| ACILP | Australia China Institutional Links Program
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| AGSO | Australian Geological Survey Organisation
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| AINSE | Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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| AMIRA | Australian Mineral Industry Research Association
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| ANSTO | Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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| ANU | Australian National University
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| APA | Australian Postgraduate Award
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| APA (I) | Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry)
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| ARC | Australian Research Council
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| ARF | Australian Research Fellow (ARC Fellowship)
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| AusAID | Australian Agency for International Development
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| BSE | Back-Scattered Electrons
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| CRC | Cooperative Research Centre
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| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation
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| DEETYA | Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs
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| DIST | Department of Industry, Science and Technology
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| DSDP | Deep Sea Drilling Program
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| ERDC | Energy Resources Development Commission
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| GAU | Geochemical Analysis Unit (School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University)
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| GIS | Geographic Information System
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| GLITTER | GEMOC Laser ICPMS Total Trace Element Reduction
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| GPS | Global Positioning System
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| HIAF | Heavy Ion Analytical Facility
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| ICPMS | Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer
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| IRF | International Research Fellow (IRF Fellowship)
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| IUGG | International Union of Geology and Geodesy
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| LA-ICPMS | Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer
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| LAM | Laser Ablation Microprobe
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| MC-ICPMS | Multi-Collector ICPMS
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| MUIPRA | Macquarie University International Postgraduate Research Award
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| MURG | Macquarie University Research Grants
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| MURF | Macquarie University Research Fellowship
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| NMP | Nuclear Microprobe |
| NSF | National Science Foundation (USA)
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| ODP | Ocean Drilling Program (International Consortium)
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| OPRA | Overseas Postgraduate Research Award
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| P | Pressure |
| PDF | Postdoctoral Fellow (ARC Fellowship)
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| PIGE | Proton Induced Gamma-ray Emission
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| PIXE | Proton Induced X-ray Emission
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| PMP | Proton Microprobe |
| QUT | Queensland University of Technology
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| RSES | Research School of Earth Sciences at ANU
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| RTZ | Exploration and Mining Company
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| SNMP | Scanning Nuclear Microprobe
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| SUCOGG | Sydney Universities Consortium of Geology and Geophysics
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| T | Temperature |
| TIL | Targeted Institutional Links
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| UN | University of Newcastle
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| UNE | University of New England
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| UNSW | University of New South Wales
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| XRF | X-Ray Fluorescence |
GEMOC ARC National Key Centre