GEMOC ARC National Key CentreAppendix 6: GEMOC postgraduate opportunities
GEMOC has a flourishing postgraduate research environment with postgraduate students from many countries (currently including France, Germany, China, Russia, USA, Canada and Australia). Scholarships funding tuition fees and a living allowance are available for students with an excellent academic record or equivalent experience. These include:
• Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA): available for Commonwealth citizens to cover tuition fees and living allowance, with a closing date in late October annually
• Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (MQRES) scholarships: available for Australiancitizens and international students who wish to undertake a postgraduate program in a Centre of Excellence at Macquarie University (eg GEMOC)
• International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (E-IPRS Endeavour Scholarships): available to overseas students to cover tuition fees with a closing date in late August annually
Macquarie University also provides research funding through a competitive internal scheme and GEMOC’s funded projects (see Appendix 5) provide further resources to support postgraduate research projects.
Postgraduate projects are tailored to your expertise and interests within the framework of GEMOC’s research goals. GEMOC carries out interdisciplinary research across the boundaries of petrology, geochemistry, tectonics, metallogenesis, geodynamics and geophysics to explore the nature and evolution of the lithosphere and global geodynamics. Current funded projects are based in Australia, Antarctica, Canada, China, Taiwan, Italy, France, Siberia, Norway, North America, South America, Africa, Kerguelen Islands and other global locations (see the section on GEMOC’s Research Program).
GEMOC postgraduate programs have opportunities through access to our outstanding analytical facility (see Technology Development section) with currently unique technologies and instrumentation configurations to tackle exciting large-scale problems in the Geosciences.
Examples of broad PhD project areas include:
• Lithosphere structure and geochemistry: mantle provinciality and tectonism
• Granitoid and mineralised provinces along western Pacific convergent margins
• Fluid-vapour transfer of elements in the crust and mantle
• Heat production and evolution of the crust: crust-mantle interaction
• Geophysical applications to lithosphere studies
• Isotopic and trace element geochemistry: mantle and crustal systems
• Metal isotopes: applications to ore formation
• Magma genesis and crustal evolution: includes trace elements of accessory minerals, isotopic fingerprints
• High-pressure experimental studies
Potential applicants should discuss possible projects with a potential supervisor and the Director of GEMOC before applying.