Dietmar Müller
I am an Earth scientist interested in assimilating the wealth of geological and geophysical data into a four-dimensional Earth model (through space and deep time), connecting solid Earth to surface processes. I received my undergraduate degree in geology/geophysics from the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany, and my PhD in Earth Science from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, California. After joining the University of Sydney in 1993 I built the EarthByte Research Group. The EarthByters are pursuing open innovation, involving the collaborative development of open-source software as well as open-access global digital data sets and virtual globes. Our fundamental aim is data synthesis through space and time, assimilating the wealth of disparate geodata into a virtual experimental planet.
Latest articles by Dietmar Müller
![An erupting volcano, part of Earth's tectonic cycle.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dQbEdkoyz2YhLXoo6jE5wi-320-80.jpeg)
How plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth's 'Goldilocks' climate
By Dietmar Müller, Adriana Dutkiewicz, Andrew Merdith, Ben Mather, Christopher Gonzalez, Sabin Zahirovic, Tobias Keller, Weronika Gorczyk published
For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere.
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