Earth Chemistry
Dr C. Allen attended the Geological Society on America meeting, Portland Oregan, USA to give a talk on the “Distinctive low Lu signature in a data base of U-Pb dated zircons from the World’s major rivers.”
Dr Y. AMELIN attended the Planet Formation and Evolution: The Solar System and Extrasolar Planets, Tübingen, Germany, 2-6 March and gave an invited presentation entitled “Building a Consistent Timescale of the Early Solar System”.
Dr Y. AMELIN attended the 2009 American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly, Toronto, Canada, 24-27 May and gave an invited presentation entitled “Non-traditional isotopic dating: Krogh Revolution beyond U-Pb and zircon” at the special session “Advances in the Measurement of Time: Beyond the Krogh Revolution”, dedicated to the memory of Tom Krogh.
Dr Y. AMELIN visited the University of Otago, 7-15 June to complete analytical work (uranium isotope analysis of meteorites) using MC-ICPMS, jointly with Dr. C. Stirling and a PhD student A. Kaltenbach, and a talk entitled “Building a consistent timescale of the early Solar System”.
Dr Y. AMELIN attended the 9th Australian Space Science Conference, Sydney, 28-30 September. The paper co-authored by University of Otago PhD student Ms A. Kaltenbach, Dr C.H. Stirling and Dr Y. Amelin entitled “Uranium isotopic composition in meteorites and the origin of the Solar System” was presented by A. Kaltenbach.
Dr Y. AMELIN visited the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI USA, 16-29 November to complete analytical work (imaging, mineral identification and 26Al-26Mg dating of meteorites) using electron microprobe and Cameca IMS-1280 ion microprobe, jointly with Dr. A. Krot and Dr. K. Nagashima, and to present an invited talk entitled “Decay rates of radionuclides for use in cosmochronology”.
Ms. Janaina N. Ávila, Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference on Nuclear Astrophysics, Canberra, Australia, 24–25 August, presented a paper entitled “Europium isotopic ratios in stardust SiC grains from AGB stars”.
Dr V.C. Bennett convened a special session on “Chemical Evolution of the Mantle” at the American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA, 14-18 December, and presented a paper entitled “Hadean to Modern Mantle Evolution from a 142Nd-143Nd-176Hf Isotopic Perspective”.
Dr V.C. Bennett attended the Australian Space Science Conference, Sydney, Australia. 28 September–1 October, and presented a paper entitled “Earth’s Oldest Rocks-An Archive of Planetary History.”
Dr V.C. Bennett conducted fieldwork in the Anshan region and presented an invited lecture at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, entitled “Using isotopic compositions of Archean rocks to determine Hadean Earth history”.
Ms K. BOSTON, 9th Workshop on Alpine Geological Studies, Cogne, Italy 16 – 18 September, presented a poster entitled “Evidence for two high pressure metamorphic events in the Sesia Lanzo Zone, Western Alps”.
Dr J.J. BROCKS gave an invited lecture, “Molecular fossils, metagenomics and early life on Earth”, Macquarie University, “Genes-to-Geoscience” Lecture, 15 April.
Dr J.J. BROCKS attended “Molecular fossils, metagenomics and early life on Earth”, ETH Zürich special seminar, 27 May.
Dr J.J. BROCKS – Keynote Lecture “Eukaryote and steroid evolution in the Proterozoic”, 19th International Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June; and Theme Team 17 member.
Dr J.J. BROCKS with Richard Schinteie (ANU) and Jessica Creveling and Ben Kotrc (Harvard University), Field work in the McDonald Ranges and samples collection in the NTGS drill core store, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
Dr M.A. FORSTER conducted fieldwork at Mt Kinabalu in Malaysia as part of an argon geochronology study with SE Asia Research Group (Holloway College, University of London), 6 – 13 January.
Dr M.A. FORSTER conducted collaboration at Delhi University and fieldwork in the NW Himalaya to supervise PhD candidate Ms Lee and continue research in the Ladakh region, 18 July – 5 August.
Dr M.A. FORSTER undertook research collaboration and supervision in the field of MSc student E. Moustaka from The National University of Athens. Fieldwork was in the ophiolitic zone of Evia, Greece from 11 September – 3 October.
Dr M.A. FORSTER attended the TANG3O meeting at Curtin University and presented research undertaken at the ANU argon facility, 10 – 11 December.
Dr M. HONDA attended the TANG3O meeting at Curtin University and presented research undertaken at the ANU argon facility, 10 – 11 December.
Professor T.R. IRELAND attended the Institute for Study of the Earth’s Interior Steering and Advisory Committee Meeting as an invited panel member, Misasa, Japan, 24 February – 3 March.
Professor T.R. IRELAND conducted fieldwork in the Southern Alps, New Zealand, 9 – 15 March.
Professor T.R. IRELAND attended the Gordon Research Conference 2009, Mount Holyoak College, USA, 5 – 11 July.
Professor T.R. IRELAND gave an invited lecture at Macquarie University, 27 – 29 August.
Professor T.R. IRELAND attended the Australian Space Science Conference, 28 – 30 September, University of Sydney School of Physics.
Professor T.R. IRELAND attended the New Zealand Geological Society Annual Conference, Oamaru, New Zealand, 23 – 27 November.
Professor T.R. IRELAND attended the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 15 – 18 December.
Dr. C.H. Lineweaver, Evolution – The Experience, Melbourne, Australia, 8 – 13 February, presented two papers entitled “Is the Origin of Life a Cosmic Imperative or Is it as Unlikely as the Re-evolution of Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos” and “Encephalization, the Planet of the Apes Hypothesis and Evidence that Human-like Intelligence is not a Convergent Feature of Evolution”.
Dr. C.H. Lineweaver, Third ANITA Workshop 13 – 14 March, held at Mt Stromlo Observatory, chaired a session and presented a paper entitled “Entropy, Gravity and Life”.
Dr. C.H. Lineweaver, Evolution Symposium, 8 May, at the Shine Dome, Canberra, organised by the Australian Academy of Science.
Dr. C.H. Lineweaver, Member, Organizing Committee for 2009 Goldschmidt Conference held in Davos, Switzerland, chaired the Session “Earth, The Early Years, Building a Habitable Planet”, 21 – 26 June.
Dr. C.H. Lineweaver, 2009 Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, 21 – 26 June, Davos, Switzerland, presented two papers entitled
“ A Critical Look at the Late Heavy Bombardment Hypothesis” and “Building Habitable Planets: Defining Habitability: The Geochemistry of the Nearest Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets”
Dr. C.H. Lineweaver, Invisible Universe: towards a new cosmological paradigm, Paris, France, 29 June – 3 July, presented a paper entitled “Dark Energy and the Entropy of the Observable Universe”
Dr. C.H. Lineweaver, Nuclear Astrophysics in Australia, Shine Dome, Canberra, 24 – 25 August
Dr. C.H. Lineweaver, Australian Space Science Conference, 27 – 30 September, University of Sydney, presented an invited lecture entitled “Planetary Science in Australia” and a paper entitled “The Potentially Habitable Planets of the Alpha Centauri System”. He was also session chair for one of the planetary science sessions.
Dr X. Zhang attended the TANG3O meeting at Curtin University and presented research undertaken at the ANU argon facility, 10 – 11 December.
Professor I.H. Campbell attended the joint American Geophysical Union-Geological Association of Canada Meeting in Toronto in May where he gave a presentation on “The rise of atmospheric oxygen”.
Professor I.H. Campbell attended the Goldschmidt meeting in Davos, Switzerland where he gave a talk on the “Rate of growth of the preserved North American continental crust: Evidence from Hf and O isotopes in Mississippi detrital zircons“
Professor I.H. Campbell visited Professor K. Eriksson at the Virginia Polytech and State University, Professor S. Kay at Cornell University and Professor C. Hawkesworth of Bristol University to discuss collaborative research interests.
Professor I.H. Campbell visited the University of Bonn where he gave a talk on “Superconitnents, Supermountains and the rise of atmospheric oxygen”.
Mr A. CHOPRA participated in the 2009 International Summer School of Astrobiology on Earth’s Extremophiles and Extraterrestrial Habitability, Santander, Spain, 22-26 June.
Mr A. CHOPRA, 2009 Astrobiology Graduate Conference hosted at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 16-22 July, presented a poster entitled "What is Life made of?".
Mr A. CHOPRA, 9th Australian Space Science Conference, Sydney, 28-30 September, presented a talk entitled "Determining elemental abundances in bacteria to 'follow the elements'.".
Mr A. CHOPRA, participated in the Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference on Nuclear Astrophysics, Canberra, 24-25 August.
Mr A. CHOPRA presented a proposal talk for the EARTHRISE (Education and Research Through Interesting Space Experiments) program for graduate students at RSES and RSAA involving balloon borne near-space experiments.
Mr A. CHOPRA, Student Seminars of the Research School of Earth Sciences, 29 April, presented a talk entitled "What is Life made of?".
Mr A. CHOPRA, Research School of Biological Sciences Student Conference, 8-9 October, presented a talk entitled "The Major Elemental Abundance Differences Between Life, the Oceans and the Sun".
Ms T.A. EWING, Goldschmidt 2009, Davos, Switzerland, 21-26 June, presented a paper entitled “In situ measurement of Hf isotopes in rutile by LA-MC-ICPMS”.
Ms T.A. EWING conducted fieldwork in the Ivrea-Verbano Zone, northern Italy, from 10-17 June.
Dr. S.J. Fallon attended the International Radiocarbon Converence in Kona, Hawaii and presented two papers entitled “Developing robust chronologies of Aboriginal occupation from shell middens along the Kimberley coast of Australia” and “Marine reservoir variability in the Kimberley region, WA”
Ms B. FRASL, 9th Australian Space Science Conference, 28 – 30 September, Sydney.
Ms B. FRASL, Elizabeth and Frederick White conference on Nuclear Astrophysics in Australia, 24 – 25 August, Canberra.
Dr M. HONDA attended the workshop “Developments in Noble Gas Understanding and Expertise (Dingue)” in Nancy, France and the Goldschmidt Conference in Davos, Switzerland, and presented a paper entitled ‘Cosmogenic neon exposure dating of young basalt lavas in Australia’.
Ms H. JEON conducted fieldwork in NSW to collect carboniferous granites, 15 –17 February and 7 – 9 March.
Ms J.-U. LEE conducted fieldwork at Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia, 6 – 12 January.
Ms J.-U. LEE conducted fieldwork in NSW to collect samples, 12 – 13 February.
Ms J.-U. LEE conducted fieldwork in the Himalaya, NW India, 8 July – 21 August.
Dr C.H. Lineweaver refereed 14 articles for Astrobiology, International Journal of Astrobiology, Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astron. Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Bioinformatics.
Dr. C.H. Lineweaver chaired the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Colloquium Committee, responsible for weekly speakers at Mt Stromlo Observatory.
Dr. C.H. Lineweaver assisted Dr R. Salmeron in organising the fortnightly Planetary Science Institute Seminar Series.
Professor I. McDougall presented an invited paper on Dating Human Evolution to the Evolution-The Experience conference in Melbourne in February 2009.
Mr. Seann McKibbin attended the Elizabeth and Frederick White conference on Nuclear Astrophysics in Australia, 24-25 August 2009, Australian Academy of Sciences Dome, Canberra.
Mr. Seann McKibbin attended the Australian Space Science Conference, 28 – 30 September, University of Sydney School of Physics.
Dr R. SALMERON attended the workshop Dynamics of Discs and Planets, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, The University of Cambridge. 21 September – 2 October.
Dr R. SALMERON attended the Annual Scientific Meeting, Astronomical Society of Australia, The University of Melbourne. Presented a contributed talk entitled: “Magnetic fields and star formation”.
Dr R. SALMERON attended “Evolution of the Universe, the planets, life and thought”, Australian Academy of Science.
Dr R. SALMERON attended The Astrophysics of the Magnetorotational Instability and Related Processes, Ringberg. Presented an invited talk entitled “Jets and outflows from stratified protoplanetary disks”.
Dr R. SALMERON attended the Third ANITA Workshop, RSAA, ANU. Presented a talk entitled “Jets and winds from young stellar objects”.
Mr R. SCHINTEIE attended the 19th V.M Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS attended the 32nd National Symposium of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Future Proofing Australia—Rising to the Challenge of Climate Change, Brisbane, 15–17 November.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS attended the 11th Indian Society of Mass Spectrometry TRICON-2009 in Hyderabad, 23-27 November, where he presented an invited talk entitled “Advances in the SHRIMP II Ion Microprobe and its Geological Applications”.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS visited the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, 27 November, and gave a lecture on SHRIMP II and its geological applications.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS visited the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 27–30 November, and gave a lecture on SHRIMP II and its geological applications.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS visited the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, 1 December, and gave a lecture on SHRIMP II and its geological applications.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS visited the Geological Survey of India, Kolkata, 2 December, and gave a lecture on SHRIMP II and its geological applications.
Earth Environment
Dr M. AUBERT attended the Australian Archaeological Association Conference, Adelaide, Australia, December 2009
Mr. N. DARRENOUGUE, 2nd Marine Sciences Symposium, RSES, ANU, presented his PhD project through a brief talk entitled “Rhodoliths: a potential new biogenic archive of climate change”.
Prof. P. De Deckker was a keynote speaker at 3rd the Geologica Belgica Conference in Gent, Belgium.
Prof. P. De Deckker attended the ESF-sponsored Conference on Mechanisms of Quaternary Climate Change held in Australia.
Dr A. DUTTON, Climate and Biotic Events of the Paleogene (CBEP), Wellington, NZ, 12-15 January, presented a paper entitled, “Elemental geochemistry and diagenesis in Eocene tropical planktonic foraminifera: Insights from laser-ablation profiling.”
Dr A. DUTTON, COGS Conference, Perth, WA, Australia 6-7 July, presented a paper entitled “Last Interglacial Sea Level Records from the WA coastline: Insights from New Data and Glacio-hydro-isostatic Modeling”.
Dr A. DUTTON, The Challenges of Dating Past Interglacials (PALSEA Workshop), Wood’s Hole, MA, USA, 21 – 25 September, presented an invited key-note lecture entitled “Glacio-hydro-isostatic modeling of the Last Interglacial.”
Dr A. DUTTON, The Challenges of Dating Past Interglacials (PALSEA Workshop), Wood’s Hole, MA, USA, 21 – 25 September, presented an invited paper on “Sea Level & Ice Volume During the Last Interglacial.”
Dr A. DUTTON, The Challenges of Dating Past Interglacials (PALSEA Workshop), Wood’s Hole, MA, USA, 21 – 25 September, presented an invited paper on “Synthesis of Sea Level During the Penultimate Interglacial (MIS 7).”
Dr A. DUTTON, The Challenges of Dating Past Interglacials (PALSEA Workshop), Wood’s Hole, MA, USA, 21 – 25 September, co-presented “U-series standard inter-laboratory comparison: A first look at the data.”
Dr A. DUTTON conducted field work in the Seychelles in August 2009.
Dr S. EGGINS, 2009 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 14-18 December, co-authored papers entitled “The boron geochemistry of siliceous sponges” and “The boron geochemistry of siliceous sponges”, and to assist release of the Photon-machines Inc-ANU laser ablation sampling systems
Dr S. EGGINS, Prof. P. DE DECKKER, Dr M.J. ELLWOOD and Mr G. NASH undertook field sampling programs at Lake Macquarie (NSW) in May and October.
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD, Sutton, J., M. Wille, S. Eggins, W. Maher, P.L., Croot, and M.J. Ellwood 2009. Germanium/Silicon fractionation in Sponges: Implications for Paleo-reconstructions of Oceanic Silicon. Australian Marine Science Association Conference. 5-9 July 2009. Adelaide Convention Centre.
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD, Ellwood, M.J., M. Wille, J. Sutton, W. Maher, S. Eggins, M. Kelly 2009. Silicon isotopic fractionation in marine sponges: A new model for understanding isotope fractionation in sponges and diatoms. Australian Marine Science Association Conference. 5-9 July 2009. Adelaide Convention Centre.
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD, Wille,M., Sutton,J., Ellwood, M., Maher,W., Eggins,S. and Kelly M. 2009. Silicon isotopic fractionation in marine sponges: A new paradigm and model for understanding silicon isotopic variations in sponges and diatoms. pp. A1444-A1444. 19th Annual VM Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, SWITZERLAND.
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD, Andersen,M.B., Vance,D., Archer,C., Archer C, Ellwood,M.J., Allen, C., Hellenbrand,C.D., and Anderson, R.F. 2009. The Zn Isotopic Composition of Diatom Frustules, a Proxy for Zn Availability in Ocean Surface Seawater A40-41. 19th Annual VM Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, SWITZERLAND
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD, Sutton,J.N., Wille,M., Ellwood,M.J., Maher,W.A. 2009. Germanium/Silicon and Silicon Isotope Records of Marine Diatom Opal from a Low Silicon Environment. PP11C-1334 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. 14-18 December 2009. San Francisco, California, USA
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD, de Leon, A., Wille,M., Eggins,S.M., Ellwood,M.J.,. The boron geochemistry of siliceous sponges. PP11C-1325. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. 14-18 December 2009. San Francisco, California, USA
Dr K.E. FITZSIMMONS attended the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, Ahmedabad, India, November 2009, and presented a paper entitled “Investigations into the natural luminescence sensitivity of Australian quartz: a diagnostic tool for sediment history?”
Dr K.E. FITZSIMMONS attended the Australian Archaeological Association Conference, Adelaide, Australia, December 2009, and presented a paper entitled “Towards a chronologic framework for human response to environmental change at Lake Mungo.”
Prof R. Grün was invited to present Reconstruction of cooling and denudation rates of the Eldzhurtinskiy Granite, Caucasus, using paramagnetic centres in quartz. 2nd Asia-Pacific Meeting on Luminescence and ESR Dating. 12-15 November 2009, Ahmedabad, India.
Prof R. Grün gave seminars at Département de Préhistoire du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des populations du Passé, Université Bordeaux 1.
Prof R. Grün gave seminars at the Dept of Geography, Peking University, and the Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing.
Ms S.C. LEWIS, PAGES YSM and OSM 2009, Corvallis, USA, 6-11 July, presented a paper entitled “Water isotope records of Australian palaeomonsoon dynamics over the last ~30 kyr: integrating speleothem reconstruction and GCM results”.
Miss T.E. KELLY, Hong Kong Student Leadership Conference 1 – 6 June 2009, City University of Hong Kong, China SAR.
Miss T.E. KELLY, 7th International Conference on Geomorphology (ANZIAG), 6 – 11 July 2009, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Presented a paper titled “Research into the Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironment of Lake Mulurulu Lunette, Willandra Lakes WHA, NSW”.
Miss T.E. KELLY completed the ANZIAG Intensive Course for Young Geomorphologists 12 - 15 July 2009, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Miss T.E. KELLY, Cambridge University Summer Program 26 – 31 July 2009, University of Cambridge, UK.
Miss T.E. KELLY, Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, 11- 14 December 2009, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia. Presented a paper titled “A Preliminary Chronological Framework for the Lake Mulurulu Lunette”.
Ms S.C. LEWIS, 9th ICSHMO, Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July, presented a paper entitled “Speleothem reconstructions of palaeomonsoon dynamics from Flores, Indonesia over the last ~50 kyr”.
Dr J. MALLELA attended the ARC Centre of Excellence Postdoc workshop, Brisbane, University of Queensland, 4/8/09.
Dr J. MALLELA was invited to talk at the ARC Centre of Excellence Symposium, Customs House, Brisbane, 6-7/8/09.
Dr J. MALLELA gave a seminar, Assessing reef health: the managers toolbox, at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) Townsville, Australia 21/10/09.
Dr J. MALLELA gave a seminar River runoff and climate change: assessing reef health from the Caribbean to the GBR at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia, 23/10/09.
Ms J. MAZERAT, 9th International Conference on the Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 February.
Ms J. MAZERAT, 8th NCCR International Climate Summer School, Grindelwald, Switzerland, 30 August-4 September, presented a poster entitled “Coral and Speleothem Reconstruction of Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics in Southern Insonesia during the 8.2ka event”.
Ms J. MAZERAT, fieldwork on the islands of Sumbawa and Flores, Indonesia from 31 May - 6 July.
Mr I. MOFFAT, Wallis, L.A., Keys, B., MOFFAT, I. and Fallon, S., 2009, Gledswood 1 Shelter: initial radiocarbon dates from a Pleistocene aged rockshelter site in north Queensland, Australian Archaeology Conference, Adelaide, Australia.
Mr I. MOFFAT, Moffat, I., Wallis, L.A., Keys, B., Koch, R., Hounslow, M., Beale, A., Domett, K. and Holt, L., 2009, Magnetism and Prehistory in Australia: Possibilities and Problems, Australian Archaeology Conference, Adelaide, Australia.
Mr I. MOFFAT, Moffat, I., Grün, R., Kelly, T.E. and Pappin, D., 2009, Detailed Geoarchaeological Investigations of the Northern Mungo Lunette, Australian Archaeology Conference, Adelaide, Australia.
Mr I. MOFFAT, Kelly, T.E., Grün, R., Moffat, I., Fizsimmons, K.E., Pappin, D. and Doyle, C., 2009, A Preliminary Chronological Framework for the Lake Mulurulu Lunette, Australian Archaeology Conference, Adelaide, Australia.
Mr I. MOFFAT, Hasiotis, S.T., Moffat, I. and Reiley, M., 2009, Preliminary Report on the Burrows and Behavior of the Bardi Grub (Insecta: Lepidotera: Hepialidae) from Pointbar and Levee Deposits of the Darling River, Bindora Station, near Pooncarie, New South Wales, Australia, Geological Society of America Conference, Portland.
Mr I. MOFFAT, Moffat, I. and Grün, R., 2009, Strontium Isotope Tracing of Human Migrations in the Levant, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University Student Conference, Canberra, Australia.
Mr I. MOFFAT, Kelly, T.E., Grün, R., Moffat, I., Aubert, M. and Fitzimmons, K., 2009, Archaeometry at Lake Mulurulu, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University Student Conference, Canberra, Australia.
Dr B. OPDYKE, CBEP 2009 Wellington, New Zealand 6-21 January 2009
Dr B. OPDYKE , COGS Meeting, Perth WA, July 2009
Dr B. OPDYKE , Geological Society of America Meeting, Portland USA, October 2009.
Prof B.J. PILLANS conducted fieldwork in India from 23rd-29th March to collect samples for paleomagnetic dating of archeological sites.
Prof B.J. PILLANS attended the 7th International Conference on Geomorphology in Melbourne from 6-11th July 2009 and gave an invited oral presentation: “Permo-Carboniferous inheritance in Australian Landscapes”. He was also the after Dinner Speaker at the conference dinner, speaking on the topic: “Geomorphology Downunder”.
Prof B.J. PILLANS attended the Geosciences’09 conference in Oamaru, New Zealand, from 23rd-27th November 2009 and gave an oral presentation: “The Gravestone Project: Weathering rates from the dead”.
Dr S. Sosdian conducted field work along Dr Mike Gagan in Nias, Sumbawa, and Flores, Indonesia from May 10-June 10;
Ms J. SUTTON, Sutton,J., Wille,M. Ellwood,M. and Maher,W. (2009) Germanium/Silicon and Silicon Isotope Records of Marine Diatom Opal from a Low Silicon Environment. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco.
Ms J. SUTTON, Sutton,J., Wille,M. Ellwood,M., Maher,W., Kelly, M., Eggins,S. and Croot,P. (2009) Germanium/Silicon fractionation in Sponges: Implications for Paleo-reconstructions of Oceanic Silicon. AMSA2009 “Connectivity” conference, Adelaide.
Miss C.M THOMPSON attended the ANU Marine Symposium and presented a seminar entitled “Chemical and Textural Evidence for Diagenetic Overgrowth in Planktonic Foraminiferal Carbonate”
Dr M. WILLE, Goldschmidt Conference 2009, Davos, Switzerland, 21-26 July, presented a paper entitled “Silicon isotopic fractionation in marine sponges: A new paradigm and model for understanding silicon isotopic variations in sponges and diatoms”.
Earth Materials & Processes
Prof R.J. ARCULUS held a Benjamin Meaker Fellowship at the University of Bristol from February 1st to April 30th; and an Institute of Advanced Studies Distinguished Fellowship at the University of Durham, September 20th to December 20th; Was Chief Scientist of Research Voyage SS02/2009 of the Marine National Facility May 1st to June 30th.
Dr A.G. CHRISTY attended the 8th International Eclogite Conference, Xining, Qinghai, China,25 Aug - 3 Sept., and gave a talk “Pressure dependence of the Zr-in-rutile thermometer: demonstration using Western Chinese eclogites.” He also attended pre- and post-conference field trips.
Dr A.G. CHRISTY was a co-author on a talk presented by Ms. K.R. Adena, “Geochemistry of volcanic and impact glasses from the Taurus-Littrow area on the Moon”, at the Australia Space Science Conference, Sydney, 28-30 Sept.
Dr A.G. CHRISTY attended the Biennial conference of the Specialist Group for Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology of the Geological Society of Australia, Kangaroo Island, South Australia, 8-13 Nov., with associated field stops on the Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island, and presented a poster “Improved bond valence parameters for Sb(III) and Sb(V), demonstrating coordination number independence of parameters.”
Dr A.G. CHRISTY attended the Digital Core Consortium Annual Meeting, Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra, 17-18 Nov., and was a co-author on the poster “Elastic anisotropy at the pore/grain scale”, presented by Mr. Alon Arad.
Prof S. COX presented an invited lecture at the Geological Society of New Zealand annual conference in Oamaru in November. He also presented a lecture at the 2009 Euroconference on Rock Physics and Geomechanics in Ascona, Switzerland in September. He also presented a lecture at the University of British Columbia in January.
Mr R. FARLA attended the international conference Deformation, Rheology and Tectonics (DRT) in early September 09 and gave a presentation of his research in front of the 300 most important Earth scientists interested in rock deformation. His talk was titled: presented "Dislocations in deformed fine-grained olivine: recovery kinetics and seismic attenuation." Received a distinction for the top three student talks.
Dr J.D. FITZ GERALD visited the Institut für Mineralogie, Westfalisches Wilhems-Universität, Münster, a reseach stay funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, in June-July.
Dr A. HALFPENNY attended the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) 10th Biennial Meeting, Townsville, Australia, 15th-21st August and presented a talk entitled “Development and Evolution of Fracture-Controlled Flow Regimes and Gold Mineralisation, Porgera Gold Deposit, PNG.”
Dr A. HALFPENNY attended the Deformation, Rheology and Tectonics Conference (DRT), Liverpool, England, 7th-9th September 2009 and presented a poster entitled “Development and evolution of fracture-controlled flow regimes and gold mineralisation, Porgera gold deposit, PNG” and presented a second poster entitled “Comparison of Dynamically recrystallised Quartz Rich Microstructures utilising Electron Backscatter Diffraction.”
Dr A. HALFPENNY conducted field work at the Porgera Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea from 10th-20th June 2009.
Dr A. HALFPENNY conducted field work at the North Parkes copper/gold mine, NSW, Australia from 4th-8th May 2009, 25th-29th May 2009 and 26th October -6th November 2009.
Dr J. HERMANN, 19th annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland, 20-26 August, presented a paper “Experimental constraints on carbonate and silicate melts and CO2 release during subduction of sediments” and was co-author on 6 other contributions.
Dr J. HERMANN, Biennial conference of the Specialist Group for Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, Kangaroo Island, Australia, 8-13 November, presented a paper “Trapping high pressure fluids in piston cylinder experiments: implications for trace element recycling in subduction zones” and was co-author on 2 other contributions.
Dr J. HERMANN, EURISPET (international PhD summer school), Granada, Spain, 21-27 June, presented two lectures.
Dr J. HERMANN conducted fieldwork in the Dora Maira Massif (Italy) from 1-2 July.
Dr J. HERMANN visited Dr Qing Qian at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, from 12-23 October and gave two invited seminars as well as an invited seminar at the School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Dr J. HERMANN presented invited seminars at the James Cook University, Townsville, on the 22 April, and at Adelaide University on the 22 May.
Mr K.N. HORNER, attended the 10th Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference & 3rd Australasian Hydrogeology Research Conference, Perth, Australia, 1-3 December, presented a paper titled “Environmental Tracers in Silicate Aquifers: Lower Murrumbidgee Groundwater Management Area, New South Wales”
Mr K.N. HORNER conducted field work in the Lower Murrumbidgee River Catchment of the Murray Basin from 16-28 March and 13-19 September 2009.
Prof I. JACKSON attended and presented papers at the General Assembly of the International Association for Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (Cape Town, January), the Final Stagnant Slab Symposium (Kyoto, February), and the Fall Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (San Francisco, December), and lectured at the Deep Earth Mineralogy Centre of Excellence (Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, March).
Miss H. LI, Fourth International School “European Intensive Seminars of Petrology” (EURISPET) on “HIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM AND SUBDUCTION ZONES", Granada, Spain, June 27 to July 5th, 2009, presented a poster and talk entitled “Experimental constraints on chlorine behavior in subducted sediments”, conducted one day of practical sessions in the laboratory and 3 days of field work in the high-pressure, prograde peridotite and serpentinites of Cerro del Almirez (Sierra Nevada), and the Ronda Peridotite.
Miss S. McALPINE, attended the Biennial Conference of the Specialist Group for Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, Kangaroo Island, Australia, 8 – 13 November, presented a poster entitled “Mantle peridotites from the active New Britain-West Bismarck Arc front.”
Dr L. MARTIN attendedBiennial conference of the Specialist Group for Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, Kangaroo Island, Australia, 8-13 November, presented a poster “Carbon recycling in subduction zones: insight from partial melting experiments on altered oceanic crust”.
Dr. O. NEBEL attended the Goldschmidt conference, Davos, Zwitzerland 21-26 June, presented a paper entitled: Lu-Hf isotope inheritance from subducting detrital zircons during crustal formation.
Prof H. St.C. O’Neill attended the meeting of the Geological Society of Australia Special Group on Geochemistry, Petrology and Mineralogy held on Kangaroo Island where he presented papers on “The oxidation state of Uranium in silicate melts and its implications for U crystal/liquid partition coefficients”.
Prof H. St.C. O’Neill visited Prof Xi Liu in Peking University, Beijing, in April and gave talks at Peking University, the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the China University of Geosciences.
Prof H. St.C. O’Neill conducted experiments using synchrotron X-rays at the Advanced Photon Source, Chicago and the Photon Factory, Japan, in April, and the Australian Synchrotron in May.
Mr C. PIRARD attended the 19th V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland, 21-26 June 2009 presented a talk entitled “Melt transport in the mantle: transition from dunite channels to pyroxenite dykes in the upper mantle section of New Caledonia”.
Dr R. RAPP, 2009 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco, California, USA, December 13-18th, presented an invited paper entitled “Origin of primitive andesites by melt-rock reaction in the sub-arc mantle”.
Earth Physics
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS, the Ninth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Melbourne, February, presented a paper entitled “Processes for adjustment of the global overturning circulation to changing surface boundary conditions”.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS, the ANU Marine Science Symposium, keynote lecture, “Mixing in the oceans”, Canberra, 30 September
Dr A.McC. HOGG, the Ninth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Melbourne, February, presented a paper entitled “Wind stress forcing of the Southern Ocean”.
Dr G.O. HUGHES, the Ninth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Melbourne, February, presented a paper entitled “The role of available potential energy in the ocean overturning circulation”.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT made a short visit to Taiwan in February for collaborative work on seismic wave propagation in subduction zones and presented a set of lectures on “Imaging the Earth”. In July he spent a week in Tokyo working with Prof. T. Furumura on the nature of the bend in slab structure between Honshu and Hokkaido and then attended a workshop on Eaquations of State of materials at high temperatures and pressures at Ehime University. in Japan and gave a set of lectures and two seminars, he then engaged in collaborative work at the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo where he also presented a seminar. In September he spent a period of study leave at the University of Munich working on problems relating to the deep Earth.
Dr R.C. KERR, American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 14-18 December, presented a paper entitled “Thermal erosion of felsic ground by the laminar flow of a basaltic lava, with application to the Cave Basalt, Mount St. Helens, Washington”.
Dr. N. RAWLINSON, IASPEI General Assembly, Cape Town South Africa, 10-16 January 2009, presented a paper entitled "WOMBAT:A high density rolling array experiment for passive seismic imaging in Australia".
Dr. N. RAWLINSON conducted fieldwork in New South Wales from 5-13 May; 1-11 June and 5-17 August.
Mr J. ROBERTSON, American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 14-18 December, presented a paper entitled “Cooling and solidification of channelized viscoplastic lava flows”.
Dr M.L. RODERICK, American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA, 14-18 December, convened a session titled “Evaporation and Water Transport Dynamics in the ABL”, presented an invited paper titled “Projecting changes in catchment water availability using a Budyko framework”.
Dr. M. SALMON, American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA, 14-19 December, presented a poster entitled “AusMoho: A new Moho map of continental Australia”.
Prof. M. SAMBRIDGE visited the Univ. of Victoria, BC, Canada, in February where he gave several student lectures on aspects of nonlinear inversion.
Prof. M. SAMBRIDGE attended the Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting (JENAM) as part of the European week of Astronomy in April at the Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK.
Prof. M. SAMBRIDGE visited and gave seminars at Univ. of Tasmania
Dr H TKALČIĆ chaired a special session entitled “Moho, lithosphere and upper mantle structure beneath Europe: What have we learned in 100 years” at the AGU Fall Meetingin San Francisco, December 2009.
Dr H TKALČIĆ gave an invited presentation entitled “Seismological Portrait of the Anomalous 1996 Bardarbunga Volcano, Iceland, Earthquake” at the AGU Fall Meetingin San Francisco, December 2009.
Dr H TKALČIĆ coauthored 12 presentations and gave a talk entitled “Earthquakes and Stations of the Southern Hemisphere: Keys to the Inner Core Anisotropy Puzzle?” in the special session on the Earth’s core at the AGU Fall Meetingin San Francisco, December 2009.
Dr H TKALČIĆ gave two talks on the Earth’s inner core in the geodynamics and seismology sessions of the EGU Annual Meetingin Vienna, May 2009.
Dr H TKALČIĆ gave an invited talk entitled “Inner core boundary properties from PcP and PKiKP waves” at the IASPEI General Assembly, Capetown, South Africa, January 2009.
Dr H TKALČIĆ spent 1 month at JAMSTEC in Japan, collaborating with Dr. S. Tanaka on the structure of the Earth’s core and interacting with a number of Japanese seismologists on other topics in seismology.
Dr P. TREGONING, American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA, 13-18 December, co-authored a paper entitled “Assessment of 3D hydrologic deformation using GRACE and GPS”.
Dr P. TREGONING, American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA, 13-18 December, co-authored a paper entitled “Regional deformation from the 2004 Macquarie Ridge great earthquake, Australia-Pacific plate boundary zone”.
Dr P. TREGONING, American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA, 13-18 December, co-authored a paper entitled “Estimation of hydrological loading effects to correct VLBI analysis”.
Dr P. TREGONING, American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA, 13-18 December, co-authored a paper entitled “New Geodetic Infrastructure for Australia: The NCRIS / AuScope Geospatial Component”.
Dr P. TREGONING, European Geophysical Union Conference, Vienna, Austria, 19-24 April, presented a paper entitled “Atmospheric effects in GPS analyses”.
Dr M.L. WARD, European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 19-24 April, presented a paper entitled “Eddy response to variable atmospheric forcing in the Southern Ocean” and a poster entitled “Forcing of gravity waves by potential vorticity in a shallow water model”.
Dr E. VANACORE conducted fieldwork in Central Australia in September 2009 for servicing the broadband stations of BILBY project.
Dr E. VANACORE conducted fieldwork in South Australia in late October and early November to assist with the Curnamona array pull out.
Dr M.L. WARD, Workshop on Mesoscale Eddies, Exeter, UK, 27-29 April, presented a poster entitled “The influence of standard modes of variability in an eddy-resolving Southern Ocean model”.
Dr M.L. WARD, Australian Defense Force Academy, Canberra, 22 May, presented a paper entitled “Resonant scattering of oceanic gravity waves by balanced mesoscale eddies”.
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
Neville Exon helped organize and chair a session at a Marine Geoscience Meeting of the Committee for Ocean Geosciences (COGS) in Perth in July, and presented two papers there, both related to IODP.
PRISE
Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 14-18 December.
Mr C.M. FANNING, Spring AGU Joint Assembly, Toronto, Canada, 24-27 May.
Mr C.M. FANNING, Geological Society of America Annual meeting, Portland, USA 18-21 October and Rocky Mountain section meeting, Orem, Utah 11-13 May.
Mr C.M. FANNING, The Geological Society Fermor Meeting “Rodinia: Supercontinents, Superplumes & Scotland”, Edinburgh, Scotland, 6-9 September and field trip to the Scottish Highlands, 9-13 September.
Mr C.M. FANNING, Chilean Geological Congress, Santiago, Chile, 22-26 November.
Mr C.M. FANNING conducted fieldwork in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia 23-29 March.
Mr C.M. FANNING conducted fieldwork in the Sheeprock Mountains, Utah, USA, 13-17 May and the Portneuff gap area, Pocatello, Idaho, USA on 14 October.
Mr C.M. FANNING conducted fieldwork in the coastal regions of southern Chile, Puerto Montt to Santiago, 28 November - 4 December.
Mr S. HUI, 9th Australian Space Science Conference, Sydney, 28–30 September, presented a talk entitled “Geochemistry of Apollo 16 Lunar Impact Glasses: Tracking Formation and Transport through Chemistry and Age Dating”.
Ms E. KISEEVA, The Deep Carbon Cycle (workshop), Zurich, Switzerland, 18–20 June.
Ms E. KISEEVA, Goldschmidt 2009, Davos, Switzerland, 21–26 June.
Ms E. KISEEVA, EURISPET, Granada, Spain, 27 June – 5 July.
Ms E. KISEEVA, internship at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 10 Aug – 5 Nov 2009 to conduct high pressure (up to 20 GPa) experimental studies of carbonate eclogite phase relations, supervised by Prof E. Ohtani and Dr K. Litasov.
Mr J. McDONALD, 10th Australasian Environmental Isotope and 3rd Australasian Hydrogeology Conference, Perth, 1-3 December, presented a poster entitled “Strontium Isotope Composition Variations in the Lower Murrumbidgee Groundwater System, NSW”.
Dr. M.D. NORMAN, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Targeting Workshop, Tempe, USA, 6-9 June.
Dr. M.D. NORMAN, 9th Australian Space Science Conference, Sydney, 28-30 September, presented a paper entitled “Lunar Anorthosites as Targets for Exploration”.
Dr M.D. NORMAN, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 14-18 December.
Dr G.M. YAXLEY, The Deep Carbon Cycle (workshop), ETH, Zürich 18-20 June.
Dr G.M. YAXLEY, Goldschmidt 2009, Davos, Switzerland, 21-26 June, presented a paper entitled “Melting and melt-peridotite interactions in heterogeneous upper mantle sources of primitive volcanics”.
Dr G.M. YAXLEY, CODES – the first 20 years (symposium), Hobart, 3-5 December.
Visiting Fellows
Dr R. V. Burne conducted fieldwork in England and Ireland in June-July 2009 comparing the environmental setting of the Carboniferous Bude Formation, North Cornwall, with the Carbonifereous rocks of Loop Head, County Claire, Ireland.”.
Dr R. V. Burne undertook fieldwork with Prof. Josef Paul of Gottingen University on the Bundsanstein oolitic limestones and stromatolites on the margins of the Harz Mountains, Germany in July 2009.
Dr E. A. Felton attended Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre’s Marine Science Forum in Eden on 21-22 March.
Dr E. A. Felton attended the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water’s Marine Habitat Mapping Information Session at Sydney on 26 August.
Dr E. A. Felton attended the Selwyn Symposium “Origin of the Eastern Highlands” in Melbourne on 24 September.
Dr E. A. Felton co-authored a poster at the 7th International Conference on Geomorphology in Melbourne, July 2009. Switzer, A. D., Felton, E. A., Fink, D. M., Crook, K. A. W. The age of the coastal cliff-top platform and boulders at Little Beecroft Head, southeast Australia.
Prof K. LAMBECK, Climate Change Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-12 March, presented a paper entitled “Sea level change as an indicator of cryosphere instabilities”.
Prof K. LAMBECK, Magellan IODP Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-15 March, presented a paper entitled “The Scandinavian ice sheet: into and out of the Last Glacial Maximum”.
Prof K. LAMBECK, ‘Il bacino del Tevere’, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, 23 March, presented a paper entitled “Sea level change along the Thyrrenean Coast: past and future”.
Prof K. LAMBECK, GIA Modelling Training School, Gävle, Sweden, 1-5 June, presented a lecture entitled “Sea level changes”.
Prof K. LAMBECK, Indian National Science Academy Platinum Jubilee Concluding Function, Kolkata, India, 7-10 December, presented a paper entitled “The role of national academies in education, research and science policy: the Australian experience
Dr W. Mayer, XXIII International Congress of the History of Science and Technology, Budapest, Hungary, 28 July-2 August, presented a paper entitled “Voyages of scientific discovery in times of war: The Baudin and Flinders expeditions to Australia (1801-1803)”.
Dr W. Mayer, Colloque, Portés par l’air du temps: la vie et les voyages du capitaine Baudin, Brussels, Belgium, 2-5 September, presented a paper entitled « L’accueil en Europe des résultats géologiques de l’expédition Baudin en Australie ».
KEITH SCOTT, 24th International Applied Geochemistry Symposium, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 1-4 July 2009, presented a paper entitled “Exploration for Zn-rich mineralisation in semi-arid environments: an example from the Cobar region, NSW, Australia” and a poster “Exploration for deeply buried gold deposits in the Bendigo region, Victoria, Australia: regolith geochemistry of the Lockington area”.
KEITH SCOTT, 5th Australian and New Zealand Aerosol Seminar,Auckland,New Zealand, 22-24 July 2009, presented a paper entitled “Dust and terrestrial salt (NaCl) in SE Ausralia: Implications for Aeolian co-transport and co-deposition”.
KEITH SCOTT wrote report “Characteristics of soils of the ELura district and their implications for base metal exploration in western NSW” (CSIRO EM Report P2009/1754) for CBH Limited (October 2009).
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