Appendix 7 Research Funding

 
Grants and Other income for 2011

Investigators

2011 Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

O'Reilly

ARC CoE

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$1,800,000

O'Reilly

ARC CoE (MQ contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$875,000

UWA Node

ARC CoE (UWA)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$415,000

Curtin Node

ARC CoE (Curtin)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$500,000

GSWA

ARC CoE (GSWA)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$150,000

O'Reilly

ARC Post-Award Early Career Research Support

ARC Post-Award Early Career Research Support

$1,250,000

O'Reilly

Science Leveraging Fund (SLF)

Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$500,000

Li, Danisik, Xu

ARC Discovery Grant

Multiple vertical tectonic movements in a continental interior: consequences of flat-subduction and foundering of an oceanic plateau?

$70,000

Barley, Golding, Fiorentini

ARC Discovery Project

The early evolution of the Earth system from multiple sulfur isotope records of sediments and seafloor mineral systems

$70,000

Turner, Dosseto, Reagan

ARC Discovery Project

The application of short-lived uranium-series isotopes to constraining Earth system Processes

$98,000

O'Neill, Afonso

ARC Discovery Project

The effective strength of oceanic plate bounding faults

$65,000

Rushmer, Turner

ARC Discovery Project

Origin of silicic magmas in a primitive island arc: the first integrated experimental and short-lived isotope study of the Tongan-Kermadec system

$90,000

Rushmer

ARC Discovery Project

Partial melting in natural metal-silicate systems: rheological and geochemical implications for the Earth and other planets

$60,000

Walter, Neilan, George, Summons, Schopf

ARC Discovery Project

Oxygenating the Earth: using innovative techniques to resolve the timing of the origin of oxygen-producing photosynthesis in cyanobacteria

$30,000

O'Neill

ARC Future Fellowship

Strength and resistance along oceanic megathrust faults: implications for subduction initiation

$88,831

O'Neill

MQ Academic Non-Discretionary Fund

Start-up funds for Future Fellowship FT100100717

$100,000

Belousova

ARC Future Fellowship

Dating down under: Resolving Earth’s crust - mantle relationships

$156,530

Fiorentini

ARC Future Fellowship

From core to ore: emplacement dynamics of deep-seated nickel sulphide systems

$85,616

Piazolo

ARC Future Fellowship

Flow characteristics of lower crustal rocks: developing a toolbox to improve geodynamic models

$101,787

Lister, Jourdan, Forster, McInnes, Vasconcelos, Rosenbaum, Cooke, Harris, Collins (A), Aitchison, Daczko, Collins (W), Reddy, Li, McCuaig, Miller, Pillans, Grun, Zwingmann, Evans, McWilliams

ARC LIEF

Events through time: eruptions, extinctions, impacts, ore-bodies and orogenies - upgrading the national argon geochronology network

$420,000

Sampson, Fiorentini, Liu, Gilkes, Rasmussen, Rengel, McNaughton, Kirkland, Wilde, Wingate, Xie, Thompson

ARC LIEF

Nanoscale Characterisation Centre WA analytical electron microscope facility (UWA)

$360,000

Random, O'Neill
et al.

ARC LIEF

Flexible architecture high-performance computing facility for the intersect consortium of New South Wales

$500,000

Random, O'Neill
et al.

ARC LIEF

Flexible architecture high-performance computing facility for the intersect consortium of New South Wales (MQ contribution)

$60,000

Gessner, McCuaig, Hobbs, Cawood, Gorczyk, Connolly, Gerya, O'Neill, Lester

ARC Linkage

Multiscale dynamics of ore body formation

$180,000

Gessner, McCuaig, Hobbs, Cawood, Gorczyk, Connolly, Gerya, O'Neill, Lester

ARC Linkage

Multiscale dynamics of ore body formation (WA state contribution)

$50,000

Barley, McCuaig, Gessner, Miller, Tohver, Doublier, Romano, Wyche

ARC Linkage Project

Tectonic evolution and lode gold mineralisation in the Southern Cross district, Yilgarn Craton (Western Australia): a study of the meso- to Neoarchaean missing link

$90,000

Barley, McCuaig, Gessner, Miller, Tohver, Doublier, Romano, Wyche

ARC Linkage WA state contribution

Tectonic evolution and lode gold mineralisation in the Southern Cross district, Yilgarn Craton (Western Australia): a study of the meso- to Neoarchaean missing link

$95,000

Turner, Schaefer, McConachy

ARC Linkage Project

A novel approach for economic uranium deposit exploration and environmental studies

$118,500

Turner, Schaefer, McConachy

ARC Linkage Project

A novel approach for economic uranium deposit exploration and environmental studies (Heathgate Resources contribution)

$45,000

Griffin, O'Reilly, Pearson

ARC Linkage Project

Composition, structure and evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath Southern Africa: improving area selection criteria for diamond exploration (De Beers Group Services contribution)

$60,000

McCuaig, Barley, Fiorentini, Kemp, Miller, Belousova, Jessell, Hein, Begg, Tunjic, Said, Bagas

ARC Linkage Project

Four dimensional lithospheric evolution and controls on mineral system distribution in Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic terranes

$540,000

McCuaig, Barley, Fiorentini, Kemp, Miller, Belousova, Jessell, Hein, Begg, Tunjic, Said, Bagas

ARC Linkage Project

Four dimensional lithospheric evolution and controls on mineral system distribution in Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic terranes (AMIRA International Ltd, AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields contribution)

$1,129,386

Fiorentini, Brugger, Perring, Liu, Barnes

ARC Linkage Project

Hydrothermal remobilisation of base metals and platinum group elements in magmatic nickel deposits

$65,000

Fiorentini, Brugger, Perring, Liu, Barnes

ARC Linkage Project

Hydrothermal remobilisation of base metals and platinum group elements in magmatic nickel deposits (Department of Mines and Petroleum)

$63,000

GAU, GEMOC MQ

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

GAU maintenance contribution

$30,000

Zhao, Wilde, Li Sanzhong, Li Xuping

Hong Kong Research Grants Scheme

Tectonic setting and evolution of the Paleoproterozoic Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt in the Eastern Block of the North China Craton

$18,000

Nevalainen, Packer, Karuso, Jamie, Molloy, Brown, Liu, Herbert, George, Vemulpad

Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grants (RIBG)

Facility for long term preservation and storage of biological, chemical, environmental and geological samples

$60,000

Fiorentini, Barnes, Miller

MERIWA M413

Hydrothermal footprints of magmatic nickel sulphide deposits

$120,000

Griffin, O'Reilly, Pearson, Belousova

MQ Enterprise Partnership Pilot Research Grant

Lithospheric architecture mapping in Phanerozoic orogens

$50,000

Griffin, O'Reilly, Pearson, Belousova

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

Lithospheric architecture mapping in Phanerozoic orogens

$60,000

Daczko

MQ Safety Net Scheme

Nature of the lower continental crust

$16,519

O'Reilly

Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grants (RIBG)

Laser ablation microprobe sample cell

$40,000

Clark

Curtin University Research Fellowship

The thermal evolution of continental crust

$95,000

Turner M

MU Fellowship

Research supplement for NZ S&T Fellowship

$30,000

Yang

MU New Staff Scheme

Understanding the growth of the Tibetan Plateau: Unveiling the final-scale 3D structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath the Tibetan Plateau

$19,608

Daczko

MURDG

Resurrecting Rodinia? The role of east Antarctica in supercontinent assembly

$19,545

O'Reilly

NCRIS Auscope

A4.45; Macquarie University Project - Earth composition and evolution

$100,000

O'Reilly

NCRIS MQ Contribution

AuScope (www.auscope.org.au)

$50,000

O'Neill

AuScope/MQ Education Investment Fund Project

AuScope Australian Geophysical Observing System - Geophysical Education Observatory

$50,000

Clark, Reddy, Timms, Kinny

Australia-India Strategic Research Fund node. (ST030046)

The thermal evolution of Peninsular India: Past behaviours and future potential

$115,000

O'Reilly, Griffin, Pearson, Alard, Ildefonse, Demouchy

DIISR French-Australian Science and Technology Program

Probing the composition of the early Solar System and planetary evolution processes

$11,000

George, Christensen, King, McIntyre, McRae, Snape, Stark

Australian Antarctic Division

Rates of depletion of lubricant and fuel contaminants from Antarctic regions during natural attenuation and remediation procedures

$14,000

Harrison, George, King, Lane

Australian Antarctic Division

Ecological risks associated with the use of fuels in Antarctica: characterising hydrocarbon behaviour and assessing toxicity on sensitive early life stages of Antarctic marine invertebrates

$12,000

Gessner, Hough, Toy, Thebaud, Liu, Dellepiane, Zwingmann, Kopf

The International Synchrotron Access Program (ISAP)

Three-dimensional characterization of brittle fault rocks

$10,100

Reddy

Office of Research and Development, Curtin University

Support for research

$50,000

Gessner, Thebaud,
Toy, Ring

UWA Collaborative Research Fund

The Active Alpine Fault Zone as an analogy for fluid dynamics in Archaean mineral systems

$7,500

Wacey, Brasier (international collaborator)

UWA RCA

Geobiology of the 1900 Ma Gunflint Formation

$12,000

Wang

NSFC

Petrogenesis of Cenozoic Inner Mongolia flood basalts: detecting the dehydration of stagnated Pacific slabs.

$40,000

George, Dutkiewicz, Webb

Agouron Institute Research Grant

Australian drilling program: Biomarkers, oxygen and geobiology

$76,000

Yu

PGRF

The evolution, dynamics and water inventory of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle, SE China

$5,000

Schinella

PGRF

Processes shaping the surface of Venus

$4,064

Saunders

PGRF

Geochemical mobility of gold within the mantle and its significance to crustal endowment

$4,064

Genske

PGRF

Assessing the heterogeneous source of the Azores mantle plume

$4,711

Pankhurst

PGRF

Investigating post-orogenic collapse through magmatic records

$5,417

Huang

Cotutelle iMQRES + CSC

Origin of eclogite and pyroxenite xenoliths in kimberlites and basalts

$22,860

Xiong

Cotutelle iMQRES + CSC

Shenglikou and Zedang peridotite massifs, Tibet: Upper mantle processes and geodynamic significance

$22,860

Yu

Cotutelle iMQRES + CSC

The evolution and tectonic dynamics of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle, SE China

$22,860

Abbassi

MQRES

Mass balancing of generation and escape of methane on the North West Shelf of Australia in the Tertiary

$22,860

Foley

iMQRES

Generation of continental crust during subduction initiation

$52,355

Grose

iMQRES

Geodynamics of the oceanic lithosphere

$52,355

Pankhurst

MQRES

Geodynamic significance of shoshonitic magmatism within the Andean Altiplano

$22,860

Dunkley

MQRES

Hf Isotopic behaviour in turbidites, migmatites and granites at Mount Stafford, Central Australia

$22,860

Genske

iMQRES

Assessing the heterogeneous source of the Azores mantle plume

$52,355

Gaildry

iMQRES

Island arc processes as seen through Vanuatu volcanism and geochemistry.

$52,355

Rubanova

iMQRES

Fluid processes in the deep mantle: Geochemical studies of diamonds and related minerals

$52,355

Taneja

iMQRES

Origin of intraplate volcanism in the east Indian Ocean

$52,355

Murphy

APA

Stabilising a craton: origin and emplacement of the 3.1 Ga Mpuluzi batholith (Swaziland/RSA)

$22,860

Saunders

APA

Gold distribution and mobility within the mantle and its significance to mineralised provinces

$22,860

Schinella

APA

Processes shaping the Venusian landscape

$22,860

Firth

APA

Integrating the volcanological and magmatic record of a young Arc volcano: Yasur Vanuatu

$22,860

Lu

UWA IPRS

Tectonic setting, magmatic evolution and metallogeny of Paleogene potassic instrusions in western Yunnan, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

$50,000

Zi

UWA IPRS

Indosinian tectono-magnetic evolution of the Yidun Arc in the Sanjiang Region, southwestern China

$50,000

Isaac

UWA IPRS

4D architecture of the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia, in order to constrain the role of the lithospheric structure at 2.7 Ga in the localization of nickel mineral systems

$50,000

LeVaillant

MERIWA/UWA SIRF

Hydrothermal footprints of magmatic nickel sulfide deposits

$5,000

Parra

SIRF/UIS/Safety-Net Top-Up Scholarship

Four dimensional evolution of the Paleoproterozoic West African Craton

$50,000

Schindler

UWA IPRS, Industry Funding

Petrogenesis of intrusive rocks in the Telfer region, Patterson orogen, Western Australia: implications for gold mineralisation

$50,000

Mole

UWA IPRS

Quantifying melt-lithosphere interaction in space and time: understanding nickel mineral systems in the Archaean Yilgarn craton UWA

$50,000

Zeng

CSC/UWA SIRF

Geology, geochronology and genesis of gold deposits in the West Qinling Orogenic Belt, central China

$50,000

Huang (H)

CUPS

Ranges of South China and tectonic Implications

$50,000

Liu (Y)

APRA

Recognising gold mineralisation zones using GIS-based modelling of multiple ground and airborne datasets

$50,000

Liu (L) 

CSC + CUPS

Timing and kinematics of Mesozoic-Cenozoic mountain building and cratonic thinning in Eastern North China: a Combined structural and thermochronological study

$22,860

Niu

CUPS

Neoproterozoic paleomagnetism of South China and Implication to global geodynamics

$50,000

Pang

CSC + CUPS

Basin record of Mesozoic tectonic events in South China

$22,860

Tao

CSC + CUPS

Thermochronological record of vertical tectonic movements in Mesozoic-Cenozoic South China

$22,860

Yao

CSC + CUPS

Lower Palaeozoic basin record in southern South China-nature of the Cathaysia Basement and evolution of the Wuyi-Yunkai Orogeny

$22,860

Zhu

CSC + CUPS

Petrogenesis and tectonic setting of Phanerozoic granitic rocks in eastern South China

$22,860


Grants and Other income for 2012

 

Investigators

2012 Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

O'Reilly

ARC CoE

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$1,900,000

O'Reilly

ARC CoE (MQ contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$875,000

UWA Node

ARC CoE (UWA)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$415,000

Curtin Node

ARC CoE (Curtin)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$500,000

GSWA

ARC CoE (GSWA)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$150,000

Afonso, Yang, Rawlinson, Jones, Connolly, Lebedev

ARC Discovery Project

What lies beneath: Unveiling the fine-scale 3D compositional and thermal structure of the subcontinental lithosphere and upper mantle

$95,000

Li, Danisik, Xu

ARC Discovery Grant

Multiple vertical tectonic movements in a continental interior: consequences of flat-subduction and foundering of an oceanic plateau?

$70,000

Turner, Dosseto, Reagan

ARC Discovery Project

The application of short-lived uranium-series isotopes to constraining Earth system processes

$103,000

O'Neill, Afonso

ARC Discovery Project

The effective strength of oceanic plate bounding faults

$65,000

Rushmer, Turner

ARC Discovery Project

Origin of silicic magmas in a primitive island arc: the first integrated experimental and short-lived isotope study of the Tongan-Kermadec system

$80,000

Walter, Neilan,
George, Summons, Schopf

ARC Discovery Project

Oxygenating the Earth: using innovative techniques to resolve the timing of the origin of oxygen-producing photosynthesis in cyanobacteria

$30,000

Piazolo, Daczko, Putnis, Jessell

ARC Discovery Project

Investigating the fundamental link between deformation, fluids and the rates of reactions in minerals

$90,000

Nemchin, Grange

ARC Discovery Project

Investigation of the early history of the Moon

$70,000

Collins, Belousova, Murphy, Hand

ARC Discovery Project

Supercells and the supercontinent cycle

$90,000

O'Neill

ARC Future Fellowship

Strength and resistance along oceanic megathrust faults: implications for subduction initiation

$177,797

Belousova

ARC Future Fellowship

Dating down under: Resolving Earth’s crust - mantle relationships

$153,938

Fiorentini

ARC Future Fellowship

From core to ore: emplacement dynamics of deep-seated nickel sulphide systems

$169,523

Piazolo

ARC Future Fellowship

Flow characteristics of lower crustal rocks: developing a toolbox to improve geodynamic models

$204,247

Belousova

MQ Academic Non-Discretionary Fund

Start-up funds for Future Fellowship FT110100685

$130,000

Piazolo

MQ Academic Non-Discretionary Fund

Start-up funds for Future Fellowship FT110100070

$150,000

Rushmer, O'Neill, Cruden, Turner

ARC LIEF

The first Australian high pressure Synchrotron facility for geoscience research

$155,000

Roberts, Heslop, Pillans, De Deckker, Lister, Li, Rosenbaum, Vasconcelos, Aitchison, Pisarevsky, Tohver, Schmidt, McWilliams

ARC LIEF

A world-class rock magnetic facility to support Australian palaeomagnetic and environmental research

$254,078

Gessner, McCuaig, Hobbs, Cawood, Gorczyk, Connolly, Gerya, O'Neill, Lester

ARC Linkage

Multiscale dynamics of ore body formation

$180,000

Gessner, McCuaig, Hobbs, Cawood, Gorczyk, Connolly, Gerya, O'Neill, Lester

ARC Linkage

Multiscale dynamics of ore body formation (WA state contribution)

$50,000

Turner, Schaefer, McConachy

ARC Linkage Project

A novel approach for economic uranium deposit exploration and environmental studies

$118,500

Turner, Schaefer, McConachy

ARC Linkage Project

A novel approach for economic uranium deposit exploration and environmental studies (Heathgate Resources contibution)

$45,000

McCuaig, Barley, Fiorentini, Kemp, Miller, Belousova, Jessell, Hein, Begg, Tunjic, Said, Bagas

ARC Linkage Project

Four dimensional lithospheric evolution and controls on mineral system distribution in Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic terranes

$520,000

McCuaig, Barley, Fiorentini, Kemp, Miller, Belousova, Jessell, Hein, Begg, Tunjic, Said, Bagas

ARC Linkage Project

Four dimensional lithospheric evolution and controls on mineral system distribution in Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic terranes (AMIRA International Ltd, AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields contribution)

$1,080,208

Fiorentini, Brugger, Perring, Liu, Barnes,

ARC Linkage Project

Hydrothermal remobilisation of base metals and platinum group elements in magmatic nickel deposits

$65,000

Fiorentini, Brugger, Perring, Liu, Barnes,

ARC Linkage Project

Hydrothermal remobilisation of base metals and platinum group elements in magmatic nickel deposits (Department of Mines and Petroleum contribution)

$62,000

Clark

DECRA

How does the continental crust get so hot?

$125,000

George, Turner, Rushmer, Schaefer, Brock

RIBG

Precision saw for finely cutting and slicing geological samples

$33,000

GAU, GEMOC MQ

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

GAU maintenance contribution

$30,000

Griffin, O'Reilly, Pearson, Belousova

MQ Enterprise Partnership Pilot Research Grant

Lithospheric architecture mapping in phanerozoic orogens

$50,000

Griffin, O'Reilly, Pearson, Belousova

MQ Enterprise Partnership Pilot Research Grant

Lithospheric architecture mapping in phanerozoic orogens (Minerals Targetting International Pty Ltd contribution)

$60,000

van Kranendonk

UNSW SPF

Archean subduction in the Kaapvaal Craton

$20,000

van Kranendonk

UNSW SPF

The Archean-Proterozoic boundary in Western Australia

$30,000

O'Reilly

NCRIS Auscope

A4.45; Macquarie University Project - Earth composition and evolution

$55,000

O'Reilly

NCRIS MQ Contribution

AuScope (www.auscope.org.au)

$50,000

O'Neill

AuScope/MQ Education Investment Fund

AuScope Australian Geophysical Observing System - Geophysical Education Observatory

$50,000

George, Dutkiewicz, Webb

Agouron Institute Research Grant

Australian drilling program: Biomarkers, oxygen and geobiology

$76,000

Rubanova

PGRF

Fluid processes in the deep mantle: Geochemical studies of diamonds and related minerals

$2,750

Xiong

Cotutelle iMQRES + CSC

Shenglikou and Zedang peridotite massifs, Tibet: Upper mantle processes and geodynamic significance

$23,728

Yu

Cotutelle iMQRES + CSC

The evolution and tectonic dynamics of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle, SE China

$23,728

Abbassi

MQRES

Mass balancing of generation and escape of methane on the North West Shelf of Australia in the Tertiary

$23,728

Foley

iMQRES

Generation of continental crust during subduction initiation

$54,993

Grose

iMQRES

Geodynamics of the oceanic lithosphere

$54,993

Pankhurst

MQRES

Geodynamic significance of shoshonitic magmatism within the Andean Altiplano

$23,728

Dunkley

MQRES

Hf Isotopic behaviour in turbidites, migmatites and granites at Mount Stafford, Central Australia

$23,728

Genske

iMQRES

Assessing the heterogeneous source of the Azores mantle plume

$54,993

Gaildry

iMQRES

Island arc processes as seen through Vanuatu volcanism and geochemistry.

$54,993

Rubanova

iMQRES

Fluid processes in the deep mantle: Geochemical studies of diamonds and related minerals

$54,993

Taneja

iMQRES

Origin of intraplate volcanism in the east Indian Ocean

$54,993

Murphy

APA

Stabilising a craton: origin and emplacement of the 3.1 Ga Mpuluzi batholith (Swaziland/RSA)

$23,728

Saunders

APA

Gold distribution and mobility within the mantle and its significance to mineralised provinces

$23,728

Schinella

APA

Processes shaping the Venusian landscape

$23,728

Firth

APA

Integrating the volcanological and magmatic record of a young Arc volcano: Yasur Vanuatu

$23,728

Isaac

UWA IPRS

4D architecture of the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia, in order to constrain the role of the lithospheric structure at 2.7 Ga in the localization of nickel mineral systems

$50,000

Parra

SIRF/UIS/Safety-Net Top-Up Scholarship

Four dimensional evolution of the Paleoproterozoic West African Craton

$54,993

Schindler

UWA IPRS, Industry Funding

Petrogenesis of intrusive rocks in the Telfer region, Patterson orogen, Western Australia: implications for gold mineralisation

$50,000

Huang

CUPS

Ranges of South China and tectonic implications

$50,000

Liu (Y)

APRA

Recognising gold mineralisation zones using GIS-based modelling of multiple ground and airborne datasets

$50,000

Liu (L) 

CSC + CUPS

Timing and kinematics of Mesozoic-Cenozoic mountain building and cratonic thinning in eastern North China: a combined structural and thermochronological study

$23,728

Pang

CSC + CUPS

Basin record of mesozoic tectonic events in South China

$23,728

Tao

CSC + CUPS

Thermochronological record of vertical tectonic movements in Mesozoic-Cenozoic South China

$23,728

Yao

CSC + CUPS

Lower Palaeozoic basin record in southern South China-nature of the Cathaysia basement and evolution of the Wuyi-Yunkai Orogeny

$23,728

Zhu

CSC + CUPS

Petrogenesis and tectonic setting of Phanerozoic granitic rocks in eastern South China

$23,728