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GEMOC WEB RESOURCES provide past Annual Reports, updated details on methods for new analytical advances and software updates (GLITTER), activities of research teams within GEMOC, synthesised summaries of selected research outcomes and items for secondary school resources.  In addition, undergraduate teaching is web-based.  Annual Reports from 2003 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.

AWARD

GEMOC teams were finalists in three categories of the Macquarie Innovations Awards for 2005: Innovation in Research (Terranechron^®), Commercial Innovation (the GLITTER Data Reduction Software System), and Postgraduate Innovation (Diamond Fingerprinting).  Terranechron^® won the Innovation in Research Award and the trophy now watches over the Terranechron^® Team in the LAM-ICPMS laboratory.

The Terranechron^® team accepts the Macquarie Innovations Award for 2005.

“Annual Reports from 2003 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 2005 (AND BEYOND)

GEMOC staff and postgraduates increased their profile at peak metallogenic, geodynamic and geochemical conferences as convenors or invited speakers, or presenters, with more than 50 presentations.  International fora included: the GACMAC Meeting (Halifax, Canada), the 15^th V. M. Goldschmidt Conference (Idaho), the AGU 2005 Joint Assembly (New Orleans), AOGS Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2^nd Annual Meeting (Singapore), the IUGS-SECE International Workshop on the Subcontinental Lithosphere (Beijing), 8^TH Biennial SGA Meeting on Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge (Beijing), and the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (San Franscisco).  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 Appendices 8 and 9).

Professor Sue O’Reilly gave a Keynote talk at the SGA Meeting on Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge (Beijing) and an invited talk at the IUGS-SECE International Workshop on the Subcontinental Lithosphere (Beijing).

GEMOC participants enjoying pre-Award drinks at the Innovation Awards.

Professor Bill Griffin gave invited talks at the IUGS-SECE International Workshop on the Subcontinental Lithosphere (Beijing) and the SGA Meeting on Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge (Beijing).

Dr Norman Pearson co-convened a session at the 2^nd European Geosciences Union Meeting, Vienna, April 2005 (VGMP Symposium 20 “MC-ICP-MS and the understanding of mantle structure”) and a session at the 15^th Goldschmidt Conference, Moscow, Idaho, May 2005 (SS41 “Isotopic ratio measurement using microbeam methods: Where do we stand and where are we going?”).

Dr Norman Pearson gave a Keynote talk at the European Geoscience Union Meeting in Vienna and invited talks at the 15^th Annual Goldschmidt Conference.

Dr Sonja Aulbach presented an invited talk at the 15^th Annual Goldschmidt Conference in Moscow (Idaho, USA).

Dr Simon Jackson and Ms Suzy Elhlou gave an invited demonstration on laser-ablation techniques for ICPMS at the 2005 Agilent ICP-MS User Group Meeting in Adelaide.

Professor Sue O’Reilly continued as a member of 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^nd IGC in Florence (by the Australian Bid Committee of which she was a member).

Bill Griffin, Sue O'Reilly and Ming Zhang with Nanjing University Colleagues in front of their lecture announcement.

Professor Bill Griffin is a member of the program committee for the Goldschmidt Conference to be held in Melbourne in August 2006.

A conference on “Sheared Magmas in Nature and Experiment” was organised in honour of Professor Ron Vernon at Kloster Seeon, Bavaria.

Professor Bernie Wood gave an invited talk at the Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting in December 2005 - “Kelvin revisited: cooling and core formation after the giant impact.”

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.

All 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

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