GEMOC ARC National Key Centre

GEMOC participants

• The host institution for GEMOC is Macquarie University (in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences).  GEMOC is networked with the Department of Geology at ANU.
• There is a close collaboration with CSIRO Exploration and Mining (North Ryde) and AGSO.
• Collaborative research, teaching and technology development links have been established with other universities nationally.
• GEMOC has developed ongoing collaborative relationships with national and international industry.
• GEMOC has a wide network of international research and teaching development partners ( Appendice1 and 3 ).

A full list of GEMOC participants and their affiliations is given inAppendix 1

Staff Appointments: consequent on GEMOC

Chair of Geology:
Professor Paul Morgan
(arrived at Macquarie August, 1998)
Following a Joint Honours degree in Geology and Physics at Durham University, Paul Morgan received his Ph.D. from Imperial College, London University, in 1973 studying heat flow in Cyprus and Kenya.  He was a post-doctoral Research Associate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas for eighteen months working on hot dry rock geothermal exploration before becoming an Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University. Here he continued his research into geothermal systems and was principal investigator for a joint project with the Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority to study the geophysics and tectonics of the Egyptian Red Sea Margin.  In 1980 he joined the Lunar and Planetary Institute Houston, as a Staff Scientist and initiated a program on planetary rift studies before joining Purdue University as an Associate Professor.  In 1986 he joined Northern Arizona University as a Professor and Department Chair.  Following a short-term visit to Macquarie in 1990 and a sabbatical leave at Macquarie in 1992/93, he joined Macquarie University in 1998 as Professor of Geology and Head of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.  His current research interests include heat flow and geothermal systems, tectonics of the terrestrial planets, and the thermal structure and evolution of the lithosphere.

Lecturer B position:
Dr John Ridley
(arrived at Macquarie November, 1998)
John Ridley joined GEMOC from ETH, Zürich, where he spent three years in the isotope geology and mineral resources group. He had earlier been in teaching positions at the Universities of Zimbabwe and Western Australia. His teaching expertise is in Ore Deposits Geology, Field Mapping, Metamorphic Geology and Geochemistry. Earlier research includes blueschist-facies metamorphism, aspects of structural geology, Archean geology, and hydrothermal gold deposits and associated fluid flow and metasomatism. He will set up the new fluid inclusion microthermometry laboratory in 1999. His research plans include modelling mineralising hydrothermal systems in the crust as a whole function, using structural controls of fluid flow, establishing the role of source rock interaction in changing fluid composition along flow paths, and recognition of fluid activity from petrological and field criteria.
 

Lecturer:
Dr John Mavrogenes
(arrived at ANU 1998)
Dr Mavrogenes' research centres on the geochemical evolution of magmatic and hydrothermal ore deposits. His current research interests include: experimental controls on sulfur solubility; metal solubility and speciation in hydrothermal fluids; behaviour of Au and Fe-As-S phases in high-grade metamorphic gold deposits; and behaviour of metals during the evolution of porphyry Cu-Au systems.
 

core elements of participants
 

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