GEMOC ARC National Key CentreGLOSSARY
AAD Australian Antarctic Division
ACILP Australia China Institutional Links Program
AGSO Australian Geological Survey Organisation
AGU American Geophysical Union
AMIRA Australian Mineral Industry Research Association
ANU Australian National University
APA (I) Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry)
APWP Apparent polar wander path
ARC Australian Research Council
ASAC Antarctic Science Advisory Committee
AusAID Australian Agency for International Development
BSE Back-Scattered Electron
CODES Centre for Ore Deposit Studies
CRC Cooperative Research Centre
CSIRO (EM) Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (Exploration and Mining)
DEETYA Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs
DETYA Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (from 1998)
DIATREEM Consulting company within MRL
DIST Department of Industry, Science and Technology
EMP Electron Microprobe
GAU Geochemical Analysis Unit (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University)
GIS Geographic Information System
GLITTER GEMOC Laser ICPMS Total Trace Element Reduction
GPS Global Positioning System
HIAF Heavy Ion Analytical Facility
ICPMS Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer
IREX International Research Exchange Program of ARC
JCU James Cook University
LA-ICPMS Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer
LAM Laser Ablation Microprobe
MC-ICPMS Multi-Collector ICPMS
MUECRG Macquarie University External Collaborative Research Grants
MUIPRA Macquarie University International Postgraduate Research Award
MUPRF Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Fellowship
MURAACE Macquarie University Research Award for Areas and Centres of Excellence
MURDS Macquarie University Research Development Scheme
MURG Macquarie University Research Grants
MURF Macquarie University Research Fellowship
NMP Nuclear Microprobe
NSF National Science Foundation
NSWGS New South Wales Geological Survey
ODP Ocean Drilling Program (International Consortium)
IPRS International Postgraduate Research Scholarship
P Pressure
PDF Postdoctoral Fellow (ARC Fellowship)
PIGE Proton Induced Gamma-ray Emission
PIXE Proton Induced X-ray Emission
PMP Proton Microprobe
QDME Queensland Department of Minerals and Energy
QUT Queensland University of Technology
RIBG Research Infrastructure Block Grant
RIEFP Research Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities Program
RSES Research School of Earth Sciences at ANU
SNMP Scanning Nuclear Microprobe
SPIRT Strategic Partnership with Industry - Research and Training
SUCOGG Sydney Universities Consortium of Geology and Geophysics
T Temperature
UN University of Newcastle
UNE University of New England
UNSW University of New South Wales
UWS University of Western Sydney
XRF X-Ray Fluorescence
