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STAFF ACTIVITIES 2007
CONFERENCES AND OUTSIDE STUDIES
EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
OUTREACH AND WORKSHOPS
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
HONOURS SUPERVISION
OTHER MATTERS
CONFERENCES AND OUTSIDE STUDIES
Earth Chemistry
Dr C.M. ALLEN attended the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver Colorado, USA to present a paper on dating detrital rutile grains; she also gave seminars at Texas Tech University and University of Wyoming.
Mrs. J.N. Avila, First SINS Summer School on Nuclear Astrophysics & Nucleosynthesis, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 8-19 January.
Mrs. J.N. Avila, Mass Spectrometry Course, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 19 February – 02 March.
Mrs. J.N. Avila, SHRIMP Stable Isotope Workshop, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 10-11 September.
Mrs. J.N. Avila, The Workshop on the Chronology of Meteorites and the Early Solar System, Hawaii, USA, 5-7 November, presented a poster entitled “Chronology of Presolar Silicon Carbide: Assessing the Viability of the U-Th-Pb System”.
Mrs. J.N. Avila, post-meeting field trip to the Big Island, Hawaii, The Workshop on the Chronology of Meteorites and the Early Solar System, Hawaii, USA, 8-9 November.
Dr V. C. BENNETT was a visiting scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute and NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA from 20 October to 6 December.
Dr V. C. BENNETT, 17th Goldschmidt Conference, 19-24 August, Cologne Germany, was a keynote speaker and presented a paper entitled: “Crust- mantle dynamics in the early Earth: The 142-143Nd and 176Hf isotopic perspective”.
Dr V. C. BENNETT, 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 12-16 March, Houston Texas, presented a paper entitled “Coupled 142Nd,143Nd and 176Hf isotopic data from 3.6 -3.9 Ga rocks: New constraints on the timing and composition of early terrestrial chemical reservoirs”.
Dr J.J. BROCKS, Opening Lecture for Series A, Centre of Macroevolution and Macroecology, 7 February The Australian National University, "Extremely Ancient Molecules".
Dr J.J. BROCKS, 17th Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, 24 August, Plenary Lecture ‘Molecular Fossils and Early Life on Earth’, Cologne, Germany.
Dr J.J. BROCKS, 17th Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, 22 August, session co-chair with Dr. E. Javaux of ‘Early evolution of life and the hydro- and atmosphere’, Cologne, Germany.
Dr J.J. BROCKS, invited seminar presentation ‘Extremely ancient molecules and the early evolution of eukaryotes’, 14 March, University of Adelaide.
Dr J.J. BROCKS, invited seminar presentation "Extremely ancient molecules and the early evolution of eukaryotes", 20 April, University of Queensland.
Dr J.J. BROCKS, presentation "Molecular Fossils and Early Life on Earth", 27 September, University of Sydney.
Dr J.J. BROCKS with Prof A. Cooper (University of Adelaide), conducted field work in Naracoorte Cave to collect sediment and bone samples to study molecular indicators of DNA damage, 15 March 2007.
Dr J.J. BROCKS with Prof J. Banfield (Berkeley), Prof E. Allen (UC San Diego) and Prof K. Heidelberg (U. of Southern California), conducted field work at Lake Tyrrell, Victoria, to collect samples for biomarker analysis and environmental genomics, 18 to 28 January.
Dr J.J. BROCKS with Prof J. Banfield, Ms C. Jones (Berkeley), Prof E. Allen (UC San Diego) and Prof K. Heidelberg (U. of Southern California), 2007, conducted field work at Lake Tyrrell, Victoria, to collect samples for biomarker analysis and environmental genomics, 5 to 12 August.
Dr I.S. Buick undertook collaborative analytical work at Lehigh University (USA) and the University of Edinburgh (UK), and attended the Frontiers in Mineral Science meeting at the University of Cambridge in June.
Prof I.H. Campbell visited the Institute for Study of Earth’s Interior at the University of Okayama in Misasa, Japan for six weeks.
Ms T.A. Ewing, 2007 EURISPET (European Intensive Seminars of Petrology) School on “State-of-the-art analytical and imaging techniques in petrology”, Paris, France, 20-28 October.
Ms T.A. Ewing conducted field work in the Ivrea-Verbano Zone (Western Alps) from 13-19 October.
C. J. GREGORY, Geological Society of Australia SGTSG Conference “Deformation in the Desert”, Alice Springs, Australia, 9-13 July, presented a paper entitled “The timing of prograde metamorphism and partial melting during the Petermann Orogeny”.
Mr J. HIESS, 17th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Germany, 20-24 August, presented a paper entitled “In situ Hf and O isotopic data from Archean zircons of SW Greenland.”
Mr J. HIESS, SHRIMP Stable Isotope Workshop, RSES, ANU, Canberra, Australia, 10-11 September, presented a paper entitled “Insights to Crustal Petrogenesis - In situ O and Hf isotopic data from Archean zircons of SW Greenland.”
Dr M. Honda, Earth Dynamics 2007, Canberra, 5-7 November, presented a paper entitled “Automation of Noble Gas Extraction Line with Remote Access at ANU”.
Mr R. ICKERT, 2nd Biennial Conference of the Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Petrology, Geological Society of Australia, Dunedin, NZ, 14-19 October, presented a paper entitled “Correlated, In-Situ Analysis of U/Pb, δ18O and eHf in Zircon from Siluro-Devonian Granite in the Eastern Lachlan Orogen: Constraints on Juvenile Additions to the Continental Crust”.
Ms R. ICKERT, 1st European Intensive Seminar of Petrology, Paris, France, 20-28 October, presented a paper entitled “Constraints on granite petrogenesis in SE Australia from in situ isotope ratio measurements”
Prof T.R. IRELAND, “SIMS in the Space Sciences – the Zinner Impact” Conference, 29 January – 6 February, St Louis USA.
Prof T.R. IRELAND, Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference, 10-18 March, Houston USA.
Prof T.R. IRELAND, Chronology of Meteorites Conference, 4-11 November, Hawaii USA.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER, American Astronomical Society Meeting, Seattle, USA, 6-12 January and presented a paper entitled “The Metallicities of Stars with Close Companions”
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER, Bioastronomy 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 15-20 July and presented a paper entitled “The Chemical Composition of Other Earths”.
Mr. S. J. McKibbin, Workshop on the Chronology of Meteorites and the Early Solar System, 5-7 November, presented a poster entitled “Solar System Isotopic Heterogeneity from 53Mn-53Cr”.
Dr D. RUBATTO, AMAS IX Symposium, Brighton, Victoria, 14-16 February 2007, presented an invited paper entitled “The impact of microanalysis on geochronology and the study of accessory minerals”.
Dr D. RUBATTO, 17th Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Germany, 19-24 August 2007, presented a paper entitled “Migmatisation in the Central Alps lasting 10 m.y.”.
Dr D. RUBATTO, workshop on “Accessory minerals in-situ: microanalytical methods and petrological applications”, Krakow, Poland, 15-16 September 2007, presented an invited paper entitled “A microanalytical study of fluid-induced zircon and allanite recrystallization”.
Dr R. SALMERON, Nuclear Astrophysics and Nucleosynthesis Workshop, Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics, Monash University, 14-18 January.
Dr R. SALMERON, Origin of Solar Systems, Gordon Research Conference, Boston, 8-13 July, presented a poster entitled “Magnetorotational instability in protoplanetary disks”.
Dr R. SALMERON, Chronology of Meteorites and the Early Solar System, University of Hawaii, 5 – 7 November, poster presentation entitled “Jets and Outflows in Protoplanetary Disks”.
Ms D. Valente presented a two-day seminar/field-trip based on the results of her PhD studies for El Abra S.C.M staff in Chile during the period 11-12 September.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, 17th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Germany, 14-24 August, represented Australian Scientific Instruments at their exhibition booth, including demonstrating SHRIMP remote analysis.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, study leave at the Polish Geological Institute, Warsaw, preparing work carried out in collaboration with Dr J. Wiszniewska and Mrs E. Krzeminska for publication, 25-31 August.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, invited lecture at Earth Dynamics 2007, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, entitled “Telegeochronology: Remote operation of the SHRIMP ion microprobes”, 7 November.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, invited lecture on the commercialisation of the products of university research at the Annual General Meeting of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Perth, entitled “Bridging the Divide”, 18 November.
Dr X. ZHANG, Earth Dynamics 2007, Canberra, 5-7 November, presented a paper entitled “Automation of Noble Gas Extraction Line with Remote Access at ANU”.
Earth Environment
Mr M. AUBERT, XVII INQUA Congress, 28 July - 3 August 2007, Cairns, Australia, “High resolution elemental and isotopic distribution in fossil teeth: Implications for diet and migration”, Abstract 0880, Quaternary International 167-168, 17-18.
Dr L. AYLIFFE attended INQUA 2007, Cairns, Australia, 28 July - 3 August, and presented two papers entitled “Speleothems from Flores, Indonesia tropical archives of climate and environmental change throughout the past two glacial cycles.” and “Changes in the 234U/238U of sea water over the past 50ka as reflected in corals from the central and western Pacific.”
Dr L. AYLIFFE conducted fieldwork on the island of Flores, Indonesia from 20 May - 24 June.
Dr L. AYLIFFE visited Dr J. Hellstrom at The University of Melbourne in October to perform U-Th dating of micro-carbonate samples from Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia.
Ms S.C BRETHERTON, attended 17th International Union for Quaternary Research Congress, Cairns, Australia, 28 July – 3 August.
Dr S. EGGINS, American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, USA, 9-14 December, contributed an oral presentation entitled “Controls on Mg/Ca variation in planktonic foraminifera – new insights from microanalysis of laboratory cultured Orbulina universa”.
Dr S. EGGINS, Geological Society of New Zealand Conference, Tauranga, USA, 26-29 November, contributed an oral presentation entitled “Temperature and carbonate ion effects on Mg/Ca incorporation in planktonic foraminifera”.
Dr S. EGGINS, Workshop on Laboratory Culture of Planktonic Foraminifera, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, Catalina Island, USA, 3 August, presented a seminar entitled “Compositional variability in planktonic formaminifera”.
Dr S. EGGINS, Marine Science Workshop, ANU, 14 September, presented a talk entitled “Fabulous Forams – new open marine carbonate system proxies and improving seawater temperature proxies”
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD, Ncycle and COST voyages data workshop, NIWA, Wellington, NZ, 18-20 April, presented a paper entitled “Trace metal cycling in the Tasman Sea” and “Results from beck-board incubation experiments”.
Dr. S.J. FALLON attended the XVII INQUA congress in Cairns, Jul. 28- Aug. 3, 2007 and presented a paper entitled “Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Influence on Climate: Surface Water Processes in the Indonesian Seas”
Dr. S.J. FALLON attended the 3rd International Conference on the Mechanisms of Organic Matter Stabilisation and Destabilisation in soils and Sediments in Adeliade, 23-26 Sept. 2007.
Dr K.E. FITSZIMMONS, 17th International Quaternary Association Congress, Cairns, 28 July - 3 August 2007, presented papers entitled “The timing of late Quaternary linear dune activity in the central Australian deserts” and “Australasian INTIMATE: Late Quaternary environmental change in central Australia” (with Dr E.J. Rhodes and Dr J.W. Magee).
Dr K.E. FITSZIMMONS attended the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration Regolith Symposium, Hahndorf, November 2006, and presented a paper entitled “Regional landform patterns in the Strzelecki Desert dunefield: dune migration and mobility at large scales”.
Dr M.K. GAGAN, 17th INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia, 28 July to 3 August, presented an invited keynote paper entitled “Abrupt shifts and mega-droughts during the Holocene evolution of tropical Australasia”.
Dr M.K. GAGAN, 17th INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia, 28 July to 3 August, presented a paper entitled “Coral chemo-geodesy: long-term perspectives for improved prediction of great submarine earthquakes”.
Dr M.K. GAGAN, 17th INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia, 28 July to 3 August, presented a paper entitled “New archaeological finds below Liang Bua, Flores: a split-level home for the Hobbit?”.
Dr M.K. GAGAN, 9th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Shanghai, China, 3-7 September, presented an invited plenary paper entitled “Ocean-atmosphere interactions, abrupt shifts and patterns of drought during the Holocene climatic evolution of tropical Australasia”.
Dr M.K. GAGAN led a speleothem collecting expedition to the Liang Bua area on the island of Flores, Indonesia, from 20 May to 23 June.
Prof. R. GRÜN was member of the organising Committee of the XVII INQUA Congress. 28 July - 3 August 2007, Cairns, where he chaired Plenary Session 4 Origins and dispersal of pre-modern humans and Session 18.5 Other Quaternary Sites and was invited to give a review on Advances in ESR dating.
Mr R. Joannes-Boyau, 17th INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia, 28-3 august 2007, “Two species of CO2 threaten the fundamentals of ESR”, Abstract 0151, p.195, Quaternary International 167-168
Miss T. E. Kelly, XVII INQUA Congress, 28 July - 3 August 2007, Cairns,
Australia, "Sr isotope tracing at the Neanderthal site of Les Pradelles,
Charante, France., Abstract 397, Quaternary International 167-168, 203.
Prof. M.T. McCULLOCH, continued his research program on Mediterranean coral reef during a visit to Italy in August.
Prof. M.T. McCULLOCH, attended 2007 Goldschmidt Conference in Cologne, Germany 19-25 August and presented a paper entitled “Coral reefs and global change: the roles of increasing ocean acidity, ocean temperatures, sea-levels and direct human impacts”
Prof. M.T. McCULLOCH, attended 2007 INQUA Conference July 28-August 4 and presented a paper entitled “Coral Reefs: The Silent Sentinels of Global Change”
Prof. M.T. McCULLOCH, Coral Reef Society Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 8-12 October, presented a paper entitled “Coral Reefs: will they survive catastrophic climate change”?
Mr I. MOFFAT was the principal author and presenter of a conference presentation to the International Union for Quaternary Research Conference in Cairns entitled “Geophysical Prospection for Late Holocene Skeletal Remains, Coorong, South Australia” with co-authors Dr L.A Wallis (Flinders University), Dr K. Domett (James Cook University) and G. Trevorrow (Coorong Wilderness Lodge).
Mr I. MOFFAT was the second author with Mr J. Raupp (Flinders University) of a conference presentation to the Society of Historical Archaeology Conference in Willamsburg Virginia entitled “Size Does Matter: Multi-technique Geophysical Investigations of Port Elliot”.
Prof. B.J. PILLANS, XIIth International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Congress, Cairns, 28 July – 3 August, presented a keynote address “Defining the Quaternary”.
Prof. B.J. PILLANS, Kalgoorlie’07 Conference on mineral exploration, gave an invited paper “Dating the regolith – implications for landscape evolution”.
Dr M. WILLE et al., European Geosciences Unionrancisco, General Assembly 2007, Vienna, Austria, 15 – 20 April 2007, presented a paper entitled “Deep water upwelling and its implication for the Precambrian Cambrian boundary. Evidences from Molybdenum isotopes in black shales”.
Dr M. WILLE et al., Goldschmidt Conference 2007, Cologne, Germany, August 19 - 24, 2007, presented a paper entitled “Massive H2S release to surface waters at the Precambrian-Cambrian (PC-C) boundary: Evidence from Mo isotopes”
Dr M. WILLE et al., ANU fall meeting 2007; San Francisco, USA, will present a paper entitled “Mo Isotopes Record Destabilization of a Stratified Ocean at the Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary”
Earth Materials
Dr M. Beltrando, 16th Deformation mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics (DRT) Conference, Milan, Italy, 27 September – 2 October, presented a poster entitled “Dating microstructures by the 40Ar/39Ar step-heating technique: Deformation-pressure-temperature-time history of the Penninic units of the Western Alps”.
Prof S.F. COX, Geological Society of America Annual Conference, Denver, 28-31 October, presented an invited lecture and gave the Society of Economic Geologists 2007 Distinguished Lecture. He also presented two invited lectures at the Colorado School of Mines.
Prof S.F. COX, Deformation, Rheology and Tectonics conference, Milan, 27 September – 2 October, presented a lecture entitled “Paths to failure: the application of failure mode diagrams in pore fluid factor ~ differential stress space for analysing fluid pressure and stress states during rock failure”.
Prof S.F. COX, Meeting of the Geological Society of Australia’s Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology, Alice Springs, 8-14 July, presented a talk.
Dr J.D. FITZ GERALD, 31st Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga, 6-9 February, co-presented four posters with ANU College of Science colleagues.
Dr J.D. FITZ GERALD, visited the Institüt fur Mineralogie, Wesfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, April - May for collaborative work on electron microscopy in minerals.
Dr J.D. FITZ GERALD, Festkolloquium on Metasomatism (in honour of Prof H. Austrheim), 25 April, presented a paper “Permeability and Porosity Evolution of Hydrothermal Fault Gouges”.
Dr M. FORSTER, Geological Society of London Peach and Horne Memoir Conference: Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building, Ullapool, Scotland, 12-19 May, presented a talk entitled “Orogenic Sequence Diagrams”.
Dr M. FORSTER, 16th Deformation mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics (DRT) Conference, Milan, Italy, 27 September – 2 October, gave an oral presentation entitled “Seismogenic strain rates during ductile deformation – the example of the South Cyclades Shear Zone, Ios, Cyclades, Greece”.
Dr M. FORSTER, Geology Society of America Penrose conference: Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheological Coupling, and Heat Budget, Naxos Island, Greece, 7–12 October, presented a poster entitled “Extension of the Aegean lithosphere initiated at the Eocene-Oligocene transition”.
Dr J. HERMANN, 17th V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Germany, 19-24 August, presented a paper entitled “Accessory phase control on the trace element signature of subduction zone fluids” and was co-author on three other contributions.
Dr J. HERMANN conducted field work in the Western Alps from 29-30 August; in the Central Alps from 13-14 September and in New Caledonia from 4-14 November.
Dr J. HERMANN presented a seminar at the University of Berne, Switzerland, on 4 September and at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland on 5 September.
Prof. I. JACKSON, 31st Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting (Wagga Wagga, NSW, February) and IUGG XXIV General Assembly (Perugia, Italy, July), presented papers.
Prof. I. JACKSON visited and lectured at the University of Utrecht and Shell International Exploration and Production in The Netherlands and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (June).
Mr. I. Kovacs, AGU Spring Conference, Acapulco Bay, Mexico, 22-25 May, presented two talks entitled “Water solubility in forsterite and enstatite: a key for understanding mantle rheology” and “Quantitative IR spectroscopy with unpolarized light”.
Mr. I. Kovacs, Petrological evolution of the European lithospheric mantle from Archean to present day, Ferrara, Italy, 29-31 August, presented a poster entitled “Middle Miocene volcanism in the vicinity of the Middle Hungarian zone: evidence for an inherited enriched mantle source” and was co-author in two talks entitled: “A quartz-bearing orthopyroxene-rich websterite xenolith from the Pannonian Basin, Western Hungary: Evidence for release of Si-oversaturated melts from the subducted slab” and “Silicate melt inclusions in amphibole-bearing spinel peridotites xenoliths from the Bakony-Balaton Highland Volvanic Field (Western Hungary)”.
Mr. I. Kovacs, XIX European Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ECRFI), Bern, 17-20 July, was a coauthor in two presentations entitled “Primary carbonatite melt inclusions in apatite and in K feldspar from clinopyroxene-rich mantle xenoliths from Hungarian lamprophyres: implications fro generation and evolution of carbonatite melts in the Earth’s upper mantle” and “Silicate melt inclusion study in peridotite xenoliths from Pannonian Basin, Hungary”.
Prof G. LISTER, International meeting organized by the Académie des Sciences, Paris, France at the Institut Océanographique “Ocean Continent Transition”, 19–21 September, was an invited keynote speaker, giving a talk entitled “The nature and origin of detachment faults in the context of the geodynamical evolution of passive continental margins”.
Prof G. LISTER was the Umbgrove Lecturer 2007 at the Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, 24–25 September, presenting a talk entitled “The nature of orogenesis”.
Prof G. LISTER, Geology Society of America Penrose conference: Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheological Coupling, and Heat Budget, Naxos Island, Greece, 7–12 October, presented an invited keynote lecture entitled “The nature and origin of detachment faults and their relation to extensional shear zones”.
Prof G. LISTER, 16th Deformation mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics (DRT) Conference, Milan, Italy, 27 September – 2 October, presented two talks entitled ”Structural analysis of aftershock sequences from the 2004-2005 Great Sumatran Earthquakes” and “Are textural and chemical transformations episodic?”.
Mr. G. MALLMANN, Workshop on the Chronology of Meteorites and the Early Solar System, Kauai-Hawaii, USA, 5-7 November and the Post-conference Field trip, Big Island, Hawaii, USA, 8-9 November.
Mr. G. MALLMANN, 2007 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 11-14 December, presented a paper entitled “Vanadium partitioning and mantle oxidation state: New experimental data”.
Dr J. MAVROGENES presented an invited lecture at the Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada (GAC-MAC) conference in Yellowknife, Canada, in the Unusual Ore Deposit Session.
Dr J. MAVROGENES presented an invited lecture at the AMIRA Exploration Managers Conference, Barossa Valley.
Dr J. MAVROGENES presented a keynote lecture at the Goldschmidt Conference in Cologne, Germany, in the New Frontiers in Fluid Inclusion Analysis Session and an invited lecture in the Fluid Properties at High pressures and Temperatures Session.
Dr S. MICKLETHWAITE, was invited to speak at the Kalgoorlie’07 Conference, Old Ground New Knowledge, Kalgoorlie, WA, 25-27 September. He presented a paper entitled “Structural processes – which ones are critical for targeting?”.
Dr S. MICKLETHWAITE, visited The University of Glasgow and Strathclyde University from 10-30 June to work with the Faults and Fluid Flow research group, funded by an international travel fellowship.
Dr S. MICKLETHWAITE conducted field work in Nevada, USA, from 12-26 March, 6-27 August and 10-14 December; in Cracow, Queensland from 23-27 April; in Agnew, Western Australia from 28 September to 5 October.
Prof. H. O’NEILL attended and gave papers at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, 24-29 April, the 17th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, 19-24 August, and a Royal Society Discussion Meeting on “Origin and differentiation of the Earth: past to present”, 13-14th September, London.
Mr C. PIRARD, Granitic Pegmatite : the State of the Art (PEG2007), Porto, Portugal, 6-12 May, presented a poster entitled “Alteration sequences of aluminium phosphates from Montebras pegmatite, Massif Central, France”.
Mr C. PIRARD conducted field work in New Caledonia archipelago from 4 November – 1 December.
Dr R.P. RAPP, 17th International Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Germany, 19-24th August, presented an invited paper entitled "A new, comprehensive set of bulk distribution coefficients (D's) governing partial melting of hydrous metabasalt".
Dr R.P. RAPP, Sixth Hutton Symposium on the Origin of Granitic Rocks, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 3-6 July, presented a paper entitled "Comprehensive trace element characteristics of experimental TTG and sanukitoid melts".
Dr R.P. RAPP, State-of-the-Arc (SOTA) 2007 Meeting, Termas de Puyehue, Chile, 28 January - 2 February, presented a paper entitled " Primary high magnesian andesites from adakite-metasomatized peridotite: insights from melting-hybridization-assimilation experiments at 1.5-4.0 GPa.
Dr S. RICHARDS, Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology (SGTSG): Deformation in the Desert conference, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 9-13 July, presented a paper entitled “Virtual Earth: 4D evolution of the Indo Australian Plate” and a poster entitled “Buchan Metamorphism during Extension.”
Mr D.R. VIETE, Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: ‘The Peach and Horne Meeting’, Ullapool, Scotland, 12-19 May 2007, presented a paper entitled “Synchronous development of the Barrovian and Buchan metamorphic facies series as the result of lithosphere-scale extension during orogenesis”.
Mr D.R. VIETE conducted fieldwork in the Scottish Highlands from 19-24 May.
Mr D.R. VIETE, Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology: ‘Deformation in the Desert’, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 9-13 July 2007, presented a poster entitled “Heat sources for Barrovian regional metamorphism”.
Earth Physics
Dr C.E. BARTON, National Academies Forum symposium entitled ‘A celebration of the history, culture, science and technology of Recherche Bay’, Hobart, Tasmania 27-28 January 2007, presented a paper entitled “From geomancy to geodynamo - magnetism and the Earth Sciences”.
Dr C.E. BARTON, WIPS (Western Interior Paleontology Society), Denver, 3-4 March 2007, presented a paper entitled “Magnetic dating, stratigraphy, and tracing”.
Dr C.E. BARTON, visited the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2-25 March 2007, to work on the Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY) project.
Dr C.E. BARTON, chaired the eGY General Meeting, NCAR, Boulder, 13-14 March 2007.
Dr C.E. BARTON, “Envisioning a National Geoinformatics System for the United States”, Denver Federal Center, Denver, 14-15 March 2007, presented a paper entitled “The Electronic Geophysical Year, 2007-2008”.
Dr C.E. BARTON, visited Moscow courtesy of the Russian Academy of Science, 22-28 June 2007. Presented invited lecture to the RAS Geophysics Center entitled “The International Science Years and the Electronic Geophysical Year, 2007-2008”; presented invited lecture to IZMIRAN (Institute of Terrestrial Magnetis m, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation) entitled “The Electronic Geophysical Year, 2007-2008 - towards an Earth and space science information commons”; visited the Institute of Physics of the Earth, palaeomagnetism group; discussions with the Head of the RAS Earth Science Division, Yuri Leonov about Russsian-Australian collaboration in Earth and space science.
Dr C.E. BARTON, IUGG General Assembly, Perugia, 30 June-13 July 2007, presented a paper entitled “eGY - towards an Earth and space science information commons”, and an invited lecture at the official launch of the Electronic Geophysical Year entitled “The importance of the eGY and a vision for universal data access”.
Dr C.E. BARTON, International Science Years Workshop, New Delhi, India, 2-4 October 2007, presented invited paper “eGY - a 21st Century approach to issues of data”.
Dr C.E. BARTON visited National Geophysical research Institute, Hyderabad, 5-7 October 2007, presented invited lecture entitled “The nature and applications of the Earth’s magnetic field”
Dr C.E. BARTON visited Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai, 8-9 October 2007, presented three invited lectures entitled “Frontiers in geomagnetism research” “The nature and applications of the Earth’s magnetic field”, and “The Electronic Geophysical Year, 2007-2008”.
Dr C.E. BARTON, IHY-Africa Space Science Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12-16 November 2007, presented a paper entitled “eGY - an opportunity to improve access to Earth and space science data”; launched eGY-Africa , an Electronic Geophysical Year initiative to advocate better cyber-infrastructure for science in Africa.
Dr D.R. CHRISTIE, 29th Monitoring Research Review Symposium, Denver, Colorado, 25-27 September, presented a paper entitled “Advances in infrasound technology with application to nuclear explosion monitoring”.
Dr D.R. CHRISTIE, attended the Infrasound Technology Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, 13-16 November and presented two papers entitled “Recent progress in wind noise reduction at infrasound monitoring stations” and “Optimum array design for the detection of distant atmospheric explosions: Influence of the spatial correlation of infrasonic signals”.
Mr J. DAWSON, Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA, 8-14 December 2007, presented a paper entitled “Shallow earthquakes in Western Australia observed with seismic and InSAR data”.
Dr A. DUTTON, INQUA Congress 2007, Cairns, Australia, 28 July - 3 August, was session chair for “Chronologies of sea level change from 0 to 500 ka” which included a paper of hers on “Global Sea Level During the Last Interglacial.”
Dr A. DUTTON, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, 28 October- 31 October, presented a paper on “Evaluating diagenesis in Eocene tropical planktonic foraminifera.”
Dr A. DUTTON was a co-author on a paper presented at the International Conference on Paleoceanography, Shanghai, China, entitled, “Interlaboratory comparison study of calibration standards for foraminiferal Mg/Ca thermometry.”
Dr A. DUTTON conducted field work at Cape Range and Ningaloo NP near Exmouth, WA to collect fossil coral samples for research on sea level of the last interglacial.
Ms. G. Estermann, “Bringing Science Together” conference, ANU, Canberra, December 11th, 2006, oral presentation entitled “Relative sea-level changes due to recent mountain deglaciation”
Ms G. Estermann, European Geosciences Union (EGU) conference, Vienna, 15-20 April 2007, oral presentation entitled “Geodetic signals from numerical modelling of recent mountain deglaciation”
Dr F. FONTAINE conducted field work in the Murray Basin from 11-22 February; in the North of Canberra from 25-27 July and 6, 9-10 August; in Shannons Flat from 30th August to 14th September and in South Australia from 22nd October to 3rd November.
Ms M. A. COMAN, ANU Marine Science Forum, 12 September 2007, presented a talk “Surface buoyancy and the overturning circulation”.
Dr. G.F. DAVIES presented a paper “Dynamical and chemical evolution of the mantle” at the Geological Association of Canada “NUNA” conference “The pulse of the Earth and planetary evolution”, Sudbury, Ontario, June 2007.
Dr. G. F. DAVIES presented a paper “Episodic layering of the early mantle by the basalt barrier mechanism” at the Fall Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 2007.
Prof. R. W. GRIFFITHS, XV Summer School on Fundamental Problems in Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Ocean-atmosphere convection in the context of climate change, Aosta, Italy, June 2007, gave a series of three invited seminars on “Horizontal convection”. He also attended the annual American Physical Society – Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in Salt Lake City, USA, and delivered a dinner speech at a workshop on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Prof P. F. Linden, University of California, San Diego.
Prof. R. W. GRIFFITHS visited the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, July – September, for research on flow in mantle subduction zones and ocean circulation. During this period he also visited and lectured at the Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Canada, and participated in a workshop on the Cascadia subduction zone, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC, USA.
Dr A.McC. HOGG, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 14th Annual Conference, Adelaide, 5-8 February 2007, presented a paper entitled “Southern Ocean response to Variations in the Southern Annular Mode”.
Dr A.McC. HOGG, Understanding Nature’s Fury, Canberra, 5–7 November 2007, presented a paper entitled “Positive feedbacks and the CO2 cycle”.
Dr G.O. HUGHES, XV Summer School on Fundamental Problems in Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Aosta, Italy, June 2007, gave an invited seminar on “Horizontal convection and the ocean overturning circulation”.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT attended the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna in April, where he received the Gutenberg Medal in Seismology. He made a brief visit to Japan in May and attended part of the Japanese Earth Sciences Meeting. In September he gave an invited presentation at the Bicentennial Meeting of the Geological Society of London, and then attended a Heraeus Workshop on the nature of the Earth’s Interior in Bavaria, for which he was an organiser. He also attended the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union with an invited talk on structure in the Lithosphere.
Prof K. LAMBECK, Nobel Laureates Beijing Forum 2007: Energy and Environment, Beijing, China, 10-14 September 2007, presented papers entitled “The Climate-Energy Nexus: the transition from vicious circle to virtuous circle” (http://www.science.org.au/events/11september07.htm), and ”The utilization and promotion of new energy sources in Australia” (http://www.science.org.au/events/14september07.htm) as well as several presentations to Chinese Academy of Science Institutes.
Ms M.J. O'BYRNE, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 14th Annual Conference, Adelaide, 5–8 February 2007, presented a paper entitled “The effects of perturbed incident flow on island and headland wakes”.
Ms M.J. O'BYRNE, ANU Marine Science Forum, 12 September 2007, presented a talk “Wake flows in coastal oceans: an experimental study of topographic effects”.
Dr. N. RAWLINSON, 24th General Assembly of IUGG, Perugia, Italy, 2-13 July, presented a paper entitled “Seismic imaging of the lithosphere beneath southeast Australia using data from multiple array deployments”.
Dr. N. RAWLINSON conducted fieldwork in Tasmania from 24 January -1 February, 5-12 June and 21-30 August; and in NSW from 11-22 February, 16-25 April, 13-22 September, 14-20 November, 5-14 December.
MR D. ROBINSON, Australian Earth Science Convention, Melbourne, 2-6 July 2006, presented a paper entitled “Coda wave interferometry and constraints on relative earthquake locations ”
.Dr. M. SAMBRIDGE, American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA, 10-14 December, presenting papers on Seismic wavefront tracking methods and coda wave interferometry jointly with co-authors Dr. N. Rawlinson, and RSES students Mr. J. Hauser and Mr. D. Robinson.
Dr. M. SAMBRIDGE, attended the joint CIG/SPICE/IRIS Seismology Workshop held in October 9-11th, 2007, in Jackson, NH, USA and presented a paper entitled “Cross validation in inverse problems”.
Dr SCHELLART presented a poster Prospecting the Southwest Pacific mantle for fossil slabs by using regional tectonic reconstructions, surface geology and seismic tomography at the EGU general assembly, Vienna, Abstract EGU2007-A-00652, 2007. (with B.L.N. Kennett)
Dr SCHELLART presented a talk Slab width as the dominant factor in determining trench migration velocity and subduction zone curvature at the EGU general assembly, Vienna, Abstract EGU2007-A-00646, 2007. (with J. Freeman, D.R. Stegman, L. Moresi and D. May)
Dr SCHELLART presented a poster Global trench-migration velocities in different “absolute” reference frames: Geodynamic constraints to find the optimal reference frame. EGU general assembly, Vienna, Abstract EGU2007-A-00648, 2007.
Dr SCHELLART presented a talk Three-dimensional subduction-induced flow patterns in the mantle: Insight from fluid dynamic modelling EGU general assembly, Vienna, Abstract EGU2007-A-00650, 2007. (with R.W. Griffiths)
Dr SCHELLART presented a talk Orogenesis above a suduction zone: Explaining the formation of the Andes at the Geological Society Arthur Holmes Meeting Continental tectonics and mountain building, Ullapool, Scotland, 2007. (with D.R. Stegman, and J. Freeman)
Dr SCHELLART was second author on a talk from Moresi et al. Slab width as the dominant factor in determining trench migration velocity and subduction zone curvature presented at the AGU joint assembly, Acapulco, Mexico, May, 2007.
Dr SCHELLART was third author on a talk from Stegman et al. The Effect of Trench Width on the Evolution and Diversity of Subduction Zones and Slab Morphology in the Upper Mantle presented at the Subduction zone geodynamics conference, Montpellier, France, 2007.
Dr SCHELLART presented a talk Orogenesis above a suduction zone: Explaining the formation of the Andes at the SGTSG Conference Deformation in the desert, Alice Springs, Australia, 64, 2007. (with D.R. Stegman, J. Freeman, L. Moresi, and D. May)
Dr SCHELLART presented a poster Trench migration velocities in different “absolute” global reference frames: Geodynamic constraints to find the optimal reference frame at the SGTSG Conference Deformation in the desert, Alice Springs, Australia, 90, 2007.
Dr SCHELLART presented a poster Locating fossil slabs in the Southwest Pacific mantle with tectonic reconstructions, surface geology and mantle tomography at the SGTSG Conference Deformation in the desert, Alice Springs, Australia, 89, 2007. (with B.L.N. Kennett, and S. Richards)
Dr SCHELLART was second author on a talk from R. Stephenson The Cretaceous Black Sea back-arc basin compared with modern analogues presented at the East Asia Geoscience Society 4th Annual Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, 2007.
Dr H. TKALCIC, The American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2007 in San Francisco, USA, December 9-14, presented two papers entitled “New estimate of the inner-outer core density ratio from previously unobserved steep-incidence inner core reflections” by H. Tkalcic and B.L.N. Kennett and “Detailed seismic imaging of the Australian lithosphere using a dense rolling array of seismometers” by N. Rawlinson, B.L.N. Kennett and H. Tkalcic.
Dr H. TKALCIC conducted field work in Western Australia (CAPRA seismic deployment pullout) for two weeks in May/June, and in Tasmania (SETA array pullout) for one week in August.
Dr P. TREGONING, attended the Cryosat II Calibration Validation and Retrieval Team 1st Meeting in Noordwijk 18-19 October, 2007.
Dr P. TREGONING, attended the Geodesie et Geophysique meeting, Grenoble, France, 21-23 November and presented a paper entitled “GRACE en Australie: la secheresse et les signaux oceaniques”.
Dr D. ZWARTZ conducted GPS field work in Australian Antarctic Territory from 6 December 2006 to 1 Apr 2007 and in Papua-New Guinea.
PRISE
Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG, 7th International Symposium on Applied Isotope Geochemistry, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 10-14 September, presented a keynote talk entitled “Exploring new avenues with in-situ isotope analysis”.
Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG, 1st Workshop on Problems in Western Gondwana Geology, Gramado, Brazil, 27-29 August, presented an invited paper entitled “A summary of the geochronology and Precambrian crustal architecture of southern Africa, and possibilities for correlations with South America”
Mr C.M. FANNING, 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, USA, 26-31 August, was a co-author on six presentations.
Mr C.M. FANNING, 2007 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting & Exposition, Denver, USA, 28 – 31 October, was a co-author on eight presentations.
Mr C.M. FANNING, GEOSUR 2007, A conference on the Geology and Gepophysics of the Southern Hemisphere, Santiago de Chile, 18-20 November, presented a poster entitled “Detrital zircon ages from the cover rocks of the northern flank of Cordillera Darwin: further evidence for an extended pre Middle Jurassic hiatus in the magmatic record of southern Patagonia” and co-authored a further seven presentations.
Mr C.M. FANNING conducted fieldwork in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia from 7-15 March, in Peru from 8-14 August and in Chile from 21 November – 7 December.
Mr S.S.M. HUI, 7th Australian Space Science Conference, Sydney, 24-27th September, presented a talk entitled “Analysis and Classification of Cosmic Spherules from the Lewis Cliff, Antarctica”
Dr M.D. NORMAN, 7th Australian Space Science Conference, Sydney, 24-27th September, presented an invited keynote talk entitled “Planetary Science in Australia”, and a contributed talk entitled “Lifting the Veil on the Lunar Cataclysm: A 4.2 Billion Year Old Impact Event on the Moon”.
Dr M.D. NORMAN, 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, USA, 11-16 March, presented a talk entitled “Early Impacts on the Moon: Crystallization Ages of Apollo 16 Melt Breccias”.
Ms A. ROSENTHAL, 17th V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Germany, 19-24 August, presented a paper entitled “Phase and melting relations of a residual garnet clinopyroxenite”.
Dr G.M. YAXLEY, Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada Meeting (GAC-MAC), Yellowknife, Canada, 23-25 May, presented a paper entitled “A new experimental calibration of Ni-Mg exchange between garnet and olivine at upper mantle pressures – implications for Ni in garnet thermometry.”
Dr G.M. YAXLEY, 17th V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Germany, 19-24 August, presented a key-note talk entitled “The influence of minor elements on melting of eclogite in the mantle”.
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EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Earth Chemistry
Dr V. C. BENNETT, Co-editor with M. van Kranendonk, and H. Smithies of “Earth’s Oldest Rocks” Elsevier Press, Sept. 2007.
Dr J.J. BROCKS, Associate Editor, Palaios, a Journal of the Society of Sedimentary Geology.
Dr I.S. Buick, Co-editor in Chief, Lithos.
Dr I.S. Buick, Associate Editor, Gondwana Research.
Prof I.H. Campbell, Co-editor Chemical Geology Special Issue on Mantle Plumes.
Dr M. Honda, Associate Editor, Geochemical Journal.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER, Co-editor, Proceedings of the 5th Stromlo Symposium Disks, Winds and Jets: from Planets to Quasars, (2008) Dordrecht: Kluwer, 500 pages, in press.
Dr D. RUBATTO, Associated Editor, Lithos.
Dr D. RUBATTO, Editorial Review Board, Journal of Metamorphic Geology.
Earth Environment
Dr S. EGGINS, Editorial Board, Quaternary Geochronology.
Dr S. EGGINS, Editorial Board, Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research (to Sept 2007).
Dr K.E. FITZSIMMONS, Editor, Quaternary Australasia.
Prof. R. GRÜN is the Editor in Chief of Quaternary Science Reviews and member of the Editorial Boards of Quaternary Science Reviews and Radiation Measurements
Mr I. MOFFAT, Associate Editor, Exploration Geophysics.
Prof. B.J. PILLANS, Editorial Board, Quaternary Science Reviews.
Earth Materials
Prof S.F. COX continued as a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Journal of Structural Geology and Geofluids.
Dr J.D. FITZ GERALD, Editorial Board, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and coordinating editor of the special volume, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga.
Dr J. HERMANN, Associate Editor, LITHOS.
Prof. I. JACKSON, Editorial Boards of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.
Prof. H. O’NEILL, Advisory Editorial Board of Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Editorial Board of Chemical Geology, Advisory Board of Elements and Associate Editor, e-Earth.
Earth Physics
Prof. R.W. GRIFFITHS served as Associate Editor, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and as a member of the Editorial Committee for the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT, Member of Advisory Editorial board for Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Dr. N. RAWLINSON is an editorial board member of Tectonophysics
Mr. D. ROBINSON, Book Review Editor Preview Magazine
Dr. W.P. Schellart served as Associate Editor for Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth.
Dr. W.P. Schellart served as Associate Editor for Journal of Geodynamics.
Dr. W.P. Schellart served as Associate Editor for Journal of the Virtual Explorer.
Dr P. TREGONING, Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid-Earth
PRISE
Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG, Editorial Board, Journal of African Earth Sciences.
Dr M.D. NORMAN, Editorial Board, Open Mineralogy Journal.
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OUTREACH AND WORKSHOPS
Earth Chemistry
Dr J.J. BROCKS was interviewed on 22 August by the major German radio channel ‘Deutschlandfunk’ about ‘Proterozoic Purple Oceans’ (http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/forschak/661111/).
Dr J.J. BROCKS gave a Plenary Lecture in the series ‘Making the Earth in Five Days’ at the Goldschmidt Conference in Cologne, accessible at http://www.goldschmidt2007.org/plenary.php.
Prof T.R. IRELAND visited the Cowra Primary School to talk to students about meteorites.
Prof T.R. IRELAND, invited speaker, 25-29 October, at Curtin University, Perth.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Klaus Toft on Space-Based Solar Power for the ABC science show, “Catalyst”, recorded on 7 and 9 November, to be broadcast Australia-wide on a Thursday in December 2007 or January 2008, 8 pm, approx. 5 minute segment, estimated audience 881,000.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Graham Phillips on ``The Future of the Space Elevator'' for the ABC science show Catalyst recorded 16 August, broadcast Australia-wide 8:11 pm, Thursday, 11 October.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Graham Phillips on ``The Future of Living on Mars'' for the ABC science show Catalyst, recorded August 16, broadcast Australia-wide 8:14 pm, Thursday, 4 October, 6 minutes, estimated audience 881,000.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Graham Phillips on the new NASA spacecraft STEREO and on coronal mass ejections ``The Sun in Stereo'' for the ABC science show Catalyst, broadcast Australia-wide Thursday, 26 July, 8:17 pm, 4 minute interview, estimated audience 881,000.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Mike Welsh for Mike Welsh's Drive Show, Capitol Radio, 2CC 5:51 to 5:56 pm, 8 November, on the Astrophysical Journal Paper: ``The Metallicity of Stars with Close Companions''.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed 23 October by Jennifer Macey for ABC Radio National on the new Pentagon plan for geostationary arrays of solar panels, broadcast Australia-wide.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Loretta Foo Xue Ling, 5 November of Radio Singapore International (English Service) on the recent detection of a 5 Earth-mass planet around the M dwarf Gliese 581 in the habitable zone; see also http://www.rsi.sg/english/frontiers/view/2007050815212/1/.html.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed and cited on a ABC Radio National report on Mars and global warming by Mark Colvin and Jennifer Macey; available on-line at http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1891367.htm.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Marilyn Head on 1 June for ABC Science Online story about terrestrial planets.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Stuart Gary, ABC Radio National, Star Watch on 19 March; available at http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/audio/20070317starstuff.asx.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER participated in a ABC Radio National, Science Week Discussion: ``The Biggest Questions of the Universe'' Broadcast 28 January and repeated 30 January; ABC Science hosts Bernie Hobbs and Paul Willis.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER’s lecture on astronomy was written up in The Champion Post, Parkes, NSW Regional Newspaper, “The Big Bang and Fascinating Questions” by John Sarkissian, 5 October.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER and Dr D. Grether’s research was written up in
http://www.physorg.com/news113756127.html
and http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20070911-16561.html.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture to the ANU National Youth Science Forum Lecture to Year 12 Students on 19 January, entitled “Are We Alone?”
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture at Narrabundah College, ACT, Teachers Orientation Seminar Lecture, 30 January entitled “Worlds without Water”.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture to the North Sydney Astronomical Association, on 23 February entitled “The CMB, Exoplanets and the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics”.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture at BrisScience, Brisbane on 19 March organized by Jennifer Dodd, entitled “Are We Alone?”
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave the ANU Black Hole Society Inaugural Lecture on 15 May entitled “Black Holes: the most legitimate Weirdness Known”.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture to the Theiss Environmental Division, Coolangatta Retreat Workshop, June 18 organized by Ravi Prased: “The Origin of Water on Earth”.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture at ANU Burton and Garran College on 17 August entitled “Are We Alone?”
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture to the Sutherland Astronomical Society Greeenpoint Observatory, 6 September entitled "Cosmology and the CMB".
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture to the Central West Astronomical Society of New South Wales, Parkes Observatory, Visitors Centre, NSW, 5 October entitled "Misconceptions about the Big Bang".
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER and Dr J. ROBLES’ research was written up in “Studying extrasolar planets 'on the cheap'” by ABC journalist Marilyn Head, available at
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1933544.htm
Dr R. SALMERON, Visiting Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne.
Dr R. SALMERON, Speaker, Centre for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics, Monash University, “Are magnetic fields dynamically important in protostellar disks”.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS hosted a visit to the SHRIMP laboratory by students attending the National Youth Science Forum, 4 and 18 January.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS hosted a visit to the SHRIMP laboratory 2-4 March by representatives of the Chinese Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, Petrochina: Professor Luo Ping, Chief Geologist of the Central Laboratory, Director of the Key Laboratory for Oil and Gas Reservoirs; Professor Chen Jianping, Chief, Petroleum Geochemistry; Wang Hitong, Chief, Laboratory of Organic Analysis, and Luo Zhong, Engineer.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, Eurogranites 2007 Workshop, Poland, 1-6 September, co-authored presentations with Dr J. Wiszniewska and Mrs E. Krzeminska on the geochronology of the basement rocks of northern Poland.
Earth Environment
Dr S. EGGINS participated in an NSF funded workshop on the laboratory culture of planktonic foraminifera at the University of Southern California’s Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, Catalina Island, July 4-August 10.
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD was interviewed on radio about the growth of sponges in the deep ocean. Approximately 3 minute interview with Leigh Hatcher, ABC Radio Canberra, broadcast at 4.30 pm 26 July.
Dr. S.J. FALLON hosted two students from the CSIRO Student Research Scheme as well as participating in Science Week as part of a forensic investigation.
Dr K.E. FITZSIMMONS was Joint Field Trip Coordinator, Pre-Conference field trip for International Quaternary Association (INQUA) Congress, with Prof.essor Gerald Nanson (University of Wollongong): Quaternary fluvial, lacustrine and aeolian activity, Lake Eyre Basin, Central Australia.
Dr K.E. FITZSIMMONS is a regular contributor on the Fuzzy Logic Popular Science radio show, 2XX FM.
Dr M.K. GAGAN was interviewed in January for television, radio, newspaper, and web-site postings regarding a publication in Nature (v. 445: 299-302, 2007) entitled Seasonal characteristics of the Indian Ocean Dipole through the Holocene.
Dr M.K. GAGAN was interviewed in February by Science magazine (“Hobbit” finders to return, v. 315, p. 1065, 2007) and for newspaper and web-site postings regarding exploration of a cave-chamber below Liang Bua on the island of Flores, Indonesia.
Dr S.D. JUPITER and Prof. M. McCULLOCH hosted an international workshop on Coral Reef Indicators of Land-Based Pollution in Mombasa, Kenya, from 1-5 Oct.
Dr S.D. JUPITER ran a public workshop to present the results of a catchment to reef study, funded by an ARC Linkage Grant, to the industry partners, stakeholders and citizens of Mackay, 1 June. Results of the study were additionally presented to members of the Mackay Conservation Group, 5 June, and to the Mackay City Council, 6 June. Results from the study generated 13 media stories, including newspaper articles in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, radio interviews on ABC Rural Report, and TV interview on Channel 7 News Mackay.
Prof.. M. McCULLOCH and Dr S.D. JUPITER hosted an international workshop on Coral Reef Indicators of Land-Based Pollution in Mombasa, Kenya, from 1-5 October.
Prof.. M. McCULLOCH contributed to a public workshop coordinated by Dr S.D. JUPITER to present the results of a catchment to reef study, funded by an ARC Linkage Grant, to the industry partners, stakeholders and citizens of Mackay, 1 June. Results of the study were additionally presented to members of the Mackay Conservation Group, 5 June, and to the Mackay City Council, 6 June. Prof. M. McCULLOCH presented a paper at the workshop, “Long-term changes to Mackay Whitsunday water quality and connectivity between terrestrial, mangrove and coral reef ecosystems”. Results from the study generated 13 media stories, including newspaper articles in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, radio interviews on ABC Rural Report, and TV interview on Channel 7 News Mackay.
Prof. M. McCULLOCH together with Prof.. R, Dunbar (Stanford University) and Dr Janette Lindesay (Fenner School of Environmental Science , ANU ) instigated a Public forum at the ANU, Canberra entitled “Debunking The Great Global Warming Swindle” . The forum critiqued the claims aired in The Great Global Warming Swindle televised on ABC TV. Prof.essor Malcolm McCULLOCH, ANU Research School of Earth Sciences and Deputy Director for the Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies presented key points and discussion on Why we should Avoid Dangerous Climate Change: Risks, Thresholds and Mitigation. July 13.
Prof. McCULLOCH responded to and was cited in 14 media stories (both radio and newspaper articles) throughout Australia regarding global warming awareness and issues raised at the Public Forum at the ANU, Canberra entitled “Debunking The Great Global Warming Swindle” .
Prof. M. McCULLOCH was an invited speaker at ICOMOS Public forum in Cairns, on 19 July focusing on Heritage and Climate Change and gave a presentation entitled “Coral Reefs: Will they survive Rapid Environmental-Climate change?” This generated local media interest with a major article appearing in the Cairns Post
Prof. M. McCULLOCH attended a planning meeting in Bungendore to contribute toward “Sustainable Development Science Policy” 5-6 May
***Prof. M. McCULLOCH attended a Deep Sea Coral Workshop held at Stradbroke Island He presented a paper to the workshop which is part of the “Deep Down Under” ARC Linkage proposal based at UQ and led by Prof., Justin Marshall
Prof. M. McCULLOCH attended a Public workshop Understanding Nature’s fury at the academy of science and presented a paper "Catastrophic collapse of Ice Sheets”
Prof. M. McCULLOCH attended and chaired the Catchments to Reefs: Integrated Planning, management and Governance Session at the Centre of Excellence Forum at the Academy of Science, Canberra 18-19 October
Prof. M. McCULLOCH presented a paper entitled “Acid trip to Australia’s future: Ocean acidification and coral reefs” at the Centre of Excellence Forum and as an outcome to his presentation at the Forum responded to and was cited in 8 media stories (radio, television, magazine and newspaper articles) on ocean acidification and current global warming issues under media consideration.
Mr I. MOFFAT appeared on television as part of an investigation by the major crime squad filmed for “Missing Persons Unit” on Channel Nine aired at 8:30 pm on Channel Nine on 29/11/07.
Mr I. MOFFAT appeared in the “Eastern Courier Messenger” in a photograph associated with an article entitled “Can you dig it?” appearing on 25\7\07 about geophysical survey and archaeological excavation of the Repatriation Hospital in Adelaide.
Mr I. MOFFAT presented a paper in the Centre for Archaeological Research seminar series at the Australian National University entitled “Applications of Geophysical Techniques to Australian Indigenous Archaeology”.
Mr I. MOFFAT was the second author on a paper presented by Dr L. Wallis in the Department of Archaeology seminar series at Flinders University entitled “Geophysical Prospection in Australian Indigenous Archaeology: Case studies from Northwest Queensland and the Coorong”.
Mr I. MOFFAT presented a paper entitled “Geophysical Prospection for Late Holocene Skeletal Remains, Coorong, South Australia” in the Centre for Archaeological Research’s Contemporary Challenges in the Archaeology and Natural History of the Asia-Pacific Region workshop at The Australian National University, 2007.
Dr P. TREBLE presented three external seminars during 2007: “Reconstructing southwest Australia’s natural rainfall variability using speleothems” at the offices of Land & Water Australia, Canberra on 14/3/07; and “Paleo-rainfall records from speleothem O isotopes” at the University of Birmingham on 1/11/07 and the University of Bristol on 29/11/07.
Earth Materials
Dr M. FORSTER was co-ordinator for the Thermochronology and Noble Gas, Geochemistry and Geochronology Organisation (TANG3O) workshop in July.
Dr M. FORSTER co-ordinated the Earth Dynamics workshop for Thermochronology and Noble Gas, Geochemistry and Geochronology Organisation (TANG3O) in November. Workshop discussions: a) Is telechronology a reality yet? b) Visions for the future of the Virtual Facility.
Dr J. HERMANN was interviewed on radio SBS (in Italian) about the investigation of exposed mantle rocks at mid-ocean ridges by a submarine.
Dr J. HERMANN coordinated two visits of students participating at the National Youth Science Forum at RSES.
Mr. I. Kovacs was a guest speaker on unpolarized infrared spectroscopy at the University of Boston, May.
Prof. G. LISTER organized and coordinated Earth Dynamics 2007, with sessions on “AuScope“ and “Understanding Nature’s Fury”.
G.S. LISTER collaborated with Dr U. Ring (Uni of Canterbury, NZ) and Prof B. Wernicke (Caltech) to run the Post-Conference Fieldtrip on the Ios Metamorphic Core Complex in Central Greece, in association with the GSA Penrose Conference on Naxos.
Dr J. MAVROGENES presented a series of lectures at Marist College as part of the Scientists in School program of CSIRO.
Dr S. MICKLETHWAITE ran a workshop for industry sponsors on 15 February.
Dr S. RICHARDS had a one-page article in the Canberra Times, 24 November, discussing the highlights of the Virtual Earth Project.
Dr S. RICHARDS appeared on WIN News, WIN Canberra, 24 November and had an article in the Canberra Times, 24 November, the Adelaide Advertiser, 25 November and the Australasian Science Magazine (November/December 2007) and a report in the ANU Reporter magazine (Winter 2007) discussing the highlights of the Virtual Earth Project.
Dr S. RICHARDS organized and ran an industry workshop for DeBeers exploration (December 2006)
Earth Physics
Dr A. DUTTON participated in the ANU Climate Initiative Dialogue Event (28-29 June) where she delivered a presentation on paleoclimate research at the ANU.
Dr A. DUTTON prepared a lecture for high school students attending the John Curtin School of Medical Research Open Day on climate change.
Dr A. DUTTON participated in the Marine Science Forum held on 12 September.
Dr F. FONTAINE was interviewed on television about his recent award called: young talent 2007 of France’s overseas department. Approximately 1 minute interview with Radio France Outre Mer (RFO TV), broadcast at 13 pm 13 November.
Drs A.McC. HOGG, R.C. KERR and Mr T. Prastowo introduced participants in the National Youth Science Forum, held in Canberra, to the variety of research undertaken in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
Dr A.McC. HOGG gave a presentation to the Current Affairs group of the Belconnen branch of the University of the 3rd Age entitled “Ocean Circulation and Climate: Surprises in the Earth System” (21st March 2007).
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT, Member of Advisory Editorial board for Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Prof K. LAMBECK, as President of the Academy of Science, has provided a number of interviews on television, radio and print during 2007. This included the televised National Press Club address on 26 September 2007 entitled “Roadmap for a prosperous Australia in a competitive world” (http://www.science.org.au/events/npc2007.htm) and Radio National’s The Science Show on 10 November 2007 (http://www.science.org.au/events/10november07.htm).
Prof K. LAMBECK, Deakin University Graduation Ceremony, Victoria, 27 April 2007, presented the occasional address to graduands of the Faculty of Science and Technology and the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Science.
Prof K. LAMBECK, 2007 Gentilli Memorial Lecture, Perth, Western Australia, 16 October 2007, entitled “Sea Level Change through the Ages: Learning from the past to understand the future”.
Prof K. LAMBECK, Australian-French Association for Science and Technology ACT Lecture, Canberra, ACT, 23 October 2007, entitled “Sea-level through the Ages: Learning from the past to understand the future”.
As President of the Australian Academy of Science, Prof K. LAMBECK participated in several Conferences and Symposia including the National Academies Forum Symposium, Recherche Bay, Tasmania, 26-28 February, Science and Engineering: Skills for Australia’s Future, Sydney, 28-29 June and the High Flyers Think Tank on Extreme Natural Hazards, Melbourne, 30 October 2007.
Dr. N. RAWLINSON was featured in an extensive article on his observational work in the centrefold of the Times2 supplement (pages 6-7) of the April 30, 2007 edition of the Canberra Times.
Dr M. SAMBRIDGE gave lectures on `What can you do with mathematics in the Earth Sciences’ to year 10-12 students at Canberra Girls Grammar School, ACT, in June.
Dr M. SAMBRIDGE gave presentations on earthquake generation during Science week activities at Lyneham Primary School, ACT in August.
Research from Dr SCHELLART related to subduction zones and the Andes mountain belt appeared in several Australian newspapers (The Canberra Times, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, Daily Advertiser) and overseas newspapers (NRC Handelsblad (national Dutch newspaper) and De Volkskrant (national Dutch newspaper)). The work also appeared on numerous Australian and international websites (e.g. News@Nature, Physics Web, PhysOrg, Malaysia Sun, Daily India), and featured in several Australian and international magazines (Physics World, Australasian Science, Monash Magazine, ANU Reporter, Natuurwetenschap en Techniek (national Dutch science magazine), and Aarde Nu (national Dutch geoscience magazine).
Dr SCHELLART gave a live radio interview on ABC Sydney-Canberra-NSW-ACT radio on 15 March 2007 about subduction zones and the Andes mountains.
Dr. W.P. Schellart published a letter in The Australian Geologist on “Plate tectonics explains the New Britain trench-arc-backarc system”, volume 143, pages 31-33, June
Dr H. TKALCIC participated in the workshop “Managing Waveform Data and Related Metadata for Seismic Networks’
Kuala Lumpur”, Malaysia,
October 21-26, 2007. He gave a talk to the participants of the workshop, which was an overview of the RSES Seismology Group activities related to the collection and the scientific use of seismic data.
Dr H. TKALCIC gave a seminar at the RSES, entitled: „The Earth’s core: seismological perspective“.
Prise
Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG was invited to participate in the 1st Workshop on Problems in Western Gondwana Geology with the theme “South America–Africa correlations: du Toit revisited” in Gramado, Brazil from 27 – 29 August and presented a talk on the Precambrian geochronology and crustal architecture of southern Africa.
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TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Earth Chemistry
Dr J.J. BROCKS taught ‘Early evolution of life on Earth (and other planets?)’ in Geol3022 Planetary Science at the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, ANU.
Dr J.J. BROCKS taught the ‘Carbon Cycle’ as part of the ‘Global Cycles’ course Geol3022 at the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, ANU.
Dr J.J. BROCKS lectured on ‘Studying molecular remains of extremely ancient life, an introduction to organic mass spectroscopy’ for the RSES Mass Spectroscopy course, 19 February – 02 March.
Professor T.R. IRELAND taught Planetary Geology (GEOL3022) in the second semester at the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, ANU.
Prof T.R. IRELAND lectured at the SINS Summer School “Nuclear Astrophysics and Nucleosynthesis” program, 15-18 January, Monash University, Melbourne.
Prof T.R. IRELAND gave lectures for the RSES Mass Spectroscopy course, 19 February – 02 March.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER convened and taught the RSAA Honours course in Planetary Science 1-12 August.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a guest lecture in Astronomy 1001 (convenor P. Francis), 15 August.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a Planetary Science Institute Seminar on “Super Earths and Rocky Planet Compositions”, 12 September, at RSES.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER lectured at RSAA to visiting Monash Undergraduates (convenor H. Jerjen), 13 September entitled “Exoplanets and Habitability”.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a guest lecture in Planetary Geology (Geology 3022, convenor T.R. Ireland) at the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, 25 September.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a Planetary Science Institute Seminar on “Making of a Habitable Planet”, 3 October, at RSAA.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER organised a Planetary Science Institute Research Workshop in honour of David Stevenson, the Jaeger-Hales 2006 lecturer, 24 October.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER convenor of the RSAA Summer Scholarship Program November 20, 2006 – Feb 3.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER convenor of the RSAA Summer Scholarship Program November 20 2007 – February 3 2008.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER supervised Physics final year project of ANU 4th year Physics student Mr T. Rutherford, whose topic is "Extending the Concept of a Circumstellar Habitable Zone" (completed June 2007)
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER supervised the RSAA Summer Research Scholar Aditya Chopra (University of Western Australia) on the topic “What was the Chemical Composition of the Last Universal Common Ancestor?” (Dec 2006-Feb 2007)
Dr D. Rubatto taught (50%) and coordinated “Chemistry of Earth and Oceans”, a second year undergraduate course (GEOL2015) at the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, ANU.
Dr D. Rubatto coordinated a postgraduate block course in Mass Spectrometry, 19 February – 02 March.
Dr D. Rubatto taught “Geochronology by ion microprobe” at the EURISPET international postgraduate school, Paris, 21-28 October.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS lectured on vacuum systems and secondary ion mass spectrometry for the RSES Mass Spectrometry short course, 19 February – 02 March.
Earth Environment
Dr S. EGGINS and Dr M. ELLWOOD taught the 3rd year Marine Biogeochemistry (GEOL 3014) course.
Dr S. EGGINS taught a unit on Marine Chemistry within the 1st year Blue Planet course (GEOL 1002).
Dr S. EGGINS supervised summer student Michelle Linklaker (University of Wollongong)
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD coordinated at taught the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences third year course Marine Biogeochemistry (GEOL 3023).
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD taught the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences third year course Special Topics (GEOL 3050).
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD supervised the three summer students: Mr Hugh DOYLE (University of Otago), Ms Kelly Michelle JAMES (RMIT, Melbourne), and Ms Rebecca NORMAN (ANU)
Dr K.E. FITZSIMMONS gave a guest lecture and laboratory tour for the Centre for Archaeological Research workshop for Honours and Masters students.
Dr M.K. GAGAN serves as external supervisor (2006-2008) for Ms E. St Pierre, ARC Postgraduate Research Scholar with Dr J.-x. Zhao and Assoc. Prof.. S. Golding at the University of Queensland, and for Mr M. Griffiths, ARC Postgraduate Research Scholar with Dr R. Drysdale at the University of Newcastle.
Prof. R. GRÜN taught the complete course Scientific dating techniques for archaeology and palaeoanthropology (BIAN 3010) at the Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU.
Prof.. M. McCULLOCH supervised summer student Aimee Komugabe (UTS)
Mr I. MOFFAT taught “Introduction to Archaeological Geophysics” (ARCH 8307) to coursework masters students enrolled in the graduate programs in archaeology and cultural heritage management and external short course students, Department of Archaeology, Flinders University.
Mr I. MOFFAT taught the two day short course “Geophysics for Archaeologists” to external short course students, Department of Archaeology, Flinders University.
Mr I. MOFFAT taught the archaeology geophysics components of “Archaeological Field Methods” (ARCH2201) to second year undergraduate students, Department of Archaeology, Flinders University.
Mr I. MOFFAT taught the sedimentology and stratigraphy components of “Quaternary Paleoecology” (ARCH2103) and “Archaeological Science” (ARCH3009) to second and third year undergraduate students, Department of Archaeology, Flinders University.
Prof. B.J. PILLANS was co-convenor of the course GEOL3026 “Environmental and Regolith Geoscience”.
Prof. B.J. PILLANS gave lectures in SRES3026 “Geomorphology”.
Dr P. TREBLE supervised RSES Summer Research Scholar Ms Islay Laird on reconstructing the O isotope record of a 17.5-14 ka speleothem from the Flinders Ranges, SA.
Earth Materials
Prof S.F. COX taught GEOL2012, Introduction to Structural and Field Geology, GEOL3002, Structural Geology and Tectonics, and portions of GEOL1004 and GEOL3005 in the Department of Earth & Marine Sciences as part of his joint appointment at the Department of Earth & Maine Sciences and RSES.
Dr M. FORSTER taught at the 3rd year Structural Mapping Course at Broken Hill.
Dr J. Hermann taught the course Magmatism and Metamorphism (GEOL3024) totaling 22 hours of lectures, 36 hours of practicum and one day of excursion.
Dr J. Hermann taught one hour at the course Chemistry of Earth and Oceans (GEOL2019).
Prof. I. JACKSON co-taught a new third year undergraduate physics course Physics of the Earth (PHYS3070) and supervised three Ph. B. Advanced Study projects.
Prof. G. LISTER with Dr M. FORSTER and Dr S. RICHARDS, organized and taught the ANU undergraduate geology field mapping course at Broken Hill, NSW.
Dr J. MAVROGENES co-coordinated and presented 50% of SRES1004, Australia’s Environment.
Dr J MAVROGENES coordinated and taught GEOL3007, Economic Geology.
Dr S. RICHARDS ran the Kialoa Field Trip (September), a field trip to localities along the SE coast of NSW for PhD candidates at ANU.
Mr N. TAILBY tutored the undergraduate Earth Science course SRES1004, Australia’s Environment, Faculty of Science (first semester) and was an Associate lecturer, under the SWAP scheme, in undergraduate Earth Science course, GEOL3007, Economic Geology.
Mr D.R. VIETE helped demonstrate in the first year Earth Sciences course, first semester 2007 (SRES1004).
Mr D.R. VIETE helped demonstrate in the Broken Hill mapping course, July (GEOL 2012).
Earth Physics
Dr A. DUTTON was an invited lecturer for the Greenhouse Science & Policy Course.
He provided advices to a graduate student working on seismic attenuation.
Dr. G. F. DAVIES taught PEAT 8001 Masters Course (Plate Tectonics and Mantle Dynamics).
Dr. G. F. DAVIES taught two weeks of GEOL 3027 (Global Cycles and Paleoceanography).
Prof Dr F. FONTAINE taught one practice on seismic anisotropy (PEAT 8002 - Seismology).
R.W. GRIFFITHS and Drs A.McC. HOGG, R.C. KERR and G.O. HUGHES taught PHYS3034 (Physics of Fluid Flows).
Dr A.McC. HOGG taught GEOL1006 (The Blue Planet).
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT – “Research Methods and Management”, a component of the Masters Course in Physics of the Earth and
Online Course: “Imaging the Earth's Interior”- delivered to Honours and Masters students.
Dr. N. RAWLINSON ran a two week intensive short course in seismology (PEAT8002) as part of the RSES Earth Physics Masters course.
Dr M. SAMBRIDGE taught the Physics of the Earth Honours and Master course Introduction to inverse problems (PEAT 8012 and PEAT8036).
Dr M. SAMBRIDGE gave a component of the Physics of the Earth undergraduate course (PEAT 3070).
Dr H. TKALCIC taught the Physics of the Earth undergraduate course with Prof I. Jackson and Dr P. Tregoning (PHYS 3070), Faculty of Science (second semester).
Dr H. TKALCIC helped with teaching activities for the Masters course Seismology (PEAT 8002), Faculty of Science (first semester).
Dr P. TREGONING was the convener of the Physics of the Earth Honours programme at RSES during 2007. He was also the convener of the Master of Science (specializing in Earth Physics) programme, and taught one third of the 3rd year undergraduate physics course (PHYS3070) entitled “Physics of the Earth”. He also supervised a PhB student undertaking an ASC in analyzing GRACE data and a MSc student undertaking a research project in assessing leakage effects in GRACE analysis into the Australian region from geophysical signals elsewhere in the world.
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HONOURS SUPERVISION
Earth Chemistry
Prof T.R. IRELAND and Dr P. Holden are supervising Ms J. Thorne in her Honours project on Hadean zircons.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER supervised Honours student Ms E. Jones on Identifying Targets Within the Potential Biosphere of Mars Through a Study of Gullies and Rampart Craters (completed November 2007).
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER supervised Honours student Mr S. Williams with Prof R. Arculus (Department of Earth and Marine Sciences) on the formation of the Earth from Enstatite Chondrites.
Earth Environment
Prof. R. GRÜN supervised the honours project of Ms T. Kelly on Sr isotope tracing in animal teeth from the Neanderthal site of Les Predelles, France.
Prof. B. J. PILLANS supervised the honours project of Mr James Hughes on regolith geochronology and landscape evolution.
Earth Materials
Prof. G. LISTER supervised one Honours student (Andrew Barker)
Dr J. MAVROGENES supervised the honours project of Rikki Bailey on Arnhemland Uranium exploration.
Earth Physics
Dr G.O. HUGHES and Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS supervised the Honours project of Mr K. Stewart on “Horizontal convection incorporating a two- or three-dimensional sill”.
Dr H. TKALCIC supervised the Ph.B. project of Jessica Hudspeth, on studying the deep earth structure using seismic body waves.
Prise
Dr M.D. NORMAN supervised the honours projects of Ms. K. Bermingham on the petrology and geochemistry of eucrite meteorites, and of Ms. J. Roberts on the mineralogy and geochemistry of metal in lunar impact breccias.
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OTHER MATTERS
Earth Chemistry
Dr. V.C. BENNETT continues as a member of the Petrology and Geochemistry Earth Sciences review panel for the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Dr V.C. BENNETT, Member, International Program Committee, 2008 Goldschmidt Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Dr V.C. BENNETT served as student presentation judge at the Dec. 2006, American Geophysical Union Meeting.
Dr V.C. BENNETT was elected to the Board of Directors of the Geochemical Society.
Dr J.J. BROCKS, Founding Member of the ‘Centre for Macroevolution and Macroecology’ at The Australian National University.
Dr J.J. BROCKS, Member of the ANU College Advisory Board.
Dr J.J. BROCKS, Interim Governing Council of IODP - Australia.
Dr J.J. BROCKS, new Biogeochemistry Laboratory opened in the second floor of Jaeger 1 at RSES, two new mass spectrometers installed.
Prof I.H. Campbell, Secretary General of the Commission for the Evolution of the Solid Earth, a subcommission of the International Union of Geological Sciences; co-leader of the Commission for Large Igneous Provinces (LIP); and served on the advisory Committee for COE-21, Institute for Study of the Earth’s Interior, University of Okayama.
Prof T.R. IRELAND attended the Noble Gas Virtual Facility meeting 25 March, Brisbane.
Prof T.R. IRELAND chaired a meeting of the UCLA Keck Center Advisory Board, 4-13 December, Los Angeles USA.
Prof T.R. Ireland chairs the Muses-C Task Force for the Australian Academy of Science.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER chaired the RSAA Colloquia Committee and organized various Planetary Science Institute Lectures
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER maintains the Planetary Science Institute website http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/PSI/.
Dr D. RUBATTO, Convener, Session on Rates of high-grade metamorphism, 2007 Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, Germany.
Dr D. RUBATTO, Treasurer, Association for Research between Italy and Australasia.
Dr R. SALMERON, Reviewer, Origins of Solar Systems/Terrestrial Planets Finder Programs, NASA.
Dr R. SALMERON, Reviewer, Astrophysics & Space Science.
Earth Environment
Dr K.E. FITZSIMMONS was awarded an Australian National University College of Science Small Equipment Grant for Early Career Researchers.
Dr M.K. GAGAN is a member of the Australasian INTIMATE Project (INTegration of Ice, MArine and TErrestrial records of the Last Glacial Maximum and Termination), which is a core program of the INQUA Palaeoclimate Commission.
Dr M.K. GAGAN is a corresponding member of the INQUA Palaeoclimate Commission (PALCOMM).
Prof. R. GRÜN supervised summer student Rebecca McMillan (Flinders’ University)
Prof. M.T. McCULLOCH, is a counsel member of the Australian Coral Reef Society, and attended the meeting on 18 August 2006.
Prof. M.T. McCULLOCH is a member of the governing counsel of the Geochemical Society.
Prof. M.T. McCULLOCH, hosted the Centre of Excellence, Scientific Management Committee, Canberra meeting, in February and participated two further meetings in May (Townsville) and August (Brisbane).
Prof. B.J. PILLANS, Chair, Geological Society of Australia, Capital Territories Division.
Prof. B.J. PILLANS, President, Stratigraphy & Chronology Commission, International Union for Quaternary Research.
Prof. B.J. PILLANS, Member, Organizing Committee for XVIIth INQUA Congress, Cairns, 2007.
Prof. B.J. PILLANS, Leader, Geochronology Project, Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments & Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME).
Dr P. TREBLE was on maternity leave between March and October 2007.
Earth Materials
Dr M. FORSTER is an academic representative for the OHS Committee for RSES.
Professor D GREEN serves as a member of the Board of AUSCOPE.
Dr J. HERMANN, convener of session for 2007 Goldschmidt Conference held in Cologne, Germany.
Prof. I. JACKSON served as Chair of the Organising Committee for the 31st Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting (Wagga Wagga, NSW, February), as a member of the Australia - New Zealand Bid Committee for the 2011 IUGG General Assembly, convenor of the Symposium on Physics and Chemistry of Earth Materials at the IUGG XXIV General Assembly (Perugia, Italy, July) and as Executive Committee member and Vice-President, International Association for Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI).
Mr. I. Kovacs was a reviewer for the European Journal of Mineralogy.
Prof G. LISTER is a member of the College of Science Advisory Board and of the AuScope Modelling and Simulation Committee.
Dr J. MAVROGENES was Deputy Head of the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, ANU.
Earth Physics
Dr C.E. BARTON served as a member of the National Committee for Earth Sciences, Australian Academy of Science.
Dr C.E. BARTON served as a member of the National Committee for Space Sciences, Australian Academy of Science.
Dr C.E. BARTON served as President of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy; also as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics (IUGG) - both until July 2007.
Dr C.E. BARTON served as IUGG’s representative to ICSU’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)
Dr C.E. BARTON chaired the International Committee of the Electronic Geophysical Year, 2007-2008 (eGY) initative. and also the Working Group for eGY-Africa.
Dr A. DUTTON, Committee Member, Promoting Marine Geoscience in Australia (MARGO).
Dr A. DUTTON supervised Dr J. Desmarchelier who provides technical support for U-series analyses at ANU.
Dr A. DUTTON supervised Ms E. Kent, a student who came to RSES for research experience prior to undertaking a PhD.
Dr A. DUTTON is a member of the ANU Climate Initiative.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT, Chair, Geological Society of Australia Specialist Group in Solid Earth Geophysics.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT, Member National Committee for Earth Sciences and Chair of Working Party on National Geotransects.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT, Chair of the Australian Academy of Science Committee for the Frederick White Conference Series.
Prof K. LAMBECK, President, Australian Academy of Science.
Prof K. LAMBECK, President Elect, Federation of Asian Scientific Academies and Societies.
Mr D. ROBINSON is a committee member for the ACT Branch of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Dr H. TKALCIC shared the responsibility with PROF B.L.N. KENNETT for the managing of the seismic and infrasonic facility in Warramunga, NT since July 2007.
Dr H. TKALCIC continues serving as a peer reviewer for the international geophysical journals and the National Science Foundation.
Dr H. TKALCIC, with Dr. C Tarlowski, Mr. A. Arcidiaco and Mr. J. Li has been involved in the major seismic data reformatting, reorganisation and building the acquisition tools to access the RSES archive of seismic data.
Dr H. TKALCIC was awarded a grant from the ANU VC’s Office to support a three month long visit by Professor Vernon Cormier in 2008.
PRISE
Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG acted as the external supervisor and advisor for two PhD students from Spain, one PhD student from South Africa and one PhD student from Brazil.
Dr M.D. NORMAN, Chair, Geological Society of Australia Specialist Group in Planetary Geoscience.
Dr M.D. NORMAN, Program Committee, 7th Australian Space Science Conference.
Dr M.D. NORMAN, Program Committee, 2008 Australian Earth Science Convention.
Dr M.D. NORMAN, Steering Committee and Chair of the Planetary Science Working Group for the Australian Space Science Decadal Plan, National Committee for Space Sciences, Australian Academy of Science.
Dr G.M. YAXLEY visited diamond mines Ekati (BHP-Billiton) and Diavik (Rio Tinto) in northern Canada.
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