Hi everyone.  Kellie and I were reflecting on the blog posts this year and thought it would be interesting to have a look at the stats and see what the most popular blog posts were for 2016. #3 – Results, […]

Our successful work on energy absorbing materials has attracted the Newcastle Innovation award. Further details can be found here.

Our Honours and MPhil students have presented their projects at the HEDG (Hunter Earth Sciences Discussion Group). Sean Melehan, Unravelling long-distance facies associations and sequence stratigraphy of the northern Sydney Basin Sebastian Wong, Provenance and structural evolution of the Yancannia […]

  Hi there.  We have been having a few technical difficulties with the website this week although it appears to be working now.  However, if there is no new activity (i.e. new blog posts) for a while then you can assume our […]

I remember vividly that period of limbo after finishing the last exam of the semester (Yay) and waiting for final grades to be released (Eek).  I would have one foot in holiday mode and the other stuck in an avalanche […]

Well it’s Hump Week. The first week of Semester 2 exams are done and there is only one week to go after this Friday. Woo Hoo!! I am guessing most people are pretty tired by this time of the year […]

Human Geography PhD candidate Lara Daley recently gave a progress seminar on her research into urban anti-capitalist politics. Lara is exploring the frictions between anti-capitalist protests at the G20 summit in Brisbane. An abstract of her research is below. “Global […]

Fear and anxiety are natural reactions to scary events, when the fear and anxiety become overwhelming, you experience panic.  You might notice your heart pounding, sweating, trembling, difficulty breathing, chest pain, nausea, numbness, feeling detached from yourself, or fear you […]

PhD candidate Aeng Phaengsuwan recently gave a progress seminar as part of his PhD research. Aeng’s research explores the efficacy of EIA as an assessment tool in the hydropower development processes in Laos. An abstract of his research is below. […]

In this blogpost, I’d like to introduce you to Ms Elicia Taylor. Elicia has been helping me prepare stories and images for the posts since I started this blog, and she is herself in the middle of researching a fascinating […]

  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195116304735 The detachment or breakoff of subducted lithosphere is investigated using scaled three-dimensional thermo-mechanical analogue experiments in which forces are measured and deformation is monitored using high-speed particle imaging velocimetry (PIV). The experiments demonstrate that the convergence rate in […]

TYPEFACE DESIGN PROJECT DESN1102 Second Semester Graphic Design in Practice GRAPHIC DESIGN IN PRACTICE A key to unlocking typographic expression is awareness of legibility, and one of the best ways to learn is to design your own typeface. The aim of […]