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
(industry cont.)

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