Contacts/Glossary

Contacts

For all CCFS related e-mail Correspondence - ccfs.admin@mq.edu.au

CCFS

ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems
Administering Institution
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Macquarie University NSW 2109
AUSTRALIA

Professor Suzanne Y. O'Reilly

Director
Phone: 61 2 9850 8362
Fax: 61 2 9850 8943

Magdalene Wong-Borgefjord

Chief Operating Officer
Phone: 61 2 98501197
Fax: 61 2 9850 8943

Sally-Ann Hodgekiss

Reporting and Communications Manager
Phone: 61 2 9850 6124
Fax: 61 2 9850 8943

Glossary

AINSE	Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering
AMIRA	Australian Mineral Industry Research Association
AMMRF	Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility
(RSES) ANU	(Research School of Earth Sciences) Australian National University
APA	Australian Postgraduate Award
ARC	Australian Research Council
BMP	Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum
BSE	Backscattered Electrons
CAS	Chinese Academy of Sciences
CAGS	Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
CCFS	Core to Crust Fluid Systems
CET	Centre for Exploration Targeting
CMCA	Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (UWA)
CNRS	French National Research Foundation
CoE	Centre of Excellence
COO	Chief Operating Officer
CSIRO	Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation
CU	Curtin University
DECRA	Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
DEST	Department of Education, Science and Training (from 2002)
DIATREEM	Consulting company within Access MQ Limited
DIISR	Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
DP	Discovery Project
EBSD	Electron Backscatter Diffraction
ECR	Early Career Researcher
ECSTAR	Early Career Start-up Awards for Research
(D)EPS	(Department of) Earth and Planetary Sciences
EMP	Electron Microprobe
ERA	Excellence in Research for Australia
FIM	Facility for Integrated Microanalysis
FTIR	Fourier Transfer Infrared Spectroscopy
GA	Geoscience Australia (formerly AGSO)
GAC	Geological Association of Canada
GAU	Geochemical Analysis Unit (DEPS, Macquarie University)
GEMOC	Geochemical Evolution of Metallogeny of Continents
GEUS	Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
GIS	Geographic Information System
GLAM	Global Lithospheric Architecture Mapping
GLITTER	GEMOC Laser ICPMS Total Trace Element Reduction software
GSWA	Geological Survey of Western Australia
ICPMS	Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer
IPRS	International Postgraduate Research Scholarship
LAM-ICPMS	Laser Ablation Microprobe - ICPMS
LIEF	Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
MC-ICPMS	Multi-Collector - ICPMS
MERIWA	The Minerals and Energy Research Institute of Western Australia
(i)MQRES	(International) Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarships
MQSIS	Macquarie University Strategic Infrastructure Scheme
NCRIS	National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme
MOU	Memoranda of Understanding
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
PGE	Platinum Group Element
PIRSA	Primary Industries and Resources, South Australia
RIBG	Research Infrastructure Block Grant
SAC	Science Advisory Committee
SEM	Scanning Electron Microscope
SIRF	Scholarship for International Research Fees
TIGeR	The Institute for Geoscience Research
UWA	University of Western Australia