Carmen is a marine geophysicist whose research goal is to study the evolution of the global oceanic regions as a key component of our dynamic planet by using a variety of geological and geophysical constraints. She is a leading player in the development of oceanic paleo-age grids, a new and powerful tool aimed to tackle a range of global problems-from variations in carbon dioxide concentrations to eustatic sea-level.
ACADEMIC HISTORY
1999 Ph.D. (University of Sydney, Australia)
1987 M.Sc. (University of Bucharest, Romania)
GRANTS/ AWARDS/ SCHOLARSHIPS
2002 Australian Research Council APD Grant – 3 years research grant
2000 Australian Academy of Science grant for young researchers
1998 Postgraduate award
1995 - 1998 Australian Geological Survey Organisation Postgraduate Scholarship
1996 David Edgeworth Travelling Scholarship
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2007-present Team Leader, Centre for Geodynamics, NGU, Norway
2005 - 2007 Research Geophysicist, Centre for Geodynamics
2003 - 2005: ARC Research Fellow, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia
2002 - 2003: Administration Manager, University of Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Australia
1999 - 2002: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia
1998 – 1999: Research Assistant, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia
1995 – 1998: PhD candidate, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia
1987-1991: Geophysicist, Geological Survey of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
TEACHING
2004: Environmental Mapping and Monitoring, postgraduate course, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia
1999 – 2004: GMT – Geophysical Data processing and Plotting, Honours course, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia
2003-2004: “Introduction to the Australian continent” – introductory lectures to overseas students
2001 and 2003: CSIRO Student Research Scheme -devised and supervised a research project for high school students
RESEARCH CRUISES
Nov. 2003 R/V Hakuho-Maru Cruise KH0303, Tectonics of the Parece Vela Basin: Implications for amagmatic spreading in a back-arc basin (principal investigators: T.Ishii and K. Okino, University of Tokyo)
Jan – Feb. 1996 M. Ewing Cruise 9513 and Feb - March 1997 N.B. Palmer Cruise 9702, The Tertiary History of the Australian - Antarctic - Pacific Plate Motion, (principal Investigators: S. Cande, J. Stock and R.D. Müller)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Müller, R.D., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C., Steinberger, B and C. Heine, in press, Long-term sea level driven by ocean basin volume change, Science.
Knies, J., and C. Gaina, in press, Middle Miocene Ice Sheet Expansion in the Arctic - Views from the Barents Sea, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Müller, R.D., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C., and W.Roest, in press, Age, spreading rates and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.(http://www.earthbyte.org/Resources/agegrid2008.html)
Torsvik, T.H., Müller, R.D, Van Der Voo, R., Steinberger, B., and C. Gaina, in press, Global plate motion frames: Toward an unified model, Reviews of Geophysics.
Torsvik, T, Gaina, C, Redfield, T., in press, Antarctica and Global Paleogeography: From Rodinia, through Gondwanaland and Pangea, to the opening of gateways and the birth of the Southern Ocean, Special Volume on 10th ISAES Conference Proceedings, US National Academy Press
Whittaker, J., Mueller, R.D., Sdrolias, M., Leitchenchov, G., Stagg, H., Gaina, C, and Goncharov, 2007. A., Major Australian-Antarctic plate reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor bend time, Science, 317, 2007.
Gaina, C., Müller, R.D, Brown, B., Ishihara, T. and S. Ivanov, 2007, Breakup and early seafloor spreading between India and Antarctica, 2007, Geophysical Journal International, 170, 151-169.
Gaina, C. and Müller, R.D., 2007, Cenozoic tectonic and depth/age evolution of the Indonesian gateway and associated back-arc basins, Earth Science Reviews, 83, 177-203.
Steinberger, B., and C. Gaina, 2007, Plate tectonic reconstructions predict part of Hawaiian hotspot track to be preserved in Bering Sea, Geology, 35, 407-410.
Gaina, C and R.D. Mueller, 2007. Cenozoic tectonic and depth/age evolution of the Indonesian gateway and
associated back-arc basins, Earth Science Reviews, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2007.04.004
Gaina, C, Mueller, R.D., Brown, B., Ishihara, T., and Ivanov, S. Breakup and early seafloor spreading between India and Antarctica, . Geophysical Journal International (in press).
Brown, B., Gaina, C., and Müller, R.D, 2006. Circum-Antarctic Paleobathymetry: illustrated examples from Cenozoic to Recent times.
Palaeoceanography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology Special Edition on Antarctic Climatic Evolution (eds. P.Barret and F. Florindo), 231, 158-168
Heine, C., Müller, R.D, and Gaina, C. 2004, Reconstructing the Lost Eastern Tethys Ocean Basin: Convergence history of the SE Asian margin and marine gateways, in Continent-Ocean Interactions in the East Asian Marginal Seas, American Geophysical Union Monograph, p37-54.
Gaina, C., Müller, R.D. Brown, B., and Ishihara, T., 2003, Microcontinent formation around Australia, in The Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate, Geological Society of Australia Special Paper 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, ed. by Hillis R. and Müller, R.D., 405-417.
Gaina, C., W.Roest, R.D. Müller, Late Cretaceous - Cenozoic deformation of northeast Asia, 2002, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 197, 273-286.
Müller, R.D., C. Gaina, W.Roest, D. L. Hansen, 2001. A recipe for microcontinent formation, Geology, 29, pp. 203–206.
Müller, R.D., C. Gaina, A. Tikku, D. Mihut, S. Cande, and J.M.Stock, 2000, Mesozoic/Cenozoic tectonic events around Australia, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, AGU Monograph, American Geophysical Union, 121, p.161-189.
Gaina, C., R.D. Müller, and S. Cande, 2000, Absolute plate motions, mantle flow and volcanism at the boundary between the Pacific and Indian ocean mantle domains since 90 Ma, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, AGU Monograph, American Geophysical Union, 121, p. 189-211.
Gaina, C., R.D. Müller, J.-Y. Royer, and P. Symonds, 1999, The evolution of the Louisiade Triple junction, Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 12927-12939, 1999.
Gaina, C., W.Roest, and P. Symonds, 1998, The opening of the Tasman Sea: A gravity anomaly grid animation, Earth Interactions, 2-004, 1-23.
Gaina, C., R.D. Müller, J.-Y. Royer, J. Stock, J. Hardebeck, and P. Symonds, 1998, The tectonic history of the Tasman Sea: A puzzle with thirteen pieces, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 12413-12433, 1998.