Earth Chemistry
Dr Y. AMELIN, 43nd Lunar and planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, TX, USA, March 19-23, 2012. Three poster presentations. Followed by 5 day stay at Q-Z. Yin’s lab at the University of California Davis, Hf isotope analysis of meteorites.
Dr Y. AMELIN, 22nd V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal, Canada, 24-29 June 2012. Participated as a session organiser, and co-authored two presentations, but did not attend the meeting.
Dr Y. AMELIN, 75th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Cairns, Australia, August 2012. Participated in the preparation as a member of the program committee, chaired two sessions, gave an oral presentation.
Dr Y. AMELIN, TANG3O Workshop, November 2012, Canberra. Gave an oral presentation.
Dr V.C. BENNETT, Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal, 24-29 June presented a talk in the symposium, The first billion years: assessing the geologic record entitled, “Expanding early Earth frontiers: A new Eoarchean-Hadean(?) terrane in Southwestern Greenland”.
Dr V.C. BENNETT conducted ARC funded fieldwork in the early Archean (>3.6 Ga) terranes of southwest Greenland in July and August.
Ms K. BOSTON, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 5-10 August 2012, presented a paper entitled “Geochronology of accessory allanite and monazite in the Barrovian metamorphic sequence of the Central Alps, Switzerland”.
Dr J.J. BROCKS – Keynote Speaker – 12 to 13 March 2012 – - ‘Archean Biomarkers: do it right or don’t do it at all’, Agouron Archean Biomarker Workshop, Riverside, CA.
Dr J.J. BROCKS – Oral Presentation – 27 April 2012 – ‘Molecular fossils and the late rise of oxygenic photosynthesis’, EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria.
Dr J.J. BROCKS – Oral Presentation – 24 to 29 June 2012 – ‘The unusual nature of the Proterozoic biomarker record and the Mat-Seal hypothesis’, 22th Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Dr J.J. BROCKS – Oral Presentation – 8 Nov 2012 – ‘Molecular fossils, iron speciation and mineralization”, Organic Geochemistry of Mineral Systems CSIRO Flagship Cluster Workshop, Melbourne, Australia.
Dr J.J. BROCKS – Oral Presentation – 2 to 5 December 2012 – ‘The unusual nature of the Proterozoic biomarker record and the Mat-Seal hypothesis’, 17th Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Mr A. CHOPRA, Stromlo Student Christmas Seminars in Canberra, Australia, 23 November, presented a talk entitled “What are my friends made of?”. Co-author: Dr C.H. Lineweaver
Mr A. CHOPRA, presented an invited talk in the Trends in Environmental Research Series at the University of Technology Sydney entitled "An elemental view of life and the habitability of the Earth" on 24 October 2012. Co-author: Dr C.H. Lineweaver.
Mr A. CHOPRA, Australian Space Sciences Conference in Canberra, Australia, 25 September, presented a talk entitled “Creating the elemental composition of reference life.” Co-author: Dr C.H. Lineweaver
Mr A. CHOPRA, Research School of Earth Sciences Student Conference in Canberra, Australia, 20 September, presented a talk entitled “What am I made of?” Co-author: Dr C.H. Lineweaver
Mr A. CHOPRA, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 9 August, presented a talk entitled “Can elemental abundances be used to identify the most likely site for the origin of life?” Co-author: Dr C.H. Lineweaver
Mr A. CHOPRA, 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference, Atlanta, USA, 19 April, presented a talk entitled “A more universal definition of life suggests that we have already detected extraterrestrial life.“ Author: Dr C.H. Lineweaver
Mr A. CHOPRA, 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference, Atlanta, USA, 19 April, presented a talk entitled “The Habitability Limits of Our Earth and Other Earths.” Co-author: Dr C.H. Lineweaver
Mr A. CHOPRA, 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference, Atlanta, USA, 15 April, presented a talk entitled “Elemental Composition of Life.” Co-author: Dr C. H. Lineweaver
Mr A. CHOPRA, 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference, Atlanta, USA, 15 April, presented a poster entitled “Can Elemental Abundances be Used to Identify the Most Likely Site for the Origin of Life?” Co-author: Dr C.H. Lineweaver
Dr S.J. FALLON, attended the 5th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and presented two papers: “Environmental Proxy Development in the deep-sea corals Corallium sp. and theIsididae family corals from the southeast of Tasmania” and “Depth-Age Distribution of Solenosmilia corals from South/Southeast Tasmania”.
Dr S.J. FALLON, attended the 21st International Radiocarbon Conference in Paris, France and presented two papers: “Bomb Radiocarbon at the Source: Coral D14C from Enewetak Atoll during the 1950s” and “There’s carbon in the iron dear Liza, dear Liza”.
Dr M. FORSTER attended the Structural Geology and Tectonics Special Group conference (SGTSG) at Waratah Bay, Victoria, from the 29 January to 4 February and presented a paper entitled “Dating movement using 40Ar/39Ar geochronology“.
Dr M. FORSTER attended the International Geological Conference (IGC) in Brisbane from 5-11 August and presented a paper titled” “Argon geospeedometry used to constrain how long shear zones operate and the duration of heating cycles in metamorphic tectonites”.
Dr M. FORSTER was one of the main organizers for the Australian Indian Scientific Fund (AISRF) workshop in Manali, NW India from 17-31 October: ‘Workshop on Himalayan Mantled Gneiss Domes’. And was invited to give a paper entitled “The importance of dating”.
Dr M. FORSTER was invited to lecture and undertake collaboration at the National Institute of Oceanography in Goa, India from 22 September to 2 October presenting a lecture entitled “The scope and versatility of Ar/Ar geochronology”.
Dr M. FORSTER attended the TANG3O (Thermochronology and Noble Gas, Geochronology and Geochemistry Organisation) from 19-20 November and gave an overview of “Argon Geochronology at ANU” as well as presenting a paper entitled “Diffusion of 39Ar in phengite/muscovite intergrowths”.
Dr M. FORSTER was invited to ITB in Bandung in Indonesia for collaboration on the 14th September.
Dr M. FORSTER conducted fieldwork on the island of New Caledonia from the 17-24 March.
Dr M. FORSTER conducted fieldwork and supervision of RHUL, SEARG PhD candidates (eight in total) on the island of Elba in Italy from 12-21 June.
Dr M. FORSTER conducted fieldwork and supervision of ITB PhD candidate on the south-east arm of Sulawesi Central from the 29 August to the 9th September; and on Java from 10-13 September.
Mr T. HABER attended the 75th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Cairns, Australia, 12-17 August.
Mr T. HABER attended the Meteoritical Society Central Australia Impact Crater Field Trip, Central Australia, Australia, 20-24 August.
Mr T. HABER gave a talk entitled “Asteroid fingerprints on the moons surface - what highly siderophile elements can tell us.” at the RSES Student Conference, 20 September.
Mr T. HABER conducted measurements for 40Ar/39Ar dating of lunar samples at Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 30 September – 28 October.
Dr M. HONDA, attended the IGC in Brisbane and presented a paper entitled ‘Noble gases and carbon in Argyle diamonds, Western Australia: Evidence for recycled volatiles’. He also attended TANG3O (Thermochronology and Noble Gas Geochemistry and Geochronology Organization) workshop held in Canberra, and presented a talk on “Overview on noble gas research activities at ANU”.
Ms M. HUYSKENS attended the International Geological Congress in Brisbane an presented a poster with the title: Placement of the Guadalupian – Lopingian (Capitanian –Wuchiapingian) Boundary in the Permian of eastern Australia.
Mr P. KOEFOED attended the 75th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Cairns, Australia, 12-17 August.
Mr P. KOEFOED attended the Meteoritical Society Central Australia Impact Crater Field Trip, Central Australia, Australia, 20-24 August.
Ms A. F. KOMUGABE Fallon, S. J., Eggins, S., Thresher, R. E. & Mortimer, G. E. (2012), ‘Chronicles from the Deep? Holocene Reservoir Ages from Black Corals in South Eastern Australia’, Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) – New Zealand Marine Sciences Society (NZMSS) Conference, 1 - 5 July, Hobart, Tasmania
Ms A. F. KOMUGABE, A. F., Fallon, S. J., Eggins, S., Thresher, R. E. & Mortimer, G. E. (2012), ‘Holocene Reservoir Ages in South Eastern Australia’, 5th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals, 2 - 7 April, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Mr A. J. McCOY-WEST, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 5-10 August, presented a paper entitled “Tracing the origins of southern Zealandia using Os isotopes in mantle xenoliths”.
Mr A. J. McCOY-WEST, New Zealand Geosciences, Hamilton, New Zealand, 25-28 November, presented a paper entitled “A large chunk of Proterozoic mantle underlying the South Island”.
McCoy-West, A.J., Cocker, H., Koefoed, P., & Gowan, E.J. (2012). Exploring the Cambrian to Holocene geology of a fragment of Gondwana, South Island, New Zealand. Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University. Canberra, Australia. 84 pp.
Mr A. J. McCOY-WEST successfully planned and lead the 12 day, 31 October-11 November long RSES PhD student fieldtrip for 17 students to New Zealand’s South Island.
Emeritus Professor Ian McDOUGALL attended the 34th International Geological Congress in Brisbane in August and presented two keynote addresses, one a retrospective talk dealing with migration of volcanism in the Hawaiian Islands and K/Ar dating of Hawaiian lavas and the development of the geomagnetic polarity time scale and the other a summary of the geochronological study on the Omo-Turkana Basin in East Africa where we now have more than 40 well-dated levels throughout the hominin-bearing sedimentary sequence covering the last 4.25 Ma.
Emeritus Professor Ian McDOUGALL was an active participant in the Tang3o meeting in Canberra in November and presented a paper on the 40K decay constant.
Dr D. RUBATTO presented a talk at the AGU General Assembly, Vienna 22-27 April.
Dr D. RUBATTO presented a keynote talk the 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5-10 August
Dr D. RUBATTO conducted field-work in Turkey with Prof Donna Whitney and Prof Christian Tessier, University of Minnesota, USA, 1-10 June .
Miss M. S. SAPAH, Research visit to the Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA, 12-26 May, for the characterization of a new meteorite, NWA 4502.
Miss M. S. SAPAH, 75th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 12–25 August, presented a paper entitled “Cooling rates of plutonic Angrites from Pyroxene-Phosphate U-Pb chronology.”
Mrs K. STRZEPEK, 5th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Coral in Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 1st-7th, presented an oral presentation,‘What lies beneath? Compound Specific Isotope Analyses reveals shifting oceanic regimes’ and a poster titled ‘Preservation effects on Bamboo Coral geochemistry’.
Mrs K. STRZEPEK, Australian Marine Science Association, Hobart, Australia, July 1st-5th, presented an oral presentation titled ‘Compound specific nitrogen isotopes in deep-sea corals from the Lord Howe Rise’.
Mrs K. STRZEPEK, 17th Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference, Sydney, Australia, December 2nd-4th, presented an oral presentation titled ‘Nutrient dynamics in a changing climate: δ15N amino acids from deep-sea corals’.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS was an invited guest speaker at the 75th birthday celebrations in Beijing in April for Prof Liu Dunyi, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. He gave a talk entitled “Granite petrogenesis in the Bega Batholith, SE Australia: some insights from zircon U-Pb, O and Hf isotopes”.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS attended the 6th International SHRIMP Workshop held outside Brisbane in August, where he gave a lecture entitled "Concerning conodonts”.
Earth Environment
Dr N.J. ABRAM, first workshop of the PAGES Sea Ice Proxy (SIP) working group, Montreal, 7-9 March, presented an invited talk entitled “MSA in ice cores: promise, problems and recommended strategies”.
Dr N.J. ABRAM, invited participant at Modes of Variability in the Climate System: Past-Present-Future conference, Obergurgul, 27 May - 1 June, presented a talk entitled “Tropical climate variability in the Indian Ocean during the last millennium”.
Dr N. ABRAM, Dr M.K. GAGAN, Ms C.E. KRAUSE and colleagues from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences and Padang University conducted fieldwork with in West Java and West Sumatra, Indonesia, 3 June - 8 July.
Mr R. BURNE, 29th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology in Schladming, Austria, 10-13 September, presented a paper entitled “Advances in the understanding of microbialites and their facies associations: Significance for Cretaceous sub-salt hydrocarbon plays in Brazil and Angola”.
Mr N. DARRENOUGUE, RSES Seminar, 24 May, presented his PhD results “Rhodoliths as environmental archives in the tropics”.
Prof Patrick De Deckker presented two talks at the European Geophysical Union conference held in Vienna, Austria and also gave a talk on ostracod geochemistry at the French Association of Ostracod Research in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. S.M. EGGINS, Field Workshop on Living Foraminifer, Okinawa and Yokosuka, Japan, 15-22 July.
Dr. S.M. EGGINS conducted fieldwork with Honours and PhD students in Eden and the south coast region of NSW, 15 November – 21 December.
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD organised the Symposium titled “From pico to peta: the role of trace elements in global marine cycles” at the Australian Marine Sciences Association and New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Joint Conference (AMSA-NZMSS 2012) entitled “Marine Extremes – And everything in between”, Hobart, 1-5 July.
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD, Australian Marine Sciences Association and New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Joint Conference (AMSA-NZMSS 2012), Hobart 1-5 July, presented a paper entitled “Dissolved and particulate metal cycling during the annual subtropical spring bloom, east of New Zealand“.
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD, 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 20-24 February, Salt Lake City, USA, presented a paper entitled “Dissolved and particulate metal cycling during the annual subtropical spring bloom, east of New Zealand“, and invited speaker at the “International Symposium on Paleoceanography in the Southern Ocean and NW Pacific: Perspective from Earth Drilling Sciences”, Kochi, Japan, 19-21 November 2012.
Dr M.J. ELLWOOD and Dr R. STRZEPEK, fieldwork on the research vessel RV Tangaora from September to October.
Dr M.K. GAGAN, 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, Cairns, 9-13 July, presented a paper entitled “Earthquake supercycle terminations in Sumatra over the last 5,500 years”, and the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 3-7 December, presented an invited paper entitled “Orbital- and millennial-scale changes in the Australasian monsoon through the Late Pleistocene”.
Prof R. Grün, 13th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, 10-14 July, Torun, Poland, presentation entitled “Ionization efficiencies alanine dosimeters and tooth enamel exposed to gamma and X-ray irradiators”. He was also the Chair of the Scientific Committee for this conference and is the Editor of the proceedings to be published in Quaternary Geochronology.
Prof R. Grün, INQUA Congress, Bern, 21-27 July, where he was co-author on a number of presentations.
Prof R. Grün, Australian Archaeological Association Conference 2012, Wollongong, Australia, 9–13 December.
Prof R. Grün, fieldwork in Bordeaux and other regions of France, 1-18 May, with PhD candidate Mr M. WIllmes.
Prof R. Grün and Dr S.M. EGGINS, fieldwork in Lanzhao province, China, 9-20 September.
Prof R. Grün, invited to attend the Manali Workshop, Manali, India, 17-24 October.
Dr David Heslop, General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria, 22–27 April, presented an invited paper entitled “Unmixing Magnetic Hysteresis Loops”.
Dr David Heslop visited the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton to perform palaeomagnetic measurements, 30 April – 4 May.
Ms Claire KRAUSE, AMOS 2012 Conference held at the UNSW 31 January – 3 February, presented a paper, “The Indo-Australian Monsoon of the Last 25 ka: A Continuous Stalagmite Record from Sulawesi, Indonesia.”
Dr D.C. “Bear” McPHAIL led ANU Honours students to present at the AusIMM Student Challenge in Moss Vale, NSW, 27 September.
Mr S. MEYERINK, AMSA 2012, 2–6 July, Hobart, and presented the poster “Switching on the lights in diatom cell walls: using PDMPO to investigate silicon uptake in diatoms”. He also attended R and D Topics 2012, 11–15 December and presented the talk “Switching on the lights in diatom cell walls: using PDMPO to investigate silicon uptake in diatoms”.
Dr B.N. Opdyke, International Geological Congress in Brisbane and Convened ‘Reefs and Carbonates – secular changes including climate’ and presented ‘Dynamic Dolomite as the Driver for Mg/Ca change in the Cenozoic Ocean’.
Mr R.J. OWENS, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5-10 August, and presented a paper entitled “Comparing δ13C of G. ruber and G. sacculifer sheds light on the carbonate ion concentration of the surface ocean”.
Prof B.J. Pillans attended the 15th Biennial conference of the Australian & New Zealand Geomorphology Group (ANZGG) in Bundanoon, New South Wales, from 2nd December to 7th December 2012 and presented a paper: How old is Lake George?
Prof B.J. PILLANS conducted fieldwork in Indonesia in May 2012 with Prof M. Morwood and Dr G.D. van den Berg (University of Wollongong) and Dr B. Alloway (Victoria University of Wellington) on the Quaternary stratigraphy of Soa Basin, Flores.
Prof B.J. PILLANS conducted fieldwork in Indonesia in October 2012 with Prof M. Morwood, Prof R.G. Roberts and Dr G.D. van den Berg (University of Wollongong) on the Quaternary stratigraphy of Walanae Basin, Sulawesi.
Prof B.J. PILLANS attended the 35th International Geological Congress in Brisbane, from 5th to 10th August 2012 and presented an oral paper: “Burial and exhumation - the key to survival of pre-Cenozoic regolith and landforms in Australia and Africa?”
Ms Moneesha SAMANTA, AMSA 2012 meeting, Hobart, 2–6 July, presented the poster “Zinc isotope determination of marine samples’’.
Mr N. SCROXTON, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society (AMOS) 18th National Conference, Sydney, 31 January – 3 February, presented talk entitled “Millennial-Scale Oscillations of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone over the last 50kyr as seen from the Flores speleothem paleo-monsoon record”.
Mr N. SCROXTON, 22nd V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal, Canada, 25–30 June, presented talk entitled “Vegetation collapse on Flores 69,000 years ago: A consequence of the Toba super-eruption, or a volcanic disaster closer to home?”
Ms S. TYNAN, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5-10 August, and presented a paper entitled “Environmental information recorded in the trace element geochemistry of shell of the Sydney Rock Oyster
(Saccostrea glomerata).”
Mr M. Willmes, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 April, and presented a paper entitled “Isotopic reconstruction of ancient human migrations: A comprehensive Sr isotope reference database for France and the first case study at Tumulus de Sables, south-western France”.
Mr M. Willmes, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August, presented a paper entitled “The bioavailable Sr isotope reference database of France – a tool for archaeology and forensic sciences”.
Mr M. Willmes, Australian Archaeological Association Conference 2012, Wollongong, Australia, 9 – 13 December, presented a paper entitled “Isotopic Reconstruction of Ancient Human Migration (IRHUM): A Bioavailable Sr Isotope Reference Database for France and Case Study at the Bell Beaker Site Tumulus de Sables, South-Western France”.
Mr M. Willmes conducted fieldwork for his PhD studies in Bordeaux and other regions of France, 1 May – 8 June.
Mr M. Willmes, RSES PhD students’ fieldwork in New Zealand, 31 October – 11 November.
Dr Jimin YU, invited keynote speaker at Goldschmidt, 24-29 June 2012, Montreal, Canada, with talk entitled “Responses of deep-sea carbonate system to carbon reorganization and sea level changes”.
Earth Materials & Processes
PROFESSOR RICHARD ARCULUS presented papers at “Caribbean Volcanism and Crustal Structure”, Bristol, UK, 9th to 10th July 2012 (keynote address.)
Gordon Research Conference “Geochemistry of Ore Deposits”, Andover, New Hampshire, USA, 15th to 20th July 2012, (session chairman).
34th International Geological Congress, 5th to 10th August, Brisbane, (keynote address).
PROFESSOR STEPHEN COX completed a period of nearly 6 months of outside studies at RWTH – University of Aachen at the end of January.
presented an invited keynote lecture at the AIG Conference “Structural Geology and Resources”, held in Kalgoorlie, 25 – 28 September.
presented a lecture at the 34th International Geological Congress in Brisbane in August.
MR BRENDAN HANGER attend the, 22nd Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 24-29, presented a paper entitled “Redox Conditions and Metasomatic Activity beneath the Wesselton kimberlite, South Africa.”
PROFESSOR JOERG HERMANN presented a paper at “2nd Geofluids conference, Misasa” Japan, 18-21 March.
The Annual “European Geoscience Union General Assembly”, Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April, presented a poster.
The “34th International Geological Congress”, Brisbane, 5-10 August, (keynote address)
Presented invited seminars at the Kyoto University, Japan; Universities of Torino (Italy) and Wuhan, Hefei and Xi-An (China).
PROFESSOR IAN JACKSON participate and presented papers at each of the following meetings: the annual “Australasian Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting”, Wagga Wagga, NSW (February); the conference of the “Australian
Society of Exploration Geophysicists” Brisbane (February); the annual meeting of the “European Geophysical Union: (April); and the Fall Annual Meeting of the “American Geophysical Union” (December). He also visited and lectured at the
Ludwig Maxmillians University (Munich), ETH (Zürich), the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), University of Lille and the Technical University of Delft.
DR OLIVER NEBEL attended the International Geological Congress in Brisbane, and gave a keynote lecture and a scientific presentation.
DR JOSE ALBERTO PADRON-NAVARTA, attended the 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5-10 August, presented an invited talk “Bimodal fluid flow pattern during the high-pressure dehydration of serpentinite”. He also attended the annual European Geoscience Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April, presented a poster “The fate of metaclinopyroxenite during serpentinite subduction” and was co-author on 4 other contributions.
PROFESSOR HUGH O’NEILL undertook Outside Studies Program from June until August at the University of Munster, Germany. Whilst in Europe he presented a paper on “The global pattern of trace-element distributions in Ocean Floor Basalts” at University of Bristol, University of Munster, University of Hanover, Koln University, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, University of Gottingen. He also presented a paper on "Diffusion of Yttrium in olivine" at the EMC Conference in Frankfurt in September.
DR GREG YAXLEY presented talks at the European Geoscience Union in Vienna in April and at the European Mineralogical Conference in Frankfurt in September. He also undertook the Outside Studies Program at the Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University in July and at the Institute for Geoscience, Frankfurt University from August until October. During his OSP he presented seminars at the Universities of Frankfurt and Münster (Germany) and CNRS in Nancy, France.
Earth Physics
Dr N BALFOUR attended the IGC Conference, Brisbane – August 2012, and presented two papers (oral and poster)
Dr N BALFOUR attended the HAGI/PIT Meeting, Palembang, Indonesia – September 2012, gave two oral presenations
Dr N BALFOUR attended the AGU Fall Meeting – December 2012, presented two papers (oral and poster)
Dr N BALFOUR attended Science Meets Parliament
Dr N BALFOUR attended The Australian Science Communicators Conference
Mr R. BENAVENTE, AGU Fall Meeting 2012, San Francisco, California, USA, 3 - 7 December, presented a poster entitled "W phase inversion for finite fault slip"".
Mr. C.C. CHAPMAN, the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Annual Conference, Sydney, January, presented a paper entitled “Rapid Variability of Oceanic Jets Driven by Eddy-Topography Interaction”; the American Geophysical Union’s Ocean Sciences Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, February, presented a poster entitled “Topographic Control of Surface Jet Variability”; Attended the Summer School on the Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment, Cambridge University, September, presented a paper entitled “Rossby Waves and Rossby Solitons”.
Prof P.R. CUMMINS, 2012 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, presented a paper on “International Collaboration on Strengthening Earthquake Hazard Assessment in Indonesia”.
Prof P.R. CUMMINS, 2012 Conference on Computational Physics, presented a paper on “New Bayesian Approaches to Geophysical Data Inference”.
Prof P.R. CUMMINS, 34th International Geological Congress, presented a paper on “Towards Robust Earthquake Hazard Assessment in Indonesia”.
Prof P.R. CUMMINS, gave a special presentation on “The Threat to Tongatapu of Tsunamis Generated at the Tonga Trench” at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
Neda DARBEHESHTI, Paul TREGONING and Simon McCLUSKY, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austrai, 22-27 April, presented a paper entitled “Extracting high spatial resolution local gravity field from GRACE data” The geophysical signals that can be detected and extracted from GRACE observations are currently limited by the spatial resolution dictated by the maximum degree of the spherical harmonic model of the gravity field. This results in estimates of local mass balance of glaciers or hydrological catchments being inaccurate. In this paper, we used Forward Masscon Model where mass rates are uniformly distributed over each area, and then least squares approach was used to estimate discrete mass changes of small regions that sum to the integrated signal as seen by GRACE.
Dr S. DOWNES: the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Annual Conference, Sydney, January, presented a paper entitled “Tracing Dense Circumpolar Water in the South Pacific using Potential Vorticity and He-3”; the American Geophysical Union’s Ocean Sciences Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, February, presented a paper entitled “The role of large-scale phenomena in varying the subduction of mode waters in the Pacific", and co-chaired the session "The Southern Ocean and its role in the climate system"; the Tenth Informal ACCESS Model Evaluation Workshop, Melbourne, July presented a paper entitled "Eddy saturation and compensation in CMIP5 models"; the annual workshop of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Hobart, September, presented a talk entitled “Saturation and compensation: Southern Ocean circulation in CMIP5 models"; the IODP Southwest Pacific Workshop, Sydney, October, presented a paper entitled "Potential temperature changes in the deep South Pacific ocean due to the circulation of geothermal heat”.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Annual Conference, Sydney, January, presented a paper entitled “The effects of turbulent mixing in the meridional overturning circulation”; American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, February, presented a paper entitled “Estimating the relative magnitudes of ocean energy input from surface buoyancy and wind forcing”; participated in first annual workshop of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Hobart, September; American Physical Society – Division of Fluid Mechanics annual meeting, San Diego, USA, November, presented two papers on “Energetics of horizontal convection from DNS” and “Mechanical mixing in horizontal convection”; Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Launceston, December, presented a paper on “Horizontal convection with mechanical stirring”.
Dr B. GAYEN, Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Launceston, December, presented a paper on “Energetics of horizontal convection from DNS”.
Dr A.McC. HOGG, the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Annual Conference, Sydney, January, presented a paper entitled “A New Conceptual Model for the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (and the Global Ocean Overturning)”; the American Geophysical Union’s Ocean Sciences Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, February, presented a paper entitled “A New Conceptual Model for the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (and the Global Ocean Overturning)”; the Southern Ocean overturning: stability and impacts on carbon drawdown workshop, Southampton, May, presented an invited talk entitled “What do idealised ocean models tell us about the Southern Ocean Overturning?”; Fujitsu Supercomputer Users Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November, presented an invited talk entitled “High Resolution Ocean-Climate Modelling”.
Dr G. HUGHES, American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Conference, Salt Lake City, February, presented a paper entitled “Mixing efficiencies of ocean processes” and 2nd New Zealand Physical Oceanography Workshop, Wellington, June, presented a paper entitled “Stratified mixing processes and the energetics of the global ocean circulation”.
Dr Giampiero IAFFALDANO, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2012, San Francisco, USA, 3-7 December, presented three papers entitled “The strength of large-scale plate boundaries: Constraints from the dynamics of the Philippine Sea plate since ~5 Ma”, “Plate motions: Simpler than they look” and “Slow-downs and speed-ups of India-Eurasia convergence since ~20 Ma: Data-noise, uncertainties and dynamic implications”.
Dr Giampiero IAFFALDANO, 34th IGC conference, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA, 5-10 August, presented a papers entitled “The strength of large-scale plate boundaries: Constraints from the dynamics of the Philippine Sea plate since ~5 Ma”.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT attended the International Geological Congress in Brisbane in August where he gave a Keynote Lecture on structure beneath Australia introducing the new AuSREM model. In October he gave the Selwyn lecture
on Subduction Zones at the Selwyn Symposium of the Victorian Division of the Geological Society of Australia.
Dr S. MCCLUSKY, 2012 EGU General Assembly Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April, 2012, presented a paper entitled, GRACE observations of 2010/2011 eastern Australian floods: Producing precise GRACE gravity fields in the absence of satellite accelerometer observations, S. McClusky, P.Tregoning, and H. McQueen. Dr S. MCCLUSKY, 2012 EGU General Assembly Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April, 2012, was coauthor of a paper entitled, Mitigation of Site Specific Errors, M. Moore and S.McClusky.
Dr S. MCCLUSKY, 2012 EGU General Assembly Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April, 2012, was coauthor of a paper entitled, Improving Coseismic Offset Estimation Using Statistical Tests, J.-P. Montillet, P. Tregoning, A.Purcell, and S. McClusky
Dr S. MCCLUSKY, 2012 EGU General Assembly Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April, 2012, was coauthor of a poster entitled, Extracting white noise statistics in GPS coordinate time series, J.-P. Montillet, P. Tregoning, S
McClusky, and K. Yu.
Dr S. MCCLUSKY, 2012 EGU General Assembly Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April, 2012, coauthor of a poster entitled, Extracting high spatial resolution local gravity field from GRACE data, N Darbeheshti, P Tregoning, and
S. McClusky.
Dr S. MCCLUSKY, 2012 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec, 2012, was coauthor of a paper entitled, GPS Velocity Field Across the Caucasus, R.W. King M. Floyd, S. McClusky, G Habubia, Gi Sokhadze, F. Kadirov, A.Karakhanyan, V. Milyukov.
Dr S. MCCLUSKY, 2012 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec, 2012, was coauthor of a paper entitled, Modelling of Site Specific Effects and the Impact upon Local Tie Residuals, M. Moore, and S. McClusky
Dr S. MCCLUSKY, 2012 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec, 2012, was coauthor of a poster entitled, Active NE-SW Compressional Strain Within the Arabian Plate, M Floyd, A. ArRajehi, R.W. King, S. McClusky, R. Reilinger, M. Douad, J. Sholan, F. Bou-Rabee.
Ms A.K. MORRISON, the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Annual Conference, Sydney, January, presented a paper entitled “Interplay between the zonal transport and meridional overturning in the Southern Ocean”; the American Geophysical Union’s Ocean Sciences Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, February, presented a paper entitled “Interplay between the zonal transport and meridional overturning in the Southern Ocean”; annual workshop of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Hobart, September, presented a talk entitled “Interplay between Southern Ocean overturning and ACC transport”; Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium, Lihue, Hawaii, October, presented an invited talk entitled “The role of Southern Ocean overturning in past and future climate change”.
Dr N. RAWLINSON attended the EGU General Assembly in Vienna and presented a paper titled “Seismic anisotropy and heterogeneity in the crust beneath southeast Australia from ambient noise tomography”
Dr. J.P. MONTILLET went to EGU 2012 to present two studies in collaboration with Dr. Paul TREGONING, Dr. Simon McCLUSKY and Dr. Anthony PURCELL:
Dr N. RAWLINSON attended the IGC in Brisbane and presented a paper titled “Ambient noise tomography in southeast Australia from the WOMBAT transportable seismic array”
Dr N. RAWLINSON attended the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco and presented a paper titled "Illuminating the upper mantle beneath the Newer Volcanics province, southeast Australia, using seismic body wave tomography”
Ms I. ROSSO, the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Annual Conference, Sydney, January, presented a paper entitled “The Vertical Transport of Tracers in the Ocean: a Pump Driven by Sub-mesoscale Structures”; European Geophysical Union conference, Vienna, Austria, April, presented a paper entitled “The Vertical Transport in the Ocean: a Pump Driven by Meso- and Sub-mesoscale Structures”.
Dr J.A. SAENZ, European Geophysical Union conference, Vienna, Austria, April, presented a paper entitled “The relative magnitudes of energy input to the oceans from surface buoyancy and wind forcing”; participated in first annual workshop of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Hobart, September; American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December, presented a paper “There is a net conversion of available potential energy to kinetic energy in the oceans”.
Dr M. SALMON European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria, 23-27th April presented paper entitled “AuSREM – Australian Seismological Reference Earth Model” and contributed to paper entitled “Seismic anisotropy and heterogeneity in the crust beneath southeast Australia from Ambient noise tomography”.
Dr M. SALMON International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 6-10th August presented paper entitled “AuSREM – Australian Seismological Reference Earth Model”
Prof. M. SAMBRIDGE, attended and gave a presentation at the Royal Society of London meeting `Signal processing and inference for the physical sciences’ in March, and also at the 29th IUGG Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, in Edinburgh, in June.
Mr S. SAGAR, Ocean Optics XXI Conference, Glasgow, UK, 7-12 October, presented a paper entitled “A Segmentation Based Bayesian Inversion Algorithm for Shallow Water Bathymetry Retrieval”.
Dr E. SAYGIN attended 34th IGC in Brisbane, August 2012 and presented 1 poster.
Dr E. SAYGIN attended AOGS-AGU meeting in Singapore, August 2012 and presented 2 posters.
Dr E. SAYGIN attended HAGI meeting in Palembang, Indonesia, September 2012 and presented 1 poster and gave a talk.
Dr E. SAYGIN attended AGU Fall Meeting 2012 in San Francisco, USA, December 2012 and presented 1 poster, gave a talk.USA, 5-9 December, presented a paper entitled “The thermal structure of the Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, north west India”.
Ms K. Snow, attended the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Annual Conference, Sydney, January; attended first annual workshop of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Hobart, September.
Dr H TKALČIĆ gave an invited talk entitled “Seismological observation of shuffling rotational dynamics of the Earth’s inner core” at the East-west asymmetry of inner core and rotational dynamics conference in Wuhan, China, July, 2012.
Dr H TKALČIĆ coauthored 10 presentations (2 invited) and gave a talk entitled “What really lies beneath: defying conventional geophysical inversion and new observations from the crust to the core” in the special session on tomography at the AGU Fall Meetingin San Francisco, December 2012.
Dr P. TREGONING, GRACE Follow-On workshop, Heron Island, 3-6 September.
Dr P. TREGONING was a co-author on two oral presentations at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 22-27 April, titled “Improving Coseismic Offset Estimation Using Statistical Tests”, “GRACE observations of 2010/2011 eastern Australian floods: Producing precise GRACE gravity fields in the absence of satellite accelerometer observations”.
Dr P. TREGONING was a co-author on 4 poster presentations at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly, 22-27 April, titled “Antarctic mass balance changes from GRACE”, “Extracting white noise statistics in GPS coordinate time series”, “The effect of different forms of interpolation on estimates of Antarctic ice height change”, and “Extracting high spatial resolution local gravity field from GRACE data”.
Dr P. TREGONING was a co-author on two oral presentations at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 3-7 December, titled “Non-linear motions of Australian geodetic stations induced by non-tidal ocean loading and the passage of tropical cyclones” and “CryoSat-2 validation in East Antarctica: ASIRAS, ALS and in situ data analysis over Law Dome and Totten Glacier” and co-author on an invited oral presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 3-7 December, titled “Distribution of contemporary crustal deformation and mechanisms for extension in the Woodlark Rift: insights from GPS”.
M.K. YOUNG, at the American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA, 3-7 December, presented a paper entitled “New P-wave Velocity Images of the Lowermost Mantle from a Bayesian Inversion of PKP, PcP, and P4KP Differential Travel Times”.
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
Professor Exon was one of the two conveners of the Marine Geoscience and Paleoceanography Theme at the International Geological Congress in Brisbane in August, which covered a number of Symposia. He was one of the Conveners of two Symposia in that Theme – Integrated Ocean Drilling Program and Offshore Minerals in Oceania – giving a keynote address at the former symposium.
PRISE
Dr R.A. ARMSTRONG undertook field work in the Siep Riep area, Cambodia, 7-15 September as part of his ARC-funded research.
A/Prof C.M. FANNING conducted fieldwork in northern Chile from 27 November – 5 December.
Visiting Fellows
Dr K. A. W. CROOK attended the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre’s Marine Science Forum ‘Sea Connections’ at Eden on 24-25 March, 2012.
Dr E. A. Felton attended the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre’s Marine Science Forum ‘Sea Connections’ at Eden on 24-25 March, 2012.
Dr C. Klootwijk, 34th International Geological Congres, Brisbane, 5-10 August, presented a poster entitled “Middle-Late Paleozoic Australia-Asia convergence and Alice Springs Orogeny-related tectonic extrusion”, P3M-234: 2397.
Dr Truswell submitted a paper entitled Thulia: a tale of the Antarctic: the earliest Antarctic poem and its musical setting. Submitted to proceedings of the conference ‘Antarctica; Music, Sounds and Cultural Connections’ ANU School of Music, 25th 26th June, ANU e-press Submitted February 2012.
Dr Truswell presented a paper Dredging up Mawson; implications for the geology of coastal East Antarctica at the Mawson Conference, University of Tasmania, Nov.30 – Dec. 1 2011. Submitted to conference proceedings and is in press with Papers and Proceedings Royal Society of Tasmania.
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Earth Chemistry
Dr J.J. BROCKS, scientific adviser and interviews (in the McArthur River Mine and at RSES) for a Japanese national television science program.
Dr J.J. BROCKS hosted a group of the National Youth Science Forum.
Mr A. CHOPRA co-hosted a stargazing event at the Australian Parliament House as part of the Science Meets Parliament event 'Masterclass in Astronomy' under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Professor B. Schmidt on 17 September 2012.
Mr A. CHOPRA was interviewed by Melanie Tait of ABC 666 Canberra Radio about the review paper on planetary habitability he co-authored with Dr C. LINEWEAVWER on 30 April 2012.
Mr A. CHOPRA was interviewed by Alex Sloan of ABC 666 Canberra Radio about the 2012 Venus Transit Event at the Mount Stromlo Observatory on 5 June 2012.
Mr A. CHOPRA organised a public telescope observing at ANU campus of 2012 Venus Transit Event on 5 June 2012 (~300 visitors)
Mr A. CHOPRA presented a three minute talk at the 2012 Trans-Tasman 3MT Competition hosted at University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Mr A. CHOPRA presented a three minute talk in the 2012 NASA Astrobiology FameLab Online Competition.
Mr A. CHOPRA assisted with other RSES staff and students at the 2012 ANU Open Day.
Mr A. CHOPRA’s comments on a paper suggesting that life originate in geothermal ponds rather than in oceans by Armen Mulkidjanian et al. (PNAS 2012) were featured in an article written by Nicola Rowe for Cosmos Magazine on 21 February 2012.
Mr A. CHOPRA participated in a workshop on cross-disciplinary research at ANU, organised by Research Student Development Centre, ANU on 21 March.
Dr M. FORSTER supervised PhD students from Royal Holloway University of London, SEARG, both in the field (Indonesia and Italy) for structural geology (8 PhD students, in June and September); and at ANU for argon geochronology (3 PhD students) (Oct-Nov).
Ms A. F. KOMUGABE was interviewed on the ANU website about the use of black corals to determine changes in regional circulation in the Tasman Sea.
Ms A. F. KOMUGABE - Article in the ANU Reporter (Autumn 2012) published on: “Chronicles of the Deep” written by: Lucy Wedlock on research done by A.F. Komugabe.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture (via Skype)February 10, 2012 "Extending the Atavistic Model for the Origin of Cancer" at the Arizona State University Cancer Workshop (Feb 8-10, 2012)organized by Paul Davies and Charley Lineweaver
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER attended the November 3-6, 2012 Meeting "Cancer and Oxidative Phosphorylation" at Arizona State University and presented the lecture "Atavism, Sex, Multicellulary and Neotony", November 4, 2012 10:30-11 am.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER attended the Australian Exoplanet Workshop December 10-12 and presented a lecture "How Common are Planetary Systems like our Solar System?", Mt Stromlo, December 11, 3-3:15 pm.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER talked to National Youth Science Foundation elite Year 10 and 11 students selected from the best Australian high school science students about his research, careers in astronomy and answered questions about astronomy/cosmology/astrobiology. January 20th, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, January 25th 2012, 3:30-4:30 pm, Mt Stromlo Observatory.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture "Astrobiology" to year 11 and 12 science students at MacRobertson Girls High School, Melbourne, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, May 31, 2012.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave the Stanhope Oration "Science, It's Critical" at Conference of Australian Science Teachers Association (CONASTA) Shinedome, ANU 6:40 - 7:40 pm, July 9, 2012 (audience ~ 300 science teachers).
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture "Exoplanets" to the North Sydney Astronomical Society, September 20, 2012, St. Ignatius College, North Sydney, 8:00-9:00 pm.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a guest lecture on "Black Holes and Cosmology" to Geoff McNamara's Advanced Science Students at Melrose High School, 2-3 pm, October 23, 2012.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER has been invited to give a guest lecture in Mumbai, India as part of the India Institute of Technology Bombay, Techfest 2013 "Entropy, Aliens and Multiverses" January 5, 2013. http://www.techfest.org/home/event/lectures
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed live by Samantha Armytage and Andrew O'Keefe Channel 7, Weekend Sunrise, 9:20 to 9:27 am, Feb 5, 2012.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Graham Phillips on May 16, 2012, 3:30 - 4:30 pm about NASA's Kepler Transit Telescope, Mars Curiosity Rover and Extraterrestrials. The segment on the Mars Curiosity Rover was aired on "Catalyst" Thursday, 8 pm, August 16, 2012 http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3568611.htm
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed on TV about the transit of Venus, June 6, 2012 7:40 am http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-06/astronomy-expert-on-transit-of-venus/4054810 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuDO_ggPcFc
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed on ABC TV about the transit of Venus, June 6, 2012 9 am http://www.veengle.com/s/PACIFIC+VENUS/3.html
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed about the transit of Venus, June 6, 2012 9:30 pm
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by ABC News Breakfast Show about the landing of Curiosity Rover, Aug 6, 2012, 8:30-8:35 am http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3561881.htm
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by ABC TV, August 6, 2012 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-06/nasa-rover-to-attempt-mars-landing/4179284
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed on ABC TV about the Curiosity Rover Landing, August 6, 2012 http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3561881.htm
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed live about new discoveries of NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover, Sunday, August 12, 2012, 8:15-8:21 am, Channel 7, Weekend Sunrise.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed live about the death of Neil Armstrong, 1st man on the Moon, Sunday, August 26, 2012, 7:38-7:43 am, Channel 7, Weekend Sunrise. http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/a0bb8ea8_b46c_33ae_a3b7_627dd0ea7d2f/dr-charley-on-the-impact-of-neil-armstrong/
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed on ABC TV about NASA's Voyager I leaving the Solar System, September 11, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ig7ILoEz5Y
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by ABC TV about Felix Baumgartner's jump from outer space, Monday, October 15, 2012
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3611189.htm
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed on ABC National TV about the total solar eclipse, 7:10 am-7:20 am, November 14, 2012
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-14/astronomer-explains-solar-eclipse/4370510
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed about the total eclipse of the Sun,
7:38 am - 8:15 am 14 November, 2012
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-14/watch-the-eclipse2c-with-commentary-from-anu-astronomer-charle/4370570
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed about the total eclipse of the Sun, 3pm, SBS TV, 14 November, 2012
Dr.C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed live about new discoveries of NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover, December 2, 2012, 9:10-9:20, Channel 7, Weekend Sunrise.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Graham Philips about Voyager the supposed fine-tuning of the universe, 3:30-4:30 pm, December 12, 2012 to be aired in 2013 on ABC TV "Catalyst"
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed with Dr Karl, by Larry and Samantha Armytage of Weekend Sunrise, Channel 7, about the astronomical aspects of the Mayan Calendar and the supposed End-of-the-World, Sunday, 9:10-9:20, December 16, 2012
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER hosted interview of Paul Davies for ANU TV, recorded May 18, 2012. ~ 28 minutes. Uploaded May 31, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sjrga5LROc
3,539 hits on Dec 17, 2012
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/106097/Are_we_alone_in_the_universe_Dr_Charley_Lineweaver_and_Professor_Paul_Davies/
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture and was part of a discussion on the origin of life, Hosted by Peter Spinks, Science correspondent for "The Age" Melbourne, The Age Auditorium, 6-8:30 pm, May 30, 2012:
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/the-mystery-behind-the-origin-of-life-20120717-226y1.html
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was filmed and interviewed about the evolution of life on Earth, the definition of life and human-like intelligence, by Dustin Welbourne, Chief Scientist of the Canberra Reptile Sanctuary, at Mt Stromlo 1:30 - 2pm, Thursday, October 13, 2011, The video was posted on YouTube as "Interview with a Scientist- Dr Charles H. Lineweaver" www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K09GeJeSmM. http://www.theastronomers.org/view/644/interview-with-a-scientist-dr-charles-h-lineweaver/
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Ginger Gorman, ABC 666 Canberra, the meaning of "space-time", 11:40-12 pm, May 27, 2012
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Ginger Gorman, ABC 666 Canberra, the big bang as "fire", 9:50-10:50 pm, June 3, 2012
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed on ABC 666 Canberra, about the transit of Venus, June 6, 2012, 7:32 pm.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed about the Mars Curiosity Rover, August 6, 2012 4:03-4:08 pm ABC local radio, Queensland
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed about the Mars Curiosity Rover, August 6, 2012 4:40-4:48 pm ABC Skynews
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed ABC 666 Canberra, Drive Show "old, new, borrowed blue" theme, 3:15-3:45 pm, August 15, 2012
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed about the expansion of the universe on Radio National, Driver Program, 7:30 - 8:30 pm, September 27, 2012
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by ABC local radio, Queensland, 4:40-4:45 pm September 28, 2012
Dr. C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed ABC 666 National, October 12, 2012,
10pm-11pm
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was interviewed by Sandy Aloisi for ABC National, November 29, 2012, 5:25-5:30pm
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER was given a strong endorsement at9:31 am December 13, 2012, 612 ABC Brisbane Mornings, by Dr Karl who "encourages listeners to look up Charley Lineweaver, ANU, and his definition of life.
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER’s 2012 review paper on planetary habitability was the subject of an ABC Science feature news article (27 April 2012). The story was featured in the 'Best of abc.net.au'.
Dr C.H. Lineweaver's research on cancer was reported in an article "The Astrobiology of Cancer" .
www.spacedaily.com/reports/ The_Astrobiology_Of_Cancer_999.html
Dr C.H. Lineweaver was interviewed by The Age science correspondent, Peter Spinks about the Curiosity Rover results, August 12, 2012.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/technology/sci-tech/hopes-rise-for-life-on-mars-20121205-2aun6.html
Dr C.H. Lineweaver was interviewed by Andrew Croome, Writer in Residence, Mt Stromlo Observatory, September 2012, see "Life on Other Planets" at
http://www.love2read.org.au/writersworking.cfm
Dr C.H. Lineweaver was interviewed by Jessica of Cosmos Magazine, 9:15-9:45 am, November 28, 2012.
Dr C.H. Lineweaver was interviewed by Caitlin of Cosmos Magazine, 4-5pm, October 11, 2012.
Dr C.H. Lineweaver was interviewed by Josh, Masters in Science Communication Student, September 27, 2012
Dr C.H. LINEWEAVER gave a lecture to Australian Science Teachers, Jan 12, 11am -12 pm, ANU Forestry Building (Bldg 48), Rm 103 as part of National Youth Science Program.
Mrs K. STRZEPEK was interviewed by ABC radio (Adelaide) when on board the Aurora Australis discussing the scientific interest of Antarctic oceanography. Interview lasted ~ 4minutes. She also conducted an interview for ABC television news onboard the same voyage discussing the student opportunities onboard the ship.
Mrs K. STRZEPEK also was filmed for a documentary that is to be shown on National Geographic channel in 2013 where she was sole presenter.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS hosted a visit to the SHRIMP laboratory by students attending the National Youth Science Forum, 6th January.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS hosted a visit to the SHRIMP laboratory by students from Radford College, 23rd March.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS hosted a tour of the SHRIMP laboratory by students visiting RSES in June as part of the ANU Explore Arts and Science days.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS hosted a visit to the SHRIMP laboratory by high school science teachers as part of the Confertence of the Australian Science Teachers Association (CONASTA) held at the ANU in July.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS assisted in providing advice to prospective students at the ANU Open Day, 25th August.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS arranged and hosted a visit to RSES by a delegation of 30 senior managers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 13th September.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS participated in the making of a short film promoting RSES.
Earth Environment
Dr N.J. ABRAM took over the role of RSES Communications and Outreach co-ordinator in November 2012.
Dr N.J. ABRAM gave talks to all year 3 and 4 students at Turner School about being a scientist working in Antarctica, 6 March 2012.
Dr N.J. ABRAM gave talks to high school students visiting RSES from Melrose High School (March 2012), Gungahlin College (18 September 2012) and Rossmoyne Senior High School (6 December 2012).
Dr N.J. ABRAM was interviewed by ABC Online, ABC Radio, CSIRO Helix Magazine, Crikey and Polar Science Foundation about an Antarctic Peninsula ice core palaeoclimate record published in Nature, 22 August 2012. The ANU and BAS Media releases generated worldwide coverage of the research.
Prof Patrick De Deckker gave a lecture to the University of the Third Age [U3A] in Canberra on climate variability, another lecture on “extraordinary micro-organisms viewed in 3-D” at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium, and on geochemical and microbiological dust fingerprinting at the University of Ghent, Belgium.
Dr M.K. GAGAN served as a member of the Science Advisory Board for the Earth Observatory of Singapore (Nanyang Technological University), whose mission is to study and forecast natural phenomena threatening Southeast Asia.
Dr. D.C. “Bear” McPHAIL gave seminars on groundwater in the Lower Murrumbidgee to NSW Office of Water staff in July 2012.
Dr D.C. “Bear” McPHAIL led the Honours Student Challenge between ANU and University of Wollongong students, Moss Vale, NSW in September 2012.
Dr B.N. Opdyke has a regular radio spot on Radio Land Care 2XX discussing climate change issues on a monthly basis.
Prof B.J. PILLANS, Chair, Steering Committee of the National Rock Garden Trust.
Ms Jenna ROBERTS led a three-week trip in July to the United Kingdom with six Year 12 students selected from the National Youth Science Forum to attend the Euroscience Open Forum, and mentored a number of leadership and developmental activities, visited numerous Scottish universities and arranged tours through their Earth Science facilities.
Mr N. SCROXTON was an Editor for the student run blog ‘OnCirculation’. He also gave an outreach talk to Year 8 Science students at Melrose High School, ACT.
Miss C. Thompson was a student volunteer at the 2012 Ocean Sciences Conference in Salt Lake City, USA, 20 February 2012.
Miss C Thompson received financial travel assistance from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, the ANU Vice-Chancellors HDR Travel Grant and the RSES DA Brown travel scholarship during 2012.
Ms S. TYNAN attended a Science Communication Workshop run by the ANU Centre for Public Awareness of Science, and upon completion of which was awarded the ANU Graduate Short Course Award in Science Communication.
Earth Materials & Processes
PROFESSOR RICHARD ARCULUS presented papers at ‘SW Pacific Workshop, IODP, 9th to 11th October, Sydney and ‘Arc Hydrothermal Drilling, IODP, November 14th to 17th, Lisbon, Portugal.
DR ANDREW BERRY was an invited speaker at the "Synchrotron Geosciences in Australia: Industry Workshop" hosted by the Australian Synchrotron.
PROFESSOR STEPHEN COX provided a one-day structural geology workshop to geoscientists of Gold Fields Australia at Kambalda in October. He also presented a one-day course to geologists of Swan Lake Gold and Integra Resources near Kalgoorlie in October; contributed invited lectures and field teaching at the 2nd EGU Summer School held over 6 days in the Italian Alps in August; provided mentoring and teaching materials to support teaching of Earth Sciences during semester 1 at Merici College, Canberra.
MR BRENDAN HANGER assisted with visits from the National Youth Science Forum and the Chinese Academy of Science.
PROFESSOR JOERG HERMANN participated in several tours for High School students from Canberra and the region; organized and delivered four two-hour workshops for 30 school teachers from Canberra high schools.
DR PENNY KING was Membership Committee Chair for Mineralogical Society of America; Organizing Committee for Meteoritcal Society Meeting, Cairns.
DR OLIVER NEBEL visited the clean laboratory facilities in Tübingen, Germany for exchange of ideas in methodology for stable isotope hard rock sample analyses.
DR GREG YAXLEY assisted A/Prof Joerg Hermann with the organisation of a TESEP (Teacher Earth Science Education Program) workshop at RSES and co-ordinated a workshop for science teachers attending the CONASTA conference at ANU in July. Co-ordinated and presented talks to Year 11 and 12 students from Australia and New Zealand, participating in the National Youth Science Forum in January.
Earth Physics
Dr N BALFOUR gave a demonstration of seismometers with National Youth Science Forum visitors.
Dr N BALFOUR hosted a student from Canberra College as part of work experience.
Dr N BALFOUR gave seminar to a class of students at Melrose High School students and mentored for students as part of an ACE Science project.
Dr N BALFOUR gave seminar and ran a workshop at the Australian Science Teachers conference (CONASTA).
Dr N BALFOUR gave a talk to students visiting RSES from Orange High School.
Mr. C. C. CHAPMAN participated in the ANU final of the “3 minute thesis” competition as part of the ANU’s Research Fest, 2012.
Prof P. CUMMINS gave an invited presentation on “Earthquakes and Tsunamis” at the 2012 Conference of Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA).
Prof P. CUMMINS gave part of a shared presentation on “Volcanoes and Earthquakes in our Neighbourhood” at 2012 forum of University of the Third Age (U3A)/ Council of the Ageing (COTA)
Dr S. DOWNES visited two primary schools in the ACT to present her research on hydrothermal vents and life as a scientist. Dr. S. DOWNES is also partnered with a primary school through the national Scientists and Mathematicians in Schools program, and has taught students the fundamental concepts of light and sound in nature.
Dr A. McC. HOGG gave a seminar entitled “Oceans & Climate” as part of the Elizabeth Blackburn “Hooked on Science” lecture tour for high school students at the Australian Academy of Science.
Dr G.O HUGHES hosted several visiting groups, such as the National Youth Science Forum and a Chinese research delegation, in the GFD laboratory.
Dr. G. IAFFALDANO - Study on interaction between climate and tectonics reported at one of the top 100 science stories of 2012 by Discover Magazine.
Dr S. MCCLUSKY contributed to an article in the Fairfax Age newspaper on
November 13th 2012 entitled “Between a Rock and a Hard Plate”.
Dr S. MCCLUSKY taught a 5-day workshop on “GPS Data Analysis Techniques”
at INSTITUT TEKNOLOGI BANDUNG (ITB) in Indonesia November 2012.
Dr S. MCCLUSKY contributed to an Australia-India Strategic Research Fund
(AISRF) 7-day workshop on Geology, Hazards and Resources of the Himalaya in
Manali, India in November 2012.
DR S. MCCLUSKY presented lectures to grades 1/2 and 3/4 at Aranda Primary School in April 2012, entitled, “Introduction to Earth Science”.
Between January 11-17, Dr. N. RAWLINSON undertook a series of interviews on the subject of seismic imaging of the Newer Volcanics provinces in Victoria. This included interviews on ABC 666, ABC 774, ABC news radio and the Canberra Times. The total equivalent value in advertising for the ANU was estimated at $14,887 (Media Monitors).
Dr M. SALMON gave talks and tours to National Youth Science Forum students and high school students visiting RSES 6th and 20th January.
Dr M. SALMON is the new outreach coordinator for Earth Physics
Dr M. SALMON participated in the Canberra Jason Project mentoring year 7 and 8 students with high academic ability February – June.
Dr M. SALMON helped with the launch of the Australian Seismometers in Schools launch at Melrose High School 30th May.
Dr M. SALMON helped present the Australian Seismometers in Schools workshop at the Conference of the Australian Science Teachers Association, Canberra, 9th July
Dr M. SALMON represented the Australian Seismometers in Schools program with demonstrations at the Geoscience Australia open day 19th August.
Dr M. SALMON helped with the Research School of Earth Sciences booth at University open day 25th of August.
Dr M. SALMON presented the AuSREM model to a workshop with Woodside at RSES on the 17th October.
Dr M. SALMON gave a talk and tour of the seismology facilities to 20 Gungahalin students 30th November.
Dr M. SALMON organised the Rossmoyne School visit to RSES and gave a talk and tour of the seismology facilities 6th December.
Dr M. SALMON presented the Australian Seismometers in Schools program and reported on ANU’s activity to the Australian Seismologists meeting Tweed Heads 7th December.
In May, Prof. M. SAMBRIDGE attended to launch of the Australian Seismometers in Schools program at Melrose High school, ACT.
In July, Prof. M. SAMBRIDGE, Drs. N. BALFOUR and M. SALMON gave demonstrations on seismology and earthquakes at the 2012 Conference of the Australian Science Teachers Association, in Canberra.
In September Prof. M. SAMBRIDGE spent a day a Lyneham Primary School, ACT, teaching year 3 and 4 students about earthquakes and plate tectonics.
Dr H TKALČIĆ gave invited seminar talks at the Seoul National University, Seoul and Korean Polar Research Institute, Incheon, on the Earth’s core and lithospheric structure using receiver functions.
Dr H TKALČIĆ was invited to develop and teach an Advanced Studies Course workshop on joint inversion of receiver functions and surface waves by the Incorporated Research Institutions of Seismology to be held in Kuwait in January, 2013.
Dr P. TREGONING was interviewed on ABC 891 Adelaide about regional sea level change around Australia. Approximately 10 minute interview with Ian Henschke, broadcast at 9:22 am 13 August.
Dr P. TREGONING was interviewed on 2xx Landcare program on 3 April about the Indian Ocean dipole and how it affects the weather in southeast Australia. 1 hour programme broadcast at 9 am.
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
Professor Exon was an author of the 2011 Indian Ocean IODP Workshop reports for Scientific Drilling and the IODP website.
He was also on the ANZIC-led organising committee and chaired the Southwest Pacific IODP Workshop held at Sydney University in October 2012, and partly funded by ANZIC. Eighty scientists from around the world attended, discussions were fruitful, and a number on new proposals for IODP drilling in the Southwest Pacific will be submitted for the April 2013 deadline. There is a good chance of drilling in the region in 2015-16.
Visiting Fellows
Dr K. A. W. Crook is a member of the Board of Management of the Eden Killer Whale Museum, Eden NSW. During 2012 he has provided assistance and professional advice on the acquisition and display of replicas of Devonian fish fossils from sites on the NSW Far South Coast, supplied by Dr Gavin Young of Earth& Marine Sciences, RSES.
Dr E. A. FELTON serves on the Board of the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre, Eden, NSW, a marine education and research organisation that is supported by ANU’s Office of Student Equity. She conducts a range of indoor and outdoor community and school education activities in marine geology, and is a volunteer guide in the Discovery Centre.
Dr E. A. FELTON is a member of the Geoheritage and Geodiversity Reference Group, advising Sapphire Coast Tourism on the geological heritage of SE Australia. In this role she has recently provided scientific oversight and editing of contributions to the Sapphire Coast Tourism’s Heritage Tourism Strategy project.
Dr E. A. FELTON provided notes about local geology for the web page of the Eden Access Centre.
DR E. A. FELTON provided geological information to journalist Tim the Yowie Man (Fairfax Media Limited).
Dr Truswell designed and had accepted, a course for U3A entitled Art and Science in the early exploration of Antarctica, for presentation in 2013.
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