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GEMOC communications 1999

GEMOC participants from Macquarie and ANU at the combined meeting held at Macquarie in july 1999.
 

1999 WAS ANOTHER YEAR of national and international highlights for GEMOC presentations with showcasing of many of our postgraduate research results in posters and oral presentations.

GEMOC ORGANISATION OF WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE AND SHORT COURSE
ACTIVITIES 1999

Co-convened (S.Y.O'R) a session on "Characterisation of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary" for the IUGG International Assembly in Birmingham, UK, August 1999

Workshop on "Southeastern China Lithosphere Evolution and Metallogenesis" held at Nanjing University, November, 1999

"Geochemical Applications" course, available to Honours and postgraduate students nationally, but primarily in SUCOGG

Workshop on "Tectonic Evolution of East and Southeast Asia: A Framework for Reconstruction and Resources", a joint UNE-GEMOC venture with contributions from CSIRO and two Chinese geophysicists.  Workshop materials (four volumes of notes and an interactive CD-ROM) formed the basis of a distance-delivery, modular Short Course

Guest co-editor (W.L.G) of Tectonics Volume for International Geological Project 420

Guest co-editor (W.L.G) of Lithos Volume in Honour of Dr Brenda Jensen

PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES IN 1999

Abstract titles for Conferences and Workshops attended are listed in Appendix 4  and full texts are available on the GEMOC website.

within GEMOC

Combined meetings of all GEMOC participants continued through 1999 to discuss results and progress reports on GEMOC activities and to plan research, teaching and industry strategies.

within Australia

Links were strengthened and/or initiated with other Australian institutions including visits and cooperation for use of equipment, collaborative research and publication, cooperative Short Course delivery and resource sharing. These institutions include:

University of New England

University of Sydney

University of Newcastle

Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU

Queensland University of Technology

University of Technology, Sydney

University of New South Wales

James Cook University, Townsville

Monash University

University of Western Sydney

AGSO

CSIRO
 

International collaboration at the 3rd International Workshop on Orogenic Lherzolites and Mantle Processes. Left to right: Jean-Louis Bodinier, Jean-Yves Cottin, Guillaume Delpech, Michel Grégoire, Olivier Alard and Bertrand Moine.

internationally

International links in 1999 have included:

Aerogeologiya, Moscow

Kiev State University, Ukraine

VSEGEI, St Petersburg

TsNIGRI, Moscow

Almazy Rossi-Sakha, Yakutia

Institute of Mineralogy, Novosibirsk

Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

Ministry of Mines, Rangoon, Myanmar

Pune University, India

University of Jean Monnet, St Etienne, France

Nanjing University

China Academy of Sciences, Beijing

National Geological Survey (new national peak geological institute), Beijing

China Academy of Geoexploration, Beijing and Xi'an

China University of Geosciences, Beijing

China University of Geosciences, Wuhan

China Northwestern University of Xi'an

University of Oslo, Norway

University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble

The Open University, UK

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Cape Town

Université de Lausanne

Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany

University of Taiwan

University of Texas, El Paso

Institute of Geology & Nuclear Sciences, NZ

Visitors

GEMOC fosters links nationally and internationally through visits of collaborators to undertake defined short-term discrete projects or short-term visits to give lectures and seminar sessions.
Australian and International visitors are listed in Appendix 3. They have participated in:

collaborative research
technology exchange
seminars, discussions
joint publications

GEMOC Press

GEMOC Press has been set up as a vehicle to publish " Neoproterozoic and Phanerozoic Earth History of Australia" edited by John Veevers, Malcolm Walter and Erwin Scheibner.