Postgraduate teaching program

 

See advertisement for GEMOC postgraduate opportunities in Appendix 7.

Macquarie: commenced 1996

Elena Belousova (PhD): Zircon and apatite geochemistry: applications to petrology and mineral exploration

Collaborative with Rio Tinto

Xu Xisheng (PhD, exchange, Nanjing University): The lithospheric mantle beneath eastern China

Formal exchange PhD, Nanjing and Macquarie

Shixin Yao (PhD): Chromite as a petrogenetic indicator in ultramafic rocks

Collaborative with Rio Tinto

Ongoing from 1995

Rondi Davies (PhD): East Australian Diamonds: Characterisation and origin
Collaborative with Rio Tinto

Oliver Gaul (PhD): Composition of the Lithospheric Mantle beneath Australia
Collaborative with Stockdale Prospecting, CSIRO EM

Completed 1997

Joanne McCarron (MSc): Mantle xenoliths from Queensland and South Australia

Awards granted for 1997 start

Olivier Alard (PhD): Trace element geochemistry and mantle domains, emphasis on PGE and Re/Os
(OPRA with MUIPRA stipend)

Eloise Beyer (PhD): Contrasting characteristics of Proterozoic and Phanerozoic mantle types
Field assistance from Ashton Mining

Will Powell (PhD): New England lithosphere
APA

Where are the diamonds?
Postgraduate students Will Powell and Eloise Beyer examine drill core at the Merlin kimberlite pipes, Northern Territory.

1998 new postgraduates

Mark Pirlo (PhD): Australian groundwater geochemistry; applications to heat flow and exploration
APA

Zhongwu Wang (PhD): Isotopic studies of mantle systems
(OPRA with MUIPRA stipend)

Esmé van Achterbergh (PhD): Trace element fingerprints of metasomatic processes in lithospheric mantle
Part-time

ANU: commenced 1996

Ulrike Troitzsch (PhD): Experimental and field study of titanite solid solution: application as a geobarometer and fluorometer

Tony Kemp (PhD): Aspects of low pressure partial melting

Ongoing 1996

Colleen Bryant (PhD): Geochemistry of volcanic ashes from the Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc systems, and a geochemical traverse of the Kurile-Hokkaido arc

X. Teng (MSc): Petrology of the trans-Tanakura Tectonic Line (a lithosphere-penetrating fault in Honshu) island arc transect

Liankun Sha (PhD): Accessory minerals (especially phosphates) in granites of the Lachlan Fold Belt; theoretical modelling of ordering-disordering in silicate minerals

1998 new postgraduates

Alastair Hack (PhD): Structural controls on Au mineralisation at Kalgoorlie

Helen Degeling (PhD): Zirconium equilibria in the crust and mantle

international exchange students

One of GEMOC's goals is to create international and exchange links at the postgraduate level. The following postgraduate students undertook significant research periods at Macquarie in 1996 and were awarded PhD degrees in 1997:

Erik Wulff-Pedersen (University of Oslo): Canary Islands mantle and the nature of oceanic lithosphere

Shaohai Chen (Academia Sinica, Beijing): Geochemical and geothermal nature of the lithospheric section beneath Hannuoba, central Sino-Korean craton

Jianping Zheng (China University of Geosciences at Wuhan): Mantle characteristics in Shandong Province

new exchange student at Macquarie 1997

Bertrand Moine: The role of fluids in the genesis, segregation and crystallisation of intraplate oceanic mantle magmas: implications for crustal accretion
Co-tutelle agreement with the University of St Etienne