Investigators

2020 Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

Li, Biggin

ARC Discovery Project (DP210102495)

Unlocking Earth’s inner secrets in deep time using palaeointensities

$525,000

Daczko, Foley, Handley, Raimondo

ARC Discovery Project (DP200100482)

Plumbing the gap: a mantle solution to the enigma of bimodal arc volcanism

$90,000

Kemp, Wilde, Van Kranendonk, Elliot

ARC Discovery Project (DP200103298)

Testing continental growth models with calcium and strontium isotopes

$71,000

Van Kranendonk, Fiorentini, Campbell, Deamer

ARC Discovery Project (DP180103204)

A terrestrial hot spring setting for the origin of life?

$96,476

Yang, Afonso, Rawling, Ritzwoller, Niu

ARC Discovery Project (DP190102940)

Unveiling the fine structure of the Australian continent using ocean waves

$130,000

Cruden, Fiorentini, Barnes, Bunger, Jackson

ARC Discovery Project (DP190102422)

Magma dynamics and ore deposits

$100,000

Foley

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL180100134)

Understanding the roles of carbon, water and nitrogen in the development of plate tectonics as drivers of mantle evolution

$612,075

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL150100133)

How the Earth works - Toward building a new tectonic paradigm $282,953

$282,953

Phillips, Jourdan, Matchan, Gleadow, Li, Bland, Norman, Honda, Cawood, Weinberg, Vasconcelos, Herries, Fiorentini, Wingate

ARC LIEF (LE210100044)

Ultra-precise dating in Earth, planetary and archaeological science

$905,654

Evans, Bland, Rankenburg, Li, Jourdan, Rowins, Fiorentini, Wingate, Barnes, Uvarova

ARC LIEF (LE200100035)

WA CRC-MC-ICPMS for Earth, Planetary and Environmental science

$610,000

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

Danisik, Evans, McInnes, Kirkland; Li, Fiorentini, Wingate

ARC LIEF (LE190100079)

The Western Australia ThermoChronology Hub

$365,380

Grice, Rickard, Benedix, Jiang, Reddy, Kilburn, Clode, Peyrot, Wacey, Lavery, Masque, Trengove, Xia, Deditius, Maker

ARC LIEF (LE190100053)

A novel ToF-SIMS facility for organic and inorganic analyses in WA

$1,267,674

Jessell, Gorczyk, Cruden, Rey, Lindsay, Betts, Salles, Aitken, Kee, Lang, Denyszyn, Gessner, Schmid, Occhipinti, Cameron, McCuaig, McCracken, Subramanya

ARC LIEF (LE190100146)

Evolution of Proterozoic multistage rift basins – key to mineral systems

$311,202

Miller, Kennett, Yuan, Allen, Greay, Gessner, Murdie

ARC Linkage Project (LP180101118)

Enhanced 3-D seismic structure for Southwest Australia

$140,788

Ailleres, Jessell, Armit, Droniou, Lindsay, Cui, Betts, Cruden, de Kemp, Caumon, Wellmann, Kemp, Gessner, Spampinato, Harrison, Kessler

ARC Linkage Project

Enabling 3D stochastic geological modelling

$237,000

Regenauer-Lieb, Afonso, Clark, Thiel, Czarnota, Poulet, Jones, Walsh

ARC Linkage Project (LP170100233)

A newly developed science approach to the Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP)

$220,000

Ailleres, Jessell, de Kemp, Caumon, Florian Wellmann, Armit, Droniou, Lindsay, Cui, Betts, Cruden, Kemp, Gessner, Spampinato, Harrison, Kessler

ARC Linkage Project (LP170100985)

Mitigating 3D geological risk in resources management

$240,000

Conrad, Selway, Steinberger, Tarasov, Kellogg, Nisancioglu

Norwegian Research Council, FRINATEK

Magnetotelluric Analysis for Greenland and Postglacial Isostatic Evolution (MAGPIE)

$283,700

Afonso

Geoscience Australia

Developing thermochemical models of Australia’s lithosphere

€83,000

Thebaud, Aitken, Jessell, Occhipinti, Dentith, Hagemann, Kemp, Fiorentini, Smithies, Lu, Gessner

MRIWA M530, Industry

Yilgarn 2020

$663,500

LaFlamme, Thebaud, Fiorentini, Sugiono

Northern Star Resources

Multiple sulfur isotope systematics of the Kanowna Belle Gold deposit

$73,774

Barnes, Fiorentini

IGO Independence Group

Genesis of the Nova Nickel Deposit

$160,000

Loucks, Fiorentini

BHP Billiton

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

$176,000

Olierook, Kirkland, Evans, McDonald, Rankenburg, McInnes, Kumara, Kennedy

Fortescue Metals Group

Stratigraphy of the Karara Basin, Australia

$70,000

Olierook, Kirkland, Evans, McDonald, Rankenburg, McInnes, Kumara, Rowins

Atlas Iron

Prospectivity and explorational potential of paleoplacers in the Pilbara Craton, Australia

$31,000

George, Fiorentini, Parra Avila

Auldana

Tectonic evolution and amalgamation of continental, arc and arc-related terranes of Northern Thailand

€24,000

Olierook, Kirkland, Evans, McDonald, Rankenburg, McInnes, Kumara, Kennedy

Anglo American

Genesis and stratigraphy south of Diamantina Project, Australia

$62,000

Olierook, Kumara, Voute

Breaker Resources

Mineralogical and textural analyses of selected samples from the Bombora gold deposit, Lake Roe, Western Australia: implications for mineral paragenesis

$2,000

Olierook, Kumara, Voute

Latitude 66 Cobalt

Mineralogical and textural analyses of selected samples from the Kuusamo Schist Belt, Finland: Implication for mineral paragenesis

$3,000

Olierook, Kirkland, McInnes, Guergouz, Conner, Evans, Kumara

Regis Resources

4D architecture of the Duketon Greenstone Belt, Eastern Goldfields, WA

$14,000

Pisarevsky

Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Megagrant

Institute of the Earth’s Crust, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk

~$1,200,000

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 - Earth composition and evolution

$200,382

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope (MQ contribution)

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 - Earth composition and evolution

$60,000

Liu, Li, Mitchell

ANZIC IODP Legacy Analytical Funding (AILAF)

Testing Late Cretaceous true polar wander on the Western Australian Margin

$19,300

Campbell, Van Kranendonk,Guido

Marsden Grant

Some liked it hot: Searching for early life in terrestrial hot springs

$333,000

Daczko, Gardner

ANZIC IODP Legacy Analytical Funding (AILAF)

Significance of syn-deformational melt migration for oxide enrichment in oceanic crust

$10,000

Pages, Barnes, Laukamp, Van Kranendonk, Michalski, Schulte

CSIRO

From the Red Sea to the Red Planet

$120,000

Wilde, Nemchin, Whitehouse, Harley, Kusiak, Dunkley

Australian Antarctic Science Grant

Determining the extent and nature of the oldest crust in Antarctica

$36,000

O'Reilly

Commercial - ACCESS MQ

GLITTER

$13,795

Lanati

MQPGRF

Petrology, geochemistry and origin of the shoshonites

$5,000

Lanati

Macquarie University

Student Representative Council Post-Graduate Grant

$1,500 

Lanati

Geological Society of Australia

Post-Graduate Research award

$5,000

Lanati

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst

DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service) Cotutelle Scholarship

€80,000