Appendix 7: Research Funding
Grants and Other income for 2012
Investigators | 2012 Funding | Project title | Amount |
O’Reilly |
ARC Centre of Excellence |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$2,004,179 |
Wilde |
ARC CoE (Curtin contribution) |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$250,000 |
GSWA |
ARC CoE (GSWA) |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$150,000 |
O’Reilly |
ARC CoE (MQ contribution) |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$400,000 |
O’Reilly |
ARC CoE (MQ EPS contribution) |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$100,000 |
McCuaig |
ARC CoE (UWA contribution) |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$320,000 |
O’Reilly |
Interest |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$37,149 |
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 Project |
Multiple vertical tectonic movements in a continental interior: consequences of flat-subduction and foundering of an oceanic plateau? |
$70,000 |
Nemchin, Grange |
ARC Discovery Project |
Investigation of the early history of the Moon |
$70,000 |
O’Neill, Afonso |
ARC Discovery Project |
The effective strength of oceanic plate bounding faults |
$65,000 |
Piazolo, Daczko, Putnis, Jessell |
ARC Discovery Project |
Investigating the fundamental link between deformation, fluids and the rates of reactions in minerals |
$90,000 |
Rawlinson, Yang |
ARC Discovery Project |
Down under down under: using multi-scale seismic tomography to image beneath Australia’s Great Artesian Basin |
$40,159 |
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 |
Turner, Dosseto, Reagan |
ARC Discovery Project |
The application of short-lived Uranium-series isotopes to constraining Earth system Processes |
$103,000 |
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 |
Collins, Belousova, Murphy, Hand |
ARC Discovery Project |
Supercells and the supercontinent cycle |
$18,500 |
Jacob |
ARC Future Fellowship |
A new approach to quantitative interpretation of paleoclimate archives |
$102,846 |
Belousova |
ARC Future Fellowship |
Dating Down Under: Resolving Earth’s crust-mantle relationships |
$177,797 |
Fiorentini |
ARC Future Fellowship |
From Core to Ore: emplacement dynamics of deep-seated nickel sulphide systems |
$169,532 |
Handley |
ARC Future Fellowship |
The timescales of Earth-system processes: extending the frontiers of uranium-series research |
$77,788 |
O’Neill |
ARC Future Fellowship |
Strength and resistance along oceanic megathrust faults: implications for subduction initiation |
$153,938 |
Piazolo |
ARC Future Fellowship |
Flow characteristics of lower crustal rocks: developing a toolbox to improve geodynamic models |
$204,247 |
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 |
Rushmer, O’Neill, Cruden, Turner |
ARC LIEF |
The first Australian high pressure Synchrotron facility for geoscience research |
$155,000 |
Rushmer, O’Neill, Cruden, Turner |
ARC LIEF External contribution |
The first Australian high pressure Synchrotron facility for geoscience research |
$20,000 |
Rushmer, O’Neill, Cruden, Turner |
ARC LIEF MQ contribution |
The first Australian high pressure Synchrotron facility for geoscience research |
$50,000 |
Arculus, De Deckker, Exon, Barley, Brocks, Clennell, Cooper, Dodson, Drysdale, Fergusson, Hergt, Howard, Kershaw, McCuaig, Muller, Poiner, O’Reilly, Webster, Yeats, Vasconcelos, Stilwel |
ARC LIEF MQ contribution |
Australian Membership of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program |
$40,000 |
Barley, Thebaud |
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 |
$81,532 |
Fiorentini, Brugger, Perring, Liu, Barne |
ARC Linkage Project |
Hydrothermal remobilisation of base metals and platinum group elements in magmatic nickel deposits |
$63,278 |
Gessner, McCuaig, Hobbs, Cawood, Gorczyk, Connolly, Gerya, O'Neill, Lester |
ARC Linkage Project |
Multiscale dynamics of ore body formation |
$180,000 |
McCuaig, Hobbs, Cawood, Liu, Ord, Gorczyk, Lester, Connolly, Gerya, Gessner |
ARC Linkage Project (industry cont.) |
Multiscale dynamics of ore body formation |
$338,812 |
McCuaig, Barley, Fiorentini, Kemp, Miller, Belousova, Jessell, Hein, Begg, Tunjic, Angerer, 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, Angerer, Said, Bagas |
ARC Linkage Project (industry cont.) |
Four dimensional lithospheric evolution and controls on mineral system distribution in Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic terranes |
$1,080,208 |
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 Heathgate Resources |
A novel approach for economic uranium deposit exploration and environmental studies |
$45,000 |
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 |
$15,000 |
González-Jiménez |
Contrib to Post-award |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$33,000 |
Wang |
Contrib to Post-award |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$30,000 |
McCuaig, Greenwood, McCulloch |
CSIRO Flagship Collaboration Fund |
Mineral Systems Flagship Cluster |
$264,497 |
Clark |
Curtin Unversity Research Fellowship |
The thermal evolution of continental crust |
$116,647 |
O’Reilly, DEPS |
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences |
GAU Maintenance Contribution |
$30,000 |
O’Neill, O’Reilly |
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) EIF |
AuScope Australian Geophysical Observing System - Geophysical Education Observatory |
$50,000 |
George |
DVC (Research) Discretionary Fund |
Organic Geochemistry Conference |
$6,145 |
Griffin, O’Reilly, Pearson, Belousova |
DVC (Research) Discretionary Fund |
Lithospheric Architecture Mapping in Phanerozoic Orogens |
$20,000 |
Dentith, McCuaig, Miller, Beresford, Gallardo, Holden, George, Hagemann, Porwal, Joly |
Geological Survey of Western Australia |
GSWA-CET Targeting Products |
$255,613 |
Fiorentini, Barnes, Miller |
MERIWA M413 |
Hydrothermal footprints of magmatic nickel sulphide deposits |
$128,000 |
Vaillant |
MERIWA Scholarship |
Characterisation of the nature, geometry and size of hydrothermal remobilisation of base metals and platinum group elements in magmatic nickel sulphide deposit systems |
$5,000 |
Belousova |
MQ Academic Non-Discretionary Fund |
Start-up funds for Future Fellowship FT110100685 |
$130,000 |
Handley |
MQ Academic Non-Discretionary Fund |
Start-up funds for Future Fellowship FT120100440 |
$85,314 |
Piazolo |
MQ Academic Non-Discretionary Fund |
Start-up funds for Future Fellowship FT110100070 |
$150,000 |
O’Reilly |
MQSIS Infrast |
Xray fluorescence Spectrometer |
$162,389 |
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 |
Reddy |
Office of Research and Development, Curtin University |
Mary-Alix |
$50,000 |
Thebaud, McCuaig, Miller |
Industry Grant |
4D evolution of the Agnew gold field, Yilgarn Craton |
$68,000 |
Rubanova |
PGRF |
Fluid processes in the deep mantle: Geochemical studies of diamonds and related minerals |
$2,750 |
George, Turner, Rushmer, Schaefer, Brock |
MQ RIBG |
Precision saw for finely cutting and slicing geological samples |
$32,562 |
O’Neill |
Sub-contract: NeCTAR project ‘Geology from Geodynamics’ Monash University |
Geology from Geodynamics |
$65,917 |
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 |
George, Dutkiewicz, Webb |
Agouron Institute Research Grant for 2010–2013 |
Australian Drilling Program: Biomarkers, Oxygen and Geobiology |
$76,000 |
Piazolo |
AINSE Award |
In-situ deformation of ice II: Temperature, strain rate and finite strain effects (ID 2178) |
$2,934 |
Kane, Smith, Carman, Jagadish, Fu |
MQRES |
MQ |
$200,000 |
Murphy, Murphy, Saunders, Schinella |
APA |
MQ |
$175,114 |
Foley, Genske, Gaildry, Rubanova, Taneja |
iMQRES |
MQ |
$543,134 |
Macquarie University |
GLITTER software |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$49,689 |
Macquarie University |
Access MQ |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$184,266 |
Grants and Other income for 2013
Investigators | 2013 Funding | Project title | Amount |
O’Reilly |
ARC Centre of Excellence |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$1,800,000 |
Wilde |
ARC CoE (Curtin contribution) |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$250,000 |
GSWA |
ARC CoE (GSWA) |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$150,000 |
O’Reilly |
ARC CoE (MQ contribution) |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$400,000 |
O’Reilly |
ARC CoE (MQ EPS contribution) |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$100,000 |
McCuaig |
ARC CoE (UWA contribution) |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$320,000 |
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 Project |
Multiple vertical tectonic movements in a continental interior: consequences of flat-subduction and foundering of an oceanic plateau? |
$70,000 |
Nemchin, Grange |
ARC Discovery Project |
Investigation of the early history of the Moon |
$70,000 |
O’Neill, Afonso |
ARC Discovery Project |
The effective strength of oceanic plate bounding faults |
$65,000 |
Piazolo, Daczko, Putnis, Jessell |
ARC Discovery Project |
Investigating the fundamental link between deformation, fluids and the rates of reactions in minerals |
$70,000 |
Rawlinson, Yang |
ARC Discovery Project |
Down under down under: using multi-scale seismic tomography to image beneath Australia's Great Artesian Basin |
$38,120 |
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 |
Schaefer |
ARC Discovery Project |
Bromine isotopic evolution of the Earth and solar system |
$50,000 |
Turner, Dosseto, Reagan |
ARC Discovery Project |
The application of short-lived Uranium-series isotopes to constraining Earth system Processes |
$103,000 |
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 |
Collins, Belousova, Murphy, Hand |
ARC Discovery Project |
Supercells and the supercontinent cycle |
$18,500 |
Jacob |
ARC Future Fellowship |
A new approach to quantitative interpretation of paleoclimate archives |
$205,387 |
Belousova |
ARC Future Fellowship |
Dating down under: resolving earth’s crust - mantle relationships |
$177,797 |
Fiorentini |
ARC Future Fellowship |
From Core to Ore: emplacement dynamics of deep-seated nickel sulphide systems |
$167,732 |
Handley |
ARC Future Fellowship |
The timescales of Earth-system processes: extending the frontiers of uranium-series research |
$157,858 |
O’Neill |
ARC Future Fellowship |
Strength and resistance along oceanic megathrust faults: implications for subduction initiation |
$141,938 |
Piazolo |
ARC Future Fellowship |
Flow characteristics of lower crustal rocks: developing a toolbox to improve geodynamic models |
$204,655 |
Clark |
ARC DECRA |
How does the continental crust get so hot? |
$125,000 |
Griffin, Pearson, O'Reilly, Belousova |
ARC LEIF |
New horizons in geochemical isotopic analysis with a new-generation multicollector plasma mass spectrometer: towards unravelling the deep earth system |
$390,000 |
Griffin, Pearson, O’Reilly, Belousova |
ARC LEIF (MQ contribution) |
New horizons in geochemical isotopic analysis with a new-generation multicollector plasma mass spectrometer: towards unravelling the deep earth system |
$500,000 |
Fiorentini, Brugger, Perring, Liu, Barnes |
ARC Linkage Project |
Hydrothermal remobilisation of base metals and platinum group elements in magmatic nickel deposits |
$62,770 |
Turner, Schaefer, McConachy |
ARC Linkage Project |
A novel approach for economic uranium deposit exploration and environmental studies |
$65,000 |
Reddy, McNaughton, Timms, Hough, van Riessen, Bland, Cleverley, Fiorentini, Griffin, Kemp, Kilburn |
ARC LIEF |
An AZtec electron backscatter diffraction facility for state-of-the-art quantitative microstructural analysis |
$190,000 |
Gessner, McCuaig, Hobbs, Cawood, Gorczyk, Connolly, Gerya, O'Neill, Lester |
ARC Linkage Project |
Multiscale dynamics of ore body formation |
$95,000 |
McCuaig, Barley, Fiorentini, Kemp, Miller, Belousova, Jessell, Hein, Begg, Tunjic, Angerer, Said, Bagas |
ARC Linkage Project |
Four dimensional lithospheric evolution and controls on mineral system distribution in Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic terranes |
$560,000 |
McCuaig, Barley, Fiorentini, Kemp, Miller, Belousova, Jessell, Hein, Begg, Tunjic, Angerer, Said, Bagas |
ARC Linkage Project |
Four dimensional lithospheric evolution and controls on mineral system distribution in Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic terranes |
$458,893 |
Venter, Piazolo, Luzin |
Braggs Institute, ANSTO |
Residual stress investigations of polycrystalline natural diamond aggregates |
$30,000 |
González-Jiménez |
Contrib to Post-award |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$33,000 |
Wang |
Contrib to Post-award |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$30,000 |
Satsukawa |
Contrib to Post-award |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$33,000 |
McCuaig, Greenwood, McCulloch |
CSIRO Flagship Collaboration Fund |
Mineral Systems Flagship Cluster |
$268,532 |
Clark |
Curtin Unversity Research Fellowship |
The thermal evolution of continental crust |
$114,761 |
O'Reilly, DEPS |
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences |
GAU Maintenance Contribution |
$30,000 |
O'Neill, O'Reilly |
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) EIF |
AuScope Australian Geophysical Observing System - Geophysical Education Observatory |
$50,000 |
Dentith, McCuaig, Miller, Beresford, Gallardo, Holden, George, Hagemann, Porwal, Joly |
Geological Survey of Western Australia |
GSWA-CET Targeting Products |
$267,060 |
Fiorentini, Barnes, Miller |
MERIWA M413 |
Hydrothermal footprints of magmatic nickel sulphide deposits |
$130,000 |
Griffin, O'Reilly, Pearson, Belousova |
MQ Enterprise Partnership Pilot Research Grant (Minerals Targeting International Pty Ltd) |
Lithospheric architecture mapping in Phanerozoic orogens |
$60,000 |
O'Reilly |
MQSIS Research Infrastructure Special Reserve Fund |
Energy dispersive x-ray system for Cemeca SX100 Electron Microprobe |
$157,219 |
Afonso |
MQ RIBG |
Cluster computing for 21st-century Geophysical simulations |
$90,587 |
Pearson |
MQ RIBG |
Front-line microscope imaging for Geosciences |
$91,522 |
Gore, Taylor, Fryirs, Pearson, Belousova, Handley, Sheedy, Shoat |
MQ RIBG |
A hand-held portable XRF analyser |
$59,146 |