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 and internationally.
- GEMOC has developed ongoing collaborative relationships with national and international industry.
- GEMOC has a wide network of international research and teaching development partners (Appendices 1 and 3).
- A full list of GEMOC participants and their affiliations is given in Appendix 1
Some of GEMOC's international collaborators:
Fieldwork collecting mantle xenoliths in western Victoria. Left to right: Will Powell, Jinhai Yu, Jianping Zheng, Sue O'Reilly, Paul Morgan, Xisheng Xu and Shaocong Lai.
GEMOC STAFF CHANGES 1998
Dr Prame Chopra
was appointed Reader at ANU (after partial funding from GEMOC from 1996). His research interests include:
Hot Rock Geothermal Energy: Research into the exploration for, and resource evaluation of, Australia's huge hot rock energy resource and the development of a pilot hot rock energy plant are the main aims of this work. Activities include granite geochemistry, thermal modeling, water-rock interaction, rock mechanics, geophysics and geo-engineering.
Geophysics: The mechanisms of deformation of rocks and minerals under high temperature and high pressure conditions have been a long-standing interest. This research concentrates on laboratory deformation experiments and studies of the microstructures of experimentally and naturally deformed specimens. The overall aim is to improve understanding of the ways in which the Earth deforms.
Other areas of interest in geophysics include borehole geophysics, in situ stress measurements and airborne geophysics and other remote sensing.
Geological Information Systems: Research in remote sensing, image processing and vector Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is targeted at the solution of geological problems ranging from the paleo-environments of Lake Eyre to on-line WWW delivery of geological maps and images in the Australian Earth Data On-Line project .
Professor Paul Morgan
resigned for personal reasons in December 1999
Dr Karsten Gohl
resigned to take up leadership of a major program at Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany
Both Paul Morgan and Karsten Gohl have ongoing funded projects with GEMOC. A replacement strategy is being negotiated with Macquarie University with the support of Dr Richard Flood, Head of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Professor Bruce Chappell
finished his visiting fellowship at ANU in December 1999 and has taken up an appointment as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Macquarie University.
CORE ELEMENTS OF PARTICIPANTS
