GEMOC ARC National Key Centre
GEMOC participants
GEMOC is based at Macquarie University (in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences).
There is active national collaboration with state Geological Surveys, GA (Geoscience Australia), CSIRO, ANU/RSES and other national universities, and several major industry collaborators, across a broad range of projects related to GEMOC's strategic goals. A distinctive feature of GEMOC is the high level of active international collaborations and reciprocal links.
Collaborative research, teaching and technology development links have been established with universities nationally and internationally and these evolve as new alliances become relevant to new directions.
GEMOC has developed ongoing collaborative relationships with national and international industry and end-users such as Geological Surveys globally (e.g. some Australian states, Canada, Norway).
GEMOC has a wide network of international research and teaching development partners and collaborators.
A full list of GEMOC participants and their affiliations is given in Appendices 1 and 3
CHANGES IN 2010
2010 Arivals in GEMOC
Dr Yingjie Yang
Dr Yingjie Yang commenced his employment at GEMOC in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in August 2010. Dr Yang graduated with a PhD in geophysics from Brown University (USA) in 2005. He then worked as a research associate and senior research associate at the University of Colorado at Boulder on the development and application of new seismological methods to imaging and studying structures of the lithosphere and asthenosphere, including ambient noise seismology.
His research background is in theoretical and observational seismology. His primary research interests lie in understanding the structure, dynamics and deformation of the Earth's lithosphere and upper mantle by studying seismic velocity, anisotropy, and attenuation using seismological techniques. His current research focuses on the lithospheric structures of the Tibetan Plateau to understand the growth mechanism of the broadest and highest plateau in the world. He is also working on the development of new seismological methods to detect and understand the motion and deformation of rocks in the crust and upper mantle relevant to tectonic processes.
Dr Sandra Piazolo
Dr Sandra Piazolo arrived at GEMOC in mid 2010. After graduating with a PhD from the University of Mainz (Germany), she took up a project researcher position at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland focusing on the metamorphic and structural evolution of West Greenland. She then moved to the University of Liverpool (UK) to develop a quantitative understanding of microstructural processes occuring in metamorphic rocks both experimentally and numerically. From 2004-2010 she was a Lecturer in Structural Geology and Tectonics at Stockholm University (Sweden). Her research focuses on the quantitative understanding of small scale processes and their influence on large scale processes. In her research she integrates different complementary techniques such as numerical modelling, field analysis, in-depth chemical and crystallographic analysis and physical experiments. Current interests are the influence of deformation on chemical reactions, and deformation and annealing phenomena in natural and experimental geomaterials.
Dr José María González-Jiménez
Dr José María González-Jiménez joined GEMOC in February 2010 as a post-doctoral Research Associate. He graduated from University of Granada (Spain) with a PhD based on an investigation into the mechanism of concentration and remobilisation of platinum-group elements in ore deposits from ophiolite complexes. He is currently working on tracking the Re-Os signatures of platinum-group minerals in chromite deposits from ophiolite complexes worldwide, which have undergone a range of types of alteration and/or metamorphism. Combining classical micro-mineralogy with innovative micro-analytical tools, he is creating a new approach to studying platinum-group element mineralisation in mantle-derived rocks. This project involves collaboration with overseas researchers from Spain, Bulgaria, France, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Japan.
Dr Heather Handley
Dr Heather Handley is a Research Associate on an ARC Linkage Grant project at GEMOC. She graduated with a PhD from Durham University (UK) in 2006. Her PhD research placed geochemical and Sr-Nd-Hf-O isotopic constraints on volcanic petrogenesis at the Sunda arc, Indonesia. Since 2007 Heather's research has been focused upon the application of Uranium-series isotopes to magmatic and geomorphic systems and she presently oversees the Uranium-Series Laboratory within GEMOC. Recent studies are centred on using 210Pb isotopes to further our understanding of magmatic degassing and using the fractionation of Uranium isotopes in fine-grained sediments to quantify timescales of sediment residence (i.e. storage in soils and associated transport in fluvial and/or aeolian systems). These investigations will provide better constraints on both the timescales of magmatic processes for volcanic hazard mitigation and soil production rates for landscape erosion studies.