GEMOC ARC National Key CentrePostgraduate teaching program
See advertisement for GEMOC postgraduate opportunities in Appendix
7.
Macquarie: commenced 1996
Elena Belousova (PhD): Zircon and apatite geochemistry: applications to petrology and mineral exploration
Collaborative with Rio Tinto
Xu Xisheng (PhD, exchange, Nanjing University): The lithospheric mantle beneath eastern China
Formal exchange PhD, Nanjing and Macquarie
Shixin Yao (PhD): Chromite as a petrogenetic indicator in ultramafic rocks
Collaborative with Rio Tinto
Ongoing from 1995
Rondi Davies (PhD): East Australian Diamonds: Characterisation
and origin
Collaborative with Rio Tinto
Oliver Gaul (PhD): Composition of the Lithospheric Mantle
beneath Australia
Collaborative with Stockdale Prospecting, CSIRO EM
Completed 1997
Joanne McCarron (MSc): Mantle xenoliths from Queensland
and South Australia
Awards granted for 1997 start
Olivier Alard (PhD): Trace element geochemistry and mantle
domains, emphasis on PGE and Re/Os
(OPRA with MUIPRA stipend)
Eloise Beyer (PhD): Contrasting characteristics of Proterozoic
and Phanerozoic mantle types
Field assistance from Ashton Mining
Will Powell (PhD): New England lithosphere
APA
Where are the diamonds?
Postgraduate students Will Powell and Eloise Beyer examine drill core at the
Merlin kimberlite pipes, Northern Territory.
1998 new postgraduates
Mark Pirlo (PhD): Australian groundwater geochemistry;
applications to heat flow and exploration
APA
Zhongwu Wang (PhD): Isotopic studies of mantle systems
(OPRA with MUIPRA stipend)
Esmé van Achterbergh (PhD): Trace element fingerprints
of metasomatic processes in lithospheric mantle
Part-time
ANU: commenced 1996
Ulrike Troitzsch (PhD): Experimental and field study of
titanite solid solution: application as a geobarometer and fluorometer
Tony Kemp (PhD): Aspects of low pressure partial melting
Ongoing 1996
Colleen Bryant (PhD): Geochemistry of volcanic ashes from
the Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc systems, and a geochemical traverse
of the Kurile-Hokkaido arc
X. Teng (MSc): Petrology of the trans-Tanakura Tectonic
Line (a lithosphere-penetrating fault in Honshu) island arc transect
Liankun Sha (PhD): Accessory minerals (especially phosphates)
in granites of the Lachlan Fold Belt; theoretical modelling of
ordering-disordering in silicate minerals
1998 new postgraduates
Alastair Hack (PhD): Structural controls on Au mineralisation
at Kalgoorlie
Helen Degeling (PhD): Zirconium equilibria in the crust
and mantle