Contacts/Glossary 

 
Contacts

 

For all CCFS related e-mail Correspondence -  ccfs.admin@mq.edu.au

CCFS

ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems
Administering Institution
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Macquarie University NSW 2109
AUSTRALIA

Professor Suzanne Y. O'Reilly

Director
Phone: 61 2 9850 8362
Fax: 61 2 9850 8943

Magdalene Wong-Borgefjord

Chief Operating Officer
Phone: 61 2 98501197
Fax: 61 2 9850 8943

Sally-Ann Hodgekiss

Reporting and Communications Manager
Phone: 61 2 9850 6124
Fax: 61 2 9850 8943


 

Glossary

 

AINSE Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering

AMIRA

Australian Mineral Industry Research Association

AMMRF

Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility

(RSES) ANU

(Research School of Earth Sciences) Australian National University

APA

Australian Postgraduate Award

ARC

Australian Research Council

BMP Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum

BSE

Backscattered Electrons

CAS

Chinese Academy of Sciences

CAGS

Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

CCFS

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

CET

Centre for Exploration Targeting

CMCA

Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (UWA)

CNRS

French National Research Foundation

CoE

Centre of Excellence

COO

Chief Operating Officer

CSIRO

Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation

CU

Curtin University

DECRA

Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

DEST

Department of Education, Science and Training (from 2002)

DIATREEM

Consulting company within Access MQ Limited

DIISR

Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

DP

Discovery Project

EBSD

Electron Backscatter Diffraction

ECR

Early Career Researcher

ECSTAR

Early Career Start-up Awards for Research

(D)EPS

(Department of) Earth and Planetary Sciences

EMP

Electron Microprobe

ERA Excellence in Research for Australia
FIM Facility for Integrated Microanalysis          
FTIR Fourier Transfer Infrared Spectroscopy

GA

Geoscience Australia (formerly AGSO)

GAC Geological Association of Canada

GAU

Geochemical Analysis Unit (DEPS, Macquarie University)

GEMOC

Geochemical Evolution of Metallogeny of Continents

GEUS Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

GIS

Geographic Information System

GLAM

Global Lithospheric Architecture Mapping

GLITTER

GEMOC Laser ICPMS Total Trace Element Reduction software

GSWA

Geological Survey of Western Australia

ICPMS

Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer

IPRS

International Postgraduate Research Scholarship

LAM-ICPMS

Laser Ablation Microprobe - ICPMS

LIEF

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities

MC-ICPMS

Multi-Collector - ICPMS

MERIWA

The Minerals and Energy Research Institute of Western Australia

(i)MQRES

(International) Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarships

MQSIS Macquarie University Strategic Infrastructure Scheme

NCRIS

National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme

MOU

Memoranda of Understanding

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

PGE

Platinum Group Element

PIRSA

Primary Industries and Resources, South Australia

RIBG

Research Infrastructure Block Grant

SAC

Science Advisory Committee

SEM

Scanning Electron Microscope

SIRF

Scholarship for International Research Fees

TIGeR The Institute for Geoscience Research

UWA

University of Western Australia