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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

Craig O’Neill was a finalist in the 2006 national “Fresh Science” awards, aimed at publicising the work of up and coming young Australian Scientists. He was also chosen as the 2006 “Young Scientist of the Year” by the Australian Newspaper.

Elena Belousova was awarded one of the inaugural Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Fellowships and follows the success of TerraneChron® in winning the Macquarie Innovation in Research Award the previous year.

Nathan Daczko received a Macquarie University Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning and a NSW Young Tall Poppy Award for excellence in research.

“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 2006 (AND BEYOND)

GEMOC staff and postgraduates again increased their profile at peak metallogenic, geodynamic and geochemical conferences as convenors, invited speakers, or presenters, with more than 55 presentations. International fora included: the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, the 16th V. M. Goldschmidt Conference (Melbourne), the IAVCEI Conference on Continental Volcanism in Guangzhou, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 3rd Annual Meeting (Singapore), the 11th International Conference on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry (Bristol), 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.

Some of the GEMOC contingent at the 16th Goldschmidt Conference in Melbourne. Dr Shi Rendeng (Hefei University) was visiting to work on the origin of Os-Ir alloys in Tibetan ophiolites.

Professor Simon Turner led the organisation of the very successful 2006 International Goldschmidt Conference held in Melbourne in August 2006. Dr Yvette Poudjom Djomani co-convened a session on “Geochemical and Geophysical Probing of Continental Dynamics”.

Professor Bernie Wood was one of the organisers for the 11th International Conference on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry held in Bristol in September 2006.

Professor Bill Griffin convened a session at the IAVCEI Conference in May 2006 on “Ultradeep samples and the Earth’s Interior”.

Professors Bill Griffin and Sue O’Reilly and Dr Kuo-Lung Wang convened a session on “Asian Lithosphere: Evolution of the Asian continental mantle lithosphere - constraints from xenolith studies” at the AOGS Conference in Singapore in July 2006

Keynote talks in 2006 included (see Appendix 4 for titles): EUG - Belousova, Pearson; IAVCEI - Griffin, Turner, O’Neill; AOGS - Griffin; Goldschmidt - Griffin. GEMOC research was very prominent at the IAVCEI Conference with 15 papers presented including 3 Keynote and 9 Invited as well as a session convened by Bill Griffin.

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 32nd IGC in Florence (by the Australian Bid Committee, of which she was a member).

Professors Bill Griffin and Sue O’Reilly are co-convenors for sessions at the 33rd IGC in Oslo (2008) on “The continental lithosphere from geophysical and geochemical data” and “What is the LAB (Lithosphere to Asthenosphere Boundary)?” respectively.

GEMOC had a high profile in the DEST NCRIS (National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme) process during 2006 with Adjunct Professor Mike Etheridge appointed as the Facilitator, Professor Sue O’Reilly appointed as a member of the National Steering Committee and Professor Turner and Dr Norman Pearson serving as members of Working Groups reporting to the Steering Committee. The resultant AuScope bid was successful, with the award of $42.8 m over the next 5 years (www.auscope.org.au/).

Tin Tin Win, Sue O’Reilly, Bill Griffin, Kuo-Lung Wang and colleagues from Thailand and Germany (Alfred Krohner at rear), at the AOGS Conference in Singapore.

A GEMOC Workshop in 2006 on “Geochemical Fingerprinting of Lithosphere and Deep Earth Processes” was held before the Goldschmidt Conference in Melbourne in August. The Workshop attracted participants from national and international Universities and Research Institutions and industry (the limit of 30 participants was oversubscribed). The presentations by GEMOC researchers represented a mix of technical information about the analytical methods applications and relevance of analytical results to large-scale Earth problems.

GEMOC PhD graduate Stephanie Touron, Elena Belousova and GEMOC visiting scientist Giovanna Sapienza (Univ. Bologna) in front of Elena’s popular poster at the EGU meeting, Vienna.

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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