Appendix 8: Research Funding
Grants and Other income for 2013
Investigators |
2013 Funding Source |
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 |
Collins, Belousova, Murphy, Hand |
ARC Discovery Project |
Supercells and the supercontinent cycle |
$18,500 ($80,000) |
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 |
$14,000 ($140,000) |
Rosenbaum, Pisarevsky, Fielding, Speranza |
ARC Discovery Project |
Unravelling the geodynamics of eastern Australia during the Permian: the link between plate boundary bending and basin formation |
$46,226 ($137,195) |
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 ($120,000) |
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 |
Yang |
ARC Future Fellowship |
How the Earth moves: Developing a novel seismological approach to map the small-scale dynamics of the upper mantle |
$93,537 |
Clark (C) |
ARC DECRA |
How does the continental crust get so hot? |
$125,000 |
Griffin, Pearson, O'Reilly, Belousova, Collins, Aitchison, Clarke, Fiorentini, Li, Daczko |
ARC LIEF |
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, Collins, Aitchison, Clarke, Fiorentini, Li, Daczko |
ARC LIEF (MQ contribution) |
New horizons in geochemical isotopic analysis with a new-generation multicollector plasma mass spectrometer: towards unravelling the deep earth system |
$500,000 |
Griffin, Pearson, O'Reilly, Belousova, Collins, Aitchison, Clarke, Fiorentini, Li, Daczko |
ARC LIEF (collab Inst.) |
New horizons in geochemical isotopic analysis with a new-generation multicollector plasma mass spectrometer: towards unravelling the deep earth system |
$110,000 |
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 |
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 |
Gessner, McCuaig, Hobbs, Cawood, Gorczyk, Connolly, Gerya, O'Neill, Lester |
ARC Linkage Project |
Multiscale dynamics of ore body formation |
$95,000 |
Gessner, McCuaig, Hobbs, Cawood, Gorczyk, Connolly, Gerya, O'Neill, Lester |
ARC Linkage Project |
Multiscale dynamics of ore body formation |
$100,000 |
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 |
Rasmussen, Dunkley, Muhling, Johnson, Thorne, Korhonen, Kirkland, Wingate |
ARC Linkage Project |
Chronostratigraphic and tectonothermal history of the northern Capricorn Orogen: constructing a geological framework for understanding mineral systems |
$85,000 |
Tkalcic, Kennett, Spaggiari, Gessner |
ARC Linkage Project |
Craton modification and growth: the east Albany-Fraser Orogen in three-dimensions |
$50,000 |
Tkalcic, Kennett, Spaggiari, Gessner |
ARC Linkage Project |
Craton modification and growth: the east Albany-Fraser Orogen in three-dimensions |
$50,000 |
Piazolo, Griffins, Venter, Luzin |
Braggs Institute, ANSTO |
A new view on diamonds: Deformation textures of polycrystalline diamond |
$60,000 |
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 |
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 |
Foley |
DVC(R) Core Start up |
DVC Core Start up |
$250,000 |
Dentith, McCuaig, Miller, Beresford, Gallardo, Holden, George, Hagemann, Porwal, Joly |
Geological Survey of Western Australia |
GSWA-CET Targeting Products |
$267,060 |
McCuaig, Greenwood, McCulloch |
CSIRO Flagship Collaboration Fund |
Mineral Systems Flagship Cluster |
$268,532 |
Fiorentini, Barnes, Miller |
MERIWA M413 |
Hydrothermal footprints of magmatic nickel sulphide deposits |
$128,000 |
Ord, Gorczyk, Hobbs, Micklethwaite |
MERIWA |
Multiscale dynamics of hydrothermal mineral systems |
$70,000 |
Le 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 |
Fiorentini, Locmelis, Pearson, Agnew, Kobussen |
Rio Tinto Industry collaboration |
The applicability of Ru-chromite signatures in the exploration for picrite-hosted Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits |
$92,381 |
Venter, Piazolo, Luzin |
Braggs Institute, ANSTO |
Residual stress investigations of polycrystalline natural diamond aggregates |
$30,000 |
Griffin, O'Reilly, Pearson, Belousova |
MQ Enterprise Partnership Pilot Research Grant (Minerals Targeting International Pty Ltd) |
Lithospheric architecture mapping in Phanerozoic orogens |
$60,000 |
Griffin, O'Reilly, Pearson, Belousova |
MQ Enterprise Partnership Pilot Research Grant (DVCR allocation) |
Lithospheric architecture mapping in Phanerozoic orogens |
$20,000 |
O'Reilly |
MQSIS Research Infrastructure Special Reserve Fund |
Energy dispersive x-ray system for Cameca SX100 Electron Microprobe |
$150,000 |
Afonso |
RIBG |
Cluster computing for 21st-century Geophysical simulations |
$90,587 |
Pearson |
RIBG |
Front-line microscope imaging for Geosciences |
$91,522 |
Gore, Taylor, Fryirs, Pearson, Belousova, Handley, Sheedy, Shoat |
RIBG |
A hand-held portable XRF analyser |
$97,522 |
George, Turner, Rushmer, Schaefer, Brock |
RIBG |
Precision saw for finely cutting and slicing geological samples |
$60,487 |
Jacob |
MQ Academic Non-Discretionary Fund |
Start-up funds for Future Fellowship FT120100462 |
$130,000 |
Wacey |
SEED project grant, Bergen University |
Multiple sulfur isotope analysis of microbially-mediated mineral sulfides at the micron scale |
$18,737 |
Bezard |
PGRF |
Assimilation of sediments embedded in the oceanic arc crust: myth or reality? |
$3,936 |
Gao |
PGRF |
Comparative study of origin and petrogenesis of A-Type granites in eastern China and southeastern Australia: Evidence from Hf-O-Li isotopes |
$5,462 |
Hoshino |
PGRF |
Demonstrating the syngeneity and interpreting the palaeobiology of hydrocarbon biomarkers in the Fortescue Group (2.7 Ga) |
$5,000 |
Murphy, R |
PGRF |
Stabilising a craton: the origin and emplacement of the 3.1 Ga Mpuluzi batholith (South Africa / Swaziland) |
$4,971 |
Xiong |
PGRF |
Shenglikou and Zedand peridotite massifs, Tibet (China): Upper mantle processes and Geodynamic significance |
$5,000 |
Colas, Gardner, Murphy, Pankhurst, Stuart, Wasillev |
MQRES |
MQ |
$106,829 |
Firth, Jessop, McGowan, Murphy, Saunders, Schinella |
APA |
MQ |
$112,985 |
Brens Jr, Czaplinska Foley, Genske, Grose, Hoshino, Jiang, Oliveira Bravo, Peters, Ramzan, Rubanova, Spruzeniece, Taneja, Tork Qashqai, Tretiakova |
iMQRES & tuition |
MQ |
$723,003 |
Bezard, Gao, Lara, Tilhac, Wang, Xiong, Yu |
iMQRES Cotutelle |
MQ |
$135,591 |
Bjorkman, Gonzalez, Iaccheri, Le Vaillant, Li, Markov, Mirasol-Robert, Owen, Parra Avila, Schindler |
SIRF & tuition |
UWA |
$470,756 |
Masurel, Baumgartner |
IPRS & tuition |
UWA |
$87,177 |
Macquarie University |
GLITTER software |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$68,744 |
Macquarie University |
Access MQ |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$140,539 |
Grants and Other income for 2014
Investigators |
2014 Funding Source |
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 |
Collins, Belousova, Murphy, Hand |
ARC Discovery Project |
Supercells and the supercontinent cycle |
$19,500 ($80,000) |
Nemchin, Grange |
ARC Discovery Project |
Investigation of the early history of the Moon |
$70,000 |
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 |
$13,000 ($130,000) |
Rosenbaum, Pisarevsky, Fielding, Speranza |
ARC Discovery Project |
Unravelling the geodynamics of eastern Australia during the Permian: the link between plate boundary bending and basin formation |
$45,626 ($130,007) |
Schaefer |
ARC Discovery Project |
Bromine isotopic evolution of the Earth and solar system |
$50,000 |
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 ($100,000) |
Jacob |
ARC Future Fellowship |
A new approach to quantitative interpretation of paleoclimate archives |
$205,358 |
Jacob |
ARC Future Fellowship startup grant (MQ) |
A new approach to quantitative interpretation of paleoclimate archives |
$150,000 |
Belousova |
ARC Future Fellowship |
Dating down under: resolving earth’s crust - mantle relationships |
$177,912 |
Fiorentini |
ARC Future Fellowship |
From Core to Ore: emplacement dynamics of deep-seated nickel sulphide systems |
$167,632 |
Handley |
ARC Future Fellowship |
The timescales of Earth-system processes: extending the frontiers of uranium-series research |
$160,207 |
O’Neill |
ARC Future Fellowship |
Strength and resistance along oceanic megathrust faults: implications for subduction initiation |
$70,844 |
Piazolo |
ARC Future Fellowship |
Flow characteristics of lower crustal rocks: developing a toolbox to improve geodynamic models |
$203,682 |
Yang |
ARC Future Fellowship |
How the Earth moves: Developing a novel seismological approach to map the small-scale dynamics of the upper mantle |
$187,584 |
Clark (C) |
DECRA |
How does the continental crust get so hot? |
$125,000 |
Arculus, Rohling, Roberts, Exon, Yeats, O'Reilly, George, Muller, Aitchison, Webster, Coffin, Vasconcelos, Welsh, McCuaig, George, Skilbeck, Baxter, Hergt, Gallagher, Fergusson, Sloss, Heap, Schellart, Stilwell, Foden, Kershaw, Howard, Clennell, Daniell, Collins |
ARC LIEF |
Australian membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program |
$1,800,000 |
McInnes, van Riessen, Bland, Iglauer, Eksteen, Kemp, Muhling, Fiorentin, Thébaud, Wingate, Kirkland, Senanayake, Nikoloski |
ARC LIEF |
A digital mineralogy and materials characterisation hub for petrology, mineralogy, exploration, metallurgy and reservoir characterisation research |
$700,000 |
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 |
$432,844 |
Rasmussen, Dunkley, Muhling, Johnson, Thorne, Korhonen, Kirkland, Wingate |
ARC Linkage Project |
Chronostratigraphic and tectonothermal history of the northern Capricorn Orogen: constructing a geological framework for understanding mineral systems |
$170,000 |
Tkalcic, Kennett, Spaggiari, Gessner |
ARC Linkage Project |
Craton modification and growth: the east Albany-Fraser Orogen in three-dimensions |
$100,000 |
Tkalcic, Kennett, Spaggiari, Gessner |
ARC Linkage Project (GSWA contrib.) |
Craton modification and growth: the east Albany-Fraser Orogen in three-dimensions |
$100,000 |
Luzin, Piazolo, Rushmer, Bland, Tomkins |
Braggs Institute |
Texture measurements in meteorites - a pilot study (ID 3201) |
$53,600 |
Abily |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Griffin, O'Reilly, Pearson, Belousova |
DVCR allocation |
Lithospheric architecture mapping in Phanerozoic orogens |
$20,000 |
McCuaig, Fiorentini, Aitken, Dentith, Hagemann, Miller, George, Bagas, Micklethwaite |
UNCOVER Australia Project |
The Distal Footprints of Giant Ore Systems |
$237,917 |
McCuaig, Greenwood, McCulloch |
CSIRO Flagship Collaboration Fund |
Mineral Systems Flagship Cluster |
$272,688 |
Aitken, Dentith, Lindsay, McCuaig |
Geological Survey of Western Australia |
Second Generation Regional Targeting Products |
$272,688 |
Hough, Reddy, McCuaig, Tyler, Dentith, Shragge, Miller, Fiorentini, Aitken |
Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) c/o CSIRO |
The Distal Footprints of Giant Ore Systems: UNCOVER Australia |
$4,000,000 |
Hough, Reddy, McCuaig, Tyler, Dentith, Shragge, Miller, Fiorentini, Aitken |
MERIWA |
The Distal Footprints of Giant Ore Systems: UNCOVER Australia |
$2,600,000 |
Hough, Reddy, McCuaig, Tyler, Dentith, Shragge, Miller, Fiorentini, Aitken |
Industry |
The Distal Footprints of Giant Ore Systems: UNCOVER Australia |
$900,000 |
Hough, Reddy, McCuaig, Tyler, Dentith, Shragge, Miller, Fiorentini, Aitken |
GSWA |
The Distal Footprints of Giant Ore Systems: UNCOVER Australia |
$2,600,000 |
Jacob |
MQSIS |
High Spectral Resolution Confocal Raman Micro-Spectrometer |
$150,000 |
Foley |
MQSIS |
High-Pressure experimental equipment: cubic multi-anvil apparatus |
$150,000 |
George, Goodwin, Armand, Jacob, Westaway, Leefmann |
RIBG |
Facility for large lipid analysis of geological and environmental samples, including new ability to derive important palaeothermometers |
$67,000 |
Clark, Afonso, O'Neill, Jacob, Pearson, Rushmer, Foley, Griffin, O'Reilly, Turner |
RIBG |
Core to Crust Experiments: Establishment of a High-pressure, High-temperature Diamond Anvil Cell facility |
$100,000 |
O'Reilly |
NCRIS Auscope |
A4.45; Macquarie University Project - Earth Composition and Evolution |
$175,000 |
Fitzgerald, Dunlop, Hool, Hodgetts, Kilburn |
NHMRC |
Optimising combinations of calcium channel inhibitors for treatment of secondary degeneration after neurotrauma |
$657,562 |
Piazolo |
AINSE Research Award |
Neutron Activation Analysis of natural polycrystalline diamond aggregates |
$1,360 |
McGowan |
PGRF |
Messages from the Mantle: Geochemical Investigations of Ophiolitic Chromitites |
$5,000 |