GEMOC ARC National Key Centre

The host institution for GEMOC is Macquarie University (in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences).

There is a close collaboration with CSIRO Exploration and Mining (EM) (North Ryde) and GA (Geoscience Australia) across an increasingly broad range of projects.

Collaborative research, teaching and technology development links have been established with other universities nationally and internationally and these evolve as new alliances become relevant to new directions.

GEMOC has developed ongoing collaborative relationships with national and international industry and end-users such as Geological Surveys globally (eg Australian states, Canada, Norway).

GEMOC has a wide network of international research and teaching development partners and collaborators.
(see Appendices 1 and 3).

Dr Elena Belousova commenced an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, and

Dr Vladimir Malkovets commenced his Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MURF).

Three other experienced geochemists, Dr John Ketchum (from the Royal Ontario Museum Geochronology Laboratory, Canada), Dr Rhiannon George (from Bristol University) and Dr Kirsty Tomlinson (with experience from the Canadian Geological Survey) also joined GEMOC in 2003 to enhance the geochemical expertise available and to assist in industry collaborative projects.

Dr Nathan Daczko was appointed to the academic staff of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and is an active member of GEMOC. His expertise includes structural and metamorphic geology and geodynamics. Since his PhD at the University of Sydney, he spent 2 years as a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Geological Sciences and Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas (Austin) where he studied the geodynamic setting of the Australian Plate Margin using integration of petrologic, structural and geophysical datasets (see Research Highlights).