Communications 2015

 Conferences and workshops

Awards

Outreach

2015 Appointments and Positions

Media

Visitors

 

CCFS web resources provide information on background, research and downloadable files of the Annual Report and Research Highlights. 

Links to the GEMOC website (http://www.gemoc.mq.edu.au/) provide past GEMOC Annual Reports, updated details on its methods, new analytical advances and software updates (GLITTER), activities of research teams within GEMOC, synthesised summaries of selected research outcomes and items for secondary school resources. 

Links to the CET (Centre for Exploration Targeting) website (http://www.cet.edu.au/) provide access to wider information about CET activities beyond its involvement in CCFS and especially the wide base of end-user interaction.

Links to The Institute for Geoscience Research (TiGer) website (http://tiger.curtin.edu.au/) provide information about their facilities, participants and research activities. 

Strong industry interaction in CCFS in 2015 ranged from presentations to specific industry groups in their offices to numerous formal and informal workshops at CET and GEMOC, and invited and plenary presentations at peak industry symposia, workshops and conferences nationally and internationally.
 

CCFS publications for 2015 are given in Appendix 5

The 188 CCFS publications that were published in 2015 are dominantly in high-impact international journals (Thomson ISI); the remainder are in outlets targeted to specific stakeholders (e.g., Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, Economic Geology).

CCFS now has a LinkedIn Group - Join the conversation at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/6969996

 

PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN 2015 

CCFS Investigators, associated staff, early-career researchers and postgraduates had a high profile at 35 peak geophysical, metallogenic, geodynamic and geochemical conferences as convenors, invited speakers, or presenters, with 212 presentations including:

  • 4th Australasian Universities Geoscience Educators Network (AUGEN) Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 12-13 January 2015
  • ASEG-PESA 24th International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition, Perth, Australia, 15-18 February 2015
  • 13th Biennial AMAS Australian Microbeam Analysis Symposium, Hobart, Australia, 11-13 February 2015
  • WA Geophysics Workshop, Perth, Australia, 18 February 2015
  • 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, TX, USA, 16-20 March 2015
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGG-CAS), Beijing, China, 30 March 2015
  • European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015
  • 2015 Joint Assembly: Canadian Cratons Through Time: 4.0 Ga of Chemical Evolution and Tectonism, Montreal, Canada, 3-6 May 2015
  • AGU-GAC-MAC Joint Assembly, Montreal, Canada, 3-7 May 2015
  • WA, Multiscale Seismic Workshop, ARRC, Perth, Australia, 19 May 2015
  • Astrobiology Science Conference 2015, Habitability, Habitable Worlds and Life, Chicago, USA, 15-19 June 2015
  • World Chinese Geoscience Conferences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 15-21 June 2015
  • Inaugural Advanced Resource Characterisation Facility Conference, Perth, Australia, 18 June 2015
  • 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical-Society, Berkeley, CA, USA, 27-31 July 2015
  • Microscopy and Microanalysis 2015, Portland, USA, 2-6 August 2015
  • Saying goodbye to a 2D Earth, International Conference, Margaret River, WA, Australia, 2-7 August 2015
  • 12th Annual Meeting Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Singapore, 2-7 August 2015
  • 2nd Mars 2020 Landing Site Workshop, Monrovia, California, USA, 4-6 August 2015
  • IGCP-649 Workshop on: Ophiolites and Related High-Pressure Rocks in the Qilian Mountains, Xining, China, 5-10 August 2015
  • 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015 (pictured above: Romain Tilhac at the Goldschmidt Conference)

Romain Tihlac at the Goldschmidt Conference.


  • 13th SGA Conference, Nancy, France, 24-27 August 2015
  • 2nd European Mantle Workshop, Wroclaw, Poland, 24-28 August 2015
  • International Conference Large Igneous Provinces, Mantle Plumes and Metallogeny in the Earth's History, Irkutsk-Listvyanka, Russia, 1-8 September 2015
  • 8th Hutton Symposium on Granites and Related Rocks, Florianópolis, Brazil, 20-25 September 2015
  • First China-Russia International Meeting on the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and IGCP 592 Workshop, Beijing, China, 23-25 September 2015
  • TIGeR Conference, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 23-25 September 2015
  • SEG 2015: World-Class Ore Deposits: Discovery to Recovery, Hobart, Australia, 27-30 September 2015
  • 15th Australian Space Research Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 29 September - 1 October 2015
  • Geological Society of America Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1-4 November 2015
  • 2nd Lithosphere Dynamics Workshop, Perth, Australia, 19-20 November 2015
  • Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology (SGTSG) conference: Riding the Wave, Caloundra, Queensland, Australia, 22-27 November 2015
  • Geological Survey of Western Australia 2015 Annual Lectures, Perth, Australia, 3 December 2015
  • Greenland Day Conference, Perth, Australia, 9 December 2015
  • 59th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association, Cardiff, UK, 14-17 December 2015
  • AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 14-18 December 2015

 

INVITED TALKS AT MAJOR CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS IN 2015

ASEG-PESA 24th International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition, Perth, Australia, 15-18 February 2015
Geoscience data integration: Insights into mapping lithospheric architecture
G.C. Begg, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O'Reilly and L. Natapov  Keynote

13th Biennial AMAS Australian Microbeam Analysis Symposium, Hobart, Australia, 11-13 February 2015
Quantitative microstructural analysis of geological materials: New views on glacier flow, meteorite impacts and deep mantle processes S. Piazolo  Invited

WA Geophysics Workshop, Perth, Australia, 18 February 2015
Large scale issues in the WA lithosphere
H. Yuan  Invited

WA, Multiscale Seismic Workshop, ARRC, Perth, Australia, 19 May 2015
Passive seismic studies in the Capricorn orogen
H. Yuan  Invited

World Chinese Geoscience Conferences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 15-21 June 2015
Supercontinent-superplume coupling in Earth history: toward a new tectonic paradigm
Z.X. Li  Invited

Inaugural Advanced Resource Characterisation Facility Conference, Perth, Australia, 18 June 2015
High-impact atom probe research: A case study on shocked zircon
S.M. Reddy  Invited



The NRSP's Geoscience Atom Probe: Context and future research
S.M. Reddy  Invited

78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical-Society, Berkeley, CA, USA, 27-31 July 2015


Record of the early impact history of the Earth-Moon system: targeted geochronology of shocked zircon
N.E. Timms, S.M. Reddy, A.J. Cavosie, A.A. Nemchin, M.L., Grange and T.M. Erickson  Invited

12th Annual Meeting Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Singapore, 2-7 August 2015


Heterogeneous crust in the Western Australian Craton: Seismic characteristics and tectonic implications
H. Yuan  Invited

2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015
Geochronology of ex situ shocked zircons: Towards dating impacts
A.J. Cavosie, S.M. Reddy, N.E. Timms, T.M. Erickson and M.R. Pincus  Invited

To subduct or not to subduct? that is the Archaean question…
V. Debaille, C. O'Neill and A.D. Brandon  Invited

Timescales of magma transfer, degassing and crustal assimilation at Merapi Volcano, Indonesia
R. Gertisser, H. Handley, M. Reagan, K. Preece, K. Berlo, J. Barclay and R. Herd  Invited

New insights into the lithospheric and deeper mantle
W.L. Griffin, J.C. Afonso, T. Satsukawa, N. McGowan, N. Pearson and S.Y. O'Reilly  Invited

Constraints from Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb-Os isotopes for enriched and depleted Hawaiian Plume components in the oldest Emperor Seamounts
K. Hoernle, B. Schaefer, M. Portnyagin, F. Hauff and R. Werner  Invited

Metallic lead nanospheres discovered in ancient Antarctic zircons
M. Kusiak, D. Dunkley, M. Whitehouse, S. Wilde, R. Wirth and K. Marquardt  Invited

The evolution of the Hadean Earth
C. O'Neill  Keynote

Variations in intraplate melting regimes during Earth's Evolution
C. O'Neill and S. Zhang  Invited

Cratons, metasomatism and metallogeny
S.Y. O'Reilly, W. Griffin, N. Pearson, G. Begg and J. Hronsky  Invited

The Tonga-Kermadec arc - Lau back-arc: recent progress and future research directions
S. Turner  Keynote

2nd European Mantle Workshop, Wroclaw, Poland, 24-28 August 2015
Geodynamic and geophysical consequences of stealthy mantle metasomatism
S.Y. O'Reilly, W.L. Griffin and N.J. Pearson  Invited

TIGeR Conference, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 23-25 September 2015
The chemical signature of syn-deformational fluid-rock interaction: Nano - to microscale
S. Piazolo  Invited

SEG 2015: World-Class Ore Deposits: Discovery to Recovery, Hobart, Australia, 27-30 September 2015
Sulfur and metal fertilization of the lower continental crust
M.L. Fiorentini, M. Locmelis, J. Adam, T. Rushmer, F. Zaccarini, G. Garuti, Z. Vukmanovic, S. Caruso, M. Moroni, S. Barnes, S. Reddy and B. Godel  Invited

15th Australian Space Research Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 29 September - 1 October 2015
Early Earth and the making of mankind: Astrobiology in our own backyard
M.J. Van Kranendonk  Plenary Speaker

Geological Society of America Meeting, At Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1-4 November 2015
Precambrian reidite unearthed
S.M. Reddy, T. Johnson, W. Rickard, A. van Riessen, S. Fischer, R. Taylor, T. Prosa, D. Reinhard, K. Rice and Y. Chen  Invited

2nd Lithosphere Dynamics Workshop, Perth, Australia, 19-20 November 2015


Crust-mantle interactions in hot orogens characterised by counterclockwise P-T-t paths and slow cooling
M. Brown  Invited

Sulfur and metal fertilization of the lower continental crust
M. Fiorentini  Invited

Evolution of the lithospheric mantle by melt/rock interaction and its effects on the composition of lithosphere-derived volcanic melts
S. Foley  Invited

Constraints on kimberlite ascent mechanisms revealed by phlogopite compositions in kimberlites and mantle xenoliths
A. Giuliani  Invited

Neutral-buoyancy rule over-ruled: Crustal underplating by buoyant magmas during orogeny
R. Loucks  Invited

Secular change in Archean crust formation recorded in Western Australia
H. Yuan  Invited

Geological Survey of Western Australia 2015 Annual Lectures, Perth, Australia, 3 December 2015
Inferring past and current tectonic activities using earthquake seismology
H. Yuan  Invited
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 14-18 December 2015
Petrologically-constrained thermo-chemical modelling of cratonic upper mantle consistent with elevation, geoid, surface heat flow, seismic surface waves and MT data
A. Jones and J. Afonso  Invited

An Early, transient, impact-driven tectonic regime in the Hadean
C. O'Neill, S. Marchi and S. Zhang  Invited

Interactions among mid-ocean ridges, plumes and Large Igneous Provinces
J. Whittaker, J. Afonso, S. Masterton, D. Müller, P. Wessel, S. Williams and M. Seton  Invited

 

A full list of abstract titles and authors for Conferences and Workshops attended is given in Appendix 6 and on the Abstracts page. 

 

OTHER CONFERENCE ROLES

Conference Role
12th Annual Meeting Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Singapore, 2-7 August 2015

 

Session Convener:
Yingjie Yang - Seismic Imaging of the Earth’s Interior: Methods and Applications

 


Saying goodbye to a 2D Earth, International Conference, Margaret River, WA, Australia, 2-7 August 2015

Member of Organising and Scientific Committee:
Klaus Gessner

 


2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015

Session Co-Convener:
Martin Van Kranendonk - 06i: Modern and Past Microbialites: How do They Form? What Have We Learnt?

Session Co-Convener:
William Griffin - 12b: Processes and Deposits of Ultramafic-Mafic Magmas Through Space and Time

Session Co-Convener:
Andrew Putnis - 14g: Equilibrium Versus Disequilibrium States in Biologic Hard Tissues and Biomimetic Analogues

Session Co-Convener:
Martin Van Kranendonk - 18b: Earth’s Early Crust and the Evolution of Plate Tectonic Processes

Session Co-Convener:
Michael Brown - 18e: Models for Continental Growth Four Decades On

Session Co-Chair:
Simon Wilde - 18f: Not Just for Geochronology Anymore: What Zircon Chemistry and Geochronology Can Tell Us About Thermal Environments, Fluids and Melts in Silicate Crusts

Session Co-Convener:
Andrea Giuliani - 20f: Mantle-Derived Intraplate Magmas, their Xenolith and Diamond Cargo: Processes, Timescales, and Geodynamic Implications

Theme Co-Organiser:
Tracy Rushmer - 22: Early Earth: Earth’s History Before the Phanerozoic

Session Co-Chair:
Tracy Rushmer and Martin Van Kranendonk - 22d: Mantle Thermal Peaks, Crustal Growth and the Inception of Plate Tectonics

13th SGA Biennial Meeting, Nancy, France 24-27 August 2015 Session Co-Convener:
Marco Fiorentini - 6: Magmatic (Ni-Cu-Cr-PGE) Mineral Systems: Ore Forming Processes and Geodynamic Setting

SEG 2015: World-Class Ore Deposits: Discovery to Recovery, Hobart, Australia, 27-30 September 2015 Panellist:
Cam McCuaig - Pre-Conference Student Mentoring Forum

 


AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 14-18 December 2015

Session Co-Convener/Chair:
Yingjie Yang - S13A: Bridging the Moho: Joint Imaging of Crust and Lithospheric Mantle Structure II Posters

Session Primary Convener:
Huaiyu Yuan - T11B: Characterizing Cratons and Craton Margins I Posters

Session Co-Conveners/Chairs:
Klaus Gessner and Chris Kirkland - T11B: Characterizing Cratons and Craton Margins I Posters

Session Primary Co-Convener/Co-Chair:
Zheng Xiang Li - T13A: How Earth Works 100 Years after Wegener’s Continental Drift Theory: Supercontinent Cycles, Plate Tectonics, and Global Geodynamics I Posters

Session Primary Convener:
Huaiyu Yuan - T21F: Characterizing Cratons and Craton Margins II

Session Co-Conveners/Chairs:
Klaus Gessner and Chris Kirkland - T21F: Characterizing Cratons and Craton Margins II

Session Primary Convener:
Huaiyu Yuan - T22A: Characterizing Cratons and Craton Margins III

Session Co-Conveners/Chairs:
Klaus Gessner and Chris Kirkland - T22A: Characterizing Cratons and Craton Margins III

Session Primary Co-Convener/Co-Chair:
Zheng Xiang Li - T21G: How Earth Works 100 Years after Wegener’s Continental Drift Theory: Supercontinent Cycles, Plate Tectonics, and Global Geodynamics II

 


Greenland Day Conference, Perth, Australia, 9 December 2015
 
Conference Organiser
Marco Fiorentini

 

SELECTED WORKSHOP ROLES

Activity

Details and Participant/s

Date

CET Seminar Series Cam McCuaig 2015
CCFS/EPS Seminar Series CCFS/EPS MQ, organised by Stefan Loehr 2015
Pure Gold - Orogenic gold workshop, Red Lake Developed and presented by Cam McCuaig March 2015
First ACTER (Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Tectonics and Earth Resources (http://tectonics.curtin.edu.au) annual field workshop - Tectonic History of the South China Block and Approaches for Tectonic Analysis. See workshop report and photos at http://tectonics.curtin.edu.au/events/workshop-153.cfm

Organised by Zheng-Xiang LI
(photo Zheng-Xiang Li)

2-11 March 2015
EPS HDR Conference Day Organised by the MQ Department of EPS featuring presentations and posters from EPS and CCFS MQ PhD students 11 June 2015
Field trip to NSW south coast for IODP Forum, Canberra Co-convenor - Kelsie Dadd 6-7 July 2015
"Grand Tour" astrobiology fieldtrip Co-leader - Martin Van Kranendonk 16-25 July 2015
2nd Mars 2020 Landing Site Workshop, Monrovia, California Invited participant - Martin Van Kranendonk 4-6 August 2015
Pre Conference Workshop: The LA-ICP-MS U-(Th-)Pb Network Co-organised by Norman Pearson 15-16 August 2015
SGA 2015, Nancy (France), Pre Conference Workshop 7: Latest advances in the understanding of the genesis of Ni-Cu-PGE mineral systems and associated review on exploration targeting Co-organised by Marco Fiorentini 23 August 2015
CCFS Centre-wide Research Meeting Organised by CCFS, Hosted at Macquarie University 21-23 October 2015
Anglogold orogenic gold targeting (Perth) Lead course developer and presenter, Cam McCuaig November 2015
EPS HDR Conference Day Organised by the MQ Department of EPS featuring presentations and posters from EPS and CCFS MQ PhD students 11 November 2015
CCFS Second Lithosphere Dynamics Workshop, Perth, Sessions: Imaging the architecture and composition of the deep lithosphere - how are we advancing? Co-organised by Marco Fiorentini and Weronika Gorczyk, Hosted by UWA 19-20 November 2015
2015 Planetary Research Workshop Craig O'Neill Organised the 2015 Planetary Research Workshop at Macquarie University 26-27 November 2015
CET Members Day Host, opening Keynote - Cam McCuaig 9 December 2015
First IGCP 648 field workshop on Supercontinent Cycles and Global Geodynamics, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Co-organised by Zheng-Xiang Li, Weihua Yao and Sergei Pisarevsky 9-12 December, 2015

 

 

ESTEEM

AWARDS

 

Participant

Activity

Olivier Alard Awarded an ARC Future Fellowship
Elena Belousova
Selected to receive the 2016 Nancy Millis Award (Medal to be presented formally in May 2016)
 
Stephen Foley 2015 Highly Commended for the Jim Piper Award for Excellence in Research Leadership
Bill Griffin
Received the Royal Society of New South Wales Clarke Medal from Dame Marie Bashir (Patron)
Recognised by Thomson-Reuters as a Highly-Cited Researcher (http://highlycited.com)
 
Zheng Xiang Li John Curtin Distinguished Professor title by Curtin University, 2015
ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship, 2015
Thomson Reuters Highly-Cited Researcher 2014 & 2015
Curtin University PVC Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015

Robert Loucks Awarded the Stillwell Medal of the Geological Society of Australia for his presentation at the Annual Meeting in Adelaide, June 2015
Laure Martin UWA Fay-Gale Fellowship
Sue O’Reilly Recognised by Thomson-Reuters as a Highly-Cited Researcher
Sue O’Reilly, Bill Griffin, Zheng Xiang Li and Simon Wilde
Thomson-Reuters Citation Award for outstanding work on the “Tectonic Setting of the North and South China Cratons”, ceremony held at the University of Melbourne on 23 June 2015
 
Simon Wilde Recognised by Thomson-Reuters as a Highly-Cited Researcher
Yingjie Yang
Awarded 2015 Anton Hales Medal for Research in Earth Sciences Yingjie delivered an award lecture “The sound of the sea: 3D imaging of the Earth using noise from ocean waves.

  

2015 APPOINTMENTS AND POSITIONS

Conference Abstract
Kelsie Dadd
Membership on ANZIC (IODP) Governing Council

Ian Fitzsimons
Fellow of the Geological Society, London

Fellow of the Mineralogical Society

Keynote Speaker for SEG 2016: Tethyan Tectonics and Metallogeny

Marco Fiorentini
Appointed Associate Editor Mineralium Deposita

Weronika Gorczyk
Appointed as committee member of Geoconferences WA

Bill Griffin
Co-Convenor for Session 09a Sustainable Resourcing of Ore Deposits Related to Ultramafic-Mafic Magmas at Goldschmidt 2016 at Yokohama, Japan

Yongjun Lu
Appointed Associate Editor for SEG 2016 Special Publication on Tethys

Appointed Councillor for Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) in 2016-2019


Craig O’Neill
Member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Earth Sciences

Sue O’Reilly
Member, 2015 ERA Research Evaluation Committee

Member Executive Committee, UNCOVER national initiative (Auspices of the Australian Academy of Sciences)

Chair, Academy of Sciences National Committee for Earth Sciences, and Decadal Plan preparation

Elected Member of Council, Australian Academy of Sciences(http://www.mq.edu.au/newsroom/2014/11/14/eminent-geologist-joins-australian-academy-of-science-council/)

Appointed Convenor - Lithosphere-Asthenosphere boundary session, IGC 2016

 


EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS

 

Acta Geologica Sinica Li
Acta Geoscientia Sinica Li
American Journal of Science Wilde
American Mineralogist Piazolo
Chemical Geology Wilde
Cogent Geosciences O'Neill, Moressi
EGU Journal Solid Earth Afonso, Schaefer
Exploration Geophysics Yang
Geology Wacey
Geodynamics & Tectonophysics Pisarevsky
Geology C. Clark
Geosphere Yuan
GeoResJ George, Jacob, Schaefer
Journal of the Geological Society, London C. Clark, Fitzsimons
Journal of Jilin University – Earth Science Wilde
Journal of Metamorphic Geology Brown
Journal of Petrology Turner
Journal of Structural Geology Piazolo
Lithos C. Clark, Foley, Griffin
Mineralium Deposita Fiorentini
Nature Science Reports Wacey
Ore Geology Reviews Bagas
Physics and Chemistry of Minerals McCammon
Precambrian Research Barley, Pisarevsky, Van Kranendonk
Scientific Reports< Piazolo

  

OUTREACH

Forum

Participant/s

Date

University of Hong Kong – Public lecture on 4D isotopic mapping of the lithosphere Marco Fiorentini 30 January 2015
Judge at FIRST Robotics Competition Kelsie Dadd 13-14 March, 2015
Trial voyage of MNF RV Investigator from Hobart - Participant Kelsie Dadd 30 April – 5 May 2015
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany - Public lecture Matt Kilburn 6 May 2015
2015 Australian Academy of Science - Science at the Shine Dome - 2015 Anton Hales Medal award presentation entitled “The sound of the sea: 3D imaging of the Earth using noise from ocean waves Yingjie Yang 27 May 2015
Royal Society of New South Wales – W.B. Clarke Memorial Lectureheld at Macquarie University Bill Griffin 6 August 2015
Judge at Tempe High School Year 9 Annual Science Fair Kelsie Dadd 20 August 2015
Year 10 Careers Fair, Tempe High School Kelsie Dadd 20 August 2015
ANU RSES - Guest Speaker on "Onset of subduction and the genesis of TTG’s (tonalites-trondhjemites-granodiorites) in the earliest Earth Tracy Rushmer 27 August 2015
Herbert-Smith-Freehills Law Firm - Lecture/lunch to discuss sulfur isotopes as key to exploration targeting Crystal LaFlamme October 2015
LEAP University Experience Day, Macquarie University - This event is held as part of the LEAP Macquarie Mentoring program. The aim of the day is to bring high school students from refugee backgrounds onto campus to expose them to university life and to demystify the concept of university for them. Kelsie Dadd 16 October 2015
Talk on volcanoes at SDN Northern Suburbs Children's Education and Care Centre Kelsie Dadd 4 November 2015
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland - Public lecture on magma emplacement dynamics Marco Fiorentini 16 December 2015

  

MEDIA

Activity Participant/s Date, Forum Web address
Distinguished Professor William Griffin Bill Griffin 23/03/2015, MQ Research impact http://www.mq.edu.au/research-impact/2015/03/23/distinguished-professor-william-griffin/#.VsqOspN97OZ
Distinguished Professor Sue O’Reilly Sue O’Reilly 23/03/2015, MQ Research impact http://www.mq.edu.au/research-impact/2015/03/23/distinguished-professor-sue-oreilly/#.VsqPRZN97OY
Continental crust beneath Southeast Iceland Co-Author: Bill Griffin 30/03/2015, ABC Nyheter Radio Interview
Scientists believe sunken continent is under Iceland Co-Author: Bill Griffin 30/03/2015, Dagbladet nett http://m.db.no/2015/03/30/nyheter/forskning/utenriks/island/38482749/
Sunken continent under the southeast coast of Iceland Co-Author: Bill Griffin 30/03/2015, Forskning.no http://forskning.no/2015/03/sunket-kontinent
Fragment of Jan Mayen Microcontinent discovered beneath Iceland points to ’lost' continents Co-Author: Bill Griffin 30/03/2015, International Business Times http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/fragment-jan-mayen-microcontinent-discovered-beneath-iceland-points-lost-continents-1494187
Deeply buried continental crust under Iceland Co-Author: Bill Griffin 31/03/2015, ScienceNordic http://sciencenordic.com/content/deeply-buried-continental-crust-under-iceland
Scientific study shines new study on the origin of diamonds Marco Fiorentini, Andrea Giuliani 20/04/15, UWA News http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/201504207493/research/scientific-study-shines-new-light-source-diamonds
Genetic link between MARID mantle and diamond bearing orangeites Marco Fiorentini 20/04/15, Singapore Radio, Radio News 938LIVE Radio Interview
Genetic link between MARID mantle and diamond bearing orangeites Marco Fiorentini 21/04/15, ABC Sunshine Coast, 90.3LIVE Radio Interview
Diamond study reveals key information about the earth Marco Fiorentini, Andrea Giuliani 21/04/15, Mining.com http://www.mining.com/diamond-study-reveals-key-information-about-the-earth/?utm_source=digest-en-mining-150420&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=digest
Changing the picture of Earth’s earliest fossils (3.5-1.9 Ga) with new approaches and new discoveries Co-Author: David Wacey April 2015, ABC North West morning show & ABC Bunbury drive time Radio Interviews
Oldest evidence of life on Earth is WRONG: 3.46 billion-year-old ’fossils’ were simply stacks of clay minerals Co-Author: David Wacey 22/4/2015, Daily Mail Australia http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3049223/Oldest-evidence-life-Earth-WRONG-3-46-billion-year-old-fossils-simply-stacks-clay-minerals.html
A 3.5-billion year old Pilbara find is not the oldest fossil: so what is it? Co-Author: David Wacey 22/4/2015, The Conversation http://theconversation.com/a-3-5-billion-year-old-pilbara-find-is-not-the-oldest-fossil-so-what-is-it-40482
Diamond discovery kick Marco Fiorentini, Andrea Giuliani 23/04/2015, Mining Monthly http://miningmonthly.com/equipment/exploration/diamond-discovery-kick/
New Earth dawns: supercontinent slowly takes shape Zheng Xiang Li 26/4/2015, Canberra Times http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/education/new-earth-dawns-supercontinent-slowly-takes-shape-20150426-1mqa1q
New Earth dawns: supercontinent slowly takes shape Zheng Xiang Li 26/4/2015, Sydney Morning Herald http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/new-earth-dawns-supercontinent-slowly-takes-shape-20150426-1mqa1q.html
Earth’s newest supercontinent is taking shape: Land masses are already drifting together to form ’Amasia’ Zheng Xiang Li 28/4/2015, Daily Mail Australia http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3059002/Earth-s-newest-supercontinent-taking-shape-Land-masses-drifting-form-Amasia.html
Australia on path to join supercontinent ’Amasia’ Zheng Xiang Li 28/4/2015, Science Network WA report http://www.sciencewa.net.au/topics/environment-a-conservation/item/3494-australia-on-path-to-join-supercontinent-amasia - k2Container)
Could Earth host another supercontinent? Zheng Xiang Li 28/4/2015, UPI Science News http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/04/28/Could-Earth-host-another-supercontinent/2341430226932/
Australia on path to join UK as part of supercontinent ’Amasia Zheng Xiang Li 03/5/2015, Courier Mail science article http://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/science/australia-on-path-to-join-uk-as-part-of-supercontinent-amasia/news-story/9e009af59b45b6853c687a5e1eab7c33?=#load-story-comments
Scientific study shines new study on the origin of diamonds Marco Fiorentini, Andrea Giuliani 12/05/15, EMI Newsletter http://www.emi.uwa.edu.au/brochures-presentations
Trialling the new Marine National Facility Kelsie Dadd 12/05/2015, MQ Research impact http://www.mq.edu.au/research-impact/2015/05/12/trialling-the-new-marine-national-facility/#.VsqPzZN97OY
Big History Spotlight - Juan Carlos Afonso Juan Carlos Afonso 14/05/15, Big History Institute, MQ http://bighistoryinstitute.org/research/centres_and_groups/big_history_institute/thresholdnine/issue_three/spotlight_juan_carlos
3.46-billion-year-old ’fossils’ were not created by life forms Co-Author: David Wacey 20/5/2015, Science magazine website http://news.sciencemag.org/earth/2015/04/3-46-billion-year-old-fossils-were-not-created-life-forms
The most ancient evidence of life on Earth? Co-Author: David Wacey 25/5/2015, Cosmos magazine https://cosmosmagazine.com/life-sciences/most-ancient-evidence-life-earth
Large igneous provinces associated with mid-ocean ridges Co-Author: Juan Carlos Afonso 28/5/2015, Phys.org http://phys.org/news/2015-05-large-igneous-provinces-mid-ocean-ridges.html
World-class geoscientist awarded $2.9m Australian Laureate Fellowship Zheng Xiang Li June, Curtin University News http://news.curtin.edu.au/media-releases/world-class-geoscientist-awarded-2-9m-australian-laureate-fellowship/
Filming related to World’s Oldest Crystals at Jack Hills “Between Heaven and Earth”, producer: Arte France, Host: Serge Brunier. Episode: “Australia, History of Life on Earth” Simon Wilde 30/01/2015-1/02/2015, Filming in Murchison
01/06/2015, Aired in France
http://www.poitdujour-international.com
Supercontinent revolution Zheng Xiang Li 12/6/2015, Science Meets Business http://sciencemeetsbusiness.com.au/supercontinent-revolution/
Continents collide Simon Wilde 12/6/2015, Science Meets Business http://sciencemeetsbusiness.com.au/continents-collide/
Citation & Innovation Awards 2015 Sue O'Reilly, Bill Griffin, Simon Wilde, Zheng-Xiang Li 23/6/2015, IP & Science - Australia-New Zealand http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com.au/citation_innovation_awards_2015/
Curtin researchers WA’s only winners at prestigious awards Simon Wilde, Zheng-Xiang Li 23/6/2015, Curtin Media Release http://news.curtin.edu.au/media-releases/curtin-researchers-was-only-winners-at-prestigious-awards/
Curtin researchers WA’s only winners at prestigious awards Simon Wilde, Zheng-Xiang Li 23/6/2015, Curtin's Vice-Chancellor Blog http://blogs.curtin.edu.au/vice-chancellor/note-to-staff/2015/23-june-2015/
Macquarie University academics honoured at Thomson Reuters Australian Citation & Innovation Awards Sue O'Reilly, Bill Griffin 24/6/2016, MQ Newsroom http://mq.edu.au/newsroom/2015/06/24/macquarie-university-academics-honoured-at-thomson-reuters-australian-citation-innovation-awards/
Our fine three Sue O'Reilly, Bill Griffin 28/6/2015, This Week, MQ http://www.mq.edu.au/thisweek/archives/2015/06/our-fine-three/#.VxxLXJN97OY
The source of diamonds Marco Fiorentini 6/08/15, Radio New Zealand National Radio Interview
Volcanic history dredged from deep-sea rocks Kelsie Dadd 28/8/2015, ScienceNewsWA http://www.sciencewa.net.au/topics/environment-a-conservation/item/3746-volcanic-history-dredged-from-deep-sea-rocks
The multiple sulfur isotope project Crystal LaFlamme, Stefano Caruso, Cam McCuaig, Marco Fiorentini 07/09/2015, ABC News http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-07/sulphur-could-hold-key-to-next-generation-of-mining-deposits/6756602
New research reveals Tasmania was once far from mainland Australia Nathan Daczko 07/09/2015, UTAS Communications & Media http://www.media.utas.edu.au/general-news/all-news/new-research-reveals-tasmania-was-once-far-from-mainland-australia
Sulphur could hold key to next generation of mining deposits, research suggests Stefano Caruso 07/9/2015, National news broadcast Short video>
Jigsaw puzzles in WA holds the keys to understanding the birth of our continent Huaiyu Yuan 09/9/2015, MQ Newsroom http://www.mq.edu.au/newsroom/2015/09/09/jigsaw-puzzles-in-wa-hold-the-keys-to-understanding-the-birth-of-our-continent/
Helping choose the Mars 2020 rover landing site Martin Van Kranendonk 10/09/2015, UNSW Newsroom http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/helping-choose-mars-2020-rover-landing-site
Sulfur holds key to next generation of mining deposits Crystal LaFlamme, Stefano Caruso 10/9/2015, ABC Evening News http://www.cet.edu.au/commodity-topics/porphry-systems/2015/09/10/cet-featured-in-abc-evening-news-sulfur-holds-key-to-next-generation-of-mining-deposits
Ancient minerals on Earth can help explain the early solar system Steve Reddy 28/09/2015, The Conversation https://theconversation.com/ancient-minerals-on-earth-can-help-explain-the-early-solar-system-46991
Deciphering the Earth’s history through passive seismic noise Chengxin Jiang 12/10/2015, MQ Research impact http://www.mq.edu.au/research-impact/2015/10/12/deciphering-the-earths-history-through-passive-seismic-noise/#.VsqPlZN97OY
Time Machine - Scientists have used groundbreaking technology to figure out how the Earth looked a billion years ago Zheng Xiang Li 31/12/2015, Quartz http://qz.com/577842/scientists-have-used-groundbreaking-technology-to-figure-out-how-the-earth-looked-a-billion-years-ago/

  

VISITORS

CCFS fosters links nationally and internationally through visits of collaborators to undertake defined short-term projects, or short-term visits to give lectures and seminar sessions. Formal collaborative arrangements are facilitated by partnerships in grants with reciprocal funding from international collaborators.

All Australian and international visitors are listed in Appendix 7.

They have participated in collaborative research, technology exchange, seminars, discussions and joint publications, collaboration in postgraduate programs.

CCFS provides funds to intetnational visitors who will add value to CCFS programs and contribute to the high visibility of research in the Centre. Recipients of 2015 CCFS Visiting Researcher Funds were:

Dr Bjarne Almqvist, Department of Earth Sciences (Geophysics), Uppsala University, Sweden

Associate Professor David Baratoux, Géosciences Environnement, University of Toulouse, France

Professor Pedro Díez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Professor Nikolay Kuznetsov, Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Science,
Moscow, Russia

 

 

CCFS sponsored visitor Professor Nikolay B Kuznetsov and Professor Nadezhda Krivolutskaya working in the GAU on zircons from the Norilsk intrusions.