Communications 2013

CCFS web resources provide information on background, research and downloadable files of the Annual Report and Research Highlights.

Links to the GEMOC website (http://www.gemoc.mq.edu.au/) provide past GEMOC Annual Reports, updated details on its methods, new analytical advances and software updates (GLITTER), activities of research teams within GEMOC, synthesised summaries of selected research outcomes and items for secondary school resources.

Links to the CET (Centre for Exploration Targeting) website (http://www.cet.edu.au/) provide access to wider information about CET activities beyond its involvement in CCFS and especially the wide base of end-user interaction.

Links to The Institute for Geoscience Research (TiGer) website (http://tiger.curtin.edu.au/) provide information about their facilities, participants and research activities.

Strong industry interaction in CCFS in 2013 ranged from presentations to specific industry groups in their offices to numerous formal and informal workshops at CET and GEMOC, and invited and plenary presentations at peak industry symposia, workshops and conferences nationally and internationally.

CCFS publications for 2013 are given in Appendix 5

The 139 CCFS publications that were published in 2013 are mainly in high-impact international journals as listed by the internationally recognised Thomson ISI Citation data. The publication list also includes some resulting from research prior to 2011, but from ARC grants that were relinquished because of their close alliance with Centre research, or from CET or GEMOC activity which are now part of CCFS.

PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN 2013

CCFS Investigators, associated staff, early-career researchers and postgraduates had a high profile at peak geophysical, metallogenic, geodynamic and geochemical conferences as convenors, invited speakers, or presenters, with 186 presentations including:

• Granulites & Granulites 2013, Hyderabad, India, 16-20 January 2013

• 37^th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia, 5-8 February 2013

• 44^th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Texas, 18-22 March 2013

• EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April 2013

• International Workshop in Advanced EBSD Techniques, Wollongong, 3 May 2013

• 5^th International Conference on Recrystallisation and Grain Growth, Sydney, 5-10 May 2013

• Rodinia 2013: Supercontinent Cycles and Geodynamics Symposium, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 20-24 May 2013

• FUTORES Noel White Symposium, Townsville, Queensland, 2-5 June 2013

• YOM Seismic and MT Workshop, GSWA, June 2013

• MPE2013 Workshop - Recycling Rocks: Understanding Sustainability in a Dynamic Earth, Melbourne, Australia, 5-16 July, 2013

• GSA Biennial Conference of the Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, Mission Beach,Queensland, July 14-19 2013

• 76^th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Edmonton, Canada, 29 July - 2 August 2013

• 12^th SGA Biennial Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 12-15 August 2013

• Goldschmidt 2013 Conference, Florence, Italy, 25-30 August 2013

• Building Strong Continents, Metamorphic Studies Group, University of Portsmouth, UK, 2-4 September 2013

• The Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group Conference, York, UK, 3-6 September 2013

• 19^th International Conference on Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics, Leuven, Belgium, 16-18 September 2013

• 13^th Australian Space Science Conference, Sydney, 30 September - 2 October 2013

• International Meeting on Precambrian Evolution and Deep Exploration of the Continental Lithosphere, Beijing, PR China, 6-9 October 2013

• The GSA 125^th Anniversary Annual Meeting and Expo, Denver, Colorado, USA, 27-30 October 2013

• ICE Microstructure, Rheology and Physical Properties, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 29-30 October 2013

• IGCP581 4^th Annual Meeting, Hanoi, Vietnam, 10-15 November 2013

• Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland, 15-16 November 2013

• AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 9-13 December 2013

David Wacey Goldschmidt 2013.

INVITED TALKS AT MAJOR CONFERENCES 2013

Conference	Abstract
Granulites & Granulites 2013, Hyderabad, India, 16-20 January 2013	Generating TTGs in Nuvvuagittuq Fold Belt: Implications for the origin of the Earth’s early continental crust T. Rushmer Keynote Implications of Late Archean magmatism and almost coeval high-grade metamorphism in the North China Craton at the Archean/Proterozoic boundary S.A. Wilde Keynote
37^th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia, 5-8 February 2013	Polyamorphism: Fact or Fiction? S. Clark Invited
European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April 2013	What lies beneath: Unveiling the fine-scale 3D compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle J.C. Afonso Keynote
International Workshop in Advanced EBSD Techniques, Wollongong, 3 May 2013	EBSD and Numerical Modelling: Current Status, Challenges and Opportunities S. Piazolo Invited
Rodinia 2013: Supercontinent Cycles and Geodynamics Symposium, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 20-24 May 2013	Proterozoic Baltica: major stages of block reorganization and supercontinent reconstruction S.V. Bogdanova, N.V. Lubnina and S.A. Pisarevsky Keynote Australia’s 40° twist during Rodinia breakup and a revised Neoproterozoic global palaeogeography Z.X. Li and D.A.D. Evans Keynote Pre-Rodinian supercontinents: how “super” were they? S.A. Pisarevsky Keynote
MP2013 Workshop Recycling Rocks: Understanding Sustainability in a Dynamic Earth, Melbourne, Australia, 5-16 July 2013	In-situ studies of granular materials under deformation S. Clark, T. Rushmer, B. Colas, R.L.L. Jones and D.Y. Parkinson Invited Coupling global systems in geodynamic earth models C. O’Neill Invited
12^th SGA Biennial Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 12-15 August 2013	The orogenic gold mineral system T.C. McCuaig and J.M.A. Hronsky Keynote
Goldschmidt 2013 Conference, Florence, Italy, 25-30 August 2013	Multi-observable thermochemical tomography: A new framework in integrated studies of the lithosphere J.C. Afonso, J. Fullea, J. Connolly, N. Rawlinson, Y. Yang and A.G. Jones Invited Ore deposits and lithosphere evolution in the early Earth G.C. Begg, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, and J.M.A. Hronsky Keynote Archean lithospheric mantle: The fount of all ores? S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, G.C. Begg, N.J. Pearson and J.M.A. Hronsky Invited The hole story about laser ablation ICP-MS N.J. Pearson, W.J. Powell, K.J. Grant, J.L. Payne, R.C. Murphy, E. Belousova, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly Invited
19^th International Conference on Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics, Leuven, Belgium, 16-18 September 2013	Microstructural evolution of polycrystalline ice using in situ deformation experiments and FAME M. Peternell, C.J.L. Wilson, M. Dierckx, D.M. Hammes and S. Piazolo Keynote Rheology of Dirty Ice: First Results and Future Perspectives S. Piazolo, C.J.L. Wilson, V. Luzin, C. Brouzet and M. Peternell Invited
6^thInternational Symposium on Hydrocarbon Accumulation Mechanisms and Petroleum Resources Evaluation, Beijing, PR China, 26-28 September 2013	Re-Os dating of the Shengli River marine oil shale, North Tibet: A development method for direct dating crude oil X.-C. Wang and J. Li Invited
13^th Australian Space Science Conference, Sydney, 30 September - 2 October 2013	The tectonics of exoplanets C. O’Neill Keynote
International Meeting on Precambrian Evolution and Deep Exploration of the Continental Lithosphere, Beijing, PR China, 6-9 October 2013	The World Turns Over: Hadean – Archean crust-mantle evolution W.L. Griffin, E. Belousova, V. Malkovets, Z. Spetsius, S.Y. O’Reilly, N.J. Pearson, and others Keynote A saga of crust-mantle relationships and evolution since Archean times: Geophysical and geochemical evidence tracked in mantle xenoliths from Arctic Norway and Cape Verde (Atlantic Ocean) S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and G. Begg Keynote Thirty years of progress in Precambrian paleomagnetism and continental reconstructions S. Pisarevskiy Invited
The GSA 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting and Expo, Denver, Colorado, USA, 27-30 October 2013	Is plate tectonics a phase in the evolution of Earth-like planets? C. O’Neill Invited
ICE Microstructure, Rheology and Physical Properties, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, 29-30 October 2013	Numerical simulation of ice processes S. Piazolo Invited Rheology of Dirty Ice: First Results and Future Perspectives S. Piazolo, C.J.L. Wilson, V. Luzin, C. Brouzet and M. Peternell Invited (See Photo)
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 9-13 December 2013	Majorite Garnet and Lithosphere Evolution: Kaapvaal Craton W.L. Griffin, S. Tessalina and S.Y. O’Reilly Invited Geochemical evolution of cratonic lithospheric mantle: A 3.6 Ga story of persistence and transformation S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, and N.J.Pearson Invited

A full list of abstract titles and authors for Conferences and Workshops attended is given in Appendix 6 and on the Abstracts page.

OTHER CONFERENCE ROLES

Conference	Abstract
Granulites & Granulites 2013, Hyderabad, India, 16-20 January 2013	*Chief Convenor:* Professor Ian Fitzsimons - THERMOCALC Workshop at IIT-Kharagpur, 8-10 January, Pre-conference fieldtrip to the Eastern Ghats, 11-16 January, Conference in Hyderabad, 16-20 January, Post-conference fieldtrip to the Kerala Khondalite Belt, 21-26 January EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April 2013
European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April 2013	*Session Co- Convenor:* Dr Juan Carlos Afonso - SM4.7: Non-seismic imaging of the continents
Zhejiang Climate Workshop, Zhejiang China, 14-16 April 2013	Organiser: Associate Professor Kelsie Dadd
International Workshop in Advanced EBSD Techniques, Wollongong, 3 May 2013	Organising Committee: Associate Professor Sandra Piazolo
5^th International Conference on Recrystallisation and Grain Growth, Sydney, 5-10 May 2013	Organising Committee: Associate Professor Sandra Piazolo Session Chair: Associate Professor Sandra Piazolo- B6: Experimental development and characterization
Rodinia 2013: Supercontinent Cycles and Geodynamics Symposium, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 20-24 May 2013	Organising Committee: Professor Zheng-Xiang Li Dr Sergei Pisarevsky
MP2013 Workshop Recycling Rocks: Understanding Sustainability in a Dynamic Earth, Melbourne, Australia, 5-16 July 2013	Organising Committee: Associate Professor Tracy Rushmer
Goldschmidt 2013 Conference, Florence, Italy, 25-30 August 2013	Session Co-convenors: Professor Catherine McCammon- 22: The Cutting Edge in Mineralogy and Mineral Physics Associate Professor Tracy Rushmer, Dr David Wacey - 03: Early EarthTheme Co-convenors: Professor Martin Van Kranendonk - Session 03 Early Earth, Theme: 03b: Geodynamics and Crust Formation in the Archean – Palaeoproterozoic Dr David Wacey, Professor Matt Kilburn - Session 03 Early Earth, Theme 03c: Peering into the Cradle of Life Dr Dan Howell - Session 05 Mantle Geochemisry, Theme 05c: Investigating the Origin and Modification of Cratonic Mantle over Time: The Role of Diamonds and Xenoliths Associate Professor Tracy Rushmer - Session 06 Continental Crust, Theme 06a: Understanding the Lower Continental Crust: Where are We Now? Professor Mike Brown - Session 06 Continental Crust, Theme 06g: Quantification of Metamorphic Processes and the Thermo-Tectonic Evolution of OrogensProfessor Bill Griffin - Session 13 Ores: Their Construction, Destruction and Politics, Theme 13f: Crust-Mantle Evolution and Changing Patterns of Ore Deposits in the Early Earth
19^th International Conference on Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics, Leuven, Belgium, 16-18 September 2013	Session Chair: Associate Professor Sandra Piazolo- Session 7: Fluids in a Deforming Environment
GEOFLUIDS: Lubricants of the dynamic earth, Joint meeting of the MG, German Mineralogical Society, GV, German Geological Union and SEDIMENT, Tübingen, Germany, 16-19 September 2013	Co-chairperson: Professor Catherine McCammon Co-convernor: Professor Catherine McCammon- 2. MP5: Physics and Chemistry of Carbon-Bearing Phases in the Earth’s Interior Professor Catherine McCammon - Theme 5: Cosmochemistry and Magmatic Processes, Session 2: Earth Mantle, Solids Liquids and Gasses (Part A) and Session 3: Earth Mantle, Solids Liquids and Gasses (Part B)
Combined SHRIMP Centre of Beijing and the SinoProbe Program of China International Meeting on Precambrian Evolution and Deep Exploration of the Continental Lithosphere, Beijing, 7-9 October 2013	Session Co-convenors: Professor Bill Griffin - Coupling Between Precambrian Crust and Subcrustal Lithosphere: Combining the Geochemical and Geophysical Evidence Dr Sergei Pisarevsky - Precambrian Supercontinents: Facts–Fiction–Fantasy Professor Simon Wilde - Session: The Hadean Earth: Evidence From the Crustal Record and Isotopes
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 9-13 December 2013	Session Co-convenors: Dr Juan Carlos Afonso - MR24B: Constraints and Uncertainties on the Composition, Structure, and Dynamics of the Earth’s Lithosphere, Upper Mantle, and Transition Zone From Multidisciplinary Studies I Dr Juan Carlos Afonso - MR43: Constraints and Uncertainties on the Composition, Structure, and Dynamics of the Earth’s Lithosphere, Upper Mantle, and Transition Zone From Multidisciplinary Studies III Posters Dr Craig O’Neill - DI23A: Probing the Earth’s Interior I Posters

Participants at the Oxygen Fugacity Workshop organised by CCFS at Macquarie University with guest lecturers Catherine McCammon (Bayreuth University) and Hugh O’Neill (ANU).

SELECTED WORKSHOP ROLES

Activity	Details & Participant/s	Date
CET Seminar Series	Professor Cam McCuaig	2013
CCFS/EPS Seminar Series	Dr Richard Flood	2013
Short Course on Laser Ablation ICP-MS - for visiting researchers from the Gemological Institute of Thailand	Associate Professor Norman Pearson	13-17 May 2013
Oxygen Fugacity Workshop (see photos above)	Organised by CCFS, with guest lecturers Professor Catherine McCammon (Bayreuth) and Professor Hugh O'Neill (ANU)	27-28 May 2013
CCFS Project definition workshop - More than 20 scientists from within CCFS and collaborating institutions contributed to discuss the direction of collaborative research on the lithospheric evolution and the related significant mineralisation of the Yilgarn craton and its margins, specifically on geochemistry and geochronology, geodynamics and modelling, and lithosphere imaging.	Dr Klaus Gessner, hosted by GSWA Perth	4 July 2013
Applying phase equilibria modelling to rocks - University of Florence, Italy (associated with the Goldschmidt2013 conference). Workshop on methodological aspects of applying phase equilibria modelling to rocks; aimed at metamorphic geologists who have experience of using phase equilibria calculation software.	Organised by Professor Michael Brown, attended by 37 participants	24-25 August 2013
CET-CCFS Fieldtrip to the Ivrea Zone: Touching the contact between the lithospheric mantle and the lower continental crust - Taking advantage of a heavy CCFS/CET staff presence in Europe this August during the brief window of time between the SGA Meeting in Uppsala (Sweden) and the Goldschmidt Conference in Florence (Italy), CCFS/CET participants Marek Locmelis, Marco Fiorentini with the help of Nicholas Thébaud organised a 5-day field trip in the Italian Alps. Ten enthusiastic geologists were guided among the outcrops of the Ivrea Zone – a rare slice of lower continental crust and subcontinental lithospheric mantle exhumed during the Alpine Orogeny.	Organised by Dr Marek Locmelis, Professor Marco Fiorentini and Nicholas Thébaud	18-25 August 2013
Short courses in Geochemistry and Mantle processes at the University of Ferrara and Modena	Conducted by Professors Sue O’Reilly and Bill Griffin (pictured)	September 2013
CCFS Workshop on Lithosphere Dynamics - 3 day workshop The University of Western Australia	Dr Weronika Gorczyk, attended by over 100 participants	4-6 November 2013
Postgraduate Seminar Day	Department of EPS Students and staff at Macquarie	13 November 2013
A Tectonic History of South China in Nine Days (see International Links)	Conducted by Professor Zheng-Xiang Li, together with Professor Hanlin Chen and Dr Fengqi Zhang of Zhejiang University	7-15 December 2013
CET Corporate Members Day (see Industry Interaction)	Organised by Professors Cam McCuaig and Marco Fiorentini	9 December 2013
Fifth Greenland Day in Perth - CET-CCFS, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and the Greenland Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources (MIM), organised the fifth annual Greenland Day. A great success, the day showcased the outcomes of the numerous CET-CCFS-GEUS research projects in Greenland. The event was also an opportunity to learn about ongoing mineral exploration in Greenland and the wealth of geological datasets that are available. The day provided an excellent opportunity for resource companies and investors to understand more about exploration and mining opportunities in Greenland.	Organised by Professor Marco Fiorentini, Dr Leon Bagas, Cindi Dunjey, attended by more than sixty company delegates, students and researchers CCFS CI Dr Marco Fiorentini (right) led the Australian organisation of ‘Greenland Day’ 2013.	10 December 2013

A three day CCFS Workshop on Lithosphere Dynamics was hosted by the University of Western Australia and attended by over 100 participants.

ESTEEM FACTORS AND OUTREACH

Awards

Activity	Participant/s
Presented with the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Outstanding Young Scientist Award (Geodynamics Division).http://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/division-outstanding-young-scientists-award/2013/juan-c-afonso/	Dr Juan Carlos Afonso
Awarded Visiting Professorship, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Professor Marco Fiorentini	Professor Marco Fiorentini
Awarded Visiting Professorship, Universite de Grenoble, Grenoble, France	Professor Marco Fiorentini
Awarded UWA Gledden Fellowship to invite Professor Boswell Wing to CET in 2014	Professor Marco Fiorentini
Awarded 2013 Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of NSW “for meritorious contributions to Geology, Mineralogy and Natural History of Australasia”, one of the most prestigious awards in Australian science (to be presented 2014)	Professor Bill Griffin
Awarded the Gibb Maitland Medal (the highest award of the WA branch of the GSA) “for substantial contributions to geoscience in Western Australia” by the Western Australian Division of the Geological Society of Australia.	Professor Cam McCuaig Katy Evans presenting Cam McCuaig the Gibb Maitland Medal (right: CCFS Advisory Board member, Dr Jon Hronsky).
Awarded Visiting Professorship, University De Lorraine, Nancy, France	Professor Cam McCuaig
Awarded a Copernicus Visiting Professorship for 2013 at the University of Ferrara, Italy	Professor Sue O’Reilly
Awarded ARC Future Fellowships (see Future Fellows )	Dr Yingjie Yang

Outreach

Activity	Participant/s	Date
Lecture on the Faculty of Science - Information Day	Associate Professor Kelsie Dadd	3 January 3013
Public lecture - GSWA open day "Crustal evolution of the Rundall Province"	Dr Chris Kirkland	22 February 2013
Interviewed for article "Hard Core" for the Discovery Channel Magazine	Professor Sue O’Reilly	February 2013
Organised O-Week stall for Women in Science and Engineering	Associate Professor Kelsie Dadd	25 February - 1 March 2013
Talk on Earth Science at Hurstville Library	Associate Professor Kelsie Dadd	7 March 2013
Interviewed at the Sydney Studios of the ABC by Roland Pease for a program in the "Discovery" series broadcast on the Overseas Service of the ABC in July 2013	Professor Simon Wilde	13 July 2013
Talk on plate tectonics to Newington College Year 12 class	Associate Professor Kelsie Dadd	9 August 2013
Organised and chaired first Women in Science and Engineering lunch	Associate Professor Kelsie Dadd	19 August 2013
Visit to Timor-Leste to discuss Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) and staff training	Associate Professor Kelsie Dadd	9-13 September 2013
Lecture for "Uni in a Day"	Associate Professor Kelsie Dadd	27 September 2013
NewGenGold Conference, Perth - Gold exploration event	Professor Cam McCuaig, Dr Yongjun Lu	26-27 November 2013
Over 100 public geochronology reports / government briefings	Dr Chris Kirkland	2013
Interview for a article "Hard Core" for Discovery Channel Magazine	Professor Sue O'Reilly	February, 2013
Students from Windsor High School’s Gifted and Talented (GAT) group enjoyed a ‘hands on’ Geoscience lecture during their visit to Macquarie	Dr Heather Handley, Associate Professor Kelsie Dadd	25 November 2013
Contributions to textbooks ranging from University level - ‘Biology: Concepts and Applications’ and ‘Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods’ - down to high school level - ‘Core Science Stage 5 for the Australian Curriculum’ and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute EarthViewer Application – ‘Famous Fossils of the World’	Dr David Wacey	2013

2013 APPOINTMENTS AND POSITIONS

Conference	Abstract
Professor Sue O’Reilly	Appointed Chair Australian Academy of Sciences National Committee for Earth Sciences Appointed member, Executive Committee, UNCOVER (http://www.science.org.au/policy/uncover.html) Appointed member ARC ERA Reference Working Group 2013 Chief Guest Editor of Special Volume: The lithosphere and beyond: a multidisciplinary spotlight. Lithos Special Issue 189, 15 February 2014 (with Professor Bill Griffin and Dr Juan Carlos Alfonso)
Dr Juan Carlos Afonso	Co-editor of Special Volume: The lithosphere and beyond: a multidisciplinary spotlight. Lithos Special Issue 189, 15 February 2014 (with Professor Sue O’Reilly and Professor Bill Griffin)
Professor Marco Fiorentini	Visiting Professor, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, and Universite de Grenoble, Grenoble France Co-editor of Special Volume: Using Research to Benefit Mineral Exploration: Examples of Recent Research Conducted at the Centre of Exploration Targeting (CET), UWA. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 61, 1, 2013 (with Hagemann, W.K. and Witt, M.)
Professor Ian Fitzsimons	Fellow of the Geological Society, London Fellow of the Mineralogical Society
Professor Bill Griffin	Invited core founding member of the of the International Precambrian Research Centre of China (IPRCC) at Beijing SHRIMP Centre and the Department of Geology, CAGS Co-editor of Special Volume: Ore Deposits and the Role of the Lithospheric Mantle. Lithos Special Issue 164-167, April 2013 ( with Mondal, S.K. and Maier, W.-G.) Co-editor of Special Volume: American Journal of Science Special Issue in Honour of Bor-Ming Jahn. In press. (with Chung S.L., Shellnutt, J.G. and Wang, K-L) to be published 2014 Co-editor of Special Volume: The lithosphere and beyond: a multidisciplinary spotlight. Lithos Special Issue 189, 15 February 2014 (with Professor Sue O’Reilly and Dr Juan Carlos Alfonso)
Professor Matt Kilburn	Visiting Professor, Harvard University and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston
Dr Yongjun Lu	Appointed Member, Planning and Implementation subcommittee of Geoconferences
Professor Catherine McCammon	President, Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology section of the American Geophysical Union Chair, “Earth’s Deep Interior” subcommittee of the Commission of the Physics of Minerals, IMA IAVCEI representative, Inter-association Commission for Physics and Chemistry of Earth Materials, IUGG
Dr Craig O’Neill	Appointed to the AGC organising committee for AGC 2014
Professor T. Campbell McCuaig	SEG Councillor and member of the SEG curriculum committee Member, Science Advisory Committee for Discovery Theme “Minerals Down Under” CSIRO Flagship Member of the Geological Survey of Western Australia Mineral Exploration technical subcommittee
Associate Professor Norman Pearson	Member of the international organising committee of the “Working Group on Data Acquisition, Handling and Interpretation in Laser Ablation U(-Th)-Pb Geochronology”
Associate Professor Tracy Rushmer	NSF (National Science Foundation) panel member for Geochemistry and Petrology Professor Simon Turner
Professor Simon Turner	Director of the Geochemical Society
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk	Chair of the Precambrian Subcommission of the International Commission on Stratigraphy Scientific Advisory Committee Member at the University of Western Australia Core Member, International Precambrian Research Centre of China (IPRCC) Assistant Director, Australian Centre for Astrobiology
Professor Simon Wilde	Member of the International Association for Gondwana Research Advisory Committee Deputy Director of the International Precambrian Research Centre of China (IPRCC) at Beijing SHRIMP Centre and the Department of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Dr Michael Wingate	Member of the Steering Committee, IAVCEI Large Igneous Provinces Commission

Bill Griffin, Costanza Bonadiman and Sue O’Reilly cycling through the streets of Ferrara, Italy. Sue O’Reilly was awarded a Copernicus Visiting Professorship for 2013 at the University of Ferrara.

EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS
Acta Geologica Sinica	Griffin, Li
Acta Geoscientia Sinica	Li
American Journal of Science	Wilde
Chemical Geology	Wilde
Economic Geology	Lu
EGU Journal Solid Earth	Afonso, Schaefer
Geological Society of America Bulletin	Griffin, Li
GeoResJ	Jacob
Gondwana Research	Wilde
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences	Li, Wilde
Journal of the Geological Society, London	Fitzsimons
Journal of Jilin University – Earth Science	Wilde
Journal of Metamorphic Geology	Brown
Journal of Petrology	Turner
Lithos	C.Clark, Foley, Griffin
Mineralogy and Petrology	Fiorentini
Ore Geology Reviews	Bagas
Physics and Chemistry of Minerals	McCammon
Precambrian Research	Barley, Pisarevsky, Van Kranendonk

MEDIA

Activity	Participant/s	Date, Forum	Web address
Contribution on Earth’s earliest cellular life in ‘Wonders of Life’ by Professors Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen	Dr David Wacey	Jan 2013, BBC TV	Book accompanied a major BBC TV series
Planetary science: Caught in the act	Dr Craig O’Neill	30 January 2013, Nature News	http://www.nature.com/news/planetary-science-caught-in-the-act-1.12324?nc=1359858974694
Hoodoos may be seismic gurus	Dr Juan Carlos Afonso	5 February 2013, ABC News in Science	http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/02/05/3682324.htm
Other Earths could be 'in our backyard'	Dr Craig O’Neill	7 February 2013, ABC News in Science	http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/02/07/3685458.htm
Asteroid to narrowly miss Earth next week	Dr Craig O’Neill	8 February 2013, ABC News in Science	http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-08/asteroid-to-narrowly-miss-earth/4507970
Record asteroid to fly close to Earth	Dr Craig O’Neill	8 February 2013, ABC News in Science	http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/02/08/3686287.htm
Saturn’s rings rain on its atmosphere	Dr Craig O’Neill	11 April 2013, ABC News in Science	http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/04/11/3734009.htm
Iron ore deposits could be easier to find	Professor Bill Griffin	16 October 2013, The Advertiser	http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/breaking-news/iron-ore-deposits-could-be-easier-to-find/story-fni6ul2m-1226739325302?
Keep a lid on it: The controversy over Earth's oldest rocks	Dr Craig O'Neill	11 November 2013, The conversation	https://theconversation.com/keep-a-lid-on-it-the-controversy-over-earths-oldest-rocks-19825

FEATURED CCFS PAPERS

Publication	Media activity
Wacey, D., McLoughlin, N., Kilburn, M.R., Saunders, M., Cliff, J.B., Kong, C., Barley, M.E. and Brasier, M.D. 2013. Nanoscale analysis of pyritised microfossils reveals differential heterotrophic consumption in the ~1.9-Ga Gunﬂint chert. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences United States of America, 110, 8020-8024.	5 news articles
Van Kranendonk, M.J. and Kirkland, C.L. 2013. Orogenic climax of Earth: The 1.2-1.0 Ga Grenvillian Superevent. Geology, 41, 735-738.	2 news articles
Liu, Y.C., Li, Z.X., Laukamp, C., West, G. and Gardoll, S. 2013. Quantified spatial relationships between gold mineralisation and key ore genesis controlling factors, and predictive mineralisation mapping, St Ives Goldfield, Western Australia. Ore Geology Reviews, 54, 157-166.	3 news articles
Griffin, W.L., Begg, G.C. and O’Reilly, S.Y. 2013. Continental-root control on the genesis of magmatic ore deposits. Nature Geoscience, 6, 905-910.	2 news articles
Noffke, N., Christian, D., Wacey, D. and Hazen, R.M. 2013. Microbially induced sedimentary structures recording an ancient ecosystem in the ca. 3.48 billion-year-old Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia. Astrobiology, 13, 1103-1124.	31 news articles, 4 Radio, 4 TV
Humayun, M., Nemchin, A., Zanda, B., Hewins, R.H., Grange, M., Kennedy, A., Lorand, J.-P., Göpel, C., Fieni, C., Pont, S. and Deldicque, D. 2013. Origin and age of the earliest Martian crust from meteorite NWA 7533. Nature, 503, 513-516.	36 news articles
Yaxley, G.M., Kamenetsky, V.S., Nichols, G.T., Maas, R., Belousova, E., Rosenthal, A. and Norman, M. 2013. Diamonds in Antarctica? Discovery of Antarctic kimberlites extends vast Gondwanan Cretaceous kimberlite province. Nature Communications, 1-7.	42 news articles

JOURNAL METRICS HIGHLIGHT CCFS PARTICIPANTS

CCFS scored well in the decade of most-highly-cited publications in Geology

The top three most-highly-cited papers published in Geology (5yr impact factor: 4.660) for each year between 2000 and 2010 (data source: Web of Knowledge) included 8 papers authored by 14 CCFS related researchers.

2008

3. Yang, J.-H., Wu, F.-Y., Wilde, S.A., Belousova, E. and Griffin, W.L. 2008. Mesozoic decratonization of the North China block. Geology, 36, 467-470, doi:10.1130/G24518A.1

2007

1. Li, Z.-X. and Li, X.-H. 2007. Formation of the 1300-km-wide intracontinental orogen and postorogenic magmatic province in Mesozoic South China: A ﬂat-slab subduction model. Geology, 35, 179-182, doi:10.1130/G23193A.1

3. Davidson, J., Turner, S., Handley, H., Macpherson, C. and Dosseto, A. 2007. Amphibole “sponge” in arc crust? Geology, 35, 787-790, doi:10.1130 /G23637A.1

2006

1. Chu, M.-F., Chung, S.-L., Song, B., Liu, D., O’Reilly, S.Y., Pearson, N.J., Ji, J. and Wen, D.-J. 2006. Zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope constraints on the Mesozoic tectonics and crustal evolution of southern Tibet. Geology, 34, 745-748, doi:10.1130/G22725.1

2. Zheng, J.P., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Zhang, M., Pearson, N. and Pan, Y.M. 2006. Widespread Archean basement beneath the Yangtze craton. Geology, 34, 417-420, doi:10.1130/G22282.1

2003

1. Chung, S.L., Liu, D.Y., Ji, J.Q., Chu, M.F., Lee, H.Y., Wen, D.J., Lo, C.H., Lee, T.Y., Qian, Q., and Zhang, Q., 2003, Adakites from continental collision zones: Melting of thickened lower crust beneath southern Tibet: Geology, 31, 1021-1024, doi:10.1130/G19796.1

2002

2. Li, Z.X., Li, X.H., Zhou, H.W. and Kinny, P.D. 2002. Grenvillian continental collision in south China: New SHRIMP U-Pb zircon results and implications for the conﬁ guration of Rodinia. Geology, 30, 163-166, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0163:GCCISC>2.0.CO;2

2001

3. Williams, H., Turner, S., Kelley, S. and Harris, N. 2001. Age and composition of dikes in Southern Tibet: New constraints on the timing of east-west extension and its relationship to postcollisional volcanism. Geology, 29, 339–342, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0339:AACODI>2.0.CO;2

Publication
Condie, K.C., Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L. and Sircombe, K.N. 2009. Granitoid events in space and time: Constraints from igneous and detrital zircon age spectra. Gondwana Research, 15, 228-242.	Gondwana Research (5 Yr Impact factor 6.171) - 3rd Most Cited article published since 2009 (173 citations)
Belousova, E.A., Kostitsyn, Y.A., Griffin, W.L., Begg, G.C., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Pearson, N.J. 2010. The growth of the continental crust: Constraints from zircon Hf-isotope data. Lithos, 119, 3-4, 457-466. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2010.07.024	Lithos (5 yr impact factor 4.246) - 4th Most Cited article published since 2009 (81 citations)
Yaxley, G.M., Kamenetsky, V.S., Nichols, G.T., Maas, R., Belousova, E., Rosenthal, A. and Norman, M. 2013. Diamonds in Antarctica? Discovery of Antarctic kimberlites extends vast Gondwanan Cretaceous kimberlite province. Nature Communications, 1-7.	Nature Communications Altametric scores - 134th of the 221,677 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals: score 386 (ranked #4 of 2,475 in this journal)

VISITORS

CCFS fosters links nationally and internationally through visits of collaborators to undertake defined short-term projects, or short-term visits to give lectures and seminar sessions. Formal collaborative arrangements are facilitated by partnerships in grants with reciprocal funding from international collaborators.

All Australian and international visitors are listed in Appendix 5.

They have participated in:

• collaborative research

• technology exchange

• seminars

• discussions and joint publications

• collaboration in postgraduate programs