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GEMOC WEB RESOURCES provide past Annual Reports, updated details on methods for new analytical advances and software updates (GLITTER), synthesised summaries of selected research outcomes (eg studies of eastern China lithosphere) and items for secondary school resources on the lithosphere and on diamond occurrence. In addition, undergraduate teaching is web-based. From 2003 the Annual Reports are available as downloadable pdf files on the GEMOC website as well as in html format. All previous Annual Reports are available in html format
PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN 2004 (and beyond)
GEMOC staff and postgraduates increased their profile at peak metallogenic, geodynamic and geochemical conferences as convenors or invited speakers, or presenters, with 50 presentations. International fora included: the AGU Joint Assembly in Montreal, the 32nd Geological Congress in Florence, the 14th V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, the de Beers International Diamond Workshop in Warwick, the 2004 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting in Hawaii, the 2004 IAVCEI General Assembly, the International Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) 2004 Predictive Discovery Undercover Conference in Perth and the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. A full list of abstract titles for Conferences and Workshops attended is given in Appendix 4 and on the GEMOC website where full-text versions of most of the abstracts can also be found.
Professor Simon Turner continued to lead the organisation of the 2006 International Goldschmidt Conference to be held in Melbourne (see Appendix 8).
Professors Sue O’Reilly and Bill Griffin were co-convenors for the 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. They were also invited speakers in the session on mantle geochemistry.
Professor Bill Griffin gave a keynote talk at the Symposium on “Seismic heterogeneity in the Earth’s mantle: thermo-petrologic and tectonic implications” in Copenhagen in February 2004.
Professors Bill Griffin and Sue O’Reilly (with Sonal Rege) gave an invited account of GEMOC’s work on diamond trace-element analysis at the de Beers’ International Diamond Workshop in Warwick, UK in June 2004.
Dr Norman Pearson gave a Plenary Talk at the “Inaugural Symposium Celebrating the Opening of the W.M. Keck Isotope Laboratory”, University of California, Santa Cruz in June, titled “ More ions in the fire: developments in in situ high-precision isotope ratio measurement using laser ablation MC-ICPMS”.
Professor Bill Griffin presented a two-day workshop on the TerraneChronTM methodology and its application to crustal evolution, at the request of WMC Resources (Perth).
“From 2003 the Annual Reports are available as downloadable pdf files on the GEMOC website as well as in html format. All previous Annual Reports are available in html format.”
Sonja Aulbach discussing her popular poster presentation at the IGC held in Florence.
Professor Mike Etheridge gave an invited keynote talk on “Improving Exploration Performance” and Professor Sue O’Reilly presented an invited keynote talk on TerraneChronTM at the International Society of Economic Geologists meeting in Perth in September 2004, both in the session on “Research, Exploration and Predictive Mineral Discovery”.
Professor Sue O’Reilly accepted nomination to the organising committee for the International Geological Congress (IGC) to be held in Brisbane in 2012 after the successful bid by Australia at the 32 IGC in Florence (by the Australian Bid Committee of which she was a member).
Professor Bill Griffin is a member of the program committee for the Goldschmidt Conference to be held in Melbourne in 2006.
A highlight in 2004 was the invitation to four GEMOC researchers (O’Reilly, Griffin, Pearson, Powell) to join the international AMASE (Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition) team (with members from the University of Oslo, the Carnegie Institution and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen to unravel the significance of deepseated fluids detected in volcanic rocks and in mantle xenoliths. Carbonate minerals formed in the xenoliths and in volcanic vents at the surface form tiny round structures very similar to those seen in some Martian meteorites and controversially described as evidence for life on Mars (see Research Highlights).
Dr Norman Pearson is convenor of the symposium “European Geosciences Union” for the European Geosciences Union (EUG) Conference in Vienna, April 2005. He is also a Keynote Speaker at this conference.
Dr Norman Pearson is convenor of the session “Isotopic ratio measurement using microbeam methods: Where do we stand and where are we going?” for the 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference in Moscow (Idaho , USA), 2005.
Dr Simon Jackson is the presenter of a Short Course on laser ablation techniques at the Agilent ICP-MS User Group Meeting, Adelaide, April 2005.
Kelsie Dadd at the 17th AGC conference held in February 2004.
VISITORS
GEMOC fosters links nationally and internationally through visits of collaborators to undertake defined short-term projects or short-term visits to give lectures and seminar sessions. Formal collaborative arrangements are facilitated by ARC Linkage grants with reciprocal funding from international collaborators.
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.
Elena Belousova and fellow attendees at the 17th AGC.