CONFERENCES AND OUTSIDE STUDIES
Earth Chemistry
Mr A.B. AIKMAN, 17th Australian Geological Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 10-11 February, presented a paper entitled “ Structural dislocations in perthitic K-feldspar: from reaction rates to the origin of life”.
Mr A.B. AIKMAN, Himalaya-Karakorum Tibet workshop, Niseko , Japan , July, presented a paper entitled “Preliminary results from the Yala- Xiangbo Dome , SE Tibet ”.
Dr C. ALLEN, 17th Australian Geological Conference, Hobart , Tasmania , 10-11 February, presented a paper entitled “The stories a single zircon can tell”.
Dr C. ALLEN, Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Montreal, Canada, May, presented a paper entitled “Identifying and dating metamorphic zircons in clastic rocks and river sediment and the technique of U-Pb dating fine overgrowths”.
Dr V.C. BENNETT, participated in fieldwork in southwest Greenland from 20 June to 3 August.
Dr V.C. BENNETT, visiting scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston , Texas from 13 November to 10 December.
Dr V.C. BENNETT, The Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference, “Planetary Timescales: from Stardust to Continents”, Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra , 16-19 February, presented a paper entitled “ Direct age constraints on planetary differentiation: observations and prospects”.
Dr V.C. BENNETT , American Geophysical Union, San Francisco , California , 13-17 December, presented a paper entitled “Evolving Mantle Regimes Revealed by 143Nd Compositions of 3850Ma to Modern Mafic rocks”, in the interdisciplinary Union session, The Deep Earth Engine: Geophysics and Geochemistry.
Dr I.H. CAMPBELLl, attended a Council meeting of the International Mineralogical Association at the 32 nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August and presented a paper entitled “Testing the plume hypothesis: prediction and observations” at the Congress.
Mr J. CELERIER, 19th Himalayan-Karakoram Tibet Workshop, 10-12 July, Niseko , Japan .
Mr J. CELERIER, Channel flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation of Lower-mid Crust in Continental Collision Zones, London, 6-7 December.
Prof W. COMPSTON, SHRIMP Workshop, Hiroshima, Japan, 8-12 November, oral presentations entitled “New SHRIMP ages from the P-T boundary at Meishan, China” and “Direct evidence for within-session variation in SHRIMP 206Pb/ 238 U age-calibration and its numerical correction”.
Mr A.J. CROSS, SHRIMP workshop, Hiroshima , Japan , 8-12 November, oral presentation entitled “ Detrital zircon from the early Palaeoproterozoic sediments of the Tanami Basin : A record of orogenesis”.
Ms T.A. EWING, SHRIMP workshop, Hiroshima , Japan , 8-12 November, oral presentation entitled “ The Kakapo Granite – Complex ages from a complicated granite”.
Dr J.J. FOSTER, SHRIMP workshop, Hiroshima , Japan , 8-12 November, oral presentation entitled “ SHRIMP SI: What is it?”.
Mr T. FUJIOKA, 11th Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group (ANZGG), Mount Buffalo , Victoria , Australia , 15-20 February, oral presentation entitled “Evaluation of nucleogenic component in cosmogenic 21Ne surface exposure dating”.
Prof T.M. HARRISON, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, Tasmania, 8-13 February, presented a paper entitled “The >3.83 ga Akilia quartzite: the oldest known marine sediment containing evidence for life?”.
Prof T.M. HARRISON, The Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference, “Planetary Timescales: From Stardust to Continents”, Australian Academy of Science , Canberra 16-19 February, presented a paper entitled “The Mission to Really Early Earth: When did conditions appropriate for Life emerge?”.
Prof T.M. HARRISON, Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Copenhagen , Denmark , 5-11 June, presented a paper entitled "When Did Conditions Appropriate for Life Emerge? Further Results of the Mission to Really Early Earth".
Prof T.M. HARRISON, 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence , Italy , 20-28 August, presented papers entitled "Did Lower Crustal Channel Flow Create the Himalaya ?" and "Documenting Deep Exhumation using Th-Pb Dating of Monazite".
Prof T.M. HARRISON, A NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training (NSCORT) Seminar, New York, 7-8 November, presented a paper entitled "The Mission to Really Early Earth: When did Conditions Appropriate for Life First Appear on Earth?".
Prof T.M. HARRISON visited Dr Bruce Watson, Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, New York .
Prof T.M. HARRISON, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver , 9-11 November.
Prof T.M. HARRISON, Plate Tectonics, Plumes, and Planetary Lithospheres Conference in honour of Dr Kevin Burke’s 75th birthday, Houston , Texas , 12-15 November, presented a paper entitled "The Mission to Really Early Earth".
Prof T.M. HARRISON, Geological Society of London Channel Flow Conference, London 6-7 December, presented a paper entitled "Did molten Tibetan middle crust create the Himalaya via channel flow?"
Dr P. HOLDEN, SHRIMP workshop, Hiroshima , Japan , 8-12 November, oral presentations entitled “Automated multicollector SHRIMP geochronology, Part 1: Data acquisition” and “Problems with zircon U-Pb fractionation on SHRIMP RG”.
Dr M. HONDA, The Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference, “Planetary Timescales: From Stardust to Continents”, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra , 16-19 February, presented a paper entitled “The origin and evolution of planetary atmosphere – implications from noble gases”.
Dr T.R. IRELAND , 17th Australian Geological Conference, Hobart , Tasmania , 10-11 February, presented a paper entitled “Developments in SHRIMP analysis”.
Dr T.R. IRELAND, 35th Lunar & Planetary Sciences Conference, Houston, USA, 13-17 March, oral presentation on oxygen isotopes in lunar metal grains.
Dr T.R. IRELAND, Lunar & Planetary Institute workshop “Oxygen in the Terrestrial Planets”, Santa Fe , USA , 20-24 July, oral presentation entitled “Oxygen isotopes in lunar metal grains: A natural genesis experiment”.
Dr T.R. IRELAND, SHRIMP workshop, Hiroshima, Japan, 8-12 November, oral presentations entitled “Solar wind oxygen isotopes in lunar metal grains” and “Automated multicollector SHRIMP geochronology, Part 3: Results”.
Mr B. JENKINS, SHRIMP workshop, Hiroshima , Japan , 8-12 November, oral presentation entitled “ Field distributions of homogeneous magnetic sectors”.
Ms F. JENNER, 17th Australian Geological Conference, Hobart , Tasmania , 10-11 February, presented a poster entitled “ A 3.0 Ga mafic/ultramafic pillow basalt sequence from Ivisartoq, Southwest Greenland : New insights into late Archean tectonics”.
Mr A.P. KALLIO, SHRIMP workshop, Hiroshima , Japan , 8-12 November, oral presentation entitled “ Rb and Cs as indicators of continental crustal growth”.
Mr P. LANC, SHRIMP workshop, Hiroshima , Japan , 8-12 November, oral presentation entitled “ Automated multicollector SHRIMP geochronology, Part 2: Automated data acquisition”.
Mr D. MAIDMENT, Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) , Alice Springs , 22-23 March, presented a paper entitled “ The Irindina Province – a Neoproterozoic-Cambrian rift in the eastern Arunta” .
Dr A.P. NUTMAN, The Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference, “Planetary Timescales: From Stardust to Continents”, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra , 16-19 February, oral presentation on extracting useful information from the Earth’s oldest rocks.
Dr A.P. NUTMAN, Australian Geological Congress, Hobart, 10-11 February, oral presentation s on Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic tectonics.
Dr A.P. NUTMAN, Workshop on Early Life (sponsored by the Astrobiology Institute), Nuuk, Greenland , June, oral presentation and discussion on early Archaean geology and mineralogy of Akilia Island , Greenland .
Dr A.P. NUTMAN, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences , Beijing , August, oral presentation on Palaeoproterozoic tectonics and metamorphism and searching for evidence of life in the world’s oldest rocks.
Ms R.A. PETCH, SHRIMP workshop, Hiroshima , Japan , 8-12 November.
Ms A. STOLZE, 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence , Italy , 20-28 August, presented a paper entitled “A genetic link between carbonatite magmatism and gold mineralisation at the Wallaby Gold Deposit, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia”.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, Invited Lecturer, Polish Geological Institute, Warsaw, 14 June, oral presentations entitled “An introduction to the SHRIMP ion microprobe”, “Measuring the ages of granites is not always as easy as it might seem” and “The response of zircon, monazite and their U-Pb isotopic systems to high grade metamorphism and magma genesis”.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, Invited Lecturer, International Seminars of Petrology (ISPET) II, Granada, 28 March to 3 April, oral presentations entitled “Dating high temperature metamorphic rocks, Part 1 The problem”, “Dating high temperature metamorphic rocks, Part 2 The solution”, and “Dating high temperature metamorphic rocks, Part 3 Anatexis”.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, Invited Lecturer, Silesian University, Sosnowiec, Poland, 16 June, oral presentation entitled “ An introduction to the SHRIMP ion microprobe”.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, Invited Lecturer, Mining Academy, Krakow, Poland, 18 June, oral presentation entitled “ An introduction to the SHRIMP ion microprobe”.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, SHRIMP workshop, Hiroshima , Japan , 8-12 November, oral presentation entitled “ Towards the analysis of oxygen isotopes in insulators using the SHRIMP II”.
Earth Environment
Ms B. AYLING, Robertson Workshop on Environmental Geochemistry and Geochronology: Quaternary Chronologies, Robertson, NSW, 30 April - 2 May, oral presentation entitled “Marine Isotope Stage 9 (300-320ka) climate records utilizing fossil Porites corals from Henderson Island , SE Pacific”.
Ms B. AYLING, 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, oral presentation entitled “Fossil Porites and Tridacna d 18 O records of Marine Isotope Stage 9 climate at Henderson Island, SE Pacific”.
Ms B. AYLING, 8th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Biarritz , France , 5-10 September, presented a poster entitled “High resolution records of MIS 9 and MIS 11 interglacial climates utilizing fossil Porites corals ( Henderson Island , SE Pacific) and Tridacna clams ( Huon Peninsula , PNG)”.
Ms S.N. BURGESS, 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, Okinawa, Japan, 28 June – 2 July, presented a poster entitled “Geochemical ecology of Plesiastrea versipora: Hermatypic coral at its southern latitudinal limit”.
Dr E. CALVO, 8th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Biarritz , France , 5-10 September, presented a poster entitled “Decadal climate variability in the western Coral Sea since 1710 A.D.”.
Dr T.M. ESAT, Invited Participant at a Workshop on Evolution and Predictability of Earth System, University of Tokyo , July, “Climate and sea-level correlated variations in U isotopes in the oceans”.
Dr T.M. ESAT, The 21st century Earth Science COE Program, University of Tokyo, July, “Climate and sea-level correlated variations in U isotopes in the oceans” and “Potassium isotope fractionation during condensation in the early solar nebula”.
Dr T.M. ESAT, Invited Participant, The International Science Symposium on Sample Returns from Solar System Minor Bodies, Kangawa, Japan, October, “Viability of Mg and Si isotope measurements in samples expected from the Hayabusa mission to asteroid Itokawa”.
Dr S. EGGINS, Robertson Workshop on Environmental Geochemistry and Geochronology: Quaternary Chronologies, Robertson, NSW, 30 April - 2 May, “In-situ U-series dating of Quaternary”.
Dr S. EGGINS, 8th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Biarritz , France , 5-10 September, presented a poster entitled “More from Less, Laser ablation ICPMS microanalysis of foraminifera tests” and oral presentation entitled “Laser ablation ICPMS analysis of Mg/Ca heterogeneity in planktonic foraminifera” at a Conference Workshop on Mg/Ca chemistry of Foraminifera.
Dr D. FABEL, 11th Australia and New Zealand Geomorphology Group Conference, Mt Buffalo, Victoria, 15-20 February, oral presentation entitled ” Do different geomorphic features created by the same glaciation give the same exposure age?”.
Dr D. FABEL, CRC LEME Regolith Symposium, Canberra , 24-26 November, “Cosmogenic burial dating of shallow deposits – a preliminary study”.
Dr D. FABEL, Joint International Geomorphology Conference, Glasgow, 17-20 August, “Constraints on basal thermal regimes of ice sheets from cosmogenic radionuclides”.
Dr D. FABEL, Robertson Workshop on Environmental Geochemistry and Geochronology: Quaternary Chronologies, Robertson, NSW, 30 April - 2 May, “ Cosmogenic burial dating – Complexities and limitations”.
Ms R.A. FRASER, 4th International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies, Wellington, New Zealand, 19-23 April, presented a poster entitled “Sequential micro-analyses of δ13C in wombat incisors: records of rainfall distribution and seasonality of C3 and C4 plant growth”.
Ms R.A. FRASER visited the Research Laboratory for Archaeology, University of Oxford , May-June, to undertake carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of bone collagen and discuss future collaborative projects with Prof R. Hedges, Dr T. O'Connell and Dr P. Ditchfield.
Prof R. GRÜN, Geoscience Africa, Johannesburg , 12-16 July, oral presentation entitled “ Progress in dating hominid remains”.
Prof R. GRÜN, Robertson Workshop on Environmental Geochemistry and Geochronology: Quaternary Geochronology, Robertson, NSW, 30 April - 2 May, oral presentation entitled “ Advances in ESR and U-series dating of human remains”.
Dr C. PELEJERO, 8th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Biarritz , France , 5-10 September, presented a poster entitled “Alkenone paleothermometry and phytoplanktonic evolution of the South Tasman Sea during the last four glacial/interglacial cycles”.
Dr B. PILLANS, 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, Keynote Speaker: “Definition of the Lower-Middle Pleistocene boundary” and Invited oral presentation entitled “Paleomagnetic dating of Cenozoic, Mesozoic and Paleozoic weathering profiles in Australia”.
Dr B. PILLANS, 11th Australian and New Zealand Geomorphology Group Conference, Mt Buffalo, Victoria, 15-20 February, oral presentation entitled “Dating long-term landscape evolution in Australia: Highlights from the LEME Geochronology Project”.
Dr B. PILLANS, CRC LEME Regolith Symposium , Canberra , 24-26 November, oral presentations entitled “Talking about time: The Geological Time Scale 2004”, and “Tektites as chronostratigraphic markers in Australian regolith”.
Dr E. Rhodes, Australia and New Zealand Geomorphology Group meeting, Mount Buffalo, Victoria, 16-20 February, oral presentation entitled “OSL dating of sediments: a tool for developing models of fluvial activity and deposition”.
Dr E. RHODES May, oral presentation entitled “Getting the most from Quaternary chronologies”.
Dr E. RHODES, 80th Birthday meeting in honour of Prof. John Prescott, Adelaide , South Australia , 31 May, oral presentation entitled “OSL of old samples”.
Dr E. RHODES, CRC LEME Regolith Symposium, Canberra , 22 – 24 November, oral presentations entitled “The History of Aridity in Australia : Preliminary Chronological Data”.
Dr E. RHODES, Australasian Quaternary Association meeting, Cradle Mountain , Tasmania , 6-10 December, oral presentation entitled “Discreet periods of Aeolian activity during the last glacial cycle in Australia ”.
Mr A. SADEKOV, 8th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Biarritz , France , 5-10 September, presented a poster entitled “ Within test Mg/Ca ratio banding and shell morphology variation in a population of Orbulina universa (d’Orbigny)”.
Mr M. SMITH, 17th Australian Geological Conference, Hobart , Tasmania , 10-11 February.
Mr M. SMITH, CRC LEME Eastern Regolith Symposium, Canberra , 24-26 November.
Mr T. WYNDHAM, visited the Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii as part of a project investigating the influence of phytoplankton blooms and trace metal compositions of the coastal ocean, June - November.
Earth Materials
Mr M . BELTRANDO, 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, “Rollback-induced barrovian metamorphism in the Lepontine Alps” and “First results of K-Feldspar multidomain analysis of the cooling path during exhumation of the Gran Paradiso Massif, Italy”.
Dr A.J. BERRY , 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart , Tasmania , 8-13 February, “The oxidation state of trace elements in magmas”.
Dr A.J. BERRY , Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, Frankfurt , Germany , 4-7 April, “The in situ determination of redox states in silicate melts”.
Dr A.J. BERRY , Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Copenhagen , Denmark , 5-11 June, “The water site in mantle olivine”.
Prof S.F. COX, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart , Tasmania , 8-13 February, “Controls on permeability and flow paths in fracture-controlled hydrothermal systems”.
Dr J. DUNLAP, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart , Tasmania , 8-13 February, “Vagaries of a quadrupole mass spectrometer used for helium isotope analysis”.
Dr G. FRASER, Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES), Alice Springs , March, “Defining the “footprint” of tectonothermal events in the North Australian Craton: Recent 40Ar/ 39Ar results from the Davenport Ranges and Barrow Creek regions”.
Mr A. HACK, 17th Australian Geological Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 8-13 February, “Activity-Composition Relations in the SiO 2 – H 2O System at Deep Crust and Upper Mantle Conditions: Fluid density measurements” and “The Origin of Porphyry Copper Deposits: In Situ Determination of Copper Speciation and Solubility in Hydrothermal Fluids XANES Spectroscopy and LA-ICP-MS of Individual Fluid Inclusions”.
Dr J. HERMANN, Invited Lecturer at the International Seminars of Petrology (ISPET) III summer school, Padova, Italy, June, “Experimental and natural constraints on trace element recycling in subduction zones”.
Dr J. HERMANN, 10 days of field work in the Alps related to projects on water incorporation into mantle minerals and Alpine high-grade metamorphism.
Prof I. JACKSON, Australian Institute of Physics annual Condensed Matter Physics and Materials, Wagga Wagga, NSW, February.
Prof I. JACKSON, visited Stony Brook University , New York , December, to lecture and hold discussions with research collaborators.
Prof I. JACKSON, visited University of California , Berkeley for discussions with research collaborators.
Prof I. JACKSON, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union , San Francisco , 13-17 December.
Prof G. LISTER, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, Tasmania, 8-13 February, “Three-dimensional slab structure of the Northwest Pacific”.
Prof G. LISTER, 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence , Italy , 20-28 August, “Rollback-induced barrovian metamorphism in the Lepontine Alps ” and “First results of K-Felspar multidomain analysis of the cooling path during exhumation of the Gran Paradiso Massif, Italy ”.
Dr J.A. MAVROGENES,17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart , Tasmania , 8-13 February, “Copper chloride species high temperature brines and vapours: Spectroscopic evidence from fluid inclusions ”.
Dr J.A. MAVROGENES attended the Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Montreal , Canada , May.
Dr J.A. MAVROGENES spent six months on sabbatical at CNRS, Orleans , France .
Prof I. McDOUGALL, 17th Australian Geological Convention in Hobart , Tasmania , 8-13 February, presented a paper on some of his East African work.
Dr S. McLAREN, 17th Australian Geological Convention in Hobart , Tasmania , 8-13 February, “A hot-plate tectonic model for Proterozoic crustal evolution in Australia ; Continent-scale spatial analysis of the regional setting of iron-oxide-copper-gold mineral systems in Australia ” and “The Cooper Basin Argon Laboratory: Nature’s test of the K-feldspar MDD model”
Dr S. MICKLETHWAITE, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco , U.S.A. , 12-17 December, presented a poster entitled “Fault-segment rupture and mineralisation during aftershock focused fluid flow”.
Ms M. MILLER, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart , Tasmania , 8-13 February, “Three-dimensional slab structure of the Northwest Pacific”.
Mr C. SPANDLER, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, Tasmania, 8-13 February, oral presentation entitled “The subduction blender – the role of slab-derived hybrid rock-types for volatile and trace element recycling in subduction zones”.
Mr D. WOOD, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart , Tasmania , 8-13 February. “Age and implication of core-complex formation in central East Queensland ”.
Earth Physics
Mr R. BRODIE, Australian Society of Exploration Geophysics meeting, Sydney, August, oral presentation on his holistic approach to Airborne Electromagnetic inversion.
Dr D.R. CHRISTIE, Infrasound Technology Meeting, Hobart , Tasmania 29 November to 6 December, presented a paper entitled “Observations of Infrasound in Central Australia ”
Ms M.A. COMAN, 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Sydney, NSW, 13-17 December, oral presentation entitled “Convective exchange between two connected chambers”.
Dr G.F. DAVIES, International Geological Congress, Florence , Italy , 20-28 August, presented a paper entitled “Dynamics of the Archaean Mantle, with geochemical and tectonic implications”.
Dr G.F. DAVIES took Outside Studies leave from April - August. Much of that time was spent at the University of California , Santa Cruz , where he wrote about mantle plumes, taught and interacted with seismologists, petrologists and modellers of the geodynamo. He also visited and consulted with Professor P. Bunge at Ludwig-Maximillians University in Munich .
Mr. S. FISHWICK, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, Tasmania, 8-13 February, oral presentation entitled “Contrasts in Lithospheric Structure in the Australian Craton”.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS , 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart , Tasmania , 8-13 February, presented a paper on solidification and formation of lava tubes and channels.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS, International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw , August, presented papers on the ocean overturning circulation.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS, 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence , 20-28 August, presented a paper on the solidification in lava channels.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS, American Physical Society/ Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting, Seattle, November, presented a paper on the ocean overturning circulation.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research Working Group 121 Symposium on Ocean Mixing, Victoria , Canada , October, presented a poster entitled “A ‘recycling box’ model of the global overturning circulation: replacing the missing mixing with a missing process”.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS, 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, University of Sydney , 13-17 December, invited lecture on “The energetics of horizontal convection”.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS lectured at the University of Sydney and the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island .
Dr M. HEINTZ, 17th Australian Geological Convention in Hobart , Tasmania , 8-13 February.
Dr A. McC. HOGG, 11th National Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society ( AMOS) conference (held as part of the International Conference on Storms), Brisbane, 5-9 July, oral presentation entitled “ Decadal Variability of the Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation”.
Dr A. McC. HOGG, 16th Australia New Zealand Climate Forum, Lorne , Victoria , November, oral presentation entitled "Ocean-atmosphere dynamics and decadal variability in the Southern Ocean".
Dr A. McC. HOGG, 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, University of Sydney, 13-17 December, oral presentation entitled “Exchange flow between continuously stratified reservoirs”.
Dr G.O. HUGHES, American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland , Oregon , January, oral presentation entitled “Plumes, turbulent entrainment and the thermohaline circulation of the oceans”.
Dr G.O. HUGHES visited colleagues and presented seminars on a new model for the global overturning circulation of the oceans at the University of Cambridge , Imperial College , Southampton Oceanography Centre, University of Rhode Island and the University of Canterbury .
Dr G.O. HUGHES, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research Working Group 121 Symposium on Ocean Mixing, Victoria , Canada , October, presented a poster entitled “A ‘recycling box’ model of the global overturning circulation: replacing the missing mixing with a missing process ”.
Dr G.O. HUGHES, 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, University of Sydney, 13-17 December, oral presentation entitled “A steady ‘filling box’ solution with zero net buoyancy flux”.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, Tasmania, 8-13 February, oral presentation on the current state of understanding of 3-D seismic structure beneath Australia.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT, Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists meeting, Sydney, August, oral presentation on the current state of understanding of 3-D seismic structure beneath Australia .
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT, Summer School on Geophysical Inversion, Boulder , Colorado , June, Key Lecturer.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT paid a short visit to Strasbourg , presenting a seminar on the structure beneath Australia .
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT, 9th Symposium on the Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior, Garmisch Partkenkirchen , Germany , 4-9 July.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 13-17 December, presentations on guided waves in subduction zones and the use of joint-body wave tomography in upper mantle studies, as well as contributing to a number of posters.
Dr R.C. KERR, 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, oral presentation entitled “The structure and dynamics of sheared mantle plumes, with implications for the geographical distribution of geochemical heterogeneities in hotspot magmas”.
Dr R.C. KERR, International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry
of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) General Assembly, Chile, November, oral presentation entitled “Convection and surface solidification in laminar channel flows: lava tubes or a’a’ flows”. He also participated in two field trips which examined volcanism in the central Andes .
Dr A. KISS, 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, University of Sydney , 13-17 December, presented a paper entitled “Response of ocean circulation to variable wind forcing”.
Dr A. KISS, Joint Asia Oceania Geosciences Society First Annual Meeting and Asia Pacific Association of Hydrology and Water Resources Second Conference, Singapore, 5-9 July, presented an invited keynote address entitled “Separation of western boundary currents: New insights from barotropic models”.
Dr A. KISS presented seminars in the Complex Systems Network Workshop, ANU, 16 - 17 February and the Marine Geochemistry and Ocean Modelling Meeting, ANU, 5 March.
Prof K. LAMBECK, European Union of Geosciences meeting, Nice, France, 25-30 April, oral presentations: “Glacial rebound of Scandinavia: Implications for the ice sheet dimensions since the last glacial maximum and mantle rheology” and “ Sea level in Roman time in the Central mediterranean and the timing of the onset of the recent rise in eustatic sea level”.
Prof K. LAMBECK, International Geological Congress, Florence , Italy , 20-28 August, oral presentation entitled “The MIS 5.5 Shoreline in the Mediterranean : Isostatic and tectonic causes for spatial variability in its elevation above present sea level”.
Prof K. LAMBECK, Canadian Institute of Advances Studies, Earth Science Evolution program, Toronto , Canada , September.
Prof K. LAMBECK also visited and gave seminars at the Universities of Lund and Stockholm and Imperial College London.
Dr F.E.M. LILLEY, Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists – Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia Geophysical Conference, Sydney 16-18 August, presented a paper entitled "Snapshots from fifty years of geophysics".
Mr A.W. LYMAN, International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry
of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) General Assembly , Chile , November, oral presentation entitled “The effects of interior yield strength and surface solidification on the emplacement of lava flows”. He also participated in two field trips, which examined volcanism in the central Andes .
Ms J.C. MULLARNEY, American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting in January in Portland , Oregon , January, oral presentation entitled “The meridional overturning circulation: some insights from simple models”.
Dr N. RAWLINSON, 17 th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, Tasmania, 8-13 February, oral presentation entitled “Three-dimensional structure of the lithosphere beneath northern Tasmania from seismic traveltimes” and poster entitled “ A deeper look at the terranes of southern Victoria and Tasmania: constraints from the broadband stations of the TIGGER seismic network”.
Dr N., RAWLINSON, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 13-17 December, oral presentation entitled “3-D teleseismic tomography of the crust and upper mantle beneath northern Tasmania, Australia” and poster entitled “Seismic applications of the fast marching method: traveltime prediction in complex layered media and 3-D tomographic imaging”.
Dr A.M. READING, XXVIII Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research, Open Science Meeting, Bremen, Germany, 26-28 July, Invited oral presentation entitled “SEAP and new international initiatives in Antarctic Seismology” and poster entitled “Seismic structure and tectonics of the Lambert Glacier region: first results from the SSCUA broadband seismic deployment, East Antarctica”.
Dr A.M. READING, Mineral Resources Tasmania, Hobart , 30 June, presented a Research Seminar on “The deep structure of Tasmania from broadband seismic data.
Dr M. SAMBRIDGE, Australian Society of Exploration Geophysics meeting, Sydney, August, presented a poster entitled “Wavefront propagation with Fast Marching methods”, and contributed to the special session to honour the career of Ted Lilley.
Mr E. SAYGIN, Summer school Mathematical Geophysics & Uncertainty in Earth Models, Golden, USA, 14-25 June.
Dr W.P. SCHELLART, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, Tasmania, 8-13 February, oral presentation entitled “The role of the effective slab pull force in driving tectonic plates” and two posters entitled “Reconstruction of the South
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s of slab subduction in the upper mantle”.
Dr W.P. SCHELLART, American Geophysical Union Western Pacific meeting, Hawaii , August, two oral presentations: “Three-dimensional fluid dynamic modelling of subduction and mantle flow” and “Episodic migration of the Australian-pacific plate boundary during the Cenozoic” and was invited to present the latter at the AGU press conference. Dr SCHELLART convened and chaired a session entitled “Geoscience software frameworks II: Three-dimensional modeling of subducting slabs” and chaired a session entitled “ Plate Boundary Transitions of the Western Pacific: Observations and Models I”.
PRISE
Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart , Tasmania , 8-13 February, presented a paper on the geochronology of Macquarie Island .
Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG, 20th Colloquium of African Geology in Orléans , France , June, co-authored four papers.
Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG, Geoscience Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, July, delivered two invited papers entitled “Facing up to heterogeneities in geological samples: some recent advances in geochronology and isotope microanalysis” and “The birth, growth and changes to the Kaapvaal Craton through time” and co-authored another eight papers.
Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG, Geological Society of America Annual meeting, Denver, USA, November, contributed to a Special Session on the “Early Proterozoic (2.5-2.0 Ga) Events and Rates: Bridging Field Studies and Models”.
Mr C.M. FANNING, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, Tasmania, 8-13 February, presented a paper entitled “Detrital zircon provenance of the Mesoproterozoic Pandurra Formation, South Australia: Gawler Craton derived age spectra and implications for the source of the Belt Supergroup, USA” co-authored two other presentations.
Mr C.M. FANNING, field work in Patagonia, 20-29 February, with Dr R. Pankhurst (UK) and Dr C. Rapela (La Plata, Argentina) related to the project entitled "Chronology of deposition and provenance of Late Palaeozoic sedimentary basins, Argentine Patagonia".
Mr C.M. FANNING, field work in southern Chile , 1-13 March, with Professor Hervé (University de Chile) to examine a section through the southern Patagonian Batholith and the Madre de Dios metamorphic complex.
Mr C.M. FANNING, field work in Minnesota , USA , 8-20 May, with Dr J. Goodge ( University of Minnesota , Duluth , USA ) to carry out further sampling of the Duluth Complex for use as a SHRIMP reference zircon. Mr C.M. FANNING also presented a seminar at the University of Minnesota on SHRIMP methods and applications.
Mr C.M. FANNING, 2nd International Symposium on Polar Sciences of China, Beijing, 16-17 October, two invited oral presentations entitled “The "Mawson Continent": East Antarctica and southern Australia as a cornerstone for ?Rodinia and Gondwana” and “New insights into the development of the Palaeo Pacific margin of East Gondwana”.
Mr C.M. FANNING, Geological Society of America Annual meeting, Denver , USA , 7-10 November, assisted with four presentations, meetings with numerous international collaborators.
Dr M. NORMAN, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, Tasmania, 8-13 February, co-convenor of session on New Technologies in Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry and presentation on “Improved Methods for Re-Os Dating of Molybdenite using Multi-collector ICPMS”.
Dr M. NORMAN, Tectonics to Mineral Discovery - Deconstructing the Lachlan Orogen, MORE-SGEG Conference, Orange, NSW, 6–8 July, poster presentation on “New Re-Os Ages of Molybdenite from Granite-related Deposits of Eastern Australia Using an Improved Multi-collector ICP-MS Technique”.
Dr M. NORMAN, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas, 15-19 March, Chaired session on “The Lunar Crust as Sampled by Basins and Craters”, and presentations on “Identifying Impact Events Within the Lunar Cataclysm from 40Ar-39Ar Ages of Apollo 16 Impact Melt Rocks” and “Magnesium isotopes in the Earth, Moon, Mars, and pallasite parent body: high-precision analysis of olivine by laser-ablation multi-collector ICPMS”.
Dr M. NORMAN, Visiting Scientist, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, 19 October to 18 December. The purpose of this travel was to conduct geochronological studies of lunar samples at the NASA Johnson Space Center .
Dr G.M. YAXLEY, Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5-11 June, oral presentation entitled “High-pressure partial melting of gabbro and the preservation of ‘ghost plagioclase’ signatures”.
Dr G.M. YAXLEY, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, Tasmania, 8-13 February, two oral presentations: “Compositional heterogeneity in olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the Baffin Island picrites” and “Novel techniques for the discrimination of diamond indicator chromian spinel based on major, minor and trace element compositions”.
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EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Dr C.M. ALLEN, Associate Editor, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.
Dr. R.A. ARMSTRONG, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of African Earth Sciences.
Mr M. BELTRANDO, Chief Editor, Virtual Explorer, vol 16.
Dr V.C. BENNETT, Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research.
Prof S.F. COX, member of the Editorial Advisory Boards for Geofluids and Journal of Structural Geology.
Dr J. DUNLAP, Associate Editor, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.
Dr S. EGGINS, member of the Editorial Board of Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS, member of the Editorial Committee of the Annual Reviews of Fluid Dynamics.
Prof R. GRÜN, Editor of Quaternary Geochronology (Quaternary Science Reviews ); member of the Editorial Boards of Quaternary International and Radiation Measurements; Member of reviewers' panel of Ancient TL; standing member of the scientific committee and editor of the proceedings of the International Conferences on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating.
Dr J. HERMANN, Associate Editor, Lithos.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT , Editor-in-Chief of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Associate Editor of Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth).
Prof K. LAMBECK, member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Quaternary Science Reviews and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Dr F.E.M. LILLEY, Associate Editor, 2004 Conference papers, Brazilian Journal of Geophysics Exploration.
Dr A.P. NUTMAN, member of the Editorial Board of Precambrian Research.
Dr B. PILLANS, member of the editorial boards of Catena, Quaternary Science Reviews and Geology
Dr E. RHODES, member of the Editorial Board of Quaternary Science Reviews, jointly edited a special issue of the Journal of Quaternary Science with Prof R. Hedges ( University of Oxford ), “Constructing Quaternary Chronologies”.
Dr M. SAMBRIDGE finished his term as Pacific Region Editor for Geophysical Journal International. The Pacific Editorial Office, which has been run out of the School since 1984, closed down during the year with editorial activities handled through the World Wide Web.
OUTREACH AND WORKSHOPS
The Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference was held in February at the Australian Academy of Sciences to celebrate the birth of the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a collaboration between RSES and RSAA. The theme of the conference was “Planetary timescales: from stardust to continents”. The meeting was opened by the Science Minister Mr Peter McGauran and included public lectures. The conference was attended by 80 invited delegates from nine countries.
Ms B. Ayling presented a seminar entitled “Fossil Porites d 18 O and trace element records of Marine Isotope Stage 9 climate at Henderson Island , SE Pacific” at the School of Earth Sciences , Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Dr V.C. BENNETT, co-convener and co-organizer of the Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference, “Planetary Timescales: from Stardust to Continents”, Australian Academy of Sciences , Canberra , 16-19 February.
Dr A. BERRY, Member of the Instrument Advisory Team (IAT) for the powder neutron diffraction beamlines (HRPD and HIPD) at the new Replacement Research Reactor at Lucas Heights .
Dr A. BERRY, Co-ordinator of a special interest group called GEOSYNC designed to educate, inform and represent Australian geoscientists on all matters relating to synchrotron science.
Dr A. BERRY, Member of the Beamline Advisory Panels for the X-ray absorption spectroscopy (BL 5) and microfocus spectroscopy (BL 9) beamlines of the Australian Synchrotron Project.
Dr S. EGGINS was interviewed on 13 October by ABC Television News for comment on recent volcanic activity.
Dr S. EGGINS presented a seminar entitled “Mg/Ca heterogeneity in foraminifera shells” to the Department of Earth Science, Free University, Amsterdam , Netherlands , March .
Dr D. FABEL was part of the organising committee of the 11 th Australia and New Zealand Geomorphology Group conference, Mt Buffalo, Victoria, 15-20 February.
Mr S. FISHWICK attended a seismological workshop as part of a WMC Ltd. meeting held at GEMOC, Macquarie University, Sydney, 23 June, oral presentation entitled “Surface Wave Studies of Australia: An Improved Model”.
Prof R. GRÜN organised the Robertson Workshop on Environmental Geochemistry and Geochronology: Quaternary Geochronology, 30 April - 2 May, Robertson, NSW.
Dr A. KISS visited Monash University , Melbourne , 25th May and gave a seminar entitled “Dynamics of wind-driven ocean circulation”.
Dr S. MICKLETHWAITE and Prof S.F. COX organised and ran two workshops on the implications of seismological observations and the application of advanced structural techniques to mineral exploration at Kalgoorlie , WA , for geoscientists from Newmont , Australia , KCGM, Goldfields St Ives, Placer Dome and Anglogold (July and November).
Dr S. MICKLETHWAITE, seminar convener for the Research School of Earth Sciences, which involved organizing and promoting weekly lectures for the geological community across Canberra. In March he organized the Jaeger-Hales public lecture presented by Prof F. Albarede, which involved raising funding from the National Institute of Physical Sciences and advertising around campus, in the Canberra Times and on local radio stations.
Dr S. MICKLETHWAITE is a member of the Geological Society of Australia's committee (ACT division), in which capacity he has arranged and organized seminars for the wider public and geological community and promoted geoscience amongst students.
Dr C. PELEJERO gave the seminar “An Interhemispheric Tour through Different Compartments of the Earth System” in the Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC) in Granada , Spain , 5 October.
Dr B. PILLANS was invited to give a public lecture “New tests for old theories: Dating Australian Landscapes” to a joint meeting of the Royal Society of South Australia and the Field Geology Club of South Australia, University of Adelaide, 9 September.
Dr B. PILLANS is a member of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) and the Working Group on the Lower-Middle Pleistocene Boundary, both for the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). He is also president of the Stratigraphy & Chronology Commission of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), and Vice President of the joint INQUA-ICS Task Force to define the Quaternary.
Dr A.M. READING gave an outreach seminar at Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston , Tasmania entitled 'Deep structure of East Antarctica from broadband seismic observations'.
Dr A.M. READING gave an invited presentation entitled '5 years of Antarctic Geoscience 1999-2003' to an audience of government and interdisciplinary science policy makers as part of the joint National Committee on Antarctic Research/Australian Antarctic Division Symposium, 11-12 November.
Dr E. RHODES presented a talk entitled “ Luminescence Dating in Australasian and Pacific Archaeology”, to staff of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, 26 February and presented a seminar entitled “Luminescence Dating at the Limits: Broch Construction at 60ºN” to the ANU Centre for Archaeological Research, 19 March.
Dr E. RHODES is the secretary to the ACT division of the Geological Society of Australia.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, hosted a laboratory tour for students from the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Summer School, 16 January.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS with Dr J. HERMANN and Dr R. Rubatto (Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, ANU), constitute the Organizing Committee for the International Seminars of Petrology (ISPET) IV workshop on Advanced Analytical and Experimental Techniques in Petrology, to be held in February 2005 at RSES.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS and Dr I.H. CAMPBELL met a delegation from the National Taiwan University visiting the ANU to interview highly cited researchers, 24 February.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Prof S.F. COX taught structural geology at 2 nd year level and contributed to three other courses at 1 st to 3 rd year levels, as part of his joint appointment at RSES and the Department of Earth and Marine Science.
Dr G.F. DAVIES taught the Physics of the Earth Honours course Plate Tectonics and Mantle Dynamics (PEAT 8001). Dr Davies also led a graduate seminar course on Mantle Dynamics while on leave at the University of California , Santa Cruz .
Dr J. DUNLAP supported laboratory work by a number of visiting French academics and students associated with Dr J. Braun.
Dr D. FABEL gave two lectures on surface exposure dating in the Chemistry of the Earth course (Geol 2015) at the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, ANU.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS taught one half of the third year undergraduate physics unit “Physics of fluid flows” (PHYS 3034).
Prof R. GRÜN gave a lecture series on Quaternary geochronology to students of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Dr A.M.C.Hogg was a student supervisor for a third year physics unit ( PHYS 3038), " Case Studies in Advanced Computation".
Prof I. JACKSON presented a short course entitled “Elasticity and Anelasticity of Earth Materials: Theoretical Background, Laboratory Measurements and Selected Seismological Applications” as part of the Physics of the Earth Honours program.
Dr R.C. KERR, Dr A.McC. HOGG , Dr G.O. HUGHES , Dr A.E. KISS and Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS taught the Physics of the Earth Honours course (PEAT8004 Current Topics in GFD – a Practical Introduction).
Dr J. MAVROGENES taught one third of “Resources and Environmental Geochemistry” in the Department of Earth and Marine Science, ANU.
Dr C. PELEJERO gave the lecture "The Ocean and the Carbon Cycle" of the undergraduate course, GEOG2016: Introduction to Greenhouse offered in the School of Resources, Environment & Society, ANU, 17 March.
Dr B. PILLANS presented a lecture on regolith geology in the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, ANU.
Dr N. RAWLINSON was involved in teaching the Earth Physics honours course in seismology.
Dr A.M. READING co-lectured an intensive course on Seismology as part of the Earth Physics Honours course.
Dr M. SAMBRIDGE was an invited lecturer at the Colorado School of Mines Summer school on Mathematical Seismology and Uncertainty in Earth Models, where he presented a tutorial on nonlinear inverse problems, June.
HONOURS SUPERVISION
Dr J. MAVROGENES supervised the honours project of Mr N. Tailby on the Spitskopf carbonatite and of Mr M. Stevens on the Plattreef, South Africa .
Dr N. RAWLINSON co-supervised 4th year software engineering student (Tom Kobialka) together with Dr. M. Sambridge on a wavefront construction project
OTHER MATTERS
Dr V.C. BENNETT, Hon. Secretary, ACT Division of the Geological Society of Australia .
Dr I.H. CAMPBELL, Secretary General of the Commission for the Evolution of the Solid Earth, a subcommission of the International Union of Geological Sciences; councillor of the International Mineralogical Association; and co-leader of the Commission for Large Igneous Provinces (LIP).
Dr G. F. DAVIES has been appointed to the Fellows Committee of the American Geophysical Union for a term of two years.
Prof R.W. Griffiths served as a member of the Sectional Committee for Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Australian Academy of Science.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS served as a member of the Fellows Committee for the Volcanology, Petrology and Geochemistry Section, American Geophysical Union.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT is chair of the Committee for the Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference Series. He completed his term as chair of the Academy Committees for Postdoctoral Opportunities in Japan and exchange arrangements with N.E. Asia ( China , Japan , Korea , Taiwan ).
Dr B. PILLANS is a member of the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments & Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME).
Dr M. SAMBRIDGE continued to provide his nonlinear inversion software package, implementing the Neighbourhood Algorithm, to researchers around the world. During the year, 43 requests for the packages were received.
