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Dr Natsue Abe assisting with organization of the Eclogite Conference in Japan.

Gemoc web resources include past Annual Reports, updated details on methods for new analytical advances and software updates (GLITTER) and items for secondary school resources on the lithosphere.  In addition, undergraduate teaching is web-based.

AWARDS

Rondi Davies

Dr Rondi Davies, now a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Museum of Natural History, New York, was awarded the Voisey Medal by the Australian Geological Society for outstanding contributions to Australian Geology by an early career researcher for her work on the diamonds of eastern Australia, completed for her PhD in GEMOC.

GEMOC Director, Professor Sue O Reilly was elected to the Australian Academy of Science and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.  As she was in the field in northern China, she could not attend either induction ceremony in 2002.

Participation in Workshops and Conferences in 2002

GEMOC staff and postgraduates were again convenors or invited speakers at peak Geodynamic and Geochemical Conferences with over 20 presentations.

The recognition of GEMOC s expertise in linking the micron with the global is evidenced by the co-convening of the session Trace-element fingerprinting: laboratory studies and petrogenetic processes” (the micron”) by Sue O Reilly for the 2002 Goldschmidt Conference and the session Composition, Processes and Structure of the Mantle” for the 2003 Goldschmidt Conference.

Abstract titles for Conferences and Workshops attended are listed in Appendix 4 and full texts are available on the GEMOC website.

The August AMIRA meeting for project P515 (see Industry project section) was held at Macquarie as activity in this project is now focused through Macquarie.  The XRF Annual User Group Workshop was held in February 2002.  Plans were commenced for an international Workshop and Symposium Granites and Associated Metallogenesis” to be held at Macquarie in July 2003.

Bill Griffin and Sue O Reilly were appointed by the IUGG (International Union of Geology and Geodesy) to be co-convenors for a Special Session Geophysical and geochemical imaging and modelling of continental roots and beyond:  implications for the formation and evolution of continents” at the International Geological Conference in Florence in 2004.

Bill Griffin was invited to Beijing to provide advice to the newly-formed Geological Survey of China on the best strategy for building an international-standard geochemical facility in October, 2002.

Norman Pearson and Bill Griffin delivered a Keynote talk providing an overview of current capabilities of in situ geochemical analysis using laser ablation inductively coupled mass spectrometry at the 3rd International Conference on High Resolution Sector Field ICPMS, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 2002.

SERVICE ROLES

In addition to another year on the Physics, Chemistry and Geosciences ARC Expert Advisory Committee, Professor Sue O Reilly was also on the DEST Expert Advisory Committee for the Task Force that set the new Research Priorities for Australia and is a member of the Academy of Science National Committee for Earth Sciences that is preparing a strategic plan for the Geosciences in Australia.

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.

Australian and international visitors are listed in Appendix 3.

They have participated in:

collaborative research, technology exchange, seminars, discussions and joint publications, collaboration in postgraduate programs