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.

14 Oct 2016

Australia-focused environmental monitoring solution

Supercomputing infrastructure is helping scientists from the University of Technology Sydney produce satellite data products for vegetation and land monitoring. The researchers have analysed terabytes

Research Highlights

21 Sep 2016

Mapping the electric underground

Earth and Environmental Science

The National Computational Infrastructure has generated new optimisation solutions to help resolve important details emerging from magnetotelluric studies of the Australian continent. Magnetotellurics

Bushfire fuel on The Australian continent.

Research Highlights

12 Sep 2016

Incorporating satellite imagery in bushfire prevention

Earth and Environmental Science

Collaborative work between researchers from The Australian National University and NCI is leading to new understandings about bushfires and bushfire prevention. Dr Marta Yebra from the Bushfires and

Nerilie Abram holds a long white object on a table, with large scientific equipment around her.

Research Highlights

25 Aug 2016

Humans have caused climate change for 180 years

Earth and Environmental Science

An international research project has found human activity has been causing global warming for almost two centuries, proving human-induced climate change is not just a 20th century phenomenon. Lead

Lake Eyre Kathi-Thanda viewed from space, several blue and white lakes surrounded by red desert.

Research Highlights

14 Jul 2016

Working together to build national datasets

Earth and Environmental Science

Technology

NCI is the platform of collaboration between our fellow NCRIS facilities the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) and the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN). Working together, we are

Research Highlights

14 Jul 2016

Revolutionising satellite data analysis

Earth and Environmental Science

Technology

NCI is working with our Collaborating Partner Geoscience Australia (GA) to unlock more than two petabytes of geoscience data of national policymaking significance. With support from the Australian

Bolts of lightning over the red rocks of Kata Tjuta in the Central Australian desert.

Research Highlights

14 Jul 2016

Scaling massive models

Earth and Environmental Science

Technology

For the past two years, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has been working closely with NCI to test and refine their next-generation national weather prediction models. "We're trialling our

A large circle overlaid on a road shows the relatively low precision on 2015 GPS while a much smaller circle shows the precision of 2020 GPS.

Research Highlights

01 Jul 2016

How new computational methods will improve the accuracy of satellite navigation

Earth and Environmental Science

Technology

In a time where global positioning devices are cheap and plentiful, it's actually becoming harder than ever to define where exactly 'here' is. For example, global processes such as plate tectonics

Andrew Smith stands in a hollow in the ice while holding a long cylindrical ice core.

Research Highlights

03 Jun 2016

Tracking the Sun's history

Earth and Environmental Science

Raijin is helping researchers to track variations in the Sun's activity over recent millennia. Dr Andrew Smith at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has been making

A map of the depth of the Pacific Ocean showing the bendy Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain.

Research Highlights

12 May 2016

Bendy volcanic chain shaken at the Earth's core

Earth and Environmental Science

Thursday 12 May 2016 A collaborative research project between the University of Sydney and the Californian Institute of Technology has solved a long standing geological mystery – just how the distinct

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Earth and Environmental Science

Australia-focused environmental monitoring solution

Mapping the electric underground

Incorporating satellite imagery in bushfire prevention

Humans have caused climate change for 180 years

Working together to build national datasets

Revolutionising satellite data analysis

Scaling massive models

How new computational methods will improve the accuracy of satellite navigation

Tracking the Sun's history

Bendy volcanic chain shaken at the Earth's core

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