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STAFF AND STUDENTS


ACADEMIC STAFF

Director and Professor:

T.M. Harrison, BSc British Columbia, PhD ANU

Professors:

J.M.A. Chappell, BSc MSc Auckland, PhD ANU, FAAS, FAA
S.F. Cox, BSc Tasmania, PhD Monash
R.W. Griffiths, BSc PhD ANU, FAIP, FAA
R. Grün, DiplGeol, Dr.rer.nat.habil Köln, DSc ANU
I.N.S. Jackson, BSc Qld, PhD ANU
B.L.N. Kennett, MA PhD ScD Cambridge, FRAS, FAA
K. Lambeck, BSurv NSW, DPhil, DSc Oxf, FAA, FRS
G. Lister, BSc Qld, (Hons) James Cook, PhD ANU (from 1 July 2003)
M.T. McCulloch, MAppSc WAIT, PhD CalTech

Senior Fellows:

J. Braun, LicSc Liège, PhD Dalhousie
I.H. Campbell, BSc UWA, PhD DIC London
G.F. Davies, MSc Monash, PhD CalTech
T. Esat, MSc Queens, PhD ANU
M. Honda, MSc PhD Tokyo
T.R. Ireland, BSc Otago, PhD ANU
R.C Kerr, BSc Qld, PhD Cambridge, FAIP
F.E.M. Lilley, BSc Sydney, MSc PhD WOnt
H.St.C. O’Neill, BA Oxf, PhD Manchester
B.J. Pillans, BSc PhD ANU
M.S.Sambridge, BSc Loughborough, PhD ANU

Fellows:

R.Armstrong, BSc MSc PhD Witwatersrand
V.C. Bennett, BSc PhD UCLA
M.I. Bird, BSc Sydney, PhD ANU
D. Brown, BSc Adelaide, PhD ANU (until 2 February 2003)
W.J. Dunlap, BA CarlCol, MS PhD Minnesota
S. Eggins, BSc UNSW, PhD Tasmania
C.M. Fanning, BSc Adelaide
M.K. Gagan, BA UCSantaBarbara, PhD JamesCook
R.R. Loucks, BS Colorado, PhD Harvard (until 14 February 2003)
J.A. Mavrogenes, BS Beloit, MS Missouri-Rolla, PhD VirginiaPolyTech
W. Müller, DiplGeol Vienna, PhD ETH (from 1 November 2003)
M. Norman, BS Colorado, PhD Harvard
A.P. Nutman, BSc PhD Exeter
E. Rhodes, BA DPhil Oxf (from 1 July 2003)
I.S. Williams, BSc PhD ANU

Research Fellows:

A.J. Berry, BSc Sydney, DPhil Oxf
F.G. Fabel, BSc PhD Melbourne
H.U. Faul, Vordiplom Ulm, PhD Oregon
M. Forster, BSc MSc PhD Monash (from 1 July 2003)
G. Hughes, BE ME Auckland, PhD Cambridge
C. McFarlane, BSc Toronto, MSc Calgary, PhD Texas (from 12 August 2003)
C. Meriaux, BPhys Paris XI, PhD Paris VII (until 9 January 2003)
A. Reading, BSc Edinburgh, PhD Leeds
P. Tregoning, BSurv, PhD UNSW
J. Wynn, BSc MSc Utah, PhD Oregon (from 16 February 2003 to 15 June 2003)
G. Yaxley, BSc PhD Tasmania

Postdoctoral Fellows:

C. Alibert, MSc Paris VII, PhD CRPG
C. Bryant, BSc UNE, PhD ANU
G. Dunbar, BSc MSc VicWell, PhD James Cook (from 9 July 2003)
J. Freeman, BSc Curtin, PhD Monash (from 13 October 2003)
A.C. Hack, AssocDip CIT, BSc PhD ANU (from 10 September 2003)
M. Heintz, BSc Nancy, MSc Strasbourg, PhD Montpellier (from 11 November 2003)
J. Hermann, Dip PhD, ETH
A. Kiss, BSc PhD ANU
J.F. Marshall, BSc UNSW, MSc PLD ANU
S.N. McLaren, BSc, PhD Adelaide
S. Micklethwaite, BSc PhD Leeds
C. Pelejero, BSc MSc PhD Barcelona (from 13 January 2003)
A. Pulford, BSc ANU, PhD Wellington (from 1 October 2003)
N. Rawlinson, BSc PhD Monash
E. Tenthorey, BSc McGill MSc Florida PhD Columbia

RESEARCH OFFICERS

D.R. Christie, MA Toronto, PhD ANU
P. Holden, BSc Lancaster, PhD St. Andrews
S.E. Kesson, BSc Sydney, PhD ANU
H.W.S. McQueen, BSc Qld, MSc York, PhD ANU
N.G. Ware, MSc Durham

RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

A. Arcidiaco, BAppSc, GradDip SAInst
B.J. Armstrong, BSc UNISA
M. De Kool, PhD Amsterdam (from 3 November 2003)
R. Decrevel BSurv SA (from 22 September 2003)
P. Fullsack, MAppSc Paris (from 20 November 2003)
I.T. Harman, BSc Armidale (until 17 March 2003)
R.W.L Martin, BSc ANU
A. Purcell, BSc PhD ANU
P. Rickwood, BSc UNSW, Dip Canberra (from 10 November 2003)
R. Stanaway, BAppSc Qld UTech
C. Tarlowski, MSc Moscow, PhD Warsaw (from 23 June 2003)
L. Weston, BSc Macquarie

POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS

PhD Candidates:

N. Abram, BSc (Hons) Sydney
A. Aikman, BSc (Hons) Edinburgh
B. Ayling, BSc Wellington
M. Beltrando, MSc Turin
R. Berdin, BSc MSc Philippines
R. Brodie, BSc QLD
S.N. Burgess, BSc (Hons) Adelaide MSc (Hons) Auckland
J. Celerier, BSc (Hons) Melbourne
R. Da Fonseca, BSc Lisbon
K. Dowell, BSc (Hons) ANU
S. Fishwick, BSc Edinburgh
T. Fujioka, BSc MSc Osaka
R. Fraser, Btech BSc Flinders
A.C. Hack, AssocDip CIT, BSc ANU
C.J. Heath, BSc Monash
F. Herman, Civ Eng, Belgium
T.-K. Hong, BSc MSc, Seoul National
B. Jenkins, BSc UTS
F. Jenner, BSc (Hons) Oxf Brookes
A. Kallio, MSc Helsinki
K. Lilly, BSc (Hons) ANU
X. Liu, MSc, ChineseAcSci, BSc ChinaUnivGeosci
A. Lyman, BSc MSc, Arizona State
H.V. McGregor, BSc James Cook
D. Maidment, BSc UNSW
I. McCulloch, BSc UNSW, GradDip ANU
M. Miller, BA Whitter, MSc Columbia NY, MEng Cornell NY
J. Mullarney, BA Cambridge, MSc Bristol
T. Prastowo, BSc ITS, MSc ITB
K. Procko, BSc Adelaide, BSc (Maths & Comp Sci) Adelaide, BSc (Hons) ANU
D. Qu, Petroleum Inst Jianghan, MSc Academy of Sciences China
P. Rustomji, BSc ANU
E. Saygin, BSc Istanbul Technical
M. Smith, BSc UNSW
S. Sommacal, Laurea in Science Geologiche (BSc) Univ Degli Studi Di Padova
A. Stoltze, BSc Curtin
W. Sun, BSc MSc USTC
V. Toy, BSc MSc (Hons) Auckland
P. Treble, BSc Wollongong, BSc ANU
J. Trotter, BSc MSc Macquarie
D. Wood, BSc Monash
T. Wyndham, BSc ANU
K. Yoshizawa, MSc Hiroshima
Y. Zhou, BSc MSc Chengdu Inst Tech

Masters Candidate:

R. Stanaway, BApp, Qld UTech

A.L. Hales Honours Year Scholarship

N. Tailby
S. Tynan

Physics of Earth Honours Program

F. Gesto
M.Coman

GENERAL STAFF


Executive Officer:

G. Kretschmer, BSc Flinders, PhD ANU (until 3 June 2003)
K. Jackson (from 28 July 2003)

Assistant Executive Officer:

M. Murphy

Finance Manager:

M. McDonald, BAppSc CCHS, GradDip Monash

Technical Officers:

C. Allen, AB Princeton MSc Oregon, PhD VirginiaTech
J.T.A. Arnold, BSc Sydney, GradDip CCAE
A.R. Beasley, AssocDip CIT
V. Baek-Hansen
P. J. Biggs
Z. Bruce, BSc PhD Canterbury (from 10 October 2003)
J. Cali, BAppSc QIT
D.L. Corrigan
J.A. Cowley, BSc ANU
J. Duan, BE DUT, MSc Murdoch (from 3 November 2003)
J.D. Fitz Gerald, BSc James Cook, PhD Monash
A.W. Forster
J.J. Foster, BSc Sydney, MSc PhD ANU
J.H. Grant (until 27 August 2003)
W.O. Hibberson, BAppSc CCAE (until 19 November 2003)
N. Hill, BA ANU
I. Iatsevitch, BEng Tashkent Polytec Inst, PhD Russian Academy of Sciences
B. Jenkins, BSc UTS
D. Kelleher, AssocDip Cartog CIT
L.P.J. Kinsley, BSc GradDipSc ANU
H. Kokkonen, BAppSc CCAE
C. Krayshek
J. Lanc (until 10 February 2003)
A. Latimore
R.E. Maier
C.J. Morgan
G.E. Mortimer, BSc PhD Adelaide
J. Mya, BSc Mandalay
C. Norris, BSc ANU (from 7 October 2003)
S. Paxton
A.J. Percival
N. Schram, Dip EIE SAIT
D. Scott
H. Scott-Gagan, BSc Sydney
J.M.G. Shelley, MSc Canterbury
S.P. Sirotjuk, AssocDip TAFE
L. Taylor, BA ANU
D.B. Thomson
R.M. Waterford (until 31 March 2003)
G. Watson
C. Were (from 18 August 2003)
A.R.W. Welsh, BAppSc CCAE
R.E. Willison (until 4 April 2003)
A. Wilson
G.F. Woodward
X. Zhang, PhD LaTrobe

Trainee Technical Officer:

B. Ferguson, ADip CIT
C.A. Saint
D. Clark (from 29 September 2003)
D. Cummins (from 17 February 2003)
D. Cassar (from 17 February 2003)

Apprentice:

B. Taylor

Information Technology:

D. Bolt, BSc Sydney
P. Lanc (from 3 March 2003)
S. Phillips (from 8 October 2003)
S. Robertson, DipAppPhys TAFE, MSc BSc ANU

School Librarian - Librarian’s Staff:

S. Jackson, BA ANU, GradDip UC
C. Harney, Dip CIT

Administration:

J. Badstuebner, BA James Cook (from 23 June 2003)
S. Blewett, BSc Swansea, PGCE Keele (from 26 August 2003)
C.J. Cullen
P. Delatorre (until 4 July 2003)
P.A. Gillard (from 7 August 2003)
V.M. Gleeson
W.A. Hampton
D.H. Kelly
J. Lo Presti (from 15 October 2003)
M. Lukatela, BA, GradDip, CCAE (until 15 August 2003)
R. MacPherson
R. A. Petch
K. Provins
J. A. Talbot (from 1 September 2003)
M. C. Turner, Dip CIT (until 11 July 2003))
E. Ward

Research School of Earth Sciences Advisory Committee:

Emeritus Prof J.F. Lovering (Chair)
Prof T. M. Harrison, Director, RSES
Prof J. Hearn, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), ANU
Prof B.L.N. Kennett, RSES
Dr H. StC. O’Neill, RSES
Dr B. Schmidt, RSAA
Prof S. O’Reilly, Director, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Macquarie University
Dr C. Pigram, Chief of Division, Minerals and Geohazards Division, Geoscience Australia
Prof N. Phillips, Chief, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
Mr G. Hall, Chief Geologist, Placer Dome Asia Pacific
Dr R. Smith, Chief Geologist, Anglogold Exploration Australasia
Dr J. Hronsky, Senior Geoscientist, Exploration Division, WMC Resources Ltd

VISITING FELLOWS ON FACULTY

Dr C. Barton (Geoscience Australia)
Dr L. P. Black (Geoscience Australia)
Dr D. J. Brown (Geoscience Australia)
Dr E. Calvo Costa (ICER-CSIC)
Prof W. Compston
Mr A. Cross (Geoscience Australia)
Dr P. R. Cummins (Geoscience Australia)
Dr A. Glickson
Prof G. P. Grey (University of Frankfurt)
Dr J. Claoué-Long (Geoscience Australia)
Dr A. Dutton
Dr G.L. Fraser (Geoscience Australia)
Mr C. Foudoulis (Geoscience Australia)
Prof D. Green
Prof G. Gwanmesia (Delaware State University)
Dr M. Heintz
Dr J. Hermann
Dr M. Idnurm
Dr Y. Jia (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Dr K. Kuge (Kyoto University)
Prof P. K. Link (Idaho State University)
Prof G. S. Lister (Monash University)
Dr R.R. Loucks
Dr C. Magee
Prof I. McDougall
Dr C. Montross (Ringwood Superabrasives, ACT)
Dr W. Müller (ETH Zurich)
Dr R. Page (Geoscience Australia)
Prof M. S. Patterson
Prof G. Poupinet (Université J. Fourier)
Dr E. J. Rhodes
Dr B. Rohrlach
Dr D. Rubatto
Prof R. Rutland
Dr T. Sharp (Arizona State University)
Dr N. Spooner
Mr R. Stanaway
Dr C. Tarlowski (CTBTO)
Dr O. Titov (Saint-Petersburg State University)
Prof J. S. Turner
Prof J. Weaver (University of Victoria, Canada)
Dr J. Wynn (University of Oregon, USA)
Dr Y. Yokoyama (University of Tokyo, Japan)

SCHOOL VISITORS ON FACULTY FOR 2003

Earth Chemistry

Dr I. Buick, La Trobe University, visited Earth Chemistry for a week in November to work with Dr I.S. Williams on SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zircon from granulites of the Harts Range, central Australia.

Dr S. Clement, Ion Optical Consulting, Canada, visited Dr T.R.Ireland from 28 March - 4 April and from 15 August to 15 September to continue consultative development for the proposed SHRIMP SI instrument.

Dr P. Dawes, Geological Survey of Greenland and Denmark, visited Earth Chemistry in December and, in collaboration with Dr A.P. Nutman, undertook SHRIMP zircon geochronology of Archaean and Proterozoic rock from northwest Greenland and worked jointly with him on a manuscript.

Dr C.R.L. Friend, Oxford Brookes University, UK, visited Earth Chemistry in April- May to work on manuscripts with Drs. V.C. Bennett and A.P. Nutman and undertook collaborative SHRIMP zircon geochronology of Archaean rocks from southwest Greenland.

Dr A. Kennedy, Curtin University, visited RSES and Australian Scientific Instruments in August to monitor the progress of construction of the second SHRIMP II for the West Australian SHRIMP consortium.

Ms K. Kolodner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, visited Dr T.R. Ireland from 23 June - 23 September to conduct SHRIMP analyses.

Mr G. Kopi, Senior Exploration Geologist, Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea, visited Earth Chemistry for two weeks in December to work with Dr I. S. Williams on SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zircon from the Owen Stanley metamorphics.

Dr J. Lindsay, JSC Astrobiology Institute, Nasa, USA, visited Earth Chemistry from 7 December - 20 January 2004 working with Dr V.C. Bennett.

Dr T. Matsumoto, Osaka University, Japan, visited Earth Chemistry (Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry group) in May to work with Dr M. Honda on noble gas analyses of metasomatic apatite in spinel lherzolite from the Newer Volcanics, southeastern Australia.

Prof S.J. Mojzsis, University of Colorado, USA, Prof L. Becker, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and Dr O.M. Lovera, University of California, Los Angeles, USA visited Prof T.M. Harrison.

Mr N. Riesen, school student, visited Dr T.R. Ireland, Earth Chemistry from 1-5 September as part of the Year 11 Work Experience program.

Dr K. Terada, Hiroshima University, Japan, arrived in November for a 2 month visit to Earth Chemistry to work with Dr I.S. Williams and other members of the SHRIMP group on multi-collector stable isotope analysis of meteoritic minerals.

Prof J. Valley and Dr N. Lord, University of Wisconsin, USA, visited Earth Chemistry for one week in July to assess the performance of the SHRIMP II for multi-collector stable isotope analysis.

Dr D. Wark, University of Melbourne, visited Dr T.R. Ireland from 30 June to 2 July to conduct ion probe research in connection to ARC Project “Lithic Astronomy”.

Ms K. Weaver, University of California Berkeley, USA, visited Earth Chemistry for three weeks in June, to work with Dr V. Bennett and Dr A. Nutman on the trace element and age characterisation of zircon populations for bulk isotopic investigations, focusing on Sr isotopic evolution of the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic mantle.

Mr S. Zasiadczyk, an Honours student from the Department of Geology, ANU, visited Earth Chemistry in July to work with Dr I.S. Williams on SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zircon from the Minotaur/North Revenge mine near Kambalda.

Prof J. Zhang, Prof Z. Bao and Prof X. Lai, from the China University of Geosciences, China, visited RSES on 6 March and presented seminars on the China University of Geosciences and its education and research interests.

Earth Environment

Dr M. Ellwood, National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, Hamilton, New Zealand, visited Earth Environment to discuss ongoing collaborative research with Dr S. Eggins on the geochemistry of siliceous sponges.

Dr S. Fallon, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, visited Earth Environment to perform trace element analysis of deep-sea sediments during August and September.

Ms E. Grand-Clement, a visiting student from Louis Pasteur University, France, undertook a collaborative visit to RSES, over the period February - June.

Ms M. Inoue from the Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Japan, visited Earth Environment (Stable Isotope group) for three months to measure stable-isotope ratios in corals from Indonesia as part of her PhD dissertation: ‘Reconstruction of marine pollution histories based on heavy elements in coral skeletons’.

Mr P. Montagna, University of University of Padua, Italy, visited Earth Environment to analyse corals for trace elements in the ICP-MS Laboratory.

Mr A. Moy, University of Tasmania visited Earth Environment (Stable Isotope group) in May to measure oxygen and carbon-isotope ratios in foraminifera from Southern Ocean deep-sea sediment cores. The work forms part of his PhD research at the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies.

Mr B. Murphy, Northern Territory University, Key Centre for Ecological Research, visited Earth Environment (Stable Isotope group) to work on stable isotopes of kangaroos. He visited in August to learn collagen extraction techniques and to familiarise himself with the equipment available for his project.

Ms R. Pickering, Palaeoanthropology Unit for Research and Exploration, Johannesburg, South Africa, visited Prof R. Grün and Prof M. McCulloch to work on U-series dating of speleothems from the hominid-bearing site of Gladysvale.

Dr A. Pike, Research Laboratory for Archeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, UK, visited Prof R. Grün and Dr S. Eggins to work on ‘Addressing the reliability of dating methods beyond the range of 14C’; grant funded by the British Academy.

Mr B. Roark, University of California, Berkely, USA visited Earth Environment to work on Sr/Ca and stable isotope response to bleaching and flood plumes in Porites corals from the Great Barrier Reef in collaboration with Prof M. McCulloch.

Ms C. Rowe, Monash University, visited Earth Environment (Stable Isotope group) to measure carbon-isotope ratios in organic matter from Late Quaternary lacustrine sequences in northern Australia. The work forms part of her PhD research in the School of Geography and Environmental Science.

Prof Sir N. Shackleton, University of Cambridge, UK, visited Earth Environment over the period 15-18 December, during which time he presented a seminar on establishing accurate chronologies for Greenland ice-cores.

Ms M. Spooner, Department of Geology, ANU, visited Earth Environment (Stable Isotope group) to measure oxygen and carbon-isotope ratios in foraminifera from deep-sea sediment cores offshore of Western Australia. The work forms part of her PhD research with Prof P. De Deckker.

Dr C. Spötl, University Innsbruck, Austria visited Earth Environment to discuss collaborative work on Austrian speleothems.

Dr D. Stakes, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, California, USA, visited Earth Environment to use the ICP-MS lab and to present a seminar on research with excerpts of seafloor video images.

Dr J. Stevenson, the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, visited Earth Environment (Stable Isotope group) to measure carbon-isotope ratios in organic matter from Late Quaternary lacustrine sequences in the Philippines and New Caledonia.

Dr P. Toms, University of Gloucestershire, UK, and Dr R. Bailey, University of Oxford, UK, both visited the Luminescence Dating Laboratory while in Australia.

Earth Materials

Dr B. Baumgartner, STOE, Darmstadt, Germany, the manufacturer of the new x-ray diffraction instrument visited Earth Materials (Experimental Petrology group) from 28 September until 3 October to install the system and to instruct staff on its use.

Prof G. Brey, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, visited Earth Materials (Experimental Petrology group) from 1 January to 30 March, continuing collaboration with Prof D.H. Green on genesis of highly undersaturated magmas and on unusual mantle xenoliths from African Kimberlites.

Dr G. Gwanmesia, Delaware State University, USA, visited Earth Materials during February-March.

Dr T. Morishita, Kanazawa University, Japan, visited Earth Materials (Experimental Petrology group) from 23-30 November to work on the laser ablation ICPMS with the help of Dr S. Eggins and Mr M. Shelley.

Dr A. Pack, Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Cologne, Germany, visited Earth Materials (Experimental Petrology group) to use the laser ablation ICPMS to analyse early solar system phases in primitive chondrites in cooperation with Mr M. Shelley.

Prof I. Parsons, University of Edinburgh, UK, visited Earth Materials (Rock Physics), from 11 November 2002-17 January 2003.

Prof M. Scambelluri, University of Genova, Italy visited Earth Materials (Experimental Petrology group) from 5-26 September to work on subduction zone metamorphism of ultramafic rocks.

Earth Physics

Ms G. Estermann, a student from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, was appointed a school visitor in Earth Physics (Geodynamics group), for a period of twelve months from 8 October. Ms Estermann is working with Prof K. Lambeck on matters relating to the Cooperative Research Centre for Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems (ACE CRC).

Dr T. Furumura, Dr K. Koketsu and Dr H. Takenaka, Japan, visited Earth Physics (Seismology group) at the end of January with support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. They participated in a workshop at Geoscience Australia on the ground motion induced by earthquakes, and undertook extended discussions on seismic wave propagation issues.

Dr A. Gorbatov, JAMSTEC, Japan, visited Earth Physics in October-November for three weeks to work with Dr M. Sambridge and Prof B.L.N. Kennett on tomographic inversion. He made use of the Terrawulf cluster to undertake ensemble tomography with more than 100 simultaneous global tomographic inversions using different initial conditions.

Dr A. Hogg, Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK, visited Earth Physics (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics group) in January and November to discuss future collaborative research projects.

Dr K. Kuge, University of Kyoto, Japan visited in October to study the propagation of multiple reflection P and S body waves beneath Australia using data from the portable stations. This work forms part of a comparative study of structure in Australia and east Antarctica.

Dr O. Lovera, University of California-Los Angeles, USA, visited the School's Centre for Advanced Data Inference (CADI) and spent a week in September discussing thermochronological inverse problems with Drs. Sambridge and Braun.

Prof S. Manabe, Head of the Earth Rotation Division of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and members of his staff, visited Earth Physics (Geodynamics group) in March to inspect the Mt Stromlo gravity station and discuss the progress of its recovery after the destruction of the surrounding building in the January fires. The superconducting gravimeter was brought online again during their visit after being out of operation for two months.

Ms C. Menesguen, Ecole Normal Supérieure, Paris (Ulm), France, was a visitor in Earth Physics (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics group) for six months (January-June), and carried out a research project on the instability of western boundary currents in the oceans, as an addition to her Master of Physics degree from the ENS, Paris.

Dr G. Poupinet, Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, spent most of the year at RSES working on the properties of the inner core, principally using data from the upgraded Warramunga Array. His work indicates considerable complexity in structure near the top of the inner core leading to a long coda to the phase PKiKP reflected from the inner core boundary.

Prof H. Schuh, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Vienna University of Technology, Wien, Austria, visited Earth Physics (Geodynamics group) in July this year to discuss cooperative projects in VBI (Long Baseline Interferometry).

Mr G. Sicchitano, a student of Geological Science at the University of Catania, Italy, visitred Earth Physics (Geodynamics) for approximately three months. He arrived at the School on 11 November, to commence work with Prof Kurt Lambeck and Dr Tezer Esat on analysing speleothem data from submerged caves in Catania, Italy.

Dr O. Titov, Geoscience Australia, is a Visiting Fellow in Earth Physics (Geodynamics group). He is conducting research on the processing of VLBI data.

Dr L. Wallace, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, NZ, visited Dr Paul Tregoning from Earth Physics (Geodynamics group) in August, to collaborate on tectonic studies in Papua New Guinea.

THESES SUBMITTED


PhD

Ms L. Glass Petrogenesis and geochronology of the North Australian Kalkarinji low-Ti continental flood basalt province (PhD). Supervisors: Dr H. O’Neill, Dr V. Bennett, Dr I.H. Campbell, Dr S. Sun, Dr I.S. Williams Advisors: Dr I.H. Campbell, Dr I.S. Williams.

Mr A. Hack Experimental investigations into mineral-buffered solubility and speciation in supercritical fluids: The systems SiO2-H2O and Cu-Cu2O-MgO-SiO2-HCl-H2O (PhD). Supervisors: Dr J. Mavrogenes, Dr A. Berry. Advisors: Prof H. O’Neill, Dr J. Hermann, Dr S. Eggins, Prof R.J. Arculus.

Ms E.J. Hendy Coral Reconstructions of Decadal-to-Centennial Climate Variability in the Great Barrier Reef Since 1565 AD (PhD) Supervisors: Prof M.T. McCulloch, Dr M.K. Gagan. Advisors: Prof J. Chappell, Dr C.A. Alibert, Dr J.M. Lough (AIMS).

Mr T. Hong Development and application of a wavelet-based method for modelling of seismic wave propagation (Ph.D) degree approved December 2003. Supervisor: Prof B.L.N Kennett.

Mr X. Liu The effect of K2O, Cr2O3, H2O and CO2 on the partial melting behaviour of spinel lherzolite in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2±K2O±Cr2O3±H2O±CO2 at 11 kbar (PhD). Supervisors: Dr H. O’Neill, Prof D.H. Green, Dr M.S. Sambridge Advisor: Dr S. Kesson.

Mr W. Lus The metamorphic sole of the Papuan ultramafic belt ophiolite (PhD). Supervisors: Prof D.H. Green, Prof I. McDougall, Prof H. Davies (UPNG). Advisors: Dr H. O’Neill, Dr S. Eggins.

Ms H.V. McGregor Coral Records of Climate Variability in the West-Pacific Warm Pool (PhD) Supervisor: Dr M.K. Gagan. Advisors: Prof J. Chappell, Prof M.T. McCulloch, Dr J.M. Lough (AIMS).

Mr D. Osmond Laboratory models of geophysical flows (PhD). Supervisor: Prof R.W. Griffiths.

Mr P. Rustomji Holocene geomorphology of the MacDonald and Tuross Rivers. (PhD) Supervisor: Prof J. Chappell.

Mr W. Sun The Subduction Factory: A perspective from the rhenium and trace element geochemistry of oceanic basalts and eclogites (PhD) Supervisors: Drs V.C. Bennett, I.S. Williams. Advisors: Dr S. Eggins, Prof RJ Arculus (Geology).

Ms P. Treble Palaeoclimate records constructed from southern Australian modern, Holocene and Pleistocene speleothems (PhD) Principal Supervisor: Prof J. Chappell.

Masters

Mr R. Stanaway Implementation of a Dynamic Datum in Papua New Guinea: A Case study (MPhil) Supervisor: Dr P. Tregoning.

Honours

Ms M. Coman Convective exchange between two connected chambers. (Hons. in Physics of the Earth). Supervisors: Prof Ross Griffiths and Dr Graham Hughes.

Mr F. Gesto Seismic strain, lithospheric deformation and surface topography. (Hons. in Physics of the Earth). Supervisor: Dr Jean Braun.

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Academic Staff

Prof D.H. Green was elected as a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in recognition of his scientific research on the Earth’s mantle and on the genesis of basalts.

Prof I. Jackson was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Dr H. O’Neill was awarded the Schlumberger Medal from the Mineralogical Society of London.

Profs A. Hales, J. Chappell, W. Compston, D. Green, R. Griffiths, B. Kennett, K. Lambeck, I. McDougall, M. Paterson, and S. Turner were awarded the Australian Centenary Medal.

Prof J. Chappell was awarded the David Brown Medal, “for contributions to Geology” (ANU).

Dr M. Gagan was awarded an Alan Cox Visiting Professorship by the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, USA.

Prof D.H. Green delivered the Umbrove Lecture at University of Utrecht and was appointed as Crosby Visiting Prof at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Prof I. Jackson was awarded a Visiting Professorship, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, May-August.

Dr M. Sambridge was nominated for the Vice-Chancellor's award for excellence in graduate student supervision.

Dr V.C. Bennett was elected a fellow of the Geological Society of America.Students
Ms N. Abram was awarded the RSES Robert Hill Memorial Prize in recognition of her interdisciplinary research and effective communication in the earth sciences.

Ms R. Fraser and T. Wyndham were joint recipients of the Mervyn and Katalin Paterson Fellowship Award.

Mr J. Freeman was awarded Best Oral Presentation: 17th Victorian Universities Earth Science Conference.

Ms J. Mullarney was awarded a Summer Fellowship by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), USA, for her to attend the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Summer Program at WHOI, 23 June - 22 August.

Mr T. Nicholson was awarded the J.G. Crawford Prize for his Ph.D thesis submitted in 2002.

Mr D. Wood was awarded Best Oral Presentation: Structural geology Section 17th Victorian Universities Earth Science Conference.

POSTGRADUATE AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

An International Postgraduate Research Scholarship was awarded to Ms F. Jenner who commenced her PhD studies under the supervision of Dr V.C. Bennett.

PhD Students Mr J. Célérier and Mr A. Aikman under the supervision of Prof T.M. Harrison.

PhD student Mr A. Kallio under the supervision of Dr T.R. Ireland.

PhD student Mr R. Fonseca under the supervision of Dr I.H. Campbell.

PhD student Mr T. Fujioka under the co-supervision of Prof C. Chappell and Dr M. Honda.

PhD student Ms K. Procko under the supervision on Prof B.L.N. Kennett.

PhD student Mr T. Prastowo under the supervision of Prof R.W. Griffiths.

PhD student Ms S. Burgess under the supervision of Prof M. T. McCulloch.

PhD student Ms K. Dowell under the supervision of Dr J.A. Mavrogenes.

PhD students Ms M. Miller, Mr M. Beltrando and Mr D.Wood under the supervision of Prof G. S. Lister.

PhD student Mr E. Saygin under the supervision of Prof R. W. Griffiths.

PhD student Mr R. Brodie under the supervision of Dr M. S. Sambridge.

PhD student Ms R. Berdine under the supervision of Dr M. K. Gagan.

PhD student Ms K. Lilley under the supervision of Dr D. Fabel and Prof K. Lambeck

Summer Research Scholarships

Summer Research Scholarships were awarded to the following:

Mr J. Hiess, of Canterbury University, New Zealand, under the supervision of Dr T.R. Ireland.

Mr N. Detchon, of the University of Western Australia, under the supervision of Dr M. S. Sambridge and Prof J. M. A. Chappell.

Mr R. Ruddick of the University of Tasmania, under the supervision of Dr P. Tregoning.

Ms S. O’Driscoll of the University of Waikato, New Zealand, under the supervision of Prof M. T. McCulloch.Student Internship

Ms J. Clarke of Monash University, commenced Student Internship under the supervision of Dr T.R. Ireland.

Mr D. Viete of Monash University, commenced Student Internship under the supervision of Prof G. Lister.

Mr N. Tailby of the ANU under the supervision of Dr A. Berry and Dr H. O'neill.

Student Internships

Ms J. Clarke of Monash University, commenced Student Internship under the supervision of Dr T.R. Ireland.

Mr D. Viete of Monash University, commenced Student Internship under the supervision of Prof G. Lister.

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