Appendix 8: Research Funding

 

GRANTS AND OTHER INCOME FOR 2017  

  Investigators

2017 Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

O’Reilly

ARC Centre of Excellence (CE1101017)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$2,015,831

Wilde

ARC CoE (CU contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$280,000

GSWA

ARC CoE (GSWA)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$185,000

O’Reilly

ARC CoE (MQ contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$440,000

O’Reilly

ARC CoE (MQ FSE contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$110,000

Fiorentini

ARC CoE (UWA contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$415,000

Moresi, Betts, Whittaker, Miller

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102887)

The global consequences of subduction zone congestion

$180,000

Handley, Turner, Reagan, Barclay

ARC Discovery Project (DP150100328)

Timescales of mixing and volatile transfer leading to volcanic eruptions

$115,582

Jacob, Eggins, Wirth

ARC Discovery Project (DP160102081)

Mechanisms of proxy uptake in biominerals

$110,643

Putnis, Raimondo, Daczko

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103449)

Just add water: a recipe for the deformation of continental interiors

$108,000

Clark, Afonso, Jones

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103502)

To develop a geophysically relevant proton conduction model for the Earth’s upper mantle

$101,292

Hand, Clark, Hasterok, Rushmer, Reddy, Hacker

ARC Discovery Project (DP160104637)

Rehydration of the lower crust, fluid sources and geophysical expression

$137,600

Nutman, Bennett, Van Kranendonk

ARC Discovery Project (DP170100715)

Establishing the critical physical-chemical factors in the early surface environment and tectonic regime that supported early life and continuing habitability

$100,000

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL150100133)

How the Earth works - Toward building a new tectonic paradigm

$630,510

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (CU contribution)

How the Earth works - Toward building a new tectonic paradigm

$493,899

Yang

ARC Future Fellowship (FT130101220)

How the Earth moves: Developing a novel seismological approach to map the small-scale dynamics of the upper mantle

$94,735

Wang

ARC Future Fellowship (FT140100826)

Roles of deep-Earth fluid cycling in the generation of intra-continental magmatism

$333,361

Alard

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100115)

Earth’s origin and evolution: A sulphurous approach

$204,118

Selway

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100541)

Measuring mantle hydrogen to map ore fluids and model plate tectonics

$178,671

Arculus, Cohen, Gallagher, Vasconcelos, Elders, Foden, Coffin, Nebel, McGregor, Clennell, Sloss, Heap, Webster, Kemp, George

ARC LIEF (LE160100067)

Australian membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program

$2,000,000

Jessell, Holden, Baddeley, Kovesi, Ailleres, Wedge, Lindsay, Gessner, Hronsky

ARC Linkage Project (LP140100267)

Reducing 3D geological uncertainty via improved data interpretation methods

$43,300

Meffre, Whittaker, Norman, Cracknell, Belousova, Collins, Arundell, Cooke, Maas, Huston, Musgrave, Greenfield

ARC Linkage Project (LP160100483) (MQ contribution)

Ore deposits and tectonic evolution of the Lachlan Orogen, SE Australia

$164,000

Giuliani

ARC DECRA (DE150100510)

A new approach to revealing melting processes in the hidden deep Earth

$130,292

Hough, McCuaig, Reddy, Clark, Fiorentini, Gray, Miller

SIEF/MERIWA M436

Distal footprints of giant ore systems

$260,698

Hough, Reddy, McCuaig

SIEF RP

The distal footprints of giant ore systems: UNCOVER Australia

$169,401

Barnes, Fiorentini

MERIWA M459

Magmatic sulfide mineral potential in the East Kimberley

$35,000

Kirkland, Clark, Kiddie, Tyler, Spaggiari, Smithies, Wingate

MRIWA M470

Mineral systems on the margin of cratons: Albany-Fraser Orogen/Eucla Basement case study

$150,000

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 – Earth composition and evolution

$245,970

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope (MQ contribution)

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 – Earth composition and evolution

$50,000

O’Reilly

RAAP

Interest - AuScope – Earth composition and evolution

$6,890

Kirkland

Department of Mines and Petroleum

Crustal evolution project Geological Survey of Western Australia

$44,173

Lampinen, Occhipinti

ASEG Research Foundation

Research Grant

$3,000

Huang

Australian and New Zealand International Ocean Discovery Program

Consortium Mg-isotope composition of altered oceanic crust

$20,000

Afonso

MQ

Safety Net Scheme

$16,782

Afonso

MQ

DVCR Discretionary Fund

$99,879

Griffin, O’Reilly, Pearson, Belousova

MQ Enterprise Partnership Pilot Research Grant (Minerals Targeting International Pty Ltd)

Lithospheric architecture mapping in phanerozoic orogens

$60,000

Clark

MQ Enterprise Partnership Scheme

Pilot Research Grants – Sydney Water

$100,000

Clark

MQ Enterprise Partnership Scheme

Pilot Research Grants – MQ contribution

$50,000

LaFlamme

UWA

Research impact award

$10,000

Jacob

Australian Synchrotron – Access Program

H2O and CO2 distribution along grain boundaries

$1,112

Daczko

University of Tasmania - AAD Subcontract Agreement

Reconstructing East Antarctica in Gondwana: Ground-truthing a new tectonic model

$12,000

Kirkland

Ministry of Mineral Resources (Greenland)

Geochronology for the Greenland Ministry of Mineral Resources

$76,138

Yuan, Zhao

Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

China-Western Australia Seismic Survey Canning Passive Seismic Survey

$300,000

Yang, Lu

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Genesis of comb quartz layers: Case studies from porphyry Cu deposits at Qulong, Tibet and Now Chun, Iran

$50,000

Sun, Lu

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Magmatic oxidation state, water content, and volatile nature: New insights into genesis of porphyry copper mineralization at Zhunuo in the Gangdese belt, southern Tibet

$40,000

Pisarevsky

University of Oslo

Maintaining and upgrading the global palaeomagnetic database

$10,000

Yao, Wang, Zhou

China Geological Survey

The Ediacaran–Silurian palaeogeography of western Yangtze Block and its tectonic linkage with the Gondwana assembly

$10,000

Afonso, Ebbing

European Space Agency

3D Earth

€85,000

Afonso, Ebbing

European Space Agency (MQ contribution)

3D Earth

$17,200

Afonso

Research Innovation Staff Exchange

Multiscale inversion of porous rock physics using high-performance simulators: Bridging the gap between mathematics and geophysics

€765,000

Fiorentini

Barrick Gold Corporation

Gold pathways: evolution of the lithospheric to crustal architecture of the El Indio Belt, Chile-Argentina

$100,000

McCuaig, Fiorentini

Barrick Gold Corporation

The role of whole-lithosphere architecture on the genesis of giant gold systems in the El-Indio region, Chile-Argentina

$215,000

Fiorentini, Loucks

BHP Billiton

Improving zircon morphology and chemistry as a tool of assessing and ranking the relative prospectivity for Cu porphyry deposits in “greenfield” terrains

$202,000

LaFlamme, Fiorentini

Buxton Resources

Nickel sulfide prospectivity of the King Leopold Orogen, Kimberley

$10,000

Barnes, Fiorentini

IGO Independence Group

Geology and ore genesis of the Nova-Bollinger Ni deposit, WA

$160,000

LaFlamme, Thebaud, Fiorentini, Sugiono

Northern Star Resources

Fluid evolution monitored by stable isotopes at the Kanowna Belle deposit

$76,718

O’Reilly

GLITTER software

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$44,410

Clark

ANSTO

Scholarship

$91,354

CCFS Postgraduates

MQ, CU and UWA

Scholarships Scholarships

$2,775,961

Meek

MQPGRF Round 1

Melt metasomatism within the lower crust

$5,000

Forster

MQPGRF Round 2

Experimental melting of rocks of ultramafic and sedimentary origin in accretionary orogens

$3,866

Liptai

MQPGRF Round 2

Nature of the mantle beneath the Carpathian-Pannonian basin, Hungary - A mantle xenolith study

$4,697

 

 

GRANTS AND OTHER INDICATIVE INCOME FOR 2018  

  Investigators

2017 Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

GSWA

ARC CoE (GSWA)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$185,000

Handley, Turner, Reagan, Barclay

ARC Discovery Project (DP150100328)

Timescales of mixing and volatile transfer leading to volcanic eruptions

$115,582

Moresi, Betts, Whittaker, Miller

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102887)

The global consequences of subduction zone congestion

$150,000

Jacob/Eggins

ARC Discovery Project (DP160102081)

Mechanisms of proxy uptake in biominerals

$110,643

Putnis, Raimondo, Daczko

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103449)

Just add water: A recipe for the deformation of continental interiors

$55,000

Clark, Afonso, Jones

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103502)

To develop a geophysically relevant proton conduction model for the Earth’s upper mantle

$72,675

Hand, Clark, Hasterok, Rushmer, Reddy, Hacker

ARC Discovery Project (DP160104637)

Rehydration of the lower crust, fluid sources and geophysical expression

$101,826

Nutman, Bennett, Van Kranendonk

ARC Discovery Project (DP170100715)

Establishing the critical physical-chemical factors in the early surface environment and tectonic regime that supported early life and continuing habitability

$100,000

Van Kranendonk, Fiorentini, Campbell, Deamer

ARC Discovery Project (DP180103204)

A terrestrial hot spring setting for the origin of life?

$193,000

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL150100133)

How the Earth works - Toward building a new tectonic paradigm

$609,068

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (CU contrib)

How the Earth works - Toward building a new tectonic paradigm

$493,899

Wang

ARC Future Fellowship} (FT140100826)

Roles of deep-Earth fluid cycling in the generation of intra-continental magmatism

$333,361

Alard

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100115)

Earth’s origin and evolution: A sulphurous approach

$192,240

Selway

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100541)

Measuring mantle hydrogen to map ore fluids and model plate tectonics

$161,338

Arculus, Cohen, Gallagher, Vasconcelos, Elders, Foden, Coffin, Nebel, McGregor, Clennell, Sloss, Heap, Webster, Kemp, George

ARC LIEF (LE160100067)

Australian membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program

$2,000,000

Meffre, Whittaker, Norman, Cracknell, Belousova, Collins, Arundell, Cooke, Maas, Huston, Musgrave, Greenfield

ARC Linkage Project (LP160100483)

The distal footprints of giant ore systems: UNCOVER Australia

$20,829 (to MQ)

George, Paterson, Van Kranendonk, Brocks, Sherwood, Jacob, Fuerbach, Brock, Lohr, Sestak

ARC LIEF (LE180100060)

Femtosecond laser micropyrolysis gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer

$297,463

Sampson, Barnes, Fiorentini, Fitzsimons, Johnson, Kemp, Kilburn, Martyniuk, Putnis, Reddy, Smithies, Uvarova

ARC LIEF (LE180100070)

Cutting-edge electron probe microanalysis driving Western Australia’s resource geosciences

$966,283

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 – Earth composition and evolution

$245,970

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope (MQ contribution)

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 – Earth composition and evolution

$50,000

O’Reilly

RAAP

AuScope – Earth composition and evolution

$200,000

Yang, Lu

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Genesis of comb quartz layers: Case studies from porphyry Cu deposits at Qulong, Tibet and Now Chun, Iran

$50,000

Sun, Lu

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Magmatic oxidation sate, water content, and volatile nature: New insights into genesis of porphyry copper mineralization at Zhunuo in the Gangdese belt, southern Tibet

$40,000

Yuan, Zhao

Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

China-Western Australia Seismic Survey

$99,690

LaFlamme, Thebaud, Fiorentini, Sugiono

Northern Star Resources

Fluid evolution monitored by stable isotopes at the Kanowna Belle Deposit

$254,483

Fiorentini

Barrick Gold Corporation

Gold pathways: evolution of the lithospheric to crustal architecture of the El Indio Belt, Chile-Argentina

$100,000

Barnes, Fiorentini

IGO Independence Group

Geology and ore genesis of the Nova-Bollinger Ni deposit, WA

$160,000

Fiorentini, Loucks

BHP Billiton

Improving zircon morphology and chemistry as a tool of assessing and ranking the relative prospectivity for Cu porphyry deposits in “greenfield” terrains

$202,000