Data analytics making sense of complex earth processes
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 25/05/2015

Professor Malcolm Sambridge from the Research School of Earth Sciences at ANU has developed mathematical approaches to analysing complex geophysical data that have fundamentally altered the way in which we understand the Earth and its internal processes.

Professor Sambridge has made lasting fundamental contributions to the understanding of the Earth and its internal processes through new mathematical approaches to analysing complex geophysical datasets. His robust approaches to modelling diverse observational data – including statistically meaningful estimates of uncertainty – has had wide-ranging impact in geoscientific research. This has changed the way in which we analyse seismic waves for the structure of the Earth’s interior, model landscape evolution, understand populations of mineral ages from isotopic microanalysis, and interpret infrared absorption spectra associated with hydrous crystal defects in silicate minerals.