ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid SystemsCommunications 2019
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 2019 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 2019 are given in Appendix 3
The 155 CCFS publications that were published in 2019 are predominantly 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).
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PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN 2019
CCFS Investigators, associated staff, early-career researchers and postgraduates had a high profile at 24 peak geophysical, metallogenic, geodynamic and geochemical conferences as convenors, invited speakers, or presenters, with 138 presentations including:
• Melt Evolution in Space and Time Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, 14-15 February 2019
• EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April 2019
• GACMAC 2019, Quebec, Canada, 11-13 May 2019
• Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2019, Chiba, Japan, 26-30 May 2019
• ABSCICON, Seattle, USA, 24-28 June 2019
• DRT: 22nd Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics Meeting “From Microtectonics To Plate Tectonics”, Tubingen, Germany, 11-14 June 2019
• 2nd IGCP 662 Workshop and Field Excursion, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 5-8 July 2019
• XIII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Incheon, Republic of Korea, 22-26 July 2019
• AOGS 16th Annual Meeting, Singapore, 28 July - 2 August 2019
• Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 August 2019
Some of the large contingent of CCFS participants who attended Goldschmidt 2019 in Barcelona.
• 2019 Ada Lovelace Workshop on Modelling Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamics, Siena, Italy, 25-30 August 2019
• 15th Biennial Meeting SGA 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, 27-30 August 2019
• The Second Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC), Perth, Australia, 2-5 September 2019
• 7th International Large Igneous Provinces Conference 2019, Tomsk, Russia, 28 August - 8 September 2019
• SIMP, SGI, SOGEI Joint Conference, Parma, Italy, 16-19 September 2019
• Selwyn Symposium 2019, GSA Victoria Division: The Co-Evolution of Life and Precambrian Environments, Melbourne, Australia, 30 September 2019
• SEG 2019 South American Metallogeny: Sierra to Craton, Santiago, Chile, 7-10 October 2019
• International Symposium on Deep Earth Exploration and Practices, Beijing, China, 24-26 October 2019
• GESSS NSW 2019, UNSW, Sydney, 31 October-1 November 2019
• 5th IGCP-649 Diamonds and Recycled Mantle Workshop and Field Trip in Oman, 13-22 November 2019
• Biennial Meeting of the Specialist Group for Tectonics and Structural Geology and The Specialist Group in Solid Earth Geophysics, Port Lincoln, WA, Australia, 18-22 November 2019
• GESSS-WA 2019, Perth, Australia, 29 November 2019
• AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, USA, 9-13 December 2019
INVITED TALKS AT MAJOR CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS IN 2018
| 2ND IGCP 662 WORKSHOP AND FIELD EXCURSION, ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA 5-8 JULY 2019 |
Does continental crust grow significantly by collision and/or subduction S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin Invited
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| 15TH BIENNIAL MEETING SGA 2019, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, 27-30 AUGUST 2019 |
Reactivation and enrichment of a Gondwana margin Ni-Cu-PGE - (Te-Au) mineral system during the breakup of Pangea M. Fiorentini, S. Denyszyn, G. Dering, D. Howell, D. Blanks, R. Maas, M. Locmelis and C. Laflamme Keynote
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| GOLDSCHMIDT 2019,BARCELONA, 18-23 AUGUST 2019 |
An SCLM control on the metallogenic DNA of the continental lithosphere D. Holwell, M. Fiorentini, I. McDonald I, Y. Lu, A. Giuliani, D. Smith, M. Keith and M. Locmelis Invited TerraneChron®’s trajectory 2000-2030 E. Belousova, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly Keynote The lithosphere and metallogeny: A 40-year evolution of concepts W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly Keynote
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| 2019 ADA LOVELACE WORKSHOP ON MODELLING MANTLE AND LITHOSPHERE DYNAMICS, SIENA, ITALY, 25-30 AUGUST 2019 |
Hadean mantle dynamics, tectono-volcanic regimes, and the role of impacts C. O’Neill Keynote
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| 7TH INTERNATIONAL LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES CONFERENCE 2019, TOMSK, RUSSIA, 28 AUG - 8 SEPT 2019 |
LIPs and supercontinent reconstructions S.A. Pisarevsky Keynote
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| AGU FALL MEETING 2019 - SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES, 9-13 DECEMBER 2019 |
Was the Tethys ocean a legacy of the Nuna and Rodinia superocean? - a new perspective from the point of supercontinent-superocean cycles Z.X. Li Invited Seismic observations of ponding plumes beneath the mantle transition zone L. Waszek, B. Tauzin, N.C. Schmerr, M. Ballmer and J.C. Afonso Invited New seismic observations in Western Australia from dense array deployments H. Yuan, X. Xu, R. Murdie, M.C. Dentith, S. Johnson, K. Gessner and L. Zhao Invited |
OTHER CONFERENCE ROLES & WORKSHOP ROLES
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| IGCP 648 DATABASE WORKSHOP 2019, PERTH, AUSTRALIA, 24-30 MARCH 2019 |
Organiser: Zheng-Xiang Li
GOLDSCHMIDT 2019, BARCELONA, SPAIN, 18-23 AUGUST 2019
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| Co-convenor: Olivier Alard Session: 03E “The Abundance and Mobility of Chalcophile/Siderophile Elements in the Mantle and Crust” Co-convenor: Andrea Giuliani Session: 03I “Origin and Evolution of Continental Mantle Lithosphere and its Resource Endowment"
2019 ADA LOVELACE WORKSHOP ON MODELLING MANTLE AND LITHOSPHERE DYNAMICS, SIENA, ITALY, 25-30 AUGUST 2019
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| Co-convenor: Craig O’Neil Session: 2 "Plate-mantle dynamics in the Early Earth"
PILBARA GEOHERITAGE WORKSHOP KARRATHA, WA, AUSTRALIA, 26-28 AUGUST 2019
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| Organiser/Leader: Martin Van Kranendonk
15TH BIENNIAL MEETING SGA 2019, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, 27-30 AUGUST 2019
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| Short course organiser: Marco Fiorentini Course title: “Advances in exploration targeting for magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE mineral systems” 
GESSS NSW 2019, UNSW, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 31 OCTOBER - 1 NOVEMBER 2019
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| Abstract Manager, Equity and Diversity Manager/ website creation: Georgia Soares
AGU FALL MEETING 2019 - SAN FRANCISCO, USA, 9-13 DECEMBER 2019
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Convenor: Michael Forster Session: D141B “Quantities, Movements, Forms, and Origins of Carbon and Other Volatile Elements in Earth and Planetary Bodies I” Co-convenor: Juan Carlos Afonso Session: S22C “Using Observables to Infer Mantle Physical State I" Co-convenor: Juan Carlos Afonso Session: S23G “Using Observables to Infer Mantle Physical State II Posters" Lead convenor: Huaiyu Yuan Session: T23B “Tethys Dynamics" Lead convenor: Huaiyu Yuan Session: T31HB “T31H - Tethys Dynamics II Posters" Convenor: Zheng-Xiang Li Co-Chairs: Zheng-Xiang Li, Nan Zhang Session: T060 “The Tectonics and Geodynamics of Supercontinents” |
A full list of abstracts for Conferences and Workshops attended is given in Appendix 4 and on the CCFS website.
ESTEEM
AWARDS
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Participant |
Activity |
| Juan Carlos Afonso |  Awarded a 2019 Early Career Scientist Award by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. The award was presented at the XXVII General Assembly of the IUGG, Montreal, Canada, July 2019. The award recognises Juan Carlos’s outstanding research in Earth and space sciences and international research cooperation.
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| Steve Foley |  Received an MQ Faculty of Science and Engineering Award for Excellence in Research
Awarded the title of Distinguished Professor (Macquarie University)
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| Andrea Giuliani | Awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellowship
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| Bill Griffin |
Named ’Australia’s Most Influential Researcher’ in the field of Geochemistry and Mineralogy by The Australian 2019 Research Magazine. Awarded a SIMP-Honorary Fellowship (Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology)
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| Bill Griffin & Sue O’Reilly | 
Awarded Visiting Professorships by You-Hong Sun, the president of China University of Geoscience Beijing
Life-time recognition of the geoscience research, teaching and mentoring careers of Sue O’Reilly and Bill Griffin was honoured in a dedicated Session and celebratory joint keynote at Goldschmidt 2019, in Barcelona |
| Zheng-Xiang Li | 
Awarded a 2019 American Geophysical Union Fellowship: Fellowships are awarded to those whose visionary leadership and scientific excellence have fundamentally advanced research in their respective fields.
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| Kate Selway |  Named in 2019’s list of the superstars of STEM, announced 11 December 2018 by Science & Technology Australia (STA)
More info here.
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| Simon Wilde | Awarded the Gibb Maitland Medal from the Geological Society of Australia (WA Division) |
For Postgraduate awards see the Postgraduate section.
2019 NEW APPOINTMENTS AND POSITIONS
| Bill Griffin |
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| Anthony Lanati |
Governing Councillor - NSW Division, Geological Society of Australia National Executive Committee Honorary Treasurer and Chair of Finance and Risk Committee |
| Zheng-Xiang Li | Principal Project Leader - IGCP 648: Supercontinent Cycles and Global Geodynamics Member of the Overseas Advisory Committee, China State Council
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| Yongjun Lu | Appointed Councillor for Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) in 2016-2019 Secretary of the 6th International Archean Symposium (6IAS), Perth 2020
Treasurer, Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy & Petrology (SGGMP), Geological Society of Australia
Mentor, Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)
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| Craig O’Neill | Member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Earth Sciences
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| Sue O’Reilly |
Member Executive Committee, UNCOVER national initiative (Auspices of the Australian Academy of Science) Chair, Academy of Science National Committee for Earth Sciences, and Decadal Plan preparation Member of Council, Australian Academy of Science Elected Member of Executive Committee, Australian Academy of Sciences from 2018 Co-Chair inaugural Australian Academy of Science Task Force for “Equity and Diversity Australian Member, IUGG Nominations Committee Project Leader - IGCP 622: “Orogenic architecture and crustal growth from accretion to collision” Chair, Equity and Diversity Reference Group, Australian Academy of Science |
| Kate Selway | Guest Editor - “Earth, Planets and Space” (24th EM Induction workshop special issue)
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| Martin Van Kranendonk | Mars2020 Sample Return team member |
Honorary Fellow of the Italian Society for Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP). The award was given "in recognition of internationally relevant scientific and organising contributions to the advancement of the Mineralogical Sciences and an invaluable support to strengthen the scientific relationships between the nominee’s country and Italy". (pictured with Piergiulio Cappelletti, President of SIMP).
Member, Expert Working Group for the Women in STEM Decadal Plan (and the Decadal Plan launch speaker for the Australian Academy of Science in April 2019 (pictured right)
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EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS |
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| Acta Geologica Sinica | Wilde |
| American Journal of Science | Wilde |
| Cogent Geosciences | O'Neill |
| Earth and Planetary Physics (EPP) | Yang |
| Earth, Space and Planets EM Induction Workshop Spec. Issue | Selway |
| Exploration Geophysics | Selway, Yang |
| Geodynamics & Tectonophysics | Pisarevsky |
| Geological Society of America Bulletin | Griffin, Kirkland, Li |
| Geophysical Journal International | Afonso |
| Geosphere | Yuan |
| Journal of Earth Sciences | Wang |
| Lithos | Foley, Griffin |
| Mineralium Deposita | Fiorentini |
| Nature Science Reports | Dazcko, Jacob, Li |
| Precambrian Research | Pisarevsky |
| Russian Geology and Geophysics | Pisarevsky |
| Science China - Solid Earth | Yuan |
| Solid Earth Sciences | Griffin |
| Tectonophysics | Li |
OUTREACH
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Forum |
Participant/s |
Date |
| Women in STEM Decadal Plan launch | Sue O’Reilly | April 2019 |
| Presentation: University of Tasmania and Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies “Using geophysics to measure glacial isostatic adjustment” | Kate Selway | 16-17 March 2019 |
| Women in Research - Podcast and interview | Sue O’Reilly | June 2019 |
| Workshop for HDR students at the University of Milan, Italy: “Advances in exploration targeting for magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE mineral systems” | Marco Fiorentini |
10-11 June 2019 |
| National Science Week, Victoria guest speaker – Melbourne Museum, Lilydale School, Parliament House | Kate Selway | 9-11 Aug 2019 |
| “Life on Mars” public event, Perth Convention Centre | Martin Van Kranendonk | 10 Aug 2019 |
| “Microscopic Earth” outreach at the Australian Museum during the Sydney Science Festival | Nathan Daczko |
15 Aug 2019 |
| ABC Ockham’s Razor Live, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney | Kate Selway | 15 Aug 2019 |
| NASA-ESA Pilbara fieldtrip to Instrument principle scientist for Mars2020 and ExoMars rover missions to Mars | Martin Van Kranendonk | 19-25 Aug 2019 |
| Collaboration with French NGO training geology students from West African countries - Field traverse through the French and Italian Alps: How do you form an orogen? | Marco Fiorentin | Sept 2019 |
| Presentation to group members of Prof Jian-Ping Zheng in CUGW | Hong-Kun Dai | 12 Sept 2019 |
| Presentation and Field Trip at ’Astro-Rocks Fest’ in Mount Magnet, Western Australia. Theme: ’Earthquakes in Western Australia: Present, Past and Way Back’ | Klaus Gessner 
As part of the 2019 AstroRocks Fest in September 2019, Klaus Gessner led a field trip to the Moyagee Fault, near Mount Magnet in Western Australia, the site of an Archean Earthquake. |
20-22 Sept 2019 |
| Meeting with President of German Science Foundation (DFG) DFG Delegation to Australia, German Ambassador | Foley | Oct 2019 |
| Series of Distinguished Lectures at China University of Geosciences (Beijing) on “An Overview of Earthquake Surface Wave Tomography and Ambient Noise Tomography” to approx. 40 HDR students | Yingjie Yang |
21-25 Oct 2019 |
| Published article for STEM teaching material with Futurum Here | Zheng-Xiang Li | Nov 2019 |
| Report to Canning Council about the Canning seismic project | Huaiyu Yuan | 17 Nov 2019 |
| Invited seminar, Faculty of Geophysical and Astronomical Sciences, University of La Plata, Argentina | Maria Constanza Manassero | 20 Dec 2019 |
| Activity | Participant/s | Date, Forum | Web address | |||
| Carmeltazite recognised as a new and rare mineral | Bill Griffin | 7/1/19, Mining weekly | Link | |||
| New mineral found inside gemstones in Israel | Bill Griffin | 8/1/19, Mining.com | Link | |||
| Israeli company finds new ’outer space’ mineral on Earth | Bill Griffin | 8/1/19, Haaretz - Israel News | Link | |||
| Mapping a mineral future | Sue O’Reilly | 9/1/19, National Mining Chronicle | Link | |||
| Israeli mining company unearths rare mineral | Bill Griffin | 10/1/19, BBC News | Link | |||
| Carmeltazite: A new unique gemstone from Israel | Bill Griffin | 14/1/19, FORBES | Link | |||
| Ancient Earth rock found on the moon | Craig O’Neill | 29/1/19, Science Magazine | Link | |||
| Academy welcomes priority investment in critical minerals projects | Sue O’Reilly | 13/2/19, Australian Academy of Science | Link | |||
| Academy welcomes Australian Future Mines Centre commitment | Sue O’Reilly | 13/2/19, Australian Academy of Science | Link | |||
| How the dinosaurs went extinct: asteroid collision triggered potentially deadly volcanic eruptions | Craig O’Neill | 22/2/19, The Conversation | Link | |||
| Carmeltazite: new gemstone on the block | Bill Griffin | 4/19, Mine | Link | |||
| A ’seiche’ wave can outpace a tsunami, and both can be triggered by meteorites and earthquakes | Craig O’Neill | 4/4/19, The Conversation | Link | |||
| Moonquakes measured during Apollo missions suggest the Moon may still be tectonically active | Craig O’Neill | 14/5/19, ABC News | Link | |||
| Diamonds, volcanoes and a rock star: what a new map of the Earth’s interior will reveal | Juan Carlos Afonso | 23/5/19, The Lighthouse | Link | |||
| Diamonds are cooked up as Earth recycles minerals below the ocean floor: Study | Craig O’Neill | 30/5/19, Firstpost | Link | |||
| Saturn’s rings and their propellers, waves, speckles and secrets come into focus with Cassini’s final images | Craig O’Neili | 15/6/19, ABC News | Link | |||
| ABC is an Australian public broadcast service. Wikipedia: Q&A Science Special (Featuring Brian Cox) | Martin Van Krenendonk | 17/6/19, ABC TV Q&A program | Link | |||
| If these rocks could talk | Tara Djokic | 22/7/19, TEDxSydney | Watch | |||
| Diamonds point to existence of ancient rocks from the birth of the Earth | Stephen Foley | 16/8/19,ABC News | Link |
| Today no one got eaten | Kate Selway | 1/9/19, ABC Radio: Ockham’s razor | Link |
| The greatest treasure hunt | Martin Van Krenendonk | 1/9/19, ABC News online | Link |
| NASA research in Western Australia could hold key to finding life on Mars | Martin Van Krenendonk | 1/9/19, ABC TV National News | Link |
| Interview: Channel 9 Today Weekend Breakfast | Martin Van Krenendonk | 8/9/19, Channel 9 Today Weekend Breakfast | Link |
| Kate Selway - Science at the extreme | Kate Selway | 29/9/19, Climactic podcast | Link |
| Life Sciences & Earth Sciences: Australia’s Research field leaders | Bill Griffin | 1/10/19, The Australian | Link |
| CPRM researcher presents data on geochemistry of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle at the Goldschmidt 2019 | Lynthener Bianca Takenaka | 1/11/19, Geological Survey of Brazil News | Link |
MEDIA – FEATURED PAPERS
1242. Li, Z.X., Mitchell, R.N., Spencer, C.J., Ernst, R., Pisarevsky, S., Kirscher, U. and Murphy, J.B. 2019. Decoding Earth’s rhythms: modulation of supercontinent cycles by longer superocean episodes. Precambrian Research, 323, 1-5.
| Activity | Date, Forum | Web address |
| Curtin study finds billion-year superocean cycles in Earth’s history | 31/1/19, CU News and Events | Link |
| Study finds billion-year superocean cycles in Earth’s history | 31/1/19, PhysOrg | Link |
| Curtin study finds billion-year superocean cycles in Earth’s history | 31/1/19, Mirage News | Link |
| Research finds billion-year superocean cycles in Earth’s history | 2/2/19, Tech Explorist | Link |
| Study finds billion-year superocean cycles in Earth’s history | 3/2/19, Watts up with that? | Link |
| Earth once swallowed its own superocean. Could it happen again? | 7/2/19, Live Science | Link |
| Earth might form a superocean every billion years | 8/2/19, IFLScience | Link |
1331. Förster, M.W., Foley, S.F., Marschall, H.R., Alard, O. and Buhre, S. 2019. Melting of sediments in the deep mantle produces saline fluid inclusions in diamonds. Science Advances, 5, eaau2620.
| Activity | Date, Forum | Web address |
| Earth recycles ocean floor into diamonds | 29/5/19, EurekAlert! | Link |
| Confirmed: Earth is crushing the ocean into salty diamonds | 29/5/19, LiveScience | Link |
| Earth recycles ocean floor into diamonds | 29/5/19, Phys.org | Link |
| Earth recycles ocean floor into diamonds | 29/5/19, Science Daily | Link |
| Interview about the discovery that many diamonds are formed when the Earth’s mantle crushes ancient seabed minerals | 30/5/19, ABC Illawarra Mornings | |
| Interview about the discovery that many diamonds are formed when the Earth’s mantle crushes ancient seabed minerals | 30/5/19, ABC Newcastle Drive | |
| Earth is compressing its oceans into salty diamonds | 30/5/19, Mind Guild | Link |
| Most diamonds formed from ancient seabeds | 30/5/19, Business Standard | Link |
| Earth recycles ocean floor into diamonds | 30/5/19, Environmental News Network | Link |
| News story from Eurasia Review | 30/5/19, Eurasia Review | |
| Ancient seabed buried deep in Earth can create diamonds, study says | 30/5/19, FOX News | Link |
| Earth’s seafloor may be destined to become diamonds | 30/5/19, National Geographic | Link |
| Earth recycles ocean floor into salty diamonds | 30/5/19, TECH Explorist | Link |
| How Earth recycles ocean floor into diamonds | 30/5/19, The Deccan Herald | Link |
| Earth has an ocean floor recycling system which produces diamonds | 30/5/19, Value Walk | Link |
| Diamanten aus recyceltem meeresgrund | 31/5/19, FOCUS Online | Link |
| Earth recycles ocean floor into diamonds | 31/5/19, Lab Manager | Link |
| Most diamonds formed from ancient seabeds | 31/5/19, New Kerala | Link |
| Ancient seabed buried deep in Earth can create diamonds | 31/5/19, New York Post | Link |
| Study: Salts trapped inside fibrous diamonds came from ancient seabeds | 31/5/19, Sci-News | Link |
| Scientists detect ancient sea salt in diamonds, proving their extraordinary origins | 31/5/19, ScienceAlert | Link |
| Bildung aus subduziertem Meeressediment erklärt salzhaltige Einschlüsse von Bort-Diamanten Diamanten aus recyceltem Meeresgrund | 31/5/19, Scinexx | Link |
| Minerale: Rätsel salzhaltiger diamanten gelöst | 31/5/19, Spektrum | Link |
| Earth cooks rare diamonds out of recycled ocean floor | 31/5/19, Tech Times | Link |
| El fondo marino podría convertirse en una ’fábrica’ de diamantes | 1/6/19, RT Network | Link |
| Ocean floor sediments recycle to form salty diamonds | 2/6/19, Sciencehook | Link |
| O planeta está a engolir o fundo do mar (e a cuspir diamantes) | 3/6/19, ZAP | Link |
| Earth recycles ocean floor into diamonds | 5/6/19, Space Daily | Link |
| Salty diamonds formed from recycled ocean floor, researchers say | 6/6/19, CTV news | Link |
| News: Salty diamonds formed from recycled ocean floor, research says | 8/6/19, BrainFeed Magazine | Link |
| Neues aus der kinderstube der diamanten | 18/6/19, Informations- dienst Wissenschaft | Link |
| Neues aus der kinderstube der diamanten | 18/6/19, Jura Forum | Link |
| News from the diamond nursery | 19/6/19, EurekAlert! | Link |
| News from the diamond nursery | 19/6/19, Informations- dienst Wissenschaft | Link |
| Extreme pressure and heat in Earth’s mantle simulated | 19/6/19, Long Room | Link |
| Extreme pressure and heat in Earth’s mantle simulated | 19/6/19, Science Daily | Link |
| Diamonds: Salty pieces of oceanic history? | 10/7/19, Science 101 | Link |
| News from the diamond nursery | 11/7/19, Innovations Report | Link |
| Sedimentschmelzen im erdmantel als quelle für salzhaltige einschlüsse in diamanten identifiziert | 13/8/19, Informations- dienst Wissenschaf | Link |
| Sedimentschmelzen im erdmantel als quelle für salzhaltige einschlüsse in diamanten identifiziert | 13/8/19, Jura Forum | Link |
| Sedimentschmelzen im erdmantel als quelle für salzhaltige einschlüsse in diamanten identifiziert | 14/8/19, Inovations report | Link |
Figure 1. Backscattered electron images of experimental charges. Locations of images A-D from sediment-peridotite reaction experiments are schematically shown in capsule on left. For full figure caption see 2018 CCFS Research highlight: Reaction of subducted marine sediment with peridotite produces saline fluid inclusions in diamonds here
1379. Baumgartner, R.J., Van Kranendonk, M.J., Wacey, D., Fiorentini, M., Saunders, M., Caruso, S., Pages, A., Homann, M. and Guagliardo, P. 2019. Nano−porous pyrite and or organic matter in 3.5-billion-year-old stromatolites record primordial life. Geology, 47, 1039-1043.
| Activity | Date, Forum | Web address |
| Fossilised microbes from 3.5 billion years ago are oldest yet found | 25/9/19, New Scientist | Link |
| Earliest signs of life: Scientists find microbial remains in ancient rocks | 25/9/19, ScienceDaily | Link |
| Confirmed. Fossils that formed 3.5 billion years ago, really are fossils. The oldest evidence of life found so far | 30/9/19, Universetoday | Link |
| Organic matter found in 3.5-billion-year-old stromatolites | 3/10/19, Sci-News | Link |
| Ancient rock remains reveal signs pointing to earliest life on Earth | 3/10/19, UWA News | Link |
| Pilbara rock find key to early life 30/10/19 | The West Australian |
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.
Australian and international visitors are listed in Appendix 5. They have participated in collaborative research, technology exchange, seminars, discussions and joint publications and collaboration in postgraduate programs. For More information see the section on International Links.
