Investigators

2014 Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

O’Reilly

ARC Centre of Excellence

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$2,031,333

Wilde

ARC CoE (Curtin contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$280,000

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

$259,059

Afonso, Yang, Rawlinson, Jones, Connolly, Lebedev

ARC Discovery Project (DP120102372)

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 (DP120104004)

Supercells and the supercontinent cycle

$80,000

Nemchin, Grange

ARC Discovery Project (DP120102457)

Investigation of the early history of the Moon

$70,000

Piazolo, Daczko, Putnis, Jessell

ARC Discovery Project (DP120102060)

Investigating the fundamental link between deformation, fluids and the rates of reactions in minerals

$70,000

Rawlinson, Yang

ARC Discovery Project (DP120103673)

Down under down under: using multi-scale seismic tomography to image beneath Australia's Great Artesian Basin

$130,000

Rosenbaum, Pisarevsky,  Fielding, Speranza

ARC Discovery Project (DP130100130)

Unravelling the geodynamics of eastern Australia during the Permian: the link between plate boundary bending and basin formation

$130,000

Schaefer

ARC Discovery Project (DP130102366)

Bromine isotopic evolution of the Earth and solar system

$50,000

Walter, Neilan, George, Summons, Schopf

ARC Discovery Project (DP1093106)

Oxygenating the Earth: using innovative techniques to resolve the timing of the origin of oxygen-producing photosynthesis in cyanobacteria

$100,000

Jacob

ARC Future Fellowship

A new approach to quantitative interpretation of paleoclimate archives

$205,359

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

$160,208

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

$187,585

Wang

ARC Future Fellowship

Roles of deep-Earth fluid cycling in the generation of intra-continental magmatism

$96,463

Wacey

ARC Future Fellowship

New insights into the origin and evolution of life on Earth

$95,788

Clark (C)

ARC 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 et.al.

ARC LIEF (LE140100047)

Australian membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program

$1,800,000

Arculus, Rohling, Roberts, Exon, Yeats, O'Reilly, George, Muller, Aitchison, Webster, Coffin, Vasconcelos, Welsh, McCuaig et.al.

ARC LIEF (MQ contribution)

Australian membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program

$60,000

Hand, Kamenetsky, Gillanders, Foden, Kennedy, Clark, Raimondo, Payne, Reid, Dutch

ARC LIEF (LE140100141)

High sensitivity and precision mass spectrometry for tracing Australia’s ancient evolution and securing our future groundwater resources

$360,000

McInnes, van Riessen, Bland, Iglauer, Eksteen, Kemp, Muhling, Fiorentini, Thébaud, Wingate, Kirkland, Senanayake, Nikoloski

ARC LIEF (LE140100150)

A digital mineralogy and materials characterisation hub for petrology, mineralogy, exploration, metallurgy and reservoir characterisation research

$700,000

Tkalcic, Kennett, Spaggiari, Gessner

ARC Linkage Project (LP130100413)

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

Rasmussen, Dunkley, Muhling, Johnson, Thorne, Korhonen, Kirkland, Wingate

ARC Linkage Project (LP130100922)

Chronostratigraphic and tectonothermal history of the northern Capricorn Orogen: constructing a geological framework for understanding mineral systems

$170,000

Jessell, Holden, Baddeley, Kovesi, Ailleres, Wedge, Lindsay, Gessner, Hronsky

ARC Linkage Project (LP140100267)

Reducing 3D geological uncertainty via Improved data interpretation methods

$60,000

McCuaig, Barley, Fiorentini, Kemp, Miller, Belousova, Jessell, Hein, Begg, Tunjic, Angerer, Said, Bagas

ARC Linkage Project (industry contrib.)

Four dimensional lithospheric evolution and controls on mineral system distribution in Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic terranes

$432,844

Aitken, Dentith, Lindsay, McCuait

Geological Survey of Western Australia

Second generation regional targeting products

$245,833

McCuaig, Miller, Ulrich

Societe d’Exploitation des Mines d’Or de Sadiola SA

Controls on the genesis, geometry and location of the Sadola - Yatela Gold deposit

$250,000

McCuaig, Miller, Ulrich

AngloGold Ashanti

Controls on the genesis, geometry and location of the Siguiri gold deposit, Guinea

$190,000

McCuaig, Miller, Ulrich

AngloGold Ashanti

Controls on the genesis, geometry and location of the Obuasi - gold deposit, Ghana

$205,000

Hough, Reddy, McCuaig, Tyler

SIEF

The distal footprints of giant ore systems: UNCOVER Australia

$250,000

Grice, McCuaig, Evans and others

CSIRO Cluster

CSIRO cluster in organic-inorganic interactions in mineral systems

$1,000,000

Dadd

ANZIC IODP

Analysis of volcanic ash collected from cores on IODP exp 349

$20,000

Piazolo, Griffins, Venter, Luzin

Braggs Institute, ANSTO

A new view on diamonds: Deformation textures of polycrystalline diamond

$53,600

Van Kranendonk, Keleman

Alfred P Sloan Foundation

Integrative field studies for the deep carbon observatory

$46,250

González-Jiménez, Satsukawa, Abily

Contrib to Post-award

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$75,000

Wang

Contrib to Post-award

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$30,000

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

Geological Survey of Western Australia

Mapping sulfur sources in selected Precambrian terranes of Western Australia to enhance predictive targeting for gold and base metal mineralization

$30,000

McCuaig, Greenwood, McCulloch

CSIRO Flagship Collaboration Fund

Mineral Systems Flagship Cluster

$272,688

Rushmer

ANSTO

ANSTO/MQ funding for a 5 year academic position

$84,916

Fiorentini, Barnes, Miller

MERIWA M413

Hydrothermal footprints of magmatic nickel sulphide deposits

$130,000

Houh, McCuaig, Reddy, Clark

MERIWA

Distal Footprints of Giant Ore Systems: Capricorn WA case study

$867,000

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope

Earth composition and evolution

$139,000

Piazolo

AINSE

Neutron activation analysis of natural polycrystalline diamond aggregates

$1,360

Fiorentini

Iluka Resources Limited

A mineral system approach to the geology of “hard-rock” Ti and Zr deposits

$35,000

Fiorentini

Rio Tinto

The applicability of Ru-chromite signatures in the exploration for picrite-hosted Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits

$100,000

Fiorentini

CNRS France

Systèmes de minéralisation Ni-Cu-PGE associés au magmatisme martien

$15,000

Rushmer, Zellmer

National Geographic Society

Dynamics of magma ascent beneath New Zealand's subduction zone volcanoes: implications for hazard mitigation strategies

$24,292

Griffin, O'Reilly, Pearson, Belousova

MQ Enterprise Partnership Pilot Research Grant (Minerals Targeting International Pty Ltd)

Lithospheric architecture mapping in Phanerozoic orogens

$60,000

Foley

MQSIS Research Infrastructure Special Reserve Fund

High pressure experimental equipment: cbic multi-anvil apparatus

$150,000

Clark, Afonso, O’Neill, Jacob, Peason, Rushmer, Foley, Griffin, O’Reilly, Turner

MQSIS Research Infrastructure Special Reserve Fund

High spectral resolution confocal raman micro-spectrometer

$150,000

O’Neill, Lackie

MQ FSE Learning & Teaching Grants

Teaching module for GEOS306 based on the development of Arduino geophysical loggers

$2,500

George, Goodwin, Armand, Jacob, Westaway, Leefmann

RIBG

Facility for large lipid analysis of geological and environmental samples, including new ability to derive important palaeothermometers

$100,000

Jacob

RIBG

Core to crust experiments: establishment of a high-pressure, high-temperature diamond anvil cell facility

$67,000

McGowan

PGRF

Messages from the Mantle: geochemical Investigations of Ophiolitic Chromitites

$5,000

Firth, Jessop, McGowan

MQ Scholarships

APA

$58,177

Gardner, Matthews, Murphy, Stuart, Wasiliev

MQ Scholarships

MQRES

$104,253

Brens, Colas, Czaplinska, Goode, Grose, Hoshino, Jiang, Oliverira Bravo, Peters, Ramzan, Sqruzeniece, Tork Qashqai, Tretiakova

MQ Scholarships

IMQRES

$247,129

Bezard, Castillo Oliver, Gao, Lu, Tihac, Wang,  Xie,  Xiong

MQ Scholarships

IMQRES Cotutelle

$121,756

Lanati, Miller, Moore, Murhll-Grifith, Nguyen, Piper, Williams

MQ Scholarships

MRES

$68,975

Bjorkman, Davis, Parraavila, Markov, Stevenson, Iaccheri

UWA Scholarships

SIRF/IPRS

$155,941

Tao, Wang, Liu, Ge, Liu, Niu, Pang, Yao, Zhu, Erickson, Meier, Stark, Huang, Sun

Curtin Scholarships

APRA, student support

$331,290

Macquarie University

GLITTER software

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$46,228

Macquarie University

Access MQ

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$233,211

Macquarie University

Interest

Post Award and SLF interest

$8,377

  Investigators

2015 Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

O’Reilly

ARC Centre of Excellence

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$1,969,500

Wilde

ARC CoE (Curtin contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$280,000

GSWA

ARC CoE (GSWA)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$150,000

O’Reilly

ARC CoE (MQ contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$450,000

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

Rosenbaum, Pisarevsky, Fielding, Speranza

ARC Discovery Project (DP130100130)

Unravelling the geodynamics of eastern Australia during the Permian: the link between plate boundary bending and basin formation

$117,507

Moresi, Betts, Whittaker, Miller

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102887)

The global consequences of subduction zone congestion

$150,000

Handley, Turner, Reagan, Barclay

ARC Discovery Project (DP150100328)

Timescales of mixing and volatile transfer leading to volcanic eruptions

$125,000

Fitzsimons, Holness, Clark

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102773)

Migmatites, charnockites and crustal fluid flux during orogenesis

$65,000

Jacob

ARC Future Fellowship

A new approach to quantitative interpretation of paleoclimate archives

$205,617

Belousova

ARC Future Fellowship

Dating down under: resolving Earth’s crust - mantle relationships

$89,081

Fiorentini

ARC Future Fellowship

From Core to Ore: emplacement dynamics of deep-seated nickel sulphide systems

$88,816

Handley

ARC Future Fellowship

The timescales of Earth-system processes: extending the frontiers of uranium-series research

$153,015

Piazolo

ARC Future Fellowship

Flow characteristics of lower crustal rocks: developing a toolbox to improve geodynamic models

$101,787

Yang

ARC Future Fellowship

How the Earth moves: Developing a novel seismological approach to map the small-scale dynamics of the upper mantle

$185,609

Wang

ARC Future Fellowship

Roles of deep-Earth fluid cycling in the generation of intra-continental magmatism

$192,926

Wacey

ARC Future Fellowship

New insights into the origin and evolution of life on Earth

$191,766

Giuliani

ARC DECRA (DE150100510)

A new approach to revealing melting processes in the hidden deep Earth

$124,000

Arculus, Rohling, Roberts, Exon, Yeats, O'Reilly, George, Muller, Aitchison, Webster, Coffin, Vasconcelos, Welsh, McCuaig et al.

ARC LIEF (LE140100047)

Australian membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program

$1,800,000

Kemp, McCulloch, Fiorentini, McCuaig, Rate, Clark, Rasmussen, Evans, Reddy, Bland, Raimondo, Pearson, Belousova, Jacob, Runatto, Spandler, Barnes

ARC LIEF (LE150100013)

Laser ablation multiple split streaming.

$860,000

Kemp, McCulloch, Fiorentini, et al.

ARC LIEF (LE150100013) (MQ contribution)

Laser ablation multiple split streaming.

$40,000

Li, Tohver, Roberts, Rosenbaum, O’Neill, Pisarevsky, Clark, Elders, Bland, Wilde

ARC LIEF (LE150100065)

A fully automated, fully shielded palaeomagnetic system

$560,000

Tkalcic, Kennett, Spaggiari, Gessner

ARC Linkage Project (LP130100413)

Craton modification and growth: the east Albany-Fraser Orogen in three-dimensions

$100,000

Rasmussen, Dunkley, Muhling, Johnson, Thorne, Korhonen, Kirkland, Wingate

ARC Linkage Project (LP130100922)

Chronostratigraphic and tectonothermal history of the northern Capricorn Orogen: constructing a geological framework for understanding mineral systems

$170,000

Jessell, Holden, Baddeley, Kovesi, Ailleres, Wedge, Lindsay, Gessner, Hronsky

ARC Linkage Project (LP140100267)

Reducing 3D geological uncertainty via Improved data interpretation methods

$120,000

Aitken, Dentith, Lindsay, McCuait

Geological Survey of Western Australia

Second generation regional targeting products

$245,833

McCuaig, Miller, Ulrich

Societe d’Exploitation des Mines d’Or de Sadiola SA

Controls on the genesis, geometry and location of the Sadola - Yatela Gold deposit

$205,000

Hough, Reddy, McCuaig, Tyler

SIEF

The distal footprints of giant ore systems: UNCOVER Australia

$250,000

Hough, Reddy, McCuaig, Tyler

SIEF

The distal footprints of giant ore systems: UNCOVER Australia

$1,000,000

Dadd

ANZIC IODP

Analysis of volcanic ash collected from cores on IODP exp 349

$20,000

Piazolo, Griffins, Venter, Luzin

Braggs Institute, ANSTO

A new view on diamonds: Deformation textures of polycrystalline diamond

$53,600

Van Kranendonk, Keleman

Alfred P Sloan Foundation

Integrative field studies for the deep carbon observatory

$46,250

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

Geological Survey of Western Australia

Mapping sulfur sources in selected Precambrian terranes of Western Australia to enhance predictive targeting for gold and base metal mineralization

$30,000

McCuaig, Greenwood, McCulloch

CSIRO Flagship Collaboration Fund

Mineral Systems Flagship Cluster

$272,688

Rushmer

ANSTO

ANSTO/MQ funding for a 5 year academic position

$84,916

Fiorentini, Barnes, Miller

MERIWA M413

Hydrothermal footprints of magmatic nickel sulphide deposits

$130,000

Houh, McCuaig, Reddy, Clark

MERIWA

Distal Footprints of Giant Ore Systems: Capricorn WA case study

$867,000

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope

Earth composition and evolution

$211,000

Piazolo

AINSE

Neutron activation analysis of natural polycrystalline diamond aggregates

$1,360

Fiorentini

Rio Tinto

The applicability of Ru-chromite signatures in the exploration for picrite-hosted Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits

$100,000

Rushmer, Zellmer

National Geographic Society

Dynamics of magma ascent beneath New Zealand's subduction zone volcanoes: implications for hazard mitigation strategies

$24,292

Griffin, O'Reilly, Pearson, Belousova

MQ Enterprise Partnership Pilot Research Grant (Minerals Targeting International Pty Ltd)

Lithospheric architecture mapping in Phanerozoic orogens

$60,000

Pisareskiy

UWA-UQ Bilateral Research Collaboration award

Orogenic bending and the sedimentary record

$5,540

O’Reilly

DVCR Discretionary Fund

EOI for CoE 2017 round

$12,500

Clark

MQRIBG

In-situ study of materials under deep Earth conditions: building on synergies between current Raman and Diamond Anvil capabilities

$64,877

Afonso

MQRIBG

Cluster Computing for Large-Scale Geophysical Simulations: Towards an Integrated Multidisciplinary Framework

$98,500

Gardner

MQPGRF

What can asymmetry tell us? Investigation of asymmetric versus symmetric pinch and swell structures in nature and simulation

$4,623

Stuart

MQPGRF

Flow characteristics of lower crustal rocks: characterising melt migration in the lower crust

$4,858