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STAFF ACTIVITIES 2005

CONFERENCES AND OUTSIDE STUDIES
EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
OUTREACH AND WORKSHOPS
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
HONOURS SUPERVISION
OTHER MATTERS

 


CONFERENCES AND OUTSIDE STUDIES

Earth Chemistry

Mr A.B. AIKMAN, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2005, 5-9 December, presented a paper entitled “Timing of deformation and crustal structure of the North Himalaya constrained by 45 Ma granitoid plutonism”.

Mr A.B. AIKMAN, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2005, 5-9 December, contributed to a paper entitled “Testing the Ti-in-zircon thermometer” presented by T.M. Harrison.

Mr A.B. AIKMAN, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2005, 5-9 December, contributed to a paper entitled “Testing the Ti-in-zircon Thermometer” presented by P. Holden.

Dr C.M. ALLEN, GAC-MAC-CSPG-CSSS meeting, Halifax Nova Scotia , 15-18 May, presented a paper entitled “How to answer the question 'What orogen was the source of this sediment?' Three examples of the application of single zircon U/Pb and He/(U-Th) dating, so called ‘zircon double dating'”.

Dr C.M. ALLEN, Goldschmidt Conference, Moscow Idaho , 20-25 May, presented a poster entitled “Dating minerals containing a significant common Pb component — the benefits of in situ LA-ICP-MS analyses”.

Dr V.C. BENNETT, Goldschmidt Conference, Moscow, Idaho, 20-25 May, presented an invited paper in the “Isotopic records of early planetary differentiation symposium” entitled “Early Terrestrial mantle dynamics from the 143Nd isotopic record of 3600Ma to >3850Ma mafic and felsic rocks”.

Dr V.C. BENNETT, ISPET (International Seminars of Petrology) Conference on Advanced analytical and experimental techniques in petrology, Canberra, Australia, 5-11 February, presented a seminar entitled “High precision ID-TIMS and solution MC-ICP-MS applied to Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd dating: principles and examples”.

Dr V.C. BENNETT, Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology (SGGMP) Geological Society of Australia Conference, Port Macquarie, Australia, 13-15 July, presented a paper entitled ” Evidence for Evolving Mantle Regimes from 143-Neodymium and 176-Hafnium Isotopic Records”.

Dr V.C. BENNETT, Meteoritical Society Meeting, Gatlinburg , Tennessee , 12-16 September, presented an invited paper in the Ross Taylor Moon Symposium entitled “Recognition of multiple impactors from PGE-Re patterns of Apollo 16 melt breccias”.

Dr V.C. BENNETT, American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco , California , 5-9 December presented a poster paper entitled “In situ analyses of Pb (204-206-207-208) isotopic compositions in basaltic glasses using multi-ion counter SHRIMP II”.

Dr J.J. BROCKS, Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Life, Ventura , California , 16-21 January, invited lecture with the title “Orphans and strange steroids in a Paleoproterozoic purple sea”.

Dr J.J. BROCKS, Pilbara Workshop, Perth , Western Australia , June, was session leader of "Brainstorming the way forward".

Dr J.J. BROCKS, 22nd International Meeting of Organic Geochemists, Seville , Spain , 12-16 September, Plenary Lecture entitled “Molecular fossils and the rarity of eukaryotes in mid-Proterozoic seas”.

Dr J.J. BROCKS, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2005, San Francisco, California, 5-9 December, oral presentation entitled “Eukaryote and steroid evolution in the Proterozoic”.

Dr J.J. BROCKS, conducted laboratory work at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA , in December 2005.

Dr I.H. CAMPBELL, The Great Plume Debate, Fort William , Scotland , 28 August to 1 September, co-convener and presented a paper entitled “Testing the Plume Hypothesis”.

Dr I.H. CAMPBELL, The 10th International Platinum Symposium, Oulu , Finland , presented a paper entitled “Implications of high platinum metal partition coefficients for the genesis of Pt-rich sulphide horizons in layered intrusions”.

Mr J. CÉLÉRIER coordinated a week long graduate student fieldtrip to the Flinders Ranges , South Australia , attended by 21 students from RSES and DEMS.

Mr J. CÉLÉRIER, 17th American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco , USA , 5-9 December, presented a paper entitled “The thermal structure of the Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, north west India ”.

Prof W. COMPSTON, SIMS XV Manchester UK , presented an invited paper entitled “The geological ion microprobe: the first twenty five years of dating zircons”.

Mr R.O.C. da FONSECA, The 10th International Platinum Symposium, Oulu , Finland , presented a paper entitled “The effects of fO2 and fS2 on the solubility of platinum in sulphide melts at 1200°C”.

Prof T.M. HARRISON, ANU Retreat Program, Thredbo, 16-18 February.

Prof T.M. HARRISON, NASA Astrobiology Institute Biennial Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 11-14 April, presented a keynote address entitled “Results from the Mission to Really Earth (MtREE): Continental Crust and Plate Tectonics by 4.50-4.35 Ga?”.

Prof T.M. HARRISON, 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Moscow , Idaho , 20-25 May, keynote speaker, presented two keynote addresses entitled “Unravelling polytectonism using in situ Th-Pb dating of monazite” and “Heterogeneous Hadean Hafnium”.

Prof T.M. HARRISON, Fieldwork in Jack Hills , Western Australia , 7-14 June.

Prof T.M. HARRISON, Fieldwork in South Africa , 22 June-5 July.

Prof T.M. HARRISON, public lecture at Australian Academy of Science, 18 August during National Science Week, entitled “From Hell to the Himalayas ”.

Prof T.M. HARRISON, Mineral Society of America Thermochronology Shortcourse, Snowbird Resort, 14-15 October presented a talk entitled “Continuous thermal histories from inversion of closure profiles”;

Prof T.M. HARRISON, MSA Annual Meeting Salt Lake City, 16-19 October, presented a paper entitled “Crystallization Temperatures of Hadean Zircons: Possible Plate Boundary Interactions between 4.4. and 4.0 Ga”.

Prof T.M. HARRISON, Integrated Solid Earth Sciences Forum III, San Francisco , 4 December, presented a paper entitled “Plate Tectonics at 4.5 Ga?”

Prof T.M. HARRISON, AGU Fall Meeting San Francisco, 5-9 December, presented a poster entitled “Testing the Ti-in-Zircon Thermometer”.

Prof T.M. HARRISON, Biennial Geochemical SIMS Workshop IV, UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center , 10-11 December, presented a paper entitled “Plate Tectonics at 4.5 Ga?”

Dr M. HONDA, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 5-9 December, presented a paper entitled “ Crustal noble gases in Jwaneng diamonds with links to seismic tomography”.

Dr T.R. IRELAND , Astrophysics Conference, Sapporo , Japan , 27 February – 3 March, invited speaker, presented a paper entitled “The oxygen isotope composition of the sun and implications for oxygen processing in molecular clouds, star-forming regions, and the solar nebula”.

Dr T.R. IRELAND , Lunar & Planetary Sciences Conference, Houston , USA , 11-19 March, oral presentation entitled “The oxygen isotope composition of the sun and implications for oxygen processing in molecular clouds, star-forming regions, and the solar nebula”.

Dr T.R. IRELAND , Participated in the Hayabusa Science Team Meeting, Tokyo , Japan , 18-19 May.

Dr T.R. IRELAND , Goldschmidt Conference 2005, Moscow , USA , 20-25 May, presented a paper entitled “The oxygen composition of the sun”.

Dr T.R. IRELAND , Gordon Research Conference “Origins of Solar Systems”, Connecticut , USA . 26 June – 1 July, invited participant.

Dr T.R. IRELAND , Meteorical Society Conference and Annual Council Meeting, Gatlinburg , USA , 11-16 September, presented a paper co-authored with Mr Chris THOMSON, entitled “Implications of extreme isotopic anomalies in meteoritic hibonites”.

Dr T.R. IRELAND, Lunar & Planetary Institute “Oxygen in the Early Solar SystemWorkshop”, Gatlinburg , USA , 19-20 September, presented a paper entitled “Oxygen-16 Variations in the Solar System: The Positives and Negatives”.

Dr T.R. IRELAND , Participated in the Hayabusa Science Team Meeting, Tokyo , Japan , 25-28 October.

Dr T.R. IRELAND , American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2005, San Francisco , USA 8-9 December, poster presentation entitled “Pushing the Limits of Geological SIMS - Optimization of Techniques and Strategies for New Capabilities”.

Dr T.R. IRELAND , Biennial Geochemical SIMS Workshop Meeting IV, Lake Arrowhead , USA , 9-11 December, oral presentation entitled “Future Directions for SHRIMP”.

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER, Aspen Center for Physics Conference on Planet Formation and Detection, Aspen, Colorado, 6-12 February, presented a paper (poster) entitled "How Dry is the Brown Dwarf Desert?"

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER, Biennial Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Colorado , Boulder , Colorado , 10-14 April, presented a paper (oral)

entitled "The Chemical Compositions and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets in the Universe"

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER, 14th International Congress on the Origin of Life, sponsored by the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, Beijing , China , 19-24 June presented a paper (poster) entitled "Finding a Second Sample of Life on Earth"

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER, International Symposium on Origins of Life and Astrobiology, Niigata, Japan 27 June- 1 July, presented a paper (poster) entitled "Finding a Second Sample of Life on Earth"

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER, Fifth Australian Mars Exploration Conference, Australian National Universtiy sponsored by the Australian Mars Society, 20-21 August, presented a paper (oral) entitled, "We Have Not Detected Life On Mars...or Have We?"

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER, American Geophysical Union, Non-Linear Geophysics Session, San Francisco, 5-9 December, presented a paper (oral) entitled, "Toward the Application of the Maximum Entropy Production Principle to a Broader Range of Far From Equilibrium Dissipative Systems".

Dr A.P. NUTMAN, ARC-funded fieldwork, 20 June – 14 July, Isua, Greenland .

Dr A.P. NUTMAN, Fieldwork in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland , 15 July – 20 August, Kapisillit area, Greenland .

Dr A.P. NUTMAN, Workshop on Issues with the Precambrian Timescale, Fremantle , Western Australia , 25 September, presented a paper entitled “ Isua, ‘golden spikes” and the lack of zircons: constraining the earliest volcano-sedimentary record.

Dr D. RUBATTO, ISPET IV, International Seminar of Petrology, Canberra , Australia 5-12 February, chair of the session on SIMS and lecture entitled “The link between U-Pb ages of accessory minerals and metamorphic conditions”.

Dr D. RUBATTO, 7th International Eclogite Conference, Seggau , Austria , 3-9 July, oral presentation entitled “Diachronous UHP metamorphism in the Kokchetav massif”.

Dr D. RUBATTO, Earth Dynamics, Canberra 24-25 November, lecture entitled “Episodic (?) subduction in the Western Alps ”.

Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, ISPET IV-International Seminars of Petrology, Canberra, 5-12 February, presented a paper entitled “An introduction to SHRIMP analysis in theory and practice” and organised two field trips for the participants, one to Bingie Bingie point and the other, with Dr S.W. Richards, to the metamorphic complex at Cooma.

Dr I.S. WILLIAMS spent five weeks working in the Centre of Isotopic Research at the All Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), St. Petersburg . The purpose of the visit was to compare the performance of the ANU SHRIMP II in U-Pb geochronology and light isotope analysis with that of a more modern instrument. The ANU SHRIMP II was modified as a result, significantly reducing variability in light isotope fractionation.

 

Earth Environment

Ms S.N. BURGESS, 3rd International Deep-Sea Coral Symposium, Miami , Florida , USA , 28 November – 2 December, presented a paper entitled “Evaluating the use of Plesiastrea versipora as a coral archive of temperate paleoclimate.”

Ms S.N. BURGESS, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco , USA , 4–9 December, presented a paper entitled “High resolution records of environmental change from a temperate coral.”

Dr G.B. DUNBAR, “Reconstructing past climates for future prediction: Integrating high-resolution palaeo data for meaningful prediction in the Australasian region” Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra, 28-29 June, presented a poster entitled “Micro-sampling of skeletal mass accumulation in the tissue layer of Porites: implications for paleo-environmental reconstruction”.

Dr M.K. GAGAN, AGU Chapman Conference “Tropical-Extratropical Teleconnections: A Long-Term Perspective”, University of Hawaii, USA, 8-11 February, presented a keynote address entitled “Post-glacial Evolution of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and Tropical General Circulation”.

Dr M.K. GAGAN, National Conference “Reconstructing Past Climates for Future Prediction: Integrating High-resolution Palaeo Data for Meaningful Prediction in the Australasian Region”, The Australian Academy of Science, Canberra , 27-28 June, presented an invited paper entitled “Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics in Tropical Australasia: Long-Term Perspectives for Improved Prediction”.

Dr M.K. GAGAN, attended CO2CRC Research Symposium, Barossa Valley , SA, 30 November to 1 December.

Prof GRÜN presented a talk at the 12th Congress of the Panafrican Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies. 3-10 July, Garborone , Botswana on Progress in direct dating of human fossils, co-authored by Drs S. EGGINS and A. Pike.

At the 11th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, 24-29 July, Cologne, Germany, Prof. GRÜN presented with S. EGGINS, R.T. Wells, R. RHODES, N. SPOONER and M. MCCULLOCH “A cautionary tale from down-under: dating the megafauna site of Rocky River on Kangaroo Island, South Australia”. At a workshop associated with the same conference Prof. GRÜN gave a lecture on ESR dating (fundamentals, techniques and applications).

Prof. GRÜN gave seminars at Institute de Prehistoire Humaine, Paris , Musee de Prehistoire, Tautavel and CNRS-CEA, Gif sur Yvette.

Prof M.T. MCCULLOCH, New Developments in Isotope Geochemistry Symposium, Mainz, Germany, 02-03 November, presented a paper titled “Coral Reefs: Silent Sentinels of Global Change.”

Prof M.T. MCCULLOCH, Third International symposium on Deep Sea Corals – Science and Management, Florida, USA, 28 November – 02 December, Presented a paper titled “Development of Radiocarbon, Trace Element and Stable Isotope Records from a Deep Sea Coral: Isidisae Sp.”

Dr B.J. PILLANS, Tephra Rush Conference, Dawson City , Canada , 31 July – 7 August, presented a paper entitled “Silicic tephras in Pleistocene shallow marine sediments of Wanganui Basin , New Zealand ”.

Dr B.J. PILLANS, International Workshop on sub-aerially exposed continental shelves since the Middle Pleistocene climatic transition, Hong Kong , 9-13 May, presented a keynote paper entitled “Sea-level and climate changes since the Mid Pleistocene Transition, recorded in shallow marine and coastal sediments, Wanganui Basin , New Zealand ”.

Dr B.J. PILLANS, Future Directions in Stratigraphy III Workshop, Leuven , Belgium , 1-5 September, presented an invited paper entitled “The Quaternary”.

Dr B.J. PILLANS, Regolith 2005 Symposium, Canberra , 2-4 November, presented a paper entitled “Reconnaissance paleomagnetic dating of regolith samples from the Northern Territory ”.

Mr D. QU, AGU 2005 Fall Meeting, San Fancisco , California , USA , 5-9 December, presented a poster entitled “High resolution coral record of Indo-Pacific Warm Pool climate during the penultimate deglaciation, Sumba , Indonesia ”.

Dr E. J. RHODES, LED2005 Conference, Bensberg , Germany , 25-29 July, presented a paper entitled “OSL dating of Australian aeolian deposits”.

Dr E. J. RHODES, Southern Deserts Conference, Arica, Chile, 8-12 October, had a paper entitled “OSL dating of longitudinal dunes, Simpson Desert, Australia”, presented by Dr J. M. Magee.

Dr E. J. RHODES, CRC LEME Canberra Symposium, ANU, 2-4 November, presented a paper entitled “The History of Aridity”.

Dr E. J. RHODES, Australasian Archaeometry Conference, ANU, 12-15 December, jointly convened a session entitled “Geoarchaeology, Geochronology and the Australian Archaeological Record” with Fanning, Holdaway and Shiner.

Dr E. J. RHODES , Australasian Archaeometry Conference, ANU, 12-15 December, presented a paper entitled “Ancient surfaces? Dating archaeological surfaces in western NSW using OSL”.

Dr E. J. RHODES, Australasian Archaeometry Conference, ANU, 12-15 December, presented a paper entitled “Luminescence of single quartz grains to determine past heating”.

Mr M.L. SMITH, 2005 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA , 4-9 December, presented a poster entitled “Paleomagnetic and clay d18O ages for weathering in northwestern New South Wales , Australia ”.

Dr P.C. TREBLE, Reconstructing past climates for future prediction: Integrating high-resolution palaeo data for meaningful prediction in the Australasian region, Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra , 27-28 June, presented a poster entitled “Characterising southwest Australia 's natural rainfall variability for the past 1000 years using speleothem records”.

Dr P.C. TREBLE, Indian Ocean Climate Initiative – Living with our changing climate, Perth , Western Australia , 15-17 August, attended invited workshop and presented a poster entitled “Characterising southwest Australia 's natural rainfall variability for the past 1000 years using speleothem records”.

Ms S.N. BURGESS, 3rd International Deep-Sea Coral Symposium, Miami , Florida , USA , 28 November – 2 December, presented a paper entitled “Evaluating the use of Plesiastrea versipora as a coral archive of temperate paleoclimate.”

Ms S.N. BURGESS, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco , USA , 4–9 December, presented a paper entitled “High resolution records of environmental change from a temperate coral.”

Dr G.B. DUNBAR, “Reconstructing past climates for future prediction: Integrating high-resolution palaeo data for meaningful prediction in the Australasian region” Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra, 28-29 June, presented a poster entitled “Micro-sampling of skeletal mass accumulation in the tissue layer of Porites: implications for paleo-environmental reconstruction”.

Dr M.K. GAGAN, AGU Chapman Conference “Tropical-Extratropical Teleconnections: A Long-Term Perspective”, University of Hawaii, USA, 8-11 February, presented a keynote address entitled “Post-glacial Evolution of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and Tropical General Circulation”.

Dr M.K. GAGAN, National Conference “Reconstructing Past Climates for Future Prediction: Integrating High-resolution Palaeo Data for Meaningful Prediction in the Australasian Region”, The Australian Academy of Science, Canberra , 27-28 June, presented an invited paper entitled “Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics in Tropical Australasia: Long-Term Perspectives for Improved Prediction”.

Dr M.K. GAGAN, attended CO2CRC Research Symposium, Barossa Valley , SA, 30 November to 1 December.

Prof GRÜN presented a talk at the 12th Congress of the Panafrican Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies. 3-10 July, Garborone , Botswana on Progress in direct dating of human fossils, co-authored by Drs S. EGGINS and A. Pike.

At the 11th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, 24-29 July, Cologne, Germany, Prof. GRÜN presented with S. EGGINS, R.T. Wells, R. RHODES, N. SPOONER and M. MCCULLOCH “A cautionary tale from down-under: dating the megafauna site of Rocky River on Kangaroo Island, South Australia”. At a workshop associated with the same conference Prof. GRÜN gave a lecture on ESR dating (fundamentals, techniques and applications).

Prof. GRÜN gave seminars at Institute de Prehistoire Humaine, Paris , Musee de Prehistoire, Tautavel and CNRS-CEA, Gif sur Yvette.

Prof M.T. MCCULLOCH, New Developments in Isotope Geochemistry Symposium, Mainz, Germany, 02-03 November, presented a paper titled “Coral Reefs: Silent Sentinels of Global Change.”

Prof M.T. MCCULLOCH, Third International symposium on Deep Sea Corals – Science and Management, Florida, USA, 28 November – 02 December, Presented a paper titled “Development of Radiocarbon, Trace Element and Stable Isotope Records from a Deep Sea Coral: Isidisae Sp.”

Dr B.J. PILLANS, Tephra Rush Conference, Dawson City , Canada , 31 July – 7 August, presented a paper entitled “Silicic tephras in Pleistocene shallow marine sediments of Wanganui Basin , New Zealand ”.

Dr B.J. PILLANS, International Workshop on sub-aerially exposed continental shelves since the Middle Pleistocene climatic transition, Hong Kong , 9-13 May, presented a keynote paper entitled “Sea-level and climate changes since the Mid Pleistocene Transition, recorded in shallow marine and coastal sediments, Wanganui Basin , New Zealand ”.

Dr B.J. PILLANS, Future Directions in Stratigraphy III Workshop, Leuven , Belgium , 1-5 September, presented an invited paper entitled “The Quaternary”.

Dr B.J. PILLANS, Regolith 2005 Symposium, Canberra , 2-4 November, presented a paper entitled “Reconnaissance paleomagnetic dating of regolith samples from the Northern Territory ”.

Mr D. QU, AGU 2005 Fall Meeting, San Fancisco , California , USA , 5-9 December, presented a poster entitled “High resolution coral record of Indo-Pacific Warm Pool climate during the penultimate deglaciation, Sumba , Indonesia ”.

Dr E. J. RHODES, LED2005 Conference, Bensberg , Germany , 25-29 July, presented a paper entitled “OSL dating of Australian aeolian deposits”.

Dr E. J. RHODES, Southern Deserts Conference, Arica, Chile, 8-12 October, had a paper entitled “OSL dating of longitudinal dunes, Simpson Desert, Australia”, presented by Dr J. M. Magee.

Dr E. J. RHODES, CRC LEME Canberra Symposium, ANU, 2-4 November, presented a paper entitled “The History of Aridity”.

Dr E. J. RHODES, Australasian Archaeometry Conference, ANU, 12-15 December, jointly convened a session entitled “Geoarchaeology, Geochronology and the Australian Archaeological Record” with Fanning, Holdaway and Shiner.

Dr E. J. RHODES , Australasian Archaeometry Conference, ANU, 12-15 December, presented a paper entitled “Ancient surfaces? Dating archaeological surfaces in western NSW using OSL”.

Dr E. J. RHODES, Australasian Archaeometry Conference, ANU, 12-15 December, presented a paper entitled “Luminescence of single quartz grains to determine past heating”.

Mr M.L. SMITH, 2005 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA , 4-9 December, presented a poster entitled “Paleomagnetic and clay d18O ages for weathering in northwestern New South Wales , Australia ”.

Dr P.C. TREBLE, Reconstructing past climates for future prediction: Integrating high-resolution palaeo data for meaningful prediction in the Australasian region, Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra , 27-28 June, presented a poster entitled “Characterising southwest Australia 's natural rainfall variability for the past 1000 years using speleothem records”.

Dr P.C. TREBLE, Indian Ocean Climate Initiative – Living with our changing climate, Perth , Western Australia , 15-17 August, attended invited workshop and presented a poster entitled “Characterising southwest Australia 's natural rainfall variability for the past 1000 years using speleothem records”.

 

Earth Materials

Dr Y. AIZAWA, A. BARNHOORN, J. FITZ GERALD, U. FAUL AND I. JACKSON, 2005 AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco , USA , 5-9 December, presented a paper entitled “ Laboratory Measurements of Seismic wave attenuation in Natural Dunite”.

Mr S.L.L. BARKER, Chapman Conference on Radiated Energy and the Physics of Earthquake Faulting, Portland , Maine , United States of America , 13-17 June, presented a paper entitled “Physical conditions associated with fault-generated pseudotachylyte, Central Otago , New Zealand ”

Mr S.L.L. BARKER, Structure, Tectonics and Ore Mineralization Processes, Townsville, Queensland, August 29 - September 2, presented a paper entitled “Formation of fibrous and crustiform textured veins – trace element and stable isotope evidence”

Mr S.L.L. BARKER, Chapman Structure, Tectonics and Ore Mineralization Processes, Townsville, Queensland, August 29 - September 2, presented a paper entitled “Chemical evidence for incremental opening and episodic fluid flow during the formation of crack-seal veins”

Mr S.L.L. BARKER, 2005 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , California , United States of America , December 5-9, presented a paper entitled “Chemical evidence for episodic growth of a fibrous antitaxial calcite vein from externally derived fluid”

Dr W.J. DUNLAP, 2005, STOMP Conference: Structure, Tectonics and Ore Mineralisation Processes, Townsville, August: “Helium Dating: a way out of the maze?”

Dr J.D. FITZ GERALD, DRT 2005, Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics, Zurich , Switzerland , 2-4 May, presented an invited review “Measurements and microstructures from experimentally deformed peridotites - a selection”, then attended the Alpine Excursion in Switzeralnd and Italy , 5-8 May.

Dr J.D. FITZ GERALD attended a one-day symposium Order, Disorder and Criticality, ANU Centre for Science and Engineering of Materials, June.

Dr J.D. FITZ GERALD, Advances in Functional Nanomaterials, 2nd Annual Conference of the ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, 30 November - 2 December, Maroochydore, Queensland and coauthored a presentation “Synthesis of Silicon Oxycarbide nanowires and Silicon Carbide nanowires on Carbon nanotube template”.

Dr M.A. FORSTER, 15th Conference on Deformation mechanism, Rheology and Tectonics, Zurich , Switzerland , 2-4 May, was co-author for a paper entitled “The Nature and Significance of F?SZ Cycles in Metamorphic Tectonites”.

Dr M.A. FORSTER, Earth Dynamics 2005, Canberra , Australia , 24-25 November, presented a paper entitled “Episodes and the Structural Geologist”.

Dr J. HERMANN, 7th International Eclogite Conference, Segau , Austria , 3-11 July, presented a paper entitled “ Natural and experimental constraints on high-pressure fluids”. He was co-author of four other presentations at the conference.

Dr J. HERMANN and Dr D. RUBATTO presented a seminar at the University of Berne ( Switzerland ) entitled “Dating high-grade metamorphic rocks”, 17 June.

Dr J. HERMANN conducted field work in the Central Alps from 19-28 June; in the Western Alps from 18-23 July 2005 and in New Caledonia from 22-29 November.

Dr. J. HERMANN visited the University of Genova in July for supervision of a PhD student.

Prof I. JACKSON attended and presented papers at each of the following conferences: Australian Institute of Physics Congress (Canberra, February), the International Conference on Internal Friction and Mechanical Spectroscopy (Kyoto, September) and the General Assembly of the International Association for Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (Santiago, Chile, October).

Prof G.S. LISTER presented an invited lecture with Dr M.A. FORSTER, at the 15th Conference on Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics, held in Zurich , Switzerland , 2-4 May. The paper was entitled “The Nature and Significance of F?SZ Cycles in Metamorphic Tectonites”.

Prof G.S. LISTER presented a lecture at Earth Dynamics 2005, held in Canberra , Australia , 24-25 November. The paper was entitled “Geodynamics of the Great Sumatran Earthquake”.

Dr J. MAVROGENES, Gordon Research Conference on Hydrothermal Geochemistry, 1-5 August, Andover, New Hampshire, USA presented an invited talk entitled “The high temperature behavior of Cu in brines and vapor: evidence from natural and synthetic fluid inclusions”.

Dr J. MAVROGENES, Structure and Tectonics of Mineralising Processes Conference, 29 August – 3 September, Townsville , Queensland , presented a keynote talk entitled, “Analysis of fluid inclusions; What's the big deal?”

Professor Emeritus I. McDOUGALL attended the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Salt Lake City , Utah , in October and presented a paper entitled “Tephrostratigraphy and age of the Kibish Formation, Ethiopia , and palaeoclimatic correlations with sapropels in the Mediterranean Sea ”.

Dr C. McFARLANE, 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, 20-25 May, Moscow , Idaho , USA presented a paper entitled “Monazite thermochronology applied to the Challenger Mine, S. Australia ”

Dr C. McFARLANE, Structure, Tectonics and Ore Mineralisation Processes (STOMP), 29 August – 2 September, Townsville , Australia , presented a paper entitled “A closer look at mineralized quartz-dominated veins in high-grade metamorphic rocks”

Dr C. McFARLANE, Structure, Tectonics and Ore Mineralisation Processes (STOMP) EMP Dating Workshop, 4 – 5 September, Townsville , Australia .

Dr S.N McLAREN, European Geosicence Union meeting, Vienna , Austria , 24-29 April, presented a paper entitled “Contrasting styles of Proterozoic crustal evolution: A hot-plate tectonic model for Australian terranes”.

Dr S.N. McLAREN, Geological Association of Canada annual meeting, Halifax Nova Scotia , Canada , presented a paper entitled “A hot-plate tectonic model for Proterozoic crustal evolution in Australia ”.

Dr. S.N. McLAREN, Structure, Tectonics and Ore Mineralizing Processes (STOMP) conference, Townsville, Queensland, presented a paper entitled “Raiders of the lost domain: linking microstructure and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology in K-feldspars”.

Dr S. MICKLETHWAITE attended and presented a paper at Structure, Tectonics and Ore Mineralization Processes Conference (Townsville, 29 August – 2 September). The paper presented was on; ”Stress triggering between ancient earthquakes and exploration of fossil fault systems”. Two workshops were attended at this conference on: ”The application of geochemical analysis and modeling to minerals exploration” and “New concepts in fault analysis and modeling”.

M.S. MILLER, Imaging subducting slabs along the Western Pacific margin, 16th National Congress, Australian Institute of Physics.

Prof H.St.C. O'NEILL, gave a keynote talk at an International Symposium at the Institute for Study of the Earth's Interior, Misasa, Japan, 5-6 March entitled “How the Earth works: constraints from its chemical composition”

Prof H.St.C. O'NEILL was a member of the Scientific Committee of the IUGS-SECE Conference on “The origin, evolution and present state of subcontinental lithosphere” held in Beijing, China 25-30 June, where he presented a keynote talk on “The importance of subsolidus processes in interpreting geochemical trends and textures in mantle peridotites and pyroxenites”.

Mr N.D. TAILBY, ECROFI XVIII, Siena , Italy , 6-9 July, presented a paper entitled “Na-Ca-Mg carbonate inclusions from the Spitskop carbonatite”.

Mr N.D. TAILBY, Gordon research conference: inorganic geochemistry, Proctor Academy, New Hampshire , USA 31 July- 5 Aug, presented a poster entitled “Na-Ca-Mg carbonate inclusions from the Spitskop carbonatite”.

Mr N.D. TAILBY, Dr J. MAVROGENES, Miss H. SPARKS, and Dr C. MCFARLANE, field work in South Africa and Zimbabwe , 12-21 June, Research into granulite facies Au-deposits and geochemical variation within the Bushveld Igneous Complex

Dr E. TENTHOREY, EGU Conference, Vienna , Austria , 24-29 April, presented a paper entitled “Feedbacks between deformation, hydrothermal reaction and permeability evolution in crustal systems: A lab-based perspective”.

Dr E. TENTHOREY, Deformation, Rheology and Tectonics Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, 2-4 May, presented a paper entitled “Simulating earthquakes and fault zone evolution in the lab: Reaction and strengthening during the interseismic period”.

Dr E. TENTHOREY, Structure, Tectonics and Ore Mineralization Processes Meeting, Townsville, Queensland, 29 August - 2 September, presented a paper entitled “Simulating earthquakes and fault zone evolution in the lab: Reaction and strengthening during the interseismic period”.

Dr A.M. WALKER, visited the Nanochemistry Research Institute, Department of Applied Chemistry, Curtin University of Technology, Perth , Western Australia , 8-14 May to further collaboration on the development of methods for the simulation of dislocations in complex materials.

Dr A.M. WALKER, attended the American Geophysical Union Fall Conference, San Fransisco, California, 5-9 December, presented a paper entitled “First principles simulation of the energetics, structure and effect of the ‘titanium-clinohumite' defect in forsterite” and a poster entitled “An angstrom sized window on the origin of water in the inner solar system: atomistic simulation of adsorption of water on olivine”.

Mr D.G. Wood, STOMP Conference, Townsville, August 29 – September 2, presented a paper entitled “ Gold Mineralisation in the Anakie Inlier, Clermont Region”.

 

Earth Physics

Dr D.R. CHRISTIE, 27th Seismic Research Review Symposium, Rancho Mirage, California , 20 to 22 September, presented a paper entitled “Detection of Regional and Distant Atmospheric Explosions at IMS Infrasound Stations”.

Dr D.R. CHRISTIE, Infrasound Technology Meeting, Tahiti , 28 November to 2 December, presented a paper entitled “Detection of Distant Atmospheric Explosions: Implications for the Design of IMS Infrasound Array Stations”, as well as contributing to one other paper and one poster on volcano-generated infrasound.

Ms M.A. COMAN, 16th National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Canberra , 30 January-4 February.

Dr. G.F. DAVIES, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 24-29 April presented the Love Medal Lecture on “How plates and plumes affect mantle convection and mantle evolution”, and a talk on “ Moderate core cooling: no need for core radioactivity?“.

Dr A. DUTTON, Consortium for Ocean Geosciences of Australian Universities, Orpheus Island, Queensland, 25-29 June, presented a paper entitled “U-Th measurements of submerged speleothems: Exploring new depths of Quaternary sea level oscillations”.

Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS, 16th National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Canberra , 30 January-4 February, Convener of meteorology and oceanography strand, and chair of a session.

Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 24-29 April 2005, presented a talk on “Entrainment into slope currents, interior mixing, and a coupled solution for the global overturning circulation” (with Dr G.O. HUGHES).

Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS, American Physical Society – Division of Fluid Dynamics, Chicago, USA, 20-22 November, presented a paper entitled “Measuring the mixing in exchange flows” (with T.J. PRASTOWO, G.O. HUGHES and A.MCC. HOGG).

Dr A.McC. HOGG, 16th National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Canberra , 30 January-4 February, presented a talk on “Ocean-atmosphere dynamics in the Southern Ocean” (with J.R. Blundell).

Dr A.McC. HOGG, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna , Austria , 24-29 April, presented a talk on “Decadal variability of the midlatitude ocean circulation: the role of mesoscale eddies” (with W.K. Dewar, P.D. Killworth and J.R. Blundell).

Dr A.McC. HOGG, Southern Ocean Modeling Workshop, Hobart , 9-10 November.

Dr A.McC. HOGG, American Physical Society – Division of Fluid Dynamics, Chicago, USA, 20-22 November, presented a paper entitled “Shear flow and viscosity in single-layer hydraulics” (with Dr G.O. HUGHES).

Dr G.O. HUGHES, 16th National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Canberra , 30 January-4 February, presented a talk on “The role of buoyancy in the energetics of the global overturning circulation of the oceans” (with R.W. GRIFFITHS).

Dr G.O. HUGHES, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna , Austria , 24-29 April 2005, presented two posters on “A simple analytical description of turbulent slope currents for use in large-scale models” (with R.W. GRIFFITHS) and “Mixing in density-driven exchange flows” (with T.J. PRASTOWO, R.W. GRIFFITHS and A.MCC. HOGG).

Prof B.L.N. KENNETT spent most of April through July in Europe on Outside Studies Leave based at the University of Munich , where he presented a course on “Geophysical Continua” with Prof H.-P. Bunge. He gave presentations on the relation of the nature of the seismic source and subduction zone structure for the 2004 December 26 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and the structure beneath northern Tasmania at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna at the end of April. He also gave an invited talk on the nature of seismological reference models at the EGU meeting.

In July he was an examiner for the Habilitation of Dr E. Debayle at the University of Strasbourg .

Later that month he attended the New Fellows Seminar at the Royal Society in London and was admitted as an FRS.

In October he attended the General Assembly of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI) in Santiago , Chile and presented the Association Lecture on aspects of Seismic Wave Propagation.

Dr R.C. KERR, 16th National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Canberra , 30 January-4 February, presented a talk on “The dynamics of sheared mantle plume tails”.

Ms M.J. O'BYRNE, 16th National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Canberra , 30 January-4 February.

Ms M.J. O'BYRNE, 16th CAETS Convention on “Oceans and the World's Future”, Cairns , QLD, 10–14 July.

Mr T.J. PRASTOWO, 16th National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Canberra , 30 January-4 February.

Dr N. RAWLINSON, NSF workshop on plate boundary geodynamics, Wellington , New Zealand , 26-29th June, presented a short talk entitled “New tools for seismic body wave tomography in complex 3-D media”

Dr N. RAWLINSON, University of Leeds , UK , 14-22nd October, visiting Prof. Greg Houseman and presenting a paper entitled “ Detailed teleseismic imaging

of the upper mantle beneath south east Australia ”.

Dr W.P. SCHELLART, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 24-29 April, presented four posters on “The Role of the East Asian active margin in widespread extensional and strike-slip deformation in East Asia”, “Subducting plate velocity as a parameter controlling slab geometry and hinge-migration”, ”Cenozoic plate tectonics in the Southwest Pacific” and “Three-dimensional subduction kinematics and dynamics in shallow and deep mantle reservoirs”.

Dr W.P. SCHELLART, STOMP (Structure Tectonics and Ore Mineralization Processes) conference, Townsville, August-September 2005, presented two talks on “The role of the East Asian and Sunda subduction zones in widespread extensional and strike-slip deformation in East Asia” and “Three-dimensional physical and numerical models of subduction” and one poster “Tectonic evolution of the Southwest Pacific region during the Cenozoic”. In addition, Dr. Schellart chaired the “Australian plate” oral session.

Dr P. TREGONING, European Geophysical Union, 24-29 April, Vienna, Austria, presented papers entitled "Applying atmospheric pressure loading to geodetic analyses: daily corrections or at the observation level?", "Application of 3-D empirical travel times to location of teleseisms in Papua New Guinea", "The effects of atmospheric pressure loading and 7-parameter transformations on estimates of geocenter motion and station heights", and was co-author on presentations "Station motion model for the diurnal/semidiurnal atmospheric pressure loading effect" and "Monitoring of the December 26th mega-thrust earthquake in SE-ASIA by GPS".

Dr P. TREGONING, IAG/IAPSO/IABO Joint Assembly, 22-26 August, Cairns, Australia, presented a paper entitled "Estimates of glacial isostatic adjustment in the Lambert Glacier Drainage Basin, East Antarctica" and was co-author on papers "The impact of tropospher mapping functions based on numerical weather models on the determination of geodetic parameters" and "The impact of solid Earth tide models on GPS time series analysis".

Emeritus Prof J.S. TURNER, 16th National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Canberra, 30 January-4 February, presented a talk on “The melting of ice in the Arctic Ocean: Double-diffusive transport of heat from below”.

Mr K.C. YEH, Solar2005, Australia and New Zealand Solar Energy Society Annual Conference, Dunedin , New Zealand , 28-30 November, presented a talk on “Modelling the convective flow in solar thermal receivers” (with G.O. Hughes and K. Lovegrove).

 

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Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG, GEO2005 Conference of the Geological Society of South Africa, Durban , South Africa , 3-7 July, presented a Keynote paper entitled “The early Proterozoic history of southern Africa – isotopic records of a dynamic and changing Earth” and co-authored several other papers at the conference. Gondwana 12, Mendoza , Argentina 6-11 November, co-convened the symposium “ Western Gondwana – The ties that bind”, and co-authored a number of papers.

Mr C.M. FANNING, STOMP - Structure, Tectonics and Ore Mineralization Processes: Townsville, 29 August 2 September; Annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, 16-19 October; Gondwana 12, Mendoza, Argentina, 6-11 November.

Mr C.M. FANNING, field work in the Andes adjacent to Santiago, Chile, 2-15 March; the Deseado Massif, Patagonia, Argentina 18-22 March; Elqui Valley, Chile, 13-18 November; Tierra del Fuego, Chile, 24 November – 3 December.

Mr C.M. FANNING, field work in Idaho , USA , 6-12 July; Uinta Mountains , Utah , 9-15 October.

Dr M.D. NORMAN attended the Goldschmidt international geochemistry conference in Moscow , Idaho ( USA ) 20-25 May. He was co-author on two presentations: “The Oxygen Isotope Composition of the Sun” with T.R. IRELAND and P. HOLDEN; and “Assessing Kilauea's Historical Parental Magma Compositional Variations” with M.O Garcia ( University of Hawaii ) and A. Pietruszka, ( San Diego State University ).

Dr M.D. NORMAN attended the Geological Society of Australia Specialist Group in Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry Specialist Group (SGGMP) meeting in Port Macquarie, NSW, 13-16 July. He presented the paper “Compositions of Hawaiian Basalts Preclude Eclogite Mantle Plumes” with J.M. Rhodes ( University of Massachusetts ) and M.O. Garcia ( University of Hawaii ), and was a co-author on the presentation “Thallium Isotopic Evidence for Ferromanganese Sediments in the Mantle Source of Hawaiian Basalts” with S. Nielsen ( Macquarie University ), M. Rehkamper ( Imperial University ), and A. Halliday ( Oxford University ).

Dr. M.D. NORMAN attended the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Gatlinburg , Tennessee ( USA ), 12-16 September. He presented two papers: “Lifting the Veil: A Pre-Cataclysm Lunar Impact Melt” with L. Taylor ( University of Tennessee ), C. Shih, Y. Reese, L. Nyquist ( NASA Johnson Space Center ) and J. BOWEN-THOMAS; and “Assembly of the Descartes Terrane: Argon Ages of Lunar Breccias 67016 and 67455” with R.A. Duncan ( Oregon State University ). He was co-author of three other papers also presented at this conference: “Recognition of Multiple Impactors from PGE-Re Patterns of Apollo 16 Impact Melts” with V.C. BENNETT; “LAP02-205: an Evolved Member of the Apollo 12 Olivine Basalt Suite?” with K. Rankenburg, A. Brandon, and K. Righter (NASA Johnson Space Center); and “Petrogenesis of Apollo 15 Olivine and Quartz Normative Mare Basalts” With D. Schnare, L.A. Taylor, and J.M. Day (University of Tennessee).

Dr G.M. YAXLEY, GAC/MAC Meeting, Halifax , Canada , 16-18 May.

Dr G.M. YAXLEY, Workshop on inclusions in minerals and processes in the earth's mantle, Ringberg Castle , Tegernsee , Germany , 9-13 May, presented papers entitled “ Experimental investigation of high pressure interactions between peridotite and partial melts of gabbro – implications for intraplate magmatism” and “Origins of compositional heterogeneity in olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the Baffin Island picrites.”

Dr G.M YAXLEY, ASRP-Australian Synchrotron Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria, 5-7 December, presented a paper entitled “Calibration of XANES for determination of Fe3+/(Fe2++Fe3+) in garnets – implications for diamond stability in the lithosphere.”

 

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EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Earth Chemistry

Dr C.M. ALLEN, Associate Editor, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.

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 A.P. NUTMAN, Editorial Board, Precambrian Research.

Dr D. RUBATTO, associated editor of the Journal LITHOS.

Dr D. RUBATTO, member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Metamorphic Geology.

Earth Environment

Prof R. GRÜN is Editor of Quaternary Geochronology (Quaternary Science Reviews), member of the Editorial Boards of Quaternary International and Radiation Measurements, and Member of reviewers' panel of Ancient TL. He is also a standing member of the scientific committee and editor of the proceedings of the International Conferences on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating. This conference was held in Cologne in July.

Dr B.J. PILLANS, Editorial Board, Quaternary Science Reviews.

DR B.J. PILLANS, Editorial Board, Catena.

Dr E.J. RHODES, Editorial Board Member, Quaternary Science Reviews.

Dr E.J. RHODES, Editorial Board Member, Quaternary Geochronology.

Earth Materials

Dr. W.J. DUNLAP, Associate Editor, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.

Dr J.D. FITZ GERALD, Editorial Advisory Board, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals.

Prof H.St.C. O'NEILL is on Editorial Board of Chemical Geology, the Advisory Editorial Board of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, the Advisory Board of Elements and Associate Editor of e-Earth.

Earth Physics

Dr. G.F. DAVIES served on the Fellows Committee of the American Geophysical Union.

Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS served as a member of the Editorial Committee of the Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics.

Dr A.McC. HOGG served as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences.

Prof B.L.N. KENNETT is Editor-in-Chief of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors and an Associate Editor for Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Dr W.P. SCHELLART has been invited to serve as an associate editor for Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth for a period of three years.

Dr P. TREGONING, Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research.

Emeritus Prof J.S. TURNER was appointed as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board to assist in the preparation of an on-line update to the Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, to be published by Elsevier.

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Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG, Editorial Board, Journal of African Earth Sciences.

Mr C.M. FANNING, Guest Editor, Isotopic Determination of Sediment Provenance: Techniques and Applications, Sedimentary Geology.

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OUTREACH AND WORKSHOPS

Earth Chemistry

Dr. J.J. BROCKS with A/Prof A. Pearson (Harvard University) gave an invited seminar entitled “Building the Biomarker Tree of Life” for the Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry Short Course “Molecular Geomicrobiology” of the Mineralogical Society of America, Berkeley, California, 3-4 December.

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER with Dr Tamara Davis published "Misconceptions about the Big Bang" in Scientific American, March 2005 (pp 37- 46 in US Edition). This article of popular science was published in 15 languages in 19 international editions. We received and answered several hundred emails from all over the world.

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed on television about the relaunch of NASA's Space Shuttle. Approximately 3 minute interview with Leigh Hatcher, Sky News Australia , broadcast at 5:15 pm 26 July.

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER participated in the ANU Science Week Lecture Tours organized by Christine Denny (ANU). He presented the lecture entitled "Origin of Life, Origin of the Universe" at the Sydney Powerhouse Museum 15 August 15 and at the Melbourne Museum 17 August.

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave an invited lecture to the Canberra Astronomical Society at Mt Stromlo Observatory, 17 February, entitled, "Life in the Universe".

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave an invited lecture to the Royal Society of New South Wales, Darlington Centre, Sydney, 4 May 4 th , entitled, "Biocosmology: a new science of the big picture".

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed about his research. The interview was published in Campus Review, 31 August, p 16 and was entitled, "LINEWEAVER's Guide to the Galaxy".

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed about his research by David Salt. The interview was publisheded in Science Wise , March 2005, p. 5 and entitled "A life map of our Galaxy". The report is online at http://www.anu.edu.au/ anuie/publications/ScienceWise_2005-03.pdf).

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave an invited guest lecture in the “Are We Alone?” physics course at the University of New South Wales , Sydney , 16 August entitled, "Is Who Alone?".

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave an invited guest lecture in the Astrobiology course at Macquarie University , 7 October, entitled "Our Place in the Universe".

Dr I.S. WILLIAMS hosted SHRIMP laboratory tours for student groups from the National Youth Science Forum, 18 January.

Earth Environment

Prof M.T. McCULLOCH, The First I.R. Kaplan Workshop on: New developments in Environmental Isotope Research, Kibbutz Hagoshrim, Israel, 18-21 September 2005, presented a paper called “ Coral Reefs: Silent Sentinels of Global Change.”

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TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Earth Chemistry

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER organized and presented a course in Planetary Science for the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Honours and PhD students, 1-12 August.

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER presented a lecture to the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Summer Research Scholars, 23 November, entitled, “Cosmoplanetology”.

Earth Environment

Prof R. GRÜN gave a lecture series on topics of Quaternary geochronology to students of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Faculties.

Dr B.J. PILLANS contributed to SRES 3009 in the Faculty of Science.

Earth Materials

Prof S.F. COX taught structural geology at 2nd year level and contributed to three other courses at 1st to 3rd year levels, as part of his joint appointment at RSES and the Department of Earth and Marine Science.

Dr C.R.M. McFARLANE and Mr A. NORRIS organized and delivered a series of lectures and demonstrations on the theory and use of the SX100 Electron Microprobe 13-19 May.

Earth Physics

Dr G.F. DAVIES taught the Physics of the Earth Honours course Plate Tectonics and Mantle Dynamics (PEAT 8001).

Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS taught one half of the third year undergraduate physics unit “Physics of fluid flows” (PHYS 3034).

Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS and Drs A.McC. HOGG and G.O. HUGHES taught the Physics of the Earth Honours course “Dynamics of Ocean Circulation” (PEAT8005).

Dr A.McC. HOGG taught the ocean circulation module of the first year Earth and Marine Sciences course “Introduction to Global Change” (GEOL 1004).

Prof B.L.N. KENNETT – Online Course: Imaging the Earth's Interior. Delivered to Master of Contemporary Science, Faculty of Science (first semester).

Dr. N. RAWLINSON was involved in teaching the Earth Physics Honours course in seismology in April 2005.

Dr P. TREGONING convened the Honours Program at RSES, in which he taught the course "Satellite orbits and deformation of the Earth".

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Dr M.D. NORMAN taught two undergraduate special topics courses on meteorite petrology and geochemistry for the Dept. of Earth and Marine Sciences, ANU.

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HONOURS SUPERVISION

Dr A.McC. HOGG supervised the Honours project of Ms L.M. Frankcombe on “Waves and time-dependence in hydraulic flows”.

Dr G.O. HUGHES supervised (with Dr K. LOVEGROVE) the Honours project of Mr K.C. Yeh on “A water based model of the convective flow in solar thermal receivers”.

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER supervised 1 Honours student (Chris Thompson, RSAA/RSES) “Using the phase diagram of water to locate life on Earth and Mars”

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER co-supervised 1 MSc Manu Sundaram (RSPhyseSE) with Frank Mills (RSPhysSE) “The Venutian Atmosphere”

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER supervised 1 RSAA summer scholar project, Sally Long ( University of Tasmania ) “Extending the concept of the Circumstellar Habitable Zone”

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 P. TREGONING supervised the honours project of Mr R. Ruddick on the triple junction near Wewak , Papua New Guinea .

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OTHER MATTERS

Earth Chemistry

Dr J.J. Brocks' research was featured in 3 media releases, 8 major newspaper articles, 12 electronic magazines and 13 popular science magazines.

Dr J.J. Brocks was elected Chair of Faculty of the Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU.

Dr V.C. BENNETT, Member, Organizing Committee for 2006 Goldschmidt Conference to held in Melbourne , Victoria .

Dr V.C. BENNETT, Chair, Nominations Committee, Geochemical Society.

Dr V.C. BENNETT, Member, Executive Committee, Planetary Sciences Specialist Group, Geological Society of Australia .

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER, Chair of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Colloquia Committee.

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER, Chair of the Planetary Science Institute hiring committee.

Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER, Chair of Science Analysis in the unsuccessful bid (Song et al 2005) to win major planet survey time with the NICI instrument on the Gemini North telescope, December.

Dr D. RUBATTO, member of the organising committee with Dr J. Hermann and Dr I.S. Williams (RSES) and Prof. B. Cesare and Dr A.M. Fioretti (University of Padova, Italy) of the ISPET IV, International Seminar of Petrology, Canberra, Australia 5-12 February.

Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, member of the organising committee with Dr D. RUBATTO and Dr J. HERMANN and Prof. B. Cesare and Dr A.M. Fioretti (University of Padova, Italy) of the ISPET IV, International Seminar of Petrology Workshop on Advanced Analytical and Experimental Techniques in Petrology, Canberra, Australia 5-12 February.

Earth Environment

Prof M.T. McCULLOCH was featured in an Article in the ANU Reporter – “Preserving the Great Barrier Reef ” - Permanent Web Link: http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Newsletters_and_Journals/ANU_Reporter/098PP_2005/_003_Winter/_preserving_the_great_barrier_reef.asp .

Dr B.J. PILLANS, Vice President, ACT Division of the Geological Society of Australia .

Dr B.J. PILLANS, President, Stratigraphy & Chronology Commission, International Union for Quaternary Research.

Dr B.J. PILLANS, Member, Subcommission of Quaternary Stratigraphy, International Commission on Stratigraphy.

DR B.J. PILLANS, Member, CRC for Landscape Environments & Mineral Exploration

Dr E. J. RHODES, Hon. Secretary, ACT Division of the Geological Society of Australia .

Dr E. J. RHODES, member, Australasian INIMATE palaeoclimate panel.

Earth Materials

Dr V.C. BENNETT, Hon. Secretary, ACT Division of the Geological Society of Australia .

Dr J.D. FITZ GERALD, Public Officer, Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society.

Dr J.D. FITZ GERALD continued on the Advisory Board for the ANU Centre for Science and Engineering of Materials, and on the Campus Advisory Subcommittee for the ANU Facilities and Services Division.

Earth Physics

Dr G.F. DAVIES served as a member of the Fellows Committee of the American Geophysical Union.

Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS served as a member of the Sectional Committee 4 for Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Australian Academy of Science.

Ms M.J. O'BYRNE served as President of the ACT Branch of the Australian Science Communicators, a nationwide organisation of scientists, engineers, science journalists and educators.

Dr. N. Rawlinson is member of the committee of the ACT branch of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Dr P. TREGONING, Vice President and Science Program Chair, IAG/IAPSO/IABO Joint Assembly 2005 Local Organising Committee.

Dr P. TREGONING, Australian Representative to the International Association of Geodesy.

Emeritus Prof J.S. TURNER attended three President's Soirees at the Australian Academy of Science, and contributed to the discussion at the November meeting on the theme ‘Integrative climate science, economics and sociology' .

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Dr M.D. NORMAN, Chair, Geological Society of Australia Specialist Group in Planetary Geoscience.

Dr M.D. NORMAN, Co-chair, Planetary Geochemistry Task Group, Science Organising Committee for the 2006 Goldschmidt Conference, Melbourne.

Dr G.M. YAXLEY is a member of the Organising Committee for the Goldschmidt 2006 meeting to be held in Melbourne in 2006.

 

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