Postgraduate areas of research - Faculty of Science

Geosciences

Coordinator: Associate Professor Peter Betts
Masters and PhD projects are often, but not exclusively, associated with the recognised areas of research strength within the School of Geosciences:

• geodynamics, tectonics and structural geology
• three dimensional modelling, numerical modelling and simulation
• physical volcanology, geochemistry and igneous petrology
• basin studies, sedimentology and energy resources
• hydrogeology and environmental geoscience
• applied palaeontology and paleobiology
• ore deposit geology and geochemistry and geophysics
• structural geophysics, exploration geophysics, environmental geophysics, geothermal geophysics.

A wide range of geophysical, geochemical, and computing facilities are available to postgraduate candidates. These are either housed within Monash Geosciences (geophysics equipment; stable isotope, and ICP-MS based trace element analysis facilities and sample preparation laboratories) or are accessible within other Victorian Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences (VIEPS)-member departments/schools (electron microprobe and analytical scanning electron microscope facilities; noble gas laboratory; multi-collector ICP-MS laboratory; and thermal ionisation mass spectrometry laboratory).