Appendix 8: Research Funding

 

GRANTS AND OTHER INCOME FOR 2015  

  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

$328,368

GSWA

ARC CoE (GSWA)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$150,000

O'Reilly

ARC CoE (MQ contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$440,000

O'Reilly

ARC CoE (MQ FSE contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$110,000

McCuaig

ARC CoE (UWA contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$320,000

Yang, Rawlinson

ARC Discovery Project (DP120103673)

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

$85,458

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

$45,626

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

$127,239

Fitzsimons, Holness, Clark

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102773)

Migmatites, charnockites and crustal fluid flux during orogenesis

$65,000

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL150100133)

How the Earth works - toward building a new tectonic paradigm

$295,199

Alard

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT150100115)

Earth's origin and evolution: a sulphurous approach

$100,620

Belousova

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT110100685)

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

$100,801

Fiorentini

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT110100241)

From core to ore: emplacement dynamics of deep-seated nickel sulphide systems

$94,847

Handley

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT120100440)

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

$173,164

Jacob

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT120100462)

A new approach to quantitative interpretation of paleoclimate archives

$232,676

Piazolo

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT110100070)

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

$114,844

Wacey

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT140100321)

New insights into the origin and evolution of life on Earth

$191,766

Wang

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT140100826)

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

$196,832

Yang

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT130101220)

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

$194,644

Selway

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT150100541)

Measuring mantle hydrogen to map ore fluids and model plate tectonics

$75,294

Giuliani

ARC DECRA (DE150100510)

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

$126,222

Giuliani

MQ

Project supplement

$100,000

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)

Expanding the frontiers of mass spectrometry: a high resolution laser ablation multiple streaming facility

$860,000

Pearson etal.

ARC LIEF (LE150100013) MQ contribution

Expanding the frontiers of mass spectrometry: a high resolution laser ablation multiple streaming facility

$40,000

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

ARC LIEF (LE150100065)

A fully automated, fully shielded paleomagnetic system

$560,000

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

ARC LIEF (LE150100065)
CU contribution

A fully automated, fully shielded paleomagnetic system

$550,000

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

ARC LIEF (LE150100065)
MQ contribution

A fully automated, fully shielded paleomagnetic system

$20,000

McCuaig, Hobbs, Liu,
Gorczyk, Cawood, Connolly, Gerya, Lester, Gessner

ARC Linkage Project
(LP100200785)

Multiscale dynamics of ore body formation

$24,138

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 understandingmineral 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, McCuaig

Geological Survey of Western Australia

Second generation regional targeting products

$245,833

Fiorentini

Geological Survey of Western Australia

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

$15,000

McCuaig, Greenwood, McCulloch

CSIRO Flagship Collaboration Fund

Mineral systems flagship cluster

$108,033

Hough, McCuaig, Reddy, Clark, Fiorentini, Gray, Miller

MERIWA

Distal footprints of giant ore systems

$850,000

Hough, McCuaig, Reddy, Clark, Fiorentini, Gray, Miller

SIEF

Distal footprints of giant ore systems

$345,380

Hough, Reddy, McCuaig

SIEF RP

The distal footprints of giant ore systems: UNCOVER Australia

$853,000

Barnes, Fiorentini

MRIWA M459

Magmatic sulfide mineral potential in the East Kimberley

$61,320

Ord, Gorczyk, Hobbs, Micklethwaite

MERIWA M424

Multiscale dynamics of hydrothermal mineral systems

$195,800

Caruso

MRIWA scholarship

CCFS-related PhD project

$30,000

C. Adams

MRIWA scholarship

CCFS-related PhD project

$30,000

O'Reilly

NCRIS AuScope

A4.45; Macquarie University Project - Earth Composition and Evolution

$211,000

O'Reilly

NCRIS AuScope
MQ contribution

A4.45; Macquarie University Project - Earth Composition and Evolution

$50,000

O'Reilly, Griffin, Pearson, Belousova, Jacob, Piazolo, Clark, Daczko, Foley, George, Rushmer, Turner, Dadd, Schaefer, Handley, Downes,Lang, Brock

MQSIS

CL Monochromator for Scanning Electron Microscopy

$150,000

Clark, Afonso, Jacob, Pearson, Rushmer, Foley, Griffin, O'Reilly, Turner

MQSIS

Core to Crust Experiments: Establishment of a High-pressure, High-temperature Diamond Anvil Cell facility

$64,877

Afonso

MQRIBG

Cluster computing for large-scale geophysical simulations: Towards an integrated multidisciplinary framework

$98,500

Withford, Downes, Twamley, O'Neill, Cartmill, McMullan, Inglis, Connor, Tristant, Appleyard, Chung, Clark, Foley, Atkin, Jackson, O'Reilly,Pearson, Griffin

MQSIS

3D printing facility

$500,000

Clark, Afonso, Turner, O'Neill, Pearson, Piazolo, Rushmer, Foley, O'Reilly

MQRIBG

in-situstudies of materials under deep Earth conditions: building on synergies between current Raman and Diamond Anvil Cell facilities

$61,405

McGowan

International Synchrotron Access Program

International Synchrotron Access Program

$6,400

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

$3,785

Tretiakova

MQPGRF

The nature, extent and age of the lower crust and underlying subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) beneath the Siberian Craton (Russia)

$5,000

Matthews

MQPGRF

Tracking CO2 sequestration using gravity gradiometry

$4,811

Tork Qashqai

MQPGRF

Inversion of multiple geophysical data for composition and thermal structure of Earth's upper mantle

$4,857

Peters

MQPGRF

Biomarkers and fluid inclusions of early Earth using samples from Australia

$5,000

Oliveira

La Caixa Scholarship

Beca para cursar estudios de posgrado en la zona Asia-Pacífico

$65,000

Dering, Fiorentini

SEG Grant

Segmentation and organisation of mafic magmas in arc settings

$4,000

McGowan

AGU Student Travel Grant

AGU General Fall Meeting

$1,000 USD

Dadd

Open Fund Project of the State Key Lab of Marine Geology, Tongji University, China

Understanding magmatic processes in the South China Sea region as recorded in deep sea sediments

$100,000 RMB

Van Kranendonk, Keleman

Alfred P Sloan Foundation

Integrative field studies for the deep carbon observatory

$46,250

Clark, Colas, Darwish, Fernandez-Martinez, Kalkan, Kimpton, Struder

Braggs Institute, ANSTO

A determination of the hydrogen bonding network in Amorphous Calcium Carbonate

$16,700

Jacob, Clark, Colas Wood

Braggs Institute, ANSTO

Non-classical nucleation pathways in CaCO3

$28,560

Clark, Colas, Piltz,

Braggs Institute, ANSTO

Determining the position of water molecules in olivine

$34,500

Clark, Amulele, Mole

Braggs Institute, ANSTO, award 5043, 4478

Determination of proton conduction in olivine

$59,100

Clark, Colas, Piltz

Braggs Institute, ANSTO

Refining the position of water molecules in olivine

$33,500

Piazolo, Salvemini, Fiorentini

Neutron Proposal, Bragg Institute

Textural analysis of Martian meteorites: Deciphering the formation and evolution of the Martian crust

$55,200

Rushmer

ANSTO

ANSTO/MQ funding for a 5 year academic position

$291,492

Dadd

ANZIC Post-cruise Funding

Analysis of volcanic ash - IODP Exp 349

$40,000

Huang, Dadd, Pearson, Gréau, Griffin, O'Reilly

ANZIC Special Analytical Funding

Mg-isotope composition of altered oceanic crust

$20,000

Dentith, Fiorentini

ASEG Research Foundation

Understanding of the petrophysical properties of altered rocks: Implications for geophysical exploration

$23,000

Fiorentini, Baumgartner, Micklethwaite, Barnes, Baratoux, Thebaud, Sener

Australian Synchrothron Proposal 8538

The distribution of Ni, Cu and Pt in the Martian meteorites: Constraints on the metal budget of source magmas and metal fractionationprocesses

$98,000

McCuaig, Jara Barra

Barrick Gold

Gold pathways: evolution of the lithospheric to crustal architecture of the El Indio Belt, Chile-Argentina

$55,445

Bevitt, McMahon, Jacob, Garbe

Bragg Institute/ANSTO

Imaging giant clam shell growth

$14,000

Martin

Fay-Gale Fellowship UWA

Staff grant

$7,800

Lampinen

Hugo Dummett Mineral Discovery Fund

Society of Economic Geologists Foundation, Inc.

$4,202

Fiorentini, L, Loucks, McCuaig

Rio Tinto

Enhanced predictive capability for targeting high quality magmatic hydrothermal copper, gold and molybdenum deposits

$106,110

George, Wood, O'Brien, Madin, Armand, Bishop, Armbrecht, Brock, Daczko, Dadd, Goodwin, Grech, Hesse, Irvine, Jacob, Kennedy, Kosnik, Loehr,Madin, Ostrowski, Paulsen, Neil, Tetu, Williamson

Macquarie Research Centre

Oceans at Macquarie

$29,791

Baumgartner, Caporali, Luzin, Salvemini, Piazolo, Fiorentini

Neutron Proposal 4418

Textural analysis of Martian meteorites: Deciphering the formation and evolution of the Martian crust

$55,200

Yang, Lu

NSFC

Genesis of comb quartz layers: case studies from porphyry Cu deposits at Qulong, Tibet and Now Chun, Iran

$50,000

Lampinen, Occhipinti

Research Grant

ASEG Research Foundation

$8,200

Lampinen

TerraSpec Student in Mining Instrument Programme

Sponsored equipment

*$60,000 USD

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

Rushmer, Turner, Foley, Clark

DVCR Discretionary Fund

Support for the MOU between Macquarie University and GeoForschungsZentrum for the development of a joint high-pressure research program

$64,000

Li, Evans, Zhong, Eglington

UNESCO-IUGS IGCP Project

IGCP project #648: Supercontinent cycles and global geodynamics

$10,000
USD

Yao

China Geological Survey

Basin analysis of Ediacaran-Silurian strata on the western Yangtze margin

$21,453

O'Reilly

MQ Distinguished Professor Grant

Distinguished Professor grant

$12,000

Griffin

MQ Distinguished Professor Grant

Distinguished Professor grant

$12,000

Clark

Research Development Grant (MQ)

Imaging a subduction zone: Understanding the sources of earthquakes and volcanoes at convergent plate boundaries

$12,099

Kirkland

Ministry of Mineral Resources (Greenland)

Geochronology for the Greenland Ministry of Mineral Resources

$56,138

Kirkland

Department of Mines and Petroleum

Crustal evolution project Geological Survey of Western Australia

$44,173

O'Neill

CO2 CRC Student Scholarship

CO2 CRC

$30,000

CCFS Postgraduates

MQ, CU, UWA Scholarships

Scholarships

$2,375,090

O'Reilly

Access MQ

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$128,090

O'Reilly

GLITTER software

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$73,537

O'Reilly

Interest

Post Award and SLF interest

$73,537

Grants and Other INDICATIVE income for 2016

  Investigators

2016 Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

O'Reilly

ARC Centre of Excellence

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$2,020,500

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

$550,000

O'Reilly

ARC CoE (MQ EPS contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$110,000

McCuaig

ARC CoE (UWA contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$320,000

Putnis, Raimondo, Daczko

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103449)

Just add water: a recipe for the deformation of continental interiors

$181,006

Moresi, Betts, Whittaker, Miller

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102887)

The global consequences of subduction zone congestion

$172,000

Handley, Turner, Reagan, Barclay

ARC Discovery Project (DP150100328)

Timescales of mixing and volatile transfer leading to volcanic eruptions

$105,500

Fitzsimons, Holness, Clark

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102773)

Migmatites, charnockites and crustal fluid flux during orogenesis

$52,700

Jacob/Eggins

ARC Discovery Project (DP160102081)

Mechanisms of proxy uptake in biominerals

$100,000

Hand, Clark, Hasterok, Rushmer, Reddy, Hacker

ARC Discovery Project (DP160104637)

Rehydration of the lower crust, fluid sources and geophysical expression

$115,000

Clark, Afonso, Jones

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103502)

To develop a geophysically relevant proton conduction model for the Earth's upper mantle

$93,475

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship

How the Earth works - toward building a new tectonic paradigm

$593,891

Handley

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT120100440)

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

$72,878

Jacob

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT120100462)

A new approach to quantitative interpretation of paleoclimate archives

$102,800

Wacey

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT110100070)

New insights into the origin and evolution of life on Earth

$191,956

Wang

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT140100321)

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

$196,832

Yang

ARC Future Fellowship
(FT140100826)

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

$179,077

Alard

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100115

Earth's origin and evolution: a sulphurous approach

$199,240

Selway

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100541

Measuring mantle hydrogen to map ore fluids and model plate tectonics

$163,088

Arculus, Cohen, Gallagher, Vasconcelos, Elders, Foden, Coffin, Nebel, McGregor, Clennell, Sloss, Heap, Webster, Kemp, George

ARC LIEF (LE160100067)

Australian membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program

$2,000,000

Foley, Mavrogenes, Putnis, Brugger, Clark, Simon, O'Neil, Cruden, Evans

ARC LIEF

Australian virtual experimental laboratory: a multimode geoscience facility

$547,000

Kennedy, Sorrell, Haberlah, Dewhurst, Turner, Gore, O'Reilly, van Kranendonk, Foden, Nelson, Haghighi, Le-Clech, Ward, Koshy, Sherwood

ARC LIEF

NanoMin: quantitative mineral mapping of nonoscale processes

$648,000

Tkalcic, Kennett, Spaggiari, Gessner

ARC Linkage Project (LP130100413)

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

$50,000

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 understandingmineral systems

$85,000

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

ARC Linkage Project (LP140100267)

Reducing 3D geological uncertainty via Improved data interpretation methods

$100,000

Giuliani

ARC DECRA (DE150100510)

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

$124,000

Giuliani

Marie Curie Grant

Kimberlite new approach

€177,598

Aitken, Dentith, Lindsay, McCuait

Geological Survey of Western Australia

Second generation regional targeting products

$346,146

Hough, McCuaig, Reddy, Clark, Fiorentini, Gray, Miller

MERIWA

Distal footprints of giant ore systems

$850,000

Hough, McCuaig, Reddy, Clark, Fiorentini, Gray, Miller

SIEF

Distal footprints of giant ore systems

$346,146

Hough, Reddy, McCuaig

SIEF RP

The distal footprints of giant ore systems: UNCOVER Australia

$653,000

Fiorentini et al

MERIWA M436

Distal footprints of giant ore systems: Capricorn WA case study

$451,186

Kirkland, Clark, Kiddie, Tyler, Spaggiari, Smithies, Wingate

MRIWA M470

Mineral systems on the margin of cratons: Albany-Fraser Orogen/ Eucla Basement case study

$254,429

Caruso

MRIWA Scholarship

CCFS-related PhD project

$30,000

C. Adams

MRIWA Scholarship

CCFS-related PhD project

$30,000

Choi

MRIWA Scholarship

CCFS-related PhD project

$30,000

Petrella

MRIWA Scholarship

CCFS-related PhD project

$29,000

Stirling

MRIWA Scholarship

CCFS-related Masters project

$29,000

O'Reilly

NCRIs AuScope

AuScope Project Plan 3.53

$190,000

O'Reilly

NCRIS AuScope
MQ contribution

A4.45; Macquarie University Project - Earth Composition and Evolution

$50,000

O'Reilly

RAAP

AuScope Earth Composition and Evolution

$350,000

Piazolo

MQSIS

Precision lapping machine

$147,800

Jacob et al

MQRIBG

A state-of-the-art solid material preparation system for microbeam applications

$46,591

Mildren, Clark, Downes, Williams, Heimlich, Esselle

MQRIBG

UV direct-write workstation for processing materials with sub-micron resolution

$96,146

Pearson

MQRIBG

Probe for EPMA software

$61,405

Kirkland

Ministry of Mineral Resources (Greenland)

Geochronology for the Greenland Ministry of Mineral Resources

$18,713

Kirkland

Department of Mines and Petroleum

Crustal evolution project Geological Survey of Western Australia

$44,173

Oliveira

La Caixa Scholarship

Beca para cursar estudios de posgrado en la zona Asia-Pacífico

$65,000

Dadd

ANZIC Post-cruise Funding

Analysis of volcanic ash - IODP Exp 349

$40,000

McCuaig et al.

Barrick Gold

The role of whole-lithosphere architecture on the genesis of giant gold systems in the El-Indio region, Chile-Argentina

$198,470

Piazolo, Schaefer, Turner

Bragg Institute/ANSTO

Hydration of the early solar system

$75,000

Yang, Lu

NSFC

Genesis of comb quartz layers: case studies from porphyry Cu deposits at Qulong, Tibet and Now Chun, Iran

$50,000

Lampinen

TerraSpec Student in Mining Instrument Programme

Sponsored equipment

$60,000
USD

Griffin, O'Reilly, Pearson, Belousova

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

Lithospheric architecture mapping in Phanerozoic orogens

$60,000

Li, Evans, Zhong, Eglington

UNESCO-IUGS IGCP Project

IGCP project #648: Supercontinent cycles and global geodynamics

$10,000
USD

O'Reilly

MQ Distinguished Professor

Distinguished Professor grant

$12,000

Griffin

MQ Distinguished Professor

Distinguished Professor grant

$12,000

C O'Neill

CO2 CRC Student Scholarship

CO2 CRC

$30,000

Yao

China Geological Survey

Basin analysis of Ediacaran-Silurian strata on the western Yangtze margin

$21,453

Colas

ANSTO Scholarship

Scholarship

$24,653