GEMOC ARC National Key Centre

Dissemination of information

 

summary of 1997 activities

formal communication in GEMOC

within nodes:

• regular seminars and meetings
• lecture series for postgraduates
• postgraduate day at Macquarie
• GEMOC representation at SUCOGG regional postgraduate Seminar Day (Rondi Davies awarded prize for best presentation)

 

 

GEMOC participants from Macquarie, ANU and AGSO at the combined meeting held at Macquarie in November 1997.

between nodes

• joint information and planning meetings for all participants
• project and project planning meetings for smaller groups
• meetings of director with program leaders (or nominee) and GEMOC participants
• reciprocal seminars at each node
• postgraduate seminar day for all GEMOC students
• other networking visits
• all GEMOC participants are on email for broadcast and individual communication
• joint proposal submissions to external funding agencies

communication with the scientific community

Links strengthened and/or initiated with other Australian institutions including visits and cooperation for equipment, collaborative research and publication, cooperative Short Course development and resource sharing, include:

National

• University of New England
• University of Sydney
• La Trobe University
• University of Newcastle
• Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU
• Queensland University of Technology
• University of Technology, Sydney
• University of New South Wales
• University of Canberra
• Monash University
• AGSO
• CSIRO

International

• Academy of Science, Vladivostock
• 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 St Etienne, France
• Nanjing University
• China Academy of Sciences, Beijing
• China Academy of Geoexploration, Beijing and Xian
• China University of Geosciences, Beijing
• China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
• University of Oslo, Norway
• University of Hawaii
• Stanford University
• Geological Museum, Paris
• University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
• The Open University, UK
• University of Cape Town
• Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
• University of Taiwan

refereed papers, book chapters

(Appendix 2)

conference presentations

(Appendix 4)

presentation of project results to the Geological Society of Australia, NSW Branch by GEMOC Honours student, Mark Pirlo

technology transfer and outreach

Organisation and sponsorship of workshops 1997:

• State of the Arc (Arc-related magmatism conference) Adelaide, February 1997: co-sponsored by GEMOC
• 4th Australasian ICPMS Conference on Applied ICP-Mass Spectrometry hosted by Macquarie, May 1997

 

Looking to new horizons
Delegates at the 4th Australasian Symposium on Applied ICP-Mass Spectrometry. Research and developments in ICP-MS and related topics in disciplines as diverse as geochemistry and environmental medicine were presented and discussed.

 

• Workshop on Southeastern China Lithosphere Evolution and Metallogenesis held at Nanjing University, November 1997

short courses presented by GEMOC 1997:

• Geochemical Applications, available to Honours and postgraduate students nationally, but primarily in SUCOGG
• Workshop on "Laser-ablation ICPMS" 11 May 1997
• Silicate Analysis Workshop hosted at Macquarie with Dr Phil Potts, visitor at ANU, July 1997
• Industry Workshop on "Tectonic Evolution of East and Southeast Asia: A Framework for Reconstruction and Resources" held at Macquarie as a joint UNE-GEMOC venture with CSIRO contribution and two invited Chinese geophysicists as lecturers, October 1997. Workshop materials (four volumes of notes and an interactive CD-ROM) form the basis of a distance-delivery, modular Short Course

 

Innovation in delivery
Presenters of the Short Course "Tectonic Evolution of East and South East Asia: A Framework for Reconstruction and Resources" clutch the CD-ROM, geophysical sections, volumes of lectures and new books used in the modular format. Clockwise from left: William Griffin, Ming Zhang, Professor Xuecheng Yuan, Ian Metcalfe, Professor Ji-Yang Wang, and Suzanne O'Reilly.

short courses, workshops and conference sessions planned for 1998:

• Thermal Structure of the Earth
• Earth's Lithosphere: 4-D Lithosphere Mapping and Relevance to Mineral Exploration
• Module and distance delivery of "Tectonic Evolution of East Asia and Southeast Asia"
• Crust-Mantle Interaction and Granites through Time
• Geochemical applications
• Workshop on Granites and Metallogenesis in eastern Australia before the 14th Australian Geological Convention
• Co-convening session 7C on "Lower Crust and Mantle Studies" at the 14th Australian Geological Convention
• Co-convening session "Western Pacific Lithosphere Evolution and Magmatism: From Eastern Eurasia to Australia" at the American Geophysical Union Meeting, Taiwan, July 1998
• Co-convening a session on "Characterisation of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary" at the IUGG International Assembly in Birmingham, August 1998

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 (see Appendix 3)

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.

Australian and international visitors are listed in Appendix 3. They have participated in collaborative research technology exchange seminars, discussions joint publications

communication with Industry

GEMOC fosters industrial links and encourages industry colleagues to spend time at GEMOC undertaking collaborative research projects and development of technology and/or applications. In 1997, Macquarie hosted nine such visitors with ongoing formal collaboration (see Appendix 3).

GEMOC promotes joint development of technology hardware, methodology and software in collaboration with industry end-users. The Macquarie GEMOC Geochemical Analysis Unit has been designated a Perkin-Elmer development and showcase site and the international Alpha Test Site for Merchantek EO lasers. Other collaborative industry ventures include:

• Visits to and by industry (national and international)
• equity arrangements for new technology
• AMIRA meetings
• international contacts and collaboration (Canada, South Africa, UK, USA, former USSR) by reciprocal visits and ongoing email
• short course participation
• questionnaires to industry for feedback (eg short courses), evaluation of activities and suggestions

data management

GEMOC database management established:

• Detailed daily log books maintained for all analytical facilities
• "Lithobank" was further developed in 1997 to contain all geochemical data generated by GEMOC at Macquarie: incorporates levels of accessibility and confidentiality
• duplicate hard and electronic copies of original data maintained (consistent with ARC requirement for good data management practice)
• samples are catalogued in museum systems at Macquarie and ANU

DIAKIM interactive computerised database containing information on all known diamond-related deposits, initiated through collaboration with Dr Bram Janse:

• Menu-driven, user-friendly, GIS-based, planned to be accessible commercially through the internet

Bruce Chappell (ANU) has made his extensive database (on granites and related rocks and minerals) available for relevant projects within GEMOC

Advice from Board Members, Drs Lees and Wyborn, on database structure, management and GIS applications is being implemented