mass bleaching: sobering lessons from One Tree Reef with our USYD masters students - read the latest blog from Jody Webster GRG USYD bit.ly/4aUSA91

Our new nature paper about how unmapped 'ghost roads' are having a huge environmental impact, which is missed by many human impact metrics. Led by #ECR superstar Jayden Engert

And that's a wrap! The MARS5007 field trip to the #GreatBarrierReef 's One Tree Island Research Station led by Jody Webster has finished on a high, and descibed as magical. Well done team!

Congratulations to Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz for her Australian Academy of Science recognition. Learn more about her fascinating research developing a digital map of global deep-sea sediments, and discovering a huge sediment pile in the SE Southern Ocean Indian Ridge!
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Research by Dr Nicky Wright and collaborators shows decades long mega-droughts in Australia are possible. Ice core data reveals they’re a natural part of Australian rainfall variability over the long term, which paired with climate change signals trouble: tinyurl.com/fbaaty7u

Congratulations to four science researchers from University of Sydney who have been recognised for their achievements with Australian Academy of Science honorific awards!

Congrats to:
🏅Dr Christopher Lustri
🏅Prof Anita Ho-Baillie
🏅Prof Tony Weiss
🏅Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz

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🆕Open-access🆓
Our analysis of #CriticalMineral strategies in Australia:
- Over $6.6bn for industrial upgrading
- Australia's high ESG standards an advantage
- but little upgrading of enviro outcomes or First Nations' rights
w Neil Coe SydneyUniGeo
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Our next Thinking Space seminar by Associate Professor Tyler Harlan is happening today at 1pm! See you either online or in-person. Details attached.

Join Gareth Bryant & Sophie Webber as they launch their new book: Climate Finance.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to understanding the political economy and economic geography shaping our responses to the climate crisis.

RSVP now: ow.ly/PPmT50QW738

Join Byrne lab with a panel of marine experts who will explore the beauty and mysteries of the deep sea and life through time.

Monday 8 April, 6 - 7pm (AEST)
In-person or on-demand
Register for free: ow.ly/fS7H50QWh7X

SydneyUniGeo Sydney Environment Institute One Tree Island Research Station

The next EarthByte seminar next Wed 27 March. Guo Dongshan from Zhejiang University will present research on t1.2 Myr obliquity cycles. Details and Zoom link at earthbyte.org/earthbyte-semi…

“Central coordination, parallel play, and/or agreeing to disagree all offer ways for an ecosystem of change to thrive.” Amanda Tattersall Amanda Tattersall (@sydneyunigeo) & Nina Hall Nina Hall (@JHU_BIPR) write about ways to collaborate for social change. ssir.org/articles/entry…

New research led by Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz from EarthByte in SydneyUniGeo identifies a 2.4-million-year cycle in the geological record that show the energy of deep-sea currents wax and wane as oceans cool and warm.

Read the full story : tinyurl.com/yfu2p78u

We're going on a volcano hunt, we're not scared! Maria Seton is out to find relationships between sources of volcanic material, & tectonic processes at in the Coral and Tasman Seas. Sydney Science SydneyUniGeo University of Sydney ARC. marine-science.sydney.edu.au/hunting-underw…