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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 17/10/2024

In time for #EarthScienceWeek our paper published in Nature Communications today explores how mantle plumes can act as an anchor ⚓️ and impede spreading ridge migration. BUT if the plume weakens, it can de-anchor from the ridge and facilitate rapid ridge migration. rdcu.be/dXdKS

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 06/09/2024

Very proud of Sydney Uni PhD student, Chris Alfonso, who just published his 1st paper in GSA Bulletin! 👏 This project used spatio-temporal data mining (powered by #pyGPlates + #gplately) and machine learning to help find new porphyry copper deposits. t.co/ZbIMIGgSPa

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https://doi.org/10.1130/B37614.1

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 16/04/2024

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! www.earthbyte.org/download-gpl...

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Download GPlates 2.5 – EarthByte

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 20/02/2024

The illustrations look amazing! I just pledged on the kickstarter. Can I get a sneak peak at EGU?

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Dr. Lucia Perez-Diaz @drlperezdiaz.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

We are LIVE on #Kickstarter. I repeat, we are LIVE! This is not a drill! Support QUARTETnary for as little as €1 and help us bring science to the table! 🦕🌱🌎https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/irisvanzelst/quartetnary/

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QUARTETnary - The card game about the geological time scale

Discover the history of the Earth by collecting mountains, animals, and plants to complete your time scale!

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IsotopeDude @isotopedude.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Interested in how moisture availability tracked temperature over the past 350 ka? Check out our new Nature paper for some surprising conclusions!🙂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 04/02/2024

1st day of orientation week tomorrow. If this is anything to go by, it’s going to be one to remember!

University of Sydney conservative club next to the socialist alternative club

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 02/02/2024

Very nice to host @geoniette.bsky.social at EarthByte as part of our Sydney Uni 🤝 Glasgow Uni Ignition Grant on how variations in subduction angle affect volcanism and porphyry copper formation. A great start the year with lots of productive conversations and collaborations!

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 20/01/2024

That would be unsyncable!

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 20/01/2024

Microsoft OneDrive is the dumpster fire of file synchronisation 🗑️🔥 Am I right?

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 14/12/2023

Very interesting research! Do you know where I can download the CO2 curve? I can find the proxy data used to generate the CO2 curve linked in the paper, but I missed a link to the curve itself. 🧐

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 29/11/2023

A huge congratulations to Emma Chambers from DIAS, Dublin on uncovering the thermal structure of Ireland 👏 This was a huge effort incorporating many geophysical datasets to help explore for geothermal energy prospects in Ireland 🇮🇪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Determining subsurface temperature & lithospheric structure from joint geophysical-petrological inve...

High quality maps of the geothermal gradient and temperature are essential when assessing geothermal potential for a region. However, determining geot…

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 11/11/2023

Yes! Great album ❤️ I think ‘Australia’ is one of my all time favs (and I’m not just saying that because I’m from 🇦🇺)

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 08/11/2023

Beautiful. I think it also looks like a slice of bacon 🥓

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 08/11/2023

Did you try a Philly cheesesteak? I thought spray-on cheese was a myth until I saw one with my own 👀

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 04/11/2023

The jacarandas are incredible in Sydney 💜 (even towards the end of their season)

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Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Reminder that this Lecturer (~Assistant Prof) position in Geospatial Sciences and 3D analysis is closing on Oct 29 (Hobart time). Come and join the team! careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/49...

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Current Vacancies

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 16/10/2023

These rocks were harassed at a road cutting near Maydena, Tasmania.

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 13/10/2023

This is a HUGE improvement to the DECRA application process. It’s now much shorter and has some welcome tweaks to the weightings for each category.

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 13/10/2023

We just need to convince the ARC to fund such a project!

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Louis Moresi @louis.moresi.info · 12/10/2023

In Australia, the absence of relief in the interior means that the timescales of groundwater flow can be even older ... maybe even millions of years. And, interestingly, this means that tilting due to dynamic stresses from the mantle may influence the flow patterns.

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Ancient groundwater: Why the water you're drinking may be thousands of years old

As surface water diminishes in the Western US, people are drilling deeper wells – and tapping into older groundwater that can take thousands of years to replenish naturally.

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 11/10/2023

You know you’re on a geology field trip when the view takes a back seat #subice2023

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 07/10/2023

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt” - Abraham Lincoln I can’t help think of this as we approach the referendum to enshrine a Voice in the Australian constitution. If we vote no it could set us back decades. 😨

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Ben Mather @benmather.info · 04/10/2023

Woo hoo! Feels good to be flee the nest 🐥 and thanks @phlog-phanatic.bsky.social for the warm welcome 🤗

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