The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) is a transformational initiative
that enables Australian research community and industry access to nationally
significant, leading edge data intensive einfrastructure, platforms, skills
and collections of high-quality data. In partnerships with organisations, the ARDC
leads facilitations that work towards a coherent research environment to enable
researchers to find, access, contribute to and effectively use services to maximise
research quality and impact. The ARDC is funded by the Australian Government's
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
Provides geoscientists with a world-class research ‘toolkit’ to help tackle
Australia’s key geoscience challenges and improve Australian life and the
environment. AuScope is funded by the Australian Government's National
Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) is Australia’s leading high-performance
data, storage and computing organisation, providing expert services to benefit all
domains of science, government and industry. NCI brings the Australian Government
and the Australian research sector together through a broad collaboration involving
the largest national science agencies, universities, industry and the Australian
Research Council. NCI is supported by the Australian Government's National Collaborative
Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
Geoscience Australia is Australia's pre-eminent public sector geoscience organisation. We
are the nation's trusted advisor on the geology and geography of Australia. We apply
science and technology to describe and understand the Earth for the benefit of Australia.
D. Rhodri Davies
... is an associate professor at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the ANU.
He is recognised for developing and integrating state-of-the-art tools that simulate mantle and lithosphere dynamics,
with a diverse range of observational datasets. His long-term vision is to develop a new paradigm for solid Earth evolution
with the overarching goal of reconstructing the thermo-chemical structure and flow history of Earth’s mantle and its
evolution through space and time (4-D).
Sia Ghelichkhan
... is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the ANU. His main research interest is convection
within Earth’s mantle and constraining the rheological and thermodynamic parameters of mantle rocks, by means of numerical and
analytical methods to solve the forward and inverse problem of mantle convection. Sia is specifically interested in comparisons
of inverse models against the observations of topographic changes at Earth’s surface and the subsequent change in gravity in response
to convection within the mantle.
Angus Gibson
... is a research software engineer at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the ANU. His key interest is in synthesising the need for
high performance computing with the demands of science, in the fields of geodynamics and geophysical fluid dynamics. This happens
through the development, maintenance and support of tools for modelling and analysis, and optimisation of models to run efficiently
on current and future supercomputers.
Stephan Kramer
... is a research felllow at the department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. He is an
expert in the development of tools integrating state of the art numerical and computational techniques that
enable cutting edge research in a variety of fields within the Earth Sciences, ranging from geodynamics to
coastal oceanography. One of his key interests is the combination of modern automatic programming approaches and
adjoint techniques to solve PDE-constrained inversion and optimisation problems.
David Ham
... is a Reader in Computational Mathematics at Imperial College London, Department of Mathematics. He leads the Firedrake project,
a large project on the automatic generation of scientific models for multiple
different massively parallel architectures from a single high-level mathematical specification in a domain
specific language.
