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Joanne Whittaker

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Associate Professor, University of Tasmania

Jo's research focuses on using marine geophysical and geological datasets to understand how the interaction of upper mantle convection patterns and surface plate tectonics shape the formation of ocean basins and continental margins. Studying plate tectonic and mantle processes in concert allows her to understand both horizontal plate tectonic driven process and vertical mantle driven processes that together control the evolution of ocean basins over millions of years.

Experience

  • 2013–present
    Marine Geoscientist, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
  • 2009–2013
    Post-doctoral researcher, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
  • 2008–2009
    Geodynamicist, Getech

Education

  • 2008 
    PhD, University of Sydney
  • 2005 
    MSc, Victoria University of Wellington
  • 2004 
    BSci(1st class hons)/BCom, University of Sydney

Publications

  • 2014
    Community infrastructure and repository for marine magnetic anomalies, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
  • 2014
    Authigenic monazite and detrital zircon dating from the Proterozoic Rocky Cape Group, Tasmania: links to the Belt-Purcell Supergroup, Precambrian Research
  • 2013
    Revised tectonic evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
  • 2013
    The breakup of East Gondwana: assimilating constraints from Cretaceous ocean basins around India into a best-fit tectonic model,, Journal of Geophysical Research
  • 2013
    Full-fit reconstruction of the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay, EGU Solid Earth
  • 2013
    Early India-Australia spreading history revealed by newly detected Mesozoic magnetic anomalies in the Perth Abyssal Plain, Journal of Geophysical Research
  • 2013
    Global Sediment Thickness Dataset updated for the Australian-Antarctic Southern Ocean, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
  • 2012
    A tool for visualising and refining plate tectonic reconstructions using high resolution geophysical data sets, GSA Today
  • 2012
    Displacement along the Red River Fault constrained by extension estimates and plate reconstructions, Tectonics
  • 2012
    Constraining the Jurassic extent of Greater India: tectonic evolution of the Western Australian margin, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
  • 2012
    Insights on the kinematics of the India-Eurasia collision from global geodynamic models, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
  • 2011
    Full-fit, palinspastic reconstruction of the conjugate Australian-Antarctic margins, Tectonics
  • 2011
    The tectonic fabric of the ocean basins,, Journal of Geophysical Research
  • 2010
    Development of the Australian-Antarctic Depth Anomaly, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
  • 2009
    The hydrangeas of plate tectonics, Nature Geoscience
  • 2008
    How supercontinents and superoceans affect seafloor roughness, Nature
  • 2008
    Response to comment on "Major Australian-Antarctic plate reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor bend time", Science
  • 2008
    Seismic facies and stratigraphy of the Cenozoic succession in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: implications for tectonic, climatic and glacial history, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Paleoecology
  • 2007
    Major Australian-Antarctic plate reorganisation at Hawaiian-Emperor bend time., Science
  • 2007
    Sunda-Java trench kinematics, slab window formation and overriding plate deformation since the Cretaceous, Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
  • 2006
    Seismic Stratigraphy of the Adare Trough Area, Antarctica, Marine Geoscience

Grants and Contracts

  • 2014
    The role of mantle plumes in driving plate tectonics and continental margin evolution
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2014
    Keystone of East Gondwana: unravelling the tectonic and geodynamic evolution of the Gulden Draak Ridge
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    Marine National Facility
  • 2011
    Towards a unified East Gondwanaland reconstruction and its implications for Himalayan Orogeny
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    Australian-Indian Strategic Research Fund
  • 2011
    Understanding Eastern Gondwana Break-up
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    Marine National Facility

Research Areas

  • Tectonics (040313)
  • Marine Geoscience (040305)
  • Stratigraphy (Incl. Biostratigraphy And Sequence Stratigraphy) (040311)
  • Geophysics (0404)

Honours

2013 L’Oréal ‘For Women In Science’ Award; 2012 Edgeworth-David Medal from the NSW Royal Society; 2010 NSW Tall Poppy from the Australian Institute of Policy & Science