The Laureate
About the project
A grand science quest is to understand how our life-nurturing planet came to be.
This Fellowship aims to use abundant geological information to build a tectonic, bathymetric and topographic digital twin of the Earth’s surface through its middle age (1800–500 million years ago)—then apply this to investigate how deep earth processes including earthquakes, volcanos and plate tectonics endowed our planet with critical metals and built a habitable
world.
Contributing Researchers
Leading the project is
Professor Alan S Collins, Mawson Chair at Adelaide University, with a large team of academic, post-doctoral researchers as well as PhD and Hons students - all contributing to the researcher outputs.
Key team members are:
Andrew Merdith, xxxx
Morgan Blades, xxx
Outputs from the research
Outcomes include ground-breaking data-driven geology and actualistic deep-time full-earth modelling that
have not been attempted before.
Expected benefits include de-risking mineral exploration, therefore providing jobs, and honing our responses to challenges facing the modern-day biosphere.
Most recent publications / outputs
Ensure your geological research papers and data sets adhere to our archival standards. We prioritize studies that contribute to our understanding of lithospheric dynamics and crustal evolution.
