Joanne Whittaker

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