Matej Lipar

Matej Lipar

Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University

Matej Lipar is Adjunct Research Fellow in Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and head of the Department of Physical Geography at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). His research is focussed on karstology, speleology, geomorphology, physical geography, geology, geochemistry, palaeoclimatology, sedimentology and geochronology.

Articles by: Matej Lipar

A satellite image of a light scribble-shaped scar over a dusty landscape

Huge, 7-mile scar torn across Australia's Nullarbor Plain discovered by caver scouring Google Earth

By Matej Lipar published

After the caver noticed a giant gash across a barren landscape, scientists discovered it was created by a ferocious  tornado that no-one knew had occurred.