Honours in Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Geoscience
Join the Department of Earth Sciences for your honours project and you will be a member of a research team working at the leading edge of geological and geophysical sciences.
We offer three honours programs which are led by teaching and research staff who are international leaders in their fields of science:
- Honours in Geology
- Honours in Geophysics
- Honours in Environmental Geoscience
Our honours handbook will provide you with an in-depth summary of what an honours degree with us will involve and the available projects for 2020.
Earth sciences honours projects
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Geology
The Proterozoic Planetary Pivot: Oxygen, Snowballs and Metals
Honours project: A MinEx CRC project looking at how sediments of the Adelaide Superbasin record the Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event.
Read more about Oxygen, Snowballs and Metals
The fire down below: Heat generation in the lower crust
Honours project: Help develop a crustal radioactivity model using pieces of rock brought to the surface and trapped in lavas.
Read more about Heat generation in the lower crust
Compositional controls on physical properties: new constraints from laboratory measurements
Honours projects: Improve predictive models of density and thermal conductivity to improve geophysical models by making new lab measurements.
Read more about new constraints from laboratory measurements
The Impact of Fluid Flow on Crustal Radioactivity: Pushing heat around during tectonic reworking
Honours project: Head into the field to analyse natural radioactivity of fluid-altered crust.
Read more about Pushing heat around during tectonic reworking
Nanosatellites and drone geophysics: new technologies for Earth, Moon and Mars
Honours project: Be part of the exciting space exploration program, connecting remote networks of geophysical sensors to satellites.
Read more about new technologies for Earth, Moon and Mars
Noble gases in ancient fluid droplets in minerals
Honours projects: Extract rare noble gas isotopes from specific mineral phases such as quartz.
Read more about Noble gases in ancient fluid droplets in minerals
Crustal evolution through the lens of apatite crystals
Honours project: Contribute to the development of a new archive of the evolution of the continents.
Read more about Crustal evolution through the lens of apatite crystals
What goes down, must come up?
Honours project: Explore the chemistry of magma to trace what the inputs to volcanoes are at depth.
Read more about What goes down, must come up?
The Curnamona Cube
Honours projects: Fly across remote Australia in a helicopter, for one of the world's biggest geophysical science projects.
Read more about The Curnamona Cube
Fossils under a new light
Honours projects: Use new fluorescence imaging techniques to analyse fossils that range in age from half-a-billion to some tens of thousands of years old.
Read more about Fossils under a new light -
Geophysics
Compositional controls on physical properties: new constraints from laboratory measurements
Honours projects: Improve predictive models of density and thermal conductivity to improve geophysical models by making new lab measurements.
Read more about new constraints from laboratory measurements
The Impact of Fluid Flow on Crustal Radioactivity: Pushing heat around during tectonic reworking
Honours project: Head into the field to analyse natural radioactivity of fluid-altered crust.
Read more about Pushing heat around during tectonic reworking
Nanosatellites and drone geophysics: new technologies for Earth, Moon and Mars
Honours project: Be part of the exciting space exploration program, connecting remote networks of geophysical sensors to satellites.
Read more about new technologies for Earth, Moon and Mars
Predicting concentration-gradient-driven fluid flow in 2D membranes
Honours project: Chemistry honours opportunities that aim to predict concentration-gradient-driven fluid flow in two-dimensional (2D) membranes.
Read more about Predicting concentration-gradient-driven fluid flow in 2D membranes
The Curnamona Cube
Honours projects: Fly across remote Australia in a helicopter, for one of the world's biggest geophysical science projects.
Read more about The Curnamona Cube -
Environmental geoscience
Noble gases in ancient fluid droplets in minerals
Honours projects: Extract rare noble gas isotopes from specific mineral phases such as quartz.
Read more about Noble gases in ancient fluid droplets in minerals
Fossils under a new light
Honours projects: Use new fluorescence imaging techniques to analyse fossils that range in age from half-a-billion to some tens of thousands of years old.
Read more about Fossils under a new light
It’s space water, but not as we know it
Honours projects: Explore laser-induced fluorescence of water and aqueous minerals for space applications.
Read more about It’s space water, but not as we know it
Reconstructing past marine life using ancient DNA
Honours project: Reconstruct past marine life using ancient DNA from deep ocean sediments.
Read more about Reconstructing past marine life using ancient DNA
Spatial information, environmental remote sensing & GIS
Honours project: Use spatial information tools and data in a wide range of applications and settings, including terrestrial, wetland and marine ecology, wildlife and habitats, land assessment and management and earth science.
Read more about Spatial information, environmental remote sensing & GIS
Key contacts
Dr Derrick Hasterok
Geology and Geophysics Honours Coordinator
Dr Jonathan Tyler
Environmental Geoscience Honours Coordinator
Dr Katie Howard
Teaching Support Officer