Earth and Environmental Science

Earth and environmental science research has long been a cornerstone of NCI’s user base. Through integrated high-performance computing and data, NCI is a central hub for many of the weather, climate, earth-observation and geoscience activities of the Australian research community and national science agencies.

Screenshot from a visualisation of ice-shelf melting by Dr Madelaine Rosevear, showing a cube with ice meltrate in shades of blue on the top and vertical velocity of water in the ocean underneath.

13 Apr 2021

A new mechanism for ice-shelf melting

The interplay between land ice, sea ice, oceans and the atmosphere plays a big role in determining the weather of coming seasons, and the climate of coming decades. The melting of ice sheets impacts

Screenshot from the Open Air video art project by Grayson Cooke. The video shows time lapse image sequences of the Australian landscape made using satellite imagery, interspersed with macro photography of paintings being created. The screenshot shows a river and lake in false colour blue, with lots of tiny clouds and the red outback.

Research Highlights

01 Mar 2021

Science infrastructure central to award winning art

Earth and Environmental Science

Technology

For the second year in a row, NCI’s supercomputing and big data infrastructure plays a central role in the winning entry of the prestigious Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. The winning artwork

Bushfire among trees in Australia, November 2019

Research Highlights

29 Jan 2021

Supercomputer Fire Modelling

Earth and Environmental Science

Australia’s need for a powerful and predictive bushfire modelling capability has never been clearer. The 2019-20 bushfire season showed just how widespread, unpredictable and terrifying bushfires can

A visualisation of ocean currents showing rapidly swirling streams in yellow, red and black.

Research Highlights

30 Sep 2020

A new understanding of global ocean currents

Earth and Environmental Science

The way our oceans flow – in huge circular gyres the size of continents – is an intricate effect of millimetre-sized turbulence that grows to affect global circulation patterns thousands of kilometres

Research Highlights

19 Jun 2020

Protecting lives and property from extreme bushfire

Earth and Environmental Science

MAJOR POINTS Current research aims to predict when and where a catastrophic bushfire will strike. Such research would help protect life and property from future extreme bushfires. NCI is a critical

Dr Kate Robertson sits in scrubby bush in a field operating scientific equipment.

Research Highlights

16 Jun 2020

Making mining models with magnetic minerals

Earth and Environmental Science

THE CHALLENGE Australian Geophysicists are mapping the possible location of economic mineral deposits in South Australia and relying on the NCI to produce advanced 3D models of the subsurface. The

ALCG letters in blue on transparent computer background.

Research Highlights

23 Apr 2020

Enabling groundbreaking science with the largest compute grants in Australian history

Astronomy

Earth and Environmental Science

Engineering

NCI Australia is proud to support incredible Australian research through the inaugural Australasian Leadership Computing Grants (ALCG).The highly competitive Grant will allow researchers to tackle the

Research Highlights

17 Dec 2019

Pixel mosaic makes for new view of the bare Australian ground

Earth and Environmental Science

THE CHALLENGE: Satellites have been orbiting the earth for decades, all the while taking pictures of the ground below. The pictures they take get processed and stored, and after a while, archived

Map showing electrical resistivity at 20km depth from the South Australian AusLAMP magnetotelluric data.

Research Highlights

11 Dec 2019

Magnetotellurics Data Rescue – Raised from the Depths of the Earth, Enabled for the Virtual World

Earth and Environmental Science

Decades of scientific measurements that once languished in desk drawers in offices around the country are now available at NCI through a concerted data rescue effort. The measurements in question are

A forest of tall green trees viewed from above. Tall narrow trunks can be seen disappearing down under all the trees.

Research Highlights

14 Oct 2019

Predicting vegetation condition using satellite water measurements

Earth and Environmental Science

Satellite data is central to so much of modern life, including much of our environmental monitoring programs. From satellites, you can get data about vegetation, water and so much more. In fact, the

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Earth and Environmental Science

A new mechanism for ice-shelf melting

Science infrastructure central to award winning art

Supercomputer Fire Modelling

A new understanding of global ocean currents

Protecting lives and property from extreme bushfire

Making mining models with magnetic minerals

Enabling groundbreaking science with the largest compute grants in Australian history

Pixel mosaic makes for new view of the bare Australian ground

Magnetotellurics Data Rescue – Raised from the Depths of the Earth, Enabled for the Virtual World

Predicting vegetation condition using satellite water measurements

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