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
(state cont.)

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
(GSWA cont.)

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