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Dr Sabin Zahirovic

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+61 416 77 55 89

Email

sabin.zahirovic@sydney.edu.au

Address

F09 - Madsen Building

The University of Sydney

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Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre

Biographical details

Sabin is a Robinson Fellow, and DECRA Fellow 2021-2024, in the School of Geosciences. He completed his PhD (University of Sydney) in 2015 titled “Post-Pangea global plate kinematics and geodynamic implications for Southeast Asia”. Sabin has been at the School of Geosciences since December 2008, working in various roles as a Research Assistant, Lab Demonstrator, Tutor and Associate Lecturer at junior, intermediate and senior undergraduate levels. Sabin was appointed to the Deep Carbon Observatory's Executive Committee in mid 2019, and has been on the GSA NSW committee as talk organiser since 2017.

Research interests

Sabin’s research has focussed on the plate-mantle system, especially in the Tethyan tectonic domain, including the India-Eurasia collision, Southeast Asian tectonics, the NW Australian Shelf and New Guinea. Sabin also has ongoing interests in deep-time plate reconstructions and paleogeography, with a recent focus on the links between plate tectonics and the planetary deep carbon cycle.

Teaching and supervision

Currently Sabin is supervising one PhD student and several research assistants within the EarthByte Group, and leads the New Guinea- stream of the 5-year Basin GENESIS Hub project funded by the Australian Research Council and industry partners.

Current projects

Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of eastern Tethyan domain since the Permian

Plate tectonics and geodynamics of the New Guinea margin

The Deep Carbon Cycle (DCC) through geological time: An interdisciplinary synthesis of the carbon cycle in the Earth’s lithosphere-biosphere system

Associations

EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney

Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, The University of Sydney

Treasurer, Geological Society of Australia (NSW Branch)

Chair, Paleogeography Working Group, IUGS Deep-time Digital Earth

Awards and honours

2021 - ARC DECRA Fellowship

2020 - Faculty of Science Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award

2020 - NSW Young Tall Poppy Award

2019 - Robinson Fellowship

2019 - GSA NSW Voisey Medal

2018 - Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) Emerging Leader Award

2015 - School of Geosciences Special Recognition Award

2012 - Faculty of Science Award for Citizenship

2011 - LA Richardson Memorial Prize in Geophysics, George Harris Scholarship, University of Sydney Medal, Vice-Chancerllor's Research Scholarship, Australian Postgraduate Award

2010 - Geological Society of Australia Student Scholarship, Australian Institute of Geoscientists Bursary

2009 - Quodling Testimonial Prize for Crystallography and Petrology

2008 - WH Maze Prize in Intermediate Geography

2007 - Geographical Society of NSW Student Award, Edgeworth David Prize in Palaentology

International links

United States

(California Institute of Technology) Long-term EarthByte collaboration with Prof. Mike Gurnis on linking plate reconstructions with geodynamics

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Deep-time exploration for mineral deposits along convergent margins	Elnaz HEIDARI
The rise and demise of Australia's massive reef systems over geological timescales	Jonathon LEONARD
Evaluating carbon and hydrogen geological storage in sedimentary systems using landscape evolution models.	Rafael PINTO CHERENE VIANA
Southwest Gondwana configuration and South Atlantic opening revisited: Plate kinematic, deep mantle structure, and landscape evolution during breakup	Caesar RIGOTI
Deep-time reconstructions of earth's surface environments and elevations	Satyam Pratap SINGH
The Phanerozoic eastward accretionary growth of the Australian continent: A new era of tectonic reconstructions, paleogeographic maps, landscape evolution models, and implications for mineral deposit preservation	Addison TU

Publications

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Journals

Dutkiewicz, A., Merdith, A., Collins, A., Mather, B., Ilano, L., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D. (2024). Duration of Sturtian “Snowball Earth” glaciation linked to exceptionally low mid-ocean ridge outgassing. Geology, 52(4), 292-296. [More Information]
Chapman, T., Milan, L., Zahirovic, S., Merdith, A., Clarke, G., Sun, M., Daczko, N. (2024). Magmatic flare-ups in arcs controlled by fluctuations in subduction water flux. Tectonophysics, 888, 230457. [More Information]
Mather, B., Muller, D., Zahirovic, S., Cannon, J., Chin, M., Ilano, L., Wright, N., Alfonso, C., Williams, S., Tetley, M., et al (2023). Deep time spatio-temporal data analysis using pyGPlates with PlateTectonicTools and GPlately. Geoscience Data Journal. [More Information]
Salles, T., Husson, L., Rey, P., Mallard, C., Zahirovic, S., Hadler Boggiani, B., Coltice, N., Arnould, M. (2023). Hundred million years of landscape dynamics from catchment to global scale. Science, 379(6635), 918-923. [More Information]
Buffan, L., Jones, L., Domeier, M., Scotese, C., Zahirovic, S., Varela, S. (2023). Mind the uncertainty: Global plate model choice impacts deep-time palaeobiological studies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(12), 3007-3019. [More Information]
Oliver, P., Hugall, A., Prasteya, A., Slavenko, A., Zahirovic, S. (2023). Oligo-Miocene radiation within South-west Pacific arc terranes underpinned repeated upstream continental dispersals in pigeons (Columbiformes). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 138(4), 437-452. [More Information]
Du, W., Mishra, S., Ogg, J., Qian, Y., Chang, S., Oberoi, K., Ault, A., Zahirovic, S., Hou, H., Raju, D., et al (2023). Online data service for geologic formations (Lexicons) of China, India, Vietnam and Thailand with one-click visualizations onto East Asia plate reconstructions. Geoscience Data Journal. [More Information]
Cao, X., Zahirovic, S., Li, S., Suo, Y., Wang, P., Liu, J., Muller, D. (2022). A deforming plate tectonic model of the South China Block since the Jurassic. Gondwana Research, 102, 3-16. [More Information]
Rey, P., Salles, T., Zahirovic, S., Liss, K. (2022). A glimpse into a possible geomorphic future of Tibet. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 3(10), 613-615. [More Information]
Muller, D., Flament, N., Cannon, J., Tetley, M., Williams, S., Cao, X., Bodur, Ö., Zahirovic, S., Merdith, A. (2022). A tectonic-rules-based mantle reference frame since 1 billion years ago - implications for supercontinent cycles and plate-mantle system evolution. Solid Earth, 13(7), 1127-1159. [More Information]
Muller, D., Mather, B., Dutkiewicz, A., Keller, T., Merdith, A., Gonzalez, C., Gorczyk, W., Zahirovic, S. (2022). Evolution of Earth's tectonic carbon conveyor belt. Nature, 605(7911), 629-639. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Eleish, A., Doss, S., Pall, J., Cannon, J., Pistone, M., Tetley, M., Young, A., Fox, P. (2022). Subduction and carbonate platform interactions. Geoscience Data Journal, 9(2), 371-383. [More Information]
Humphreys-Williams, E., Zahirovic, S. (2021). Carbonatites and Global Tectonics. Elements (Ottawa): an international magazine of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology, 17(5), 339-344. [More Information]
Merdith, A., Williams, S., Collins, A., Tetley, M., Mulder, J., Blades, M., Young, A., Armistead, S., Cannon, J., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D. (2021). Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic. Earth-Science Reviews, 214, 103477. [More Information]
Bekaert, D., Gazel, E., Turner, S., Behn, M., de Moor, J., Zahirovic, S., Manea, V., Hoernle, K., Fischer, T., Hammerstrom, A., et al (2021). High 3He/4He in central Panama reveals a distal connection to the Galapagos plume. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(47), e2110997118. [More Information]
Le Breton, E., Brune, S., Ustaszewski, K., Zahirovic, S., Seton, M., Muller, D. (2021). Kinematics and extent of the Piemont-Liguria Basin-implications for subduction processes in the Alps. Solid Earth, 12(4), 885-913. [More Information]
Braz, C., Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Flament, N., Harrington, L., Muller, D. (2021). Modelling the role of dynamic topography and eustasy in the evolution of the Great Artesian Basin. Basin Research, 33(6), 3378-3405. [More Information]
Salles, T., Mallard, C., Husson, L., Zahirovic, S., Sarr, A., Sepulchre, P. (2021). Quaternary landscape dynamics boosted species dispersal across Southeast Asia. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(240). [More Information]
Seton, M., Muller, D., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Wright, N., Cannon, J., Whittaker, J., Matthews, K., McGirr, R. (2020). A Global Data Set of Present-Day Oceanic Crustal Age and Seafloor Spreading Parameters. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(10), 1-15. [More Information]
Cardace, D., Bower, D., Daniel, I., Ionescu, A., Mikhail, S., Pistone, M., Zahirovic, S. (2020). Editorial: Deep Carbon Science. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 611295. [More Information]
Morrison, S., Buongiorno, J., Downs, R., Eleish, A., Fox, P., Giovannelli, D., Golden, J., Hummer, D., Hystad, G., Kellogg, L., Merdith, A., Zahirovic, S., et al (2020). Exploring Carbon Mineral Systems: Recent Advances in C Mineral Evolution, Mineral Ecology, and Network Analysis. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 1-15. [More Information]
Fletcher, M., Wyman, D., Zahirovic, S. (2020). Mantle plumes, triple junctions and transforms: A reinterpretation of Pacific Cretaceous – Tertiary LIPs and the Laramide connection. Geoscience Frontiers, 11(4), 1133-1144. [More Information]
East, M., Muller, D., Williams, S., Zahirovic, S., Heine, C. (2020). Subduction history reveals Cretaceous slab superflux as a possible cause for the mid-Cretaceous plume pulse and superswell events. Gondwana Research, 79, 125-139. [More Information]
Muller, D., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Cannon, J., Seton, M., Bower, D., Tetley, M., Heine, C., Le Breton, E., Liu, S., Russell, S., Leonard, J., et al (2019). A Global Plate Model Including Lithospheric Deformation Along Major Rifts and Orogens Since the Triassic. Tectonics, 38(6), 1884-1907. [More Information]
Wong, K., Mason, E., Brune, S., East, M., Edmonds, M., Zahirovic, S. (2019). Deep Carbon Cycling Over the Past 200 Million Years: A Review of Fluxes in Different Tectonic Settings. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 1-22. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Muller, D., Gurnis, M., Cao, W., Braz, C., Harrington, L., Ibrahim, Y., Garrett, R., Williams, S., et al (2019). From Paleogeographic maps to Evolving Deep�]time Digital Earth models. Acta Geologica Sinica, 93(S1), 73-75. [More Information]
Young, A., Flament, N., Maloney, K., Williams, S., Matthews, K., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D. (2019). Global kinematics of tectonic plates and subduction zones since the late Paleozoic Era. Geoscience Frontiers, 10(3), 989-1013. [More Information]
Moron, S., Cawood, P., Haines, P., Gallagher, S., Zahirovic, S., Lewis, C., Moresi, L. (2019). Long-lived transcontinental sediment transport pathways of East Gondwana. Geology, 47(6), 513-516. [More Information]
Seton, M., Williams, S., Mortimer, N., Meffre, S., Micklethwaite, S., Zahirovic, S. (2019). Magma production along the Lord Howe Seamount Chain, northern Zealandia. Geological Magazine, 156(9), 1605-1617. [More Information]
Cao, W., Williams, S., Flament, N., Zahirovic, S., Scotese, C., Muller, D. (2019). Palaeolatitudinal distribution of lithologic indicators of climate in a palaeogeographic framework. Geological Magazine, 156(2), 331-354. [More Information]
Dutkiewicz, A., Muller, D., Cannon, J., Vaughan, S., Zahirovic, S. (2019). Sequestration and subduction of deep-sea carbonate in the global ocean since the Early Cretaceous. Geology, 47(1), 91-94. [More Information]
Cao, W., Flament, N., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Muller, D. (2019). The interplay of dynamic topography and eustasy on continental flooding in the late Paleozoic. Tectonophysics, 761, 108-121. [More Information]
Wang, H., Wang, Y., Gurnis, M., Zahirovic, S., Leng, W. (2018). A long-lived Indian Ocean slab: Deep dip reversal induced by the African LLSVP. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 497, 1-11. [More Information]
Muller, D., Cannon, J., Qin, X., Watson, R., Gurnis, M., Williams, S., Pfaffelmoser, T., Seton, M., Russell, S., Zahirovic, S. (2018). GPlates: Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(7), 2243-2261. [More Information]
Goff, J., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D. (2018). No Evidence for Milankovitch Cycle Influence on Abyssal Hills at Intermediate, Fast, and Superfast Spreading Rates. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(19), 10305-10313. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Iwanec, J., Hassan, R., Matthews, K., Garrad, D., Hill, K., Seton, M., Yang, T., Brocard, G., Muller, D., et al (2018). Tectonics and geodynamics of the eastern Tethys and northern Gondwana since the Jurassic. Exploration Geophysics, 2018 (1). [More Information]
Pall, J., Zahirovic, S., Doss, S., Hassan, R., Matthews, K., Cannon, J., Gurnis, M., Moresi, L., Lenardic, A., Muller, D. (2018). The influence of carbonate platform interactions with subduction zone volcanism on palaeo-atmospheric CO2 since the Devonian. Climate of the Past, 14(6), 857-870. [More Information]
Johansson, L., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D. (2018). The Interplay Between the Eruption and Weathering of Large Igneous Provinces and the Deep-Time Carbon Cycle. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 5380-5389. [More Information]
Cao, W., Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Williams, S., Golonka, J., Muller, D. (2017). Improving global paleogeography since the late Paleozoic using paleobiology. Biogeosciences, 14(23), 5425-5439. [More Information]
Harrington, L., Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Muller, D. (2017). The role of deep Earth dynamics in driving the flooding and emergence of New Guinea since the Jurassic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 479, 273-283. [More Information]
Matthews, K., Maloney, K., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Seton, M., Muller, D. (2016). Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic. Global and Planetary Change, 146, 226-250. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Muller, D., Seton, M., Gurnis, M. (2016). Large fluctuations of shallow seas in low-lying Southeast Asia driven by mantle flow. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17(9), 3589-3607. [More Information]
Yang, T., Gurnis, M., Zahirovic, S. (2016). Mantle-induced subsidence and compression in SE Asia since the early Miocene. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(5), 1901-1909. [More Information]
Seton, M., Mortimer, N., Williams, S., Quilty, P., Gans, P., Meffre, S., Micklethwaite, S., Zahirovic, S., Moore, J., Matthews, K. (2016). Melanesian back-arc basin and arc development: Constraints from the eastern Coral Sea. Gondwana Research, 39, 77-95. [More Information]
Muller, D., Seton, M., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Matthews, K., Wright, N., Shephard, G., Maloney, K., Barnett-Moore, N., Hosseinpour, M., Cannon, J., et al (2016). Ocean Basin Evolution and Global-Scale Plate Reorganization Events since Pangea Breakup. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science, 44, 107-138. [More Information]
Yang, T., Gurnis, M., Zahirovic, S. (2016). Slab avalanche-induced tectonics in self-consistent dynamic models. Tectonophysics, 746, 251-265. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Matthews, K., Flament, N., Muller, D., Hill, K., Seton, M., Gurnis, M. (2016). Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of the eastern Tethys since the latest Jurassic. Earth-Science Reviews, 162, 293-337. [More Information]
Gibbons, A., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Whittaker, J., Yatheesh, V. (2015). A tectonic model reconciling evidence for the collisions between India, Eurasia and intra-oceanic arcs of the central-eastern Tethys. Gondwana Research, 28(2), 451-492. [More Information]
Bai, Y., Wu, S., Liu, Z., Muller, D., Williams, S., Zahirovic, S., Dong, D. (2015). Full-fit reconstruction of the South China Sea conjugate margins. Tectonophysics, 661, 121-135. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Seton, M., Flament, N. (2015). Tectonic speed limits from plate kinematic reconstructions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 418, 40-52. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Seton, M., Muller, D. (2014). The Cretaceous and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia. Solid Earth, 5(1), 227-273. [More Information]
Seton, M., Williams, S., Zahirovic, S., Micklethwaite, S. (2013). Obituary: Sandy Island (1876-2012). EOS, 94(15), 141-142. [More Information]
Wright, N., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Seton, M. (2013). Towards community-driven paleogeographic reconstructions: integrating open-access paleogeographic and paleobiology data with plate tectonics. Biogeosciences, 10(3), 1529-1541. [More Information]
Seton, M., Muller, D., Zahirovic, S., Gaina, C., Torsvik, T., Shephard, G., Talsma, A., Gurnis, M., Turner, M., Maus, S., et al (2012). Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200 Ma. Earth-Science Reviews, 113(3-4), 212-270. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Seton, M., Flament, N., Gurnis, M., Whittaker, J. (2012). Insights on the kinematics of the India-Eurasia collision from global geodynamic models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13(4), 1-25. [More Information]
Gurnis, M., Turner, M., Zahirovic, S., DiCaprio, L., Spasojevic, S., Muller, D., Boyden, J., Seton, M., Manea, V., Bower, D. (2012). Plate Tectonic Reconstructions with Continuously Closing Plates. Computers and Geosciences, 38(1), 35-42. [More Information]

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Conferences

Mallard, C., Salles, T., Zahirovic, S., Ding, X. (2020). Dynamic topography controls on source-to-sink systems: Example of the last 40 Ma in South Africa. EGU General Assembly 2020, Munich, Germany: EGU. [More Information]
Clinton-Gray, C., Zahirovic, S., Mallard, C., Salles, T., Garrad, D. (2020). Example of the interplay of Tectonics, Eustasy and Surface Processes on the North Slope of Alaska Since the Jurassic. EGU General Assembly 2020, Munich, Germany: EGU. [More Information]
Harrington, L., Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Braz, C., Muller, D. (2020). Tectonic, geodynamic and surface process driving forces of Australia's paleogeography since the Jurassic. West Australian Basins Symposium (WABS5) 2019, Perth WA: Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Limited.
Zahirovic, S., Tobin, J., Hill, K., Matthews, K., Flament, N., Gurnis, M., Hassan, R., Seton, M., Muller, D., Brocard, G., Rey, P. (2018). Eastern Tethyan tectonics and geodynamics since Pangea breakup. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2018, Austria: EGU.
Seton, M., Williams, S., Mortimer, N., Meffre, S., Micklethwaite, S., Zahirovic, S. (2018). Geophysical and geological characterisation of dredge locations from RV Southern Surveyor voyage ss2012_v06 (ECOSATI): hotspot activity in northern Zealandia. 2018 Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2018), Sydney: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. [More Information]
Muller, D., Russell, S., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Williams, C. (2018). Modelling and visualising distributed crustal deformation of Australia and Zealandia using GPlates 2.0. 2018 Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2018), Sydney: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. [More Information]
Brocard, G., Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Rey, P. (2018). Plio-Pleistocene river drainage evolution in New Guinea. Implications for reservoir mineralogy predictions. 2018 Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2018), Sydney: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. [More Information]
Alac, R., Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Muller, D. (2018). Surface Process Models of The Lake Eyre Basin Using Badlands Software. 26th ASEG Conference / AEGC Conference, unkown: CSIRO Publishing. [More Information]
Tobin, J., Zahirovic, S., Hassan, R., Rey, P. (2018). Tectonic and Geodynamic Evolution of the Northern Australian Margin and New Guinea. 2018 Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2018), Sydney: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Zahirovic, S., Matthews, K., Yang, T., Flament, N., Garrad, D., Brocard, G., Iwanec, J., Hill, K., Gurnis, M., Hassan, R., Seton, M., Muller, D. (2018). Tectonics and geodynamics of the eastern Tethys and northern Gondwana since the Jurassic. 2018 Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2018), Sydney: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Gurnis, M., Yang, T., Seton, M., Muller, D. (2018). Tectonics and mantle convection controlling the long-term emergence and flooding of Southeast Asia since the Cretaceous. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2018, Austria: EGU.
Harrington, L., Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Muller, D. (2018). The role of tectonics, geodynamics and surface processes in shaping Australian topography since the Pangea supercontinent. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2018, Austria: EGU.
Brocard, G., Ding, X., Salles, T., Zahirovic, S., Rey, P., Muller, D. (2018). Transcontinental Cainozoic paleovalleys of Western Australia. 2018 Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2018), Sydney: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Muller, D., Seton, M., Hill, K., Gurnis, M. (2015). 3-D Plate Tectonic Reconstructions of New Guinea Since the Triassic. International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia 13-16 September 2015. Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Wright, N., Muller, D., Seton, M. (2015). Data-Driven Paleogeographic Reconstructions as Constraints for the Advance and Retreat of Australian Shallow Seas. International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia 13-16 September 2015. Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists. [More Information]
Seton, M., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Whittaker, J., Gibbons, A., Muller, D., Brune, S., Heine, C. (2015). Early breakup of Gondwana: constraints from global plate motion models. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2015. Copernicus Publications.
Flament, N., Muller, D., Gurnis, M., Zahirovic, S., Shephard, G., Bower, D., Seton, M., Williams, S., Skogseid, J. (2015). Evolution of Large-Scale Topography and River Drainage Direction From Mantle Flow Models. International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia 13-16 September 2015. Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Muller, D., Seton, M., Gurnis, M. (2015). Large-scale retreat and advance of shallow seas in Southeast Asia driven by mantle flow. International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia 13-16 September 2015. Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Seton, M., Flament, N. (2015). Plate-mantle coupling from post-Pangea plate kinematics. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2015. Copernicus Publications.
Zahirovic, S., Seton, M., Muller, D., Flament, N. (2014). Post-Jurassic tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2014. Copernicus Publications.
Seton, M., Mortimer, N., Williams, S., Quilty, P., Meffre, S., Gans, P., Micklethwaite, S., Moore, J., Zahirovic, S. (2014). Reconstruction of the Melanesian back-arc basins: implications for Ontong Java Plateau accretion. 2014 GSA Annual Meeting. GSA Abstracts.

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Other

Zahirovic, S., Brocard, G., Connell, J., Beucher, R. (2018), Aftershocks hit Papua New Guinea as it recovers from a remote major earthquake.
Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Seton, M., Whittaker, J. (2010), Can geodynamic modelling help resolve the India-Eurasia collision controversy?.
Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Seton, M., Whittaker, J., Flament, N., Gurnis, M. (2010), The India - Eurasia collision and marginal basin evolution in the NW Pacific.

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2024

Dutkiewicz, A., Merdith, A., Collins, A., Mather, B., Ilano, L., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D. (2024). Duration of Sturtian “Snowball Earth” glaciation linked to exceptionally low mid-ocean ridge outgassing. Geology, 52(4), 292-296. [More Information]
Chapman, T., Milan, L., Zahirovic, S., Merdith, A., Clarke, G., Sun, M., Daczko, N. (2024). Magmatic flare-ups in arcs controlled by fluctuations in subduction water flux. Tectonophysics, 888, 230457. [More Information]

2023

Mather, B., Muller, D., Zahirovic, S., Cannon, J., Chin, M., Ilano, L., Wright, N., Alfonso, C., Williams, S., Tetley, M., et al (2023). Deep time spatio-temporal data analysis using pyGPlates with PlateTectonicTools and GPlately. Geoscience Data Journal. [More Information]
Salles, T., Husson, L., Rey, P., Mallard, C., Zahirovic, S., Hadler Boggiani, B., Coltice, N., Arnould, M. (2023). Hundred million years of landscape dynamics from catchment to global scale. Science, 379(6635), 918-923. [More Information]
Buffan, L., Jones, L., Domeier, M., Scotese, C., Zahirovic, S., Varela, S. (2023). Mind the uncertainty: Global plate model choice impacts deep-time palaeobiological studies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(12), 3007-3019. [More Information]
Oliver, P., Hugall, A., Prasteya, A., Slavenko, A., Zahirovic, S. (2023). Oligo-Miocene radiation within South-west Pacific arc terranes underpinned repeated upstream continental dispersals in pigeons (Columbiformes). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 138(4), 437-452. [More Information]
Du, W., Mishra, S., Ogg, J., Qian, Y., Chang, S., Oberoi, K., Ault, A., Zahirovic, S., Hou, H., Raju, D., et al (2023). Online data service for geologic formations (Lexicons) of China, India, Vietnam and Thailand with one-click visualizations onto East Asia plate reconstructions. Geoscience Data Journal. [More Information]

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2022

Cao, X., Zahirovic, S., Li, S., Suo, Y., Wang, P., Liu, J., Muller, D. (2022). A deforming plate tectonic model of the South China Block since the Jurassic. Gondwana Research, 102, 3-16. [More Information]
Rey, P., Salles, T., Zahirovic, S., Liss, K. (2022). A glimpse into a possible geomorphic future of Tibet. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 3(10), 613-615. [More Information]
Muller, D., Flament, N., Cannon, J., Tetley, M., Williams, S., Cao, X., Bodur, Ö., Zahirovic, S., Merdith, A. (2022). A tectonic-rules-based mantle reference frame since 1 billion years ago - implications for supercontinent cycles and plate-mantle system evolution. Solid Earth, 13(7), 1127-1159. [More Information]
Muller, D., Mather, B., Dutkiewicz, A., Keller, T., Merdith, A., Gonzalez, C., Gorczyk, W., Zahirovic, S. (2022). Evolution of Earth's tectonic carbon conveyor belt. Nature, 605(7911), 629-639. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Eleish, A., Doss, S., Pall, J., Cannon, J., Pistone, M., Tetley, M., Young, A., Fox, P. (2022). Subduction and carbonate platform interactions. Geoscience Data Journal, 9(2), 371-383. [More Information]

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2021

Humphreys-Williams, E., Zahirovic, S. (2021). Carbonatites and Global Tectonics. Elements (Ottawa): an international magazine of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology, 17(5), 339-344. [More Information]
Merdith, A., Williams, S., Collins, A., Tetley, M., Mulder, J., Blades, M., Young, A., Armistead, S., Cannon, J., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D. (2021). Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic. Earth-Science Reviews, 214, 103477. [More Information]
Bekaert, D., Gazel, E., Turner, S., Behn, M., de Moor, J., Zahirovic, S., Manea, V., Hoernle, K., Fischer, T., Hammerstrom, A., et al (2021). High 3He/4He in central Panama reveals a distal connection to the Galapagos plume. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(47), e2110997118. [More Information]
Le Breton, E., Brune, S., Ustaszewski, K., Zahirovic, S., Seton, M., Muller, D. (2021). Kinematics and extent of the Piemont-Liguria Basin-implications for subduction processes in the Alps. Solid Earth, 12(4), 885-913. [More Information]
Braz, C., Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Flament, N., Harrington, L., Muller, D. (2021). Modelling the role of dynamic topography and eustasy in the evolution of the Great Artesian Basin. Basin Research, 33(6), 3378-3405. [More Information]
Salles, T., Mallard, C., Husson, L., Zahirovic, S., Sarr, A., Sepulchre, P. (2021). Quaternary landscape dynamics boosted species dispersal across Southeast Asia. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(240). [More Information]

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2020

Seton, M., Muller, D., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Wright, N., Cannon, J., Whittaker, J., Matthews, K., McGirr, R. (2020). A Global Data Set of Present-Day Oceanic Crustal Age and Seafloor Spreading Parameters. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(10), 1-15. [More Information]
Mallard, C., Salles, T., Zahirovic, S., Ding, X. (2020). Dynamic topography controls on source-to-sink systems: Example of the last 40 Ma in South Africa. EGU General Assembly 2020, Munich, Germany: EGU. [More Information]
Cardace, D., Bower, D., Daniel, I., Ionescu, A., Mikhail, S., Pistone, M., Zahirovic, S. (2020). Editorial: Deep Carbon Science. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 611295. [More Information]
Clinton-Gray, C., Zahirovic, S., Mallard, C., Salles, T., Garrad, D. (2020). Example of the interplay of Tectonics, Eustasy and Surface Processes on the North Slope of Alaska Since the Jurassic. EGU General Assembly 2020, Munich, Germany: EGU. [More Information]
Morrison, S., Buongiorno, J., Downs, R., Eleish, A., Fox, P., Giovannelli, D., Golden, J., Hummer, D., Hystad, G., Kellogg, L., Merdith, A., Zahirovic, S., et al (2020). Exploring Carbon Mineral Systems: Recent Advances in C Mineral Evolution, Mineral Ecology, and Network Analysis. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 1-15. [More Information]
Fletcher, M., Wyman, D., Zahirovic, S. (2020). Mantle plumes, triple junctions and transforms: A reinterpretation of Pacific Cretaceous – Tertiary LIPs and the Laramide connection. Geoscience Frontiers, 11(4), 1133-1144. [More Information]
East, M., Muller, D., Williams, S., Zahirovic, S., Heine, C. (2020). Subduction history reveals Cretaceous slab superflux as a possible cause for the mid-Cretaceous plume pulse and superswell events. Gondwana Research, 79, 125-139. [More Information]
Harrington, L., Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Braz, C., Muller, D. (2020). Tectonic, geodynamic and surface process driving forces of Australia's paleogeography since the Jurassic. West Australian Basins Symposium (WABS5) 2019, Perth WA: Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Limited.

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2019

Muller, D., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Cannon, J., Seton, M., Bower, D., Tetley, M., Heine, C., Le Breton, E., Liu, S., Russell, S., Leonard, J., et al (2019). A Global Plate Model Including Lithospheric Deformation Along Major Rifts and Orogens Since the Triassic. Tectonics, 38(6), 1884-1907. [More Information]
Wong, K., Mason, E., Brune, S., East, M., Edmonds, M., Zahirovic, S. (2019). Deep Carbon Cycling Over the Past 200 Million Years: A Review of Fluxes in Different Tectonic Settings. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 1-22. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Muller, D., Gurnis, M., Cao, W., Braz, C., Harrington, L., Ibrahim, Y., Garrett, R., Williams, S., et al (2019). From Paleogeographic maps to Evolving Deep�]time Digital Earth models. Acta Geologica Sinica, 93(S1), 73-75. [More Information]
Young, A., Flament, N., Maloney, K., Williams, S., Matthews, K., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D. (2019). Global kinematics of tectonic plates and subduction zones since the late Paleozoic Era. Geoscience Frontiers, 10(3), 989-1013. [More Information]
Moron, S., Cawood, P., Haines, P., Gallagher, S., Zahirovic, S., Lewis, C., Moresi, L. (2019). Long-lived transcontinental sediment transport pathways of East Gondwana. Geology, 47(6), 513-516. [More Information]
Seton, M., Williams, S., Mortimer, N., Meffre, S., Micklethwaite, S., Zahirovic, S. (2019). Magma production along the Lord Howe Seamount Chain, northern Zealandia. Geological Magazine, 156(9), 1605-1617. [More Information]
Cao, W., Williams, S., Flament, N., Zahirovic, S., Scotese, C., Muller, D. (2019). Palaeolatitudinal distribution of lithologic indicators of climate in a palaeogeographic framework. Geological Magazine, 156(2), 331-354. [More Information]
Dutkiewicz, A., Muller, D., Cannon, J., Vaughan, S., Zahirovic, S. (2019). Sequestration and subduction of deep-sea carbonate in the global ocean since the Early Cretaceous. Geology, 47(1), 91-94. [More Information]
Cao, W., Flament, N., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Muller, D. (2019). The interplay of dynamic topography and eustasy on continental flooding in the late Paleozoic. Tectonophysics, 761, 108-121. [More Information]

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2018

Wang, H., Wang, Y., Gurnis, M., Zahirovic, S., Leng, W. (2018). A long-lived Indian Ocean slab: Deep dip reversal induced by the African LLSVP. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 497, 1-11. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Brocard, G., Connell, J., Beucher, R. (2018), Aftershocks hit Papua New Guinea as it recovers from a remote major earthquake.
Zahirovic, S., Tobin, J., Hill, K., Matthews, K., Flament, N., Gurnis, M., Hassan, R., Seton, M., Muller, D., Brocard, G., Rey, P. (2018). Eastern Tethyan tectonics and geodynamics since Pangea breakup. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2018, Austria: EGU.
Seton, M., Williams, S., Mortimer, N., Meffre, S., Micklethwaite, S., Zahirovic, S. (2018). Geophysical and geological characterisation of dredge locations from RV Southern Surveyor voyage ss2012_v06 (ECOSATI): hotspot activity in northern Zealandia. 2018 Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2018), Sydney: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. [More Information]
Muller, D., Cannon, J., Qin, X., Watson, R., Gurnis, M., Williams, S., Pfaffelmoser, T., Seton, M., Russell, S., Zahirovic, S. (2018). GPlates: Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(7), 2243-2261. [More Information]
Muller, D., Russell, S., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Williams, C. (2018). Modelling and visualising distributed crustal deformation of Australia and Zealandia using GPlates 2.0. 2018 Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2018), Sydney: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. [More Information]
Goff, J., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D. (2018). No Evidence for Milankovitch Cycle Influence on Abyssal Hills at Intermediate, Fast, and Superfast Spreading Rates. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(19), 10305-10313. [More Information]
Brocard, G., Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Rey, P. (2018). Plio-Pleistocene river drainage evolution in New Guinea. Implications for reservoir mineralogy predictions. 2018 Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2018), Sydney: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. [More Information]
Alac, R., Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Muller, D. (2018). Surface Process Models of The Lake Eyre Basin Using Badlands Software. 26th ASEG Conference / AEGC Conference, unkown: CSIRO Publishing. [More Information]
Tobin, J., Zahirovic, S., Hassan, R., Rey, P. (2018). Tectonic and Geodynamic Evolution of the Northern Australian Margin and New Guinea. 2018 Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2018), Sydney: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Zahirovic, S., Matthews, K., Yang, T., Flament, N., Garrad, D., Brocard, G., Iwanec, J., Hill, K., Gurnis, M., Hassan, R., Seton, M., Muller, D. (2018). Tectonics and geodynamics of the eastern Tethys and northern Gondwana since the Jurassic. 2018 Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2018), Sydney: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Iwanec, J., Hassan, R., Matthews, K., Garrad, D., Hill, K., Seton, M., Yang, T., Brocard, G., Muller, D., et al (2018). Tectonics and geodynamics of the eastern Tethys and northern Gondwana since the Jurassic. Exploration Geophysics, 2018 (1). [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Gurnis, M., Yang, T., Seton, M., Muller, D. (2018). Tectonics and mantle convection controlling the long-term emergence and flooding of Southeast Asia since the Cretaceous. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2018, Austria: EGU.
Pall, J., Zahirovic, S., Doss, S., Hassan, R., Matthews, K., Cannon, J., Gurnis, M., Moresi, L., Lenardic, A., Muller, D. (2018). The influence of carbonate platform interactions with subduction zone volcanism on palaeo-atmospheric CO2 since the Devonian. Climate of the Past, 14(6), 857-870. [More Information]
Johansson, L., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D. (2018). The Interplay Between the Eruption and Weathering of Large Igneous Provinces and the Deep-Time Carbon Cycle. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 5380-5389. [More Information]
Harrington, L., Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Muller, D. (2018). The role of tectonics, geodynamics and surface processes in shaping Australian topography since the Pangea supercontinent. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2018, Austria: EGU.
Brocard, G., Ding, X., Salles, T., Zahirovic, S., Rey, P., Muller, D. (2018). Transcontinental Cainozoic paleovalleys of Western Australia. 2018 Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2018), Sydney: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. [More Information]

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2017

Cao, W., Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Williams, S., Golonka, J., Muller, D. (2017). Improving global paleogeography since the late Paleozoic using paleobiology. Biogeosciences, 14(23), 5425-5439. [More Information]
Harrington, L., Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Muller, D. (2017). The role of deep Earth dynamics in driving the flooding and emergence of New Guinea since the Jurassic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 479, 273-283. [More Information]

2016

Matthews, K., Maloney, K., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Seton, M., Muller, D. (2016). Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic. Global and Planetary Change, 146, 226-250. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Muller, D., Seton, M., Gurnis, M. (2016). Large fluctuations of shallow seas in low-lying Southeast Asia driven by mantle flow. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17(9), 3589-3607. [More Information]
Yang, T., Gurnis, M., Zahirovic, S. (2016). Mantle-induced subsidence and compression in SE Asia since the early Miocene. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(5), 1901-1909. [More Information]
Seton, M., Mortimer, N., Williams, S., Quilty, P., Gans, P., Meffre, S., Micklethwaite, S., Zahirovic, S., Moore, J., Matthews, K. (2016). Melanesian back-arc basin and arc development: Constraints from the eastern Coral Sea. Gondwana Research, 39, 77-95. [More Information]
Muller, D., Seton, M., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Matthews, K., Wright, N., Shephard, G., Maloney, K., Barnett-Moore, N., Hosseinpour, M., Cannon, J., et al (2016). Ocean Basin Evolution and Global-Scale Plate Reorganization Events since Pangea Breakup. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science, 44, 107-138. [More Information]
Yang, T., Gurnis, M., Zahirovic, S. (2016). Slab avalanche-induced tectonics in self-consistent dynamic models. Tectonophysics, 746, 251-265. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Matthews, K., Flament, N., Muller, D., Hill, K., Seton, M., Gurnis, M. (2016). Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of the eastern Tethys since the latest Jurassic. Earth-Science Reviews, 162, 293-337. [More Information]

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2015

Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Muller, D., Seton, M., Hill, K., Gurnis, M. (2015). 3-D Plate Tectonic Reconstructions of New Guinea Since the Triassic. International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia 13-16 September 2015. Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists. [More Information]
Gibbons, A., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Whittaker, J., Yatheesh, V. (2015). A tectonic model reconciling evidence for the collisions between India, Eurasia and intra-oceanic arcs of the central-eastern Tethys. Gondwana Research, 28(2), 451-492. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Wright, N., Muller, D., Seton, M. (2015). Data-Driven Paleogeographic Reconstructions as Constraints for the Advance and Retreat of Australian Shallow Seas. International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia 13-16 September 2015. Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists. [More Information]
Seton, M., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S., Whittaker, J., Gibbons, A., Muller, D., Brune, S., Heine, C. (2015). Early breakup of Gondwana: constraints from global plate motion models. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2015. Copernicus Publications.
Flament, N., Muller, D., Gurnis, M., Zahirovic, S., Shephard, G., Bower, D., Seton, M., Williams, S., Skogseid, J. (2015). Evolution of Large-Scale Topography and River Drainage Direction From Mantle Flow Models. International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia 13-16 September 2015. Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Bai, Y., Wu, S., Liu, Z., Muller, D., Williams, S., Zahirovic, S., Dong, D. (2015). Full-fit reconstruction of the South China Sea conjugate margins. Tectonophysics, 661, 121-135. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Flament, N., Muller, D., Seton, M., Gurnis, M. (2015). Large-scale retreat and advance of shallow seas in Southeast Asia driven by mantle flow. International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia 13-16 September 2015. Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Seton, M., Flament, N. (2015). Plate-mantle coupling from post-Pangea plate kinematics. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2015. Copernicus Publications.
Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Seton, M., Flament, N. (2015). Tectonic speed limits from plate kinematic reconstructions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 418, 40-52. [More Information]

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2014

Zahirovic, S., Seton, M., Muller, D., Flament, N. (2014). Post-Jurassic tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2014. Copernicus Publications.
Seton, M., Mortimer, N., Williams, S., Quilty, P., Meffre, S., Gans, P., Micklethwaite, S., Moore, J., Zahirovic, S. (2014). Reconstruction of the Melanesian back-arc basins: implications for Ontong Java Plateau accretion. 2014 GSA Annual Meeting. GSA Abstracts.
Zahirovic, S., Seton, M., Muller, D. (2014). The Cretaceous and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia. Solid Earth, 5(1), 227-273. [More Information]

2013

Seton, M., Williams, S., Zahirovic, S., Micklethwaite, S. (2013). Obituary: Sandy Island (1876-2012). EOS, 94(15), 141-142. [More Information]
Wright, N., Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Seton, M. (2013). Towards community-driven paleogeographic reconstructions: integrating open-access paleogeographic and paleobiology data with plate tectonics. Biogeosciences, 10(3), 1529-1541. [More Information]

2012

Seton, M., Muller, D., Zahirovic, S., Gaina, C., Torsvik, T., Shephard, G., Talsma, A., Gurnis, M., Turner, M., Maus, S., et al (2012). Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200 Ma. Earth-Science Reviews, 113(3-4), 212-270. [More Information]
Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Seton, M., Flament, N., Gurnis, M., Whittaker, J. (2012). Insights on the kinematics of the India-Eurasia collision from global geodynamic models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13(4), 1-25. [More Information]
Gurnis, M., Turner, M., Zahirovic, S., DiCaprio, L., Spasojevic, S., Muller, D., Boyden, J., Seton, M., Manea, V., Bower, D. (2012). Plate Tectonic Reconstructions with Continuously Closing Plates. Computers and Geosciences, 38(1), 35-42. [More Information]

2010

Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Seton, M., Whittaker, J. (2010), Can geodynamic modelling help resolve the India-Eurasia collision controversy?.
Zahirovic, S., Muller, D., Seton, M., Whittaker, J., Flament, N., Gurnis, M. (2010), The India - Eurasia collision and marginal basin evolution in the NW Pacific.

Selected Grants

2023

New digital deep-time exploration tools for a low-emissions economy, Muller D, Seton M, Zahirovic S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP)

2021

The interplay of tectonics and sea level on carbonate platform evolution, Zahirovic S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)

2020

The role of plate tectonics and paleogeography in Earths deep carbon cycle, Zahirovic S, DVC Research/Robinson Fellowship

2018

Carbon Down Under: Galvanizing Australias research community for the next decade of deep-time Earth modelling and visualization of deep carbon science, Zahirovic S, Muller D, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation/Research grant

2017

The Deep Carbon Cycle (DCC) through geological time: An interdisciplinary synthesis of the carbon cycle in the Earth's lithosphere-biosphere system, Zahirovic S, Muller D, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation/Research grant
Understanding the deep carbon cycle from icehouse to greenhouse climates, Muller D, Zahirovic S, DVC Research/Sydney Research Excellence Initiative 2020 (SREI)

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