Appendix 8: Research Funding

 

GRANTS AND OTHER INCOME FOR 2016  

  Investigators

2016 Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

O’Reilly

ARC Centre of Excellence (CE1101017)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$1,986,040

Wilde

ARC CoE
(CU 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 FSE contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$110,000

McCuaig

ARC CoE
(UWA contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$415,000

Handley, Turner, Reagan, Barclay

ARC Discovery Project (DP150100328)

Timescales of mixing and volatile transfer leading to volcanic eruptions

$109,215

Fitzsimons, Holness, Clark

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102773)

Migmatites, charnockites and crustal fluid flux during orogenesis

$52,700

Moresi, Betts, Whittaker, Miller

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102887)

The global consequences of subduction zone congestion

$172,600

Jacob, Eggins, Wirth

ARC Discovery Project (DP160102081)

Mechanisms of proxy uptake in biominerals

$103,521

Putnis, Raimondo, Daczko

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103449)

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

$103,654

Putnis, Raimondo, Daczko

ARC Discovery Project (MQ contribution)

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

$24,215

Clark, Afonso, Jones

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103502)

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

$96,767

Hand, Clark, Hasterok, Rushmer, Reddy, Hacker

ARC Discovery Project (DP160104637)

Rehydration of the lower crust, fluid sources and geophysical expression

$115,000

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL150100133)

How the Earth works - toward building a new tectonic paradigm

$618,147

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship
(CU contribution)

How the Earth works - toward building a new tectonic paradigm

$323,685

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

$83,821

Jacob

ARC Future Fellowship (FT120100462)

A new approach to quantitative interpretation of paleoclimate archives

$118,235

Yang

ARC Future Fellowship (FT130101220)

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

$190,986

Wacey

ARC Future Fellowship (FT140100321)

New insights into the origin and evolution of life on Earth

$198,716

Wang

ARC Future Fellowship (FT140100826)

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

$198,716

Wang

ARC Future Fellowship (CU contribution)

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

$126,813

Alard

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100115)

Earth’s origin and evolution: a sulphurous approach

$303,247

Selway

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100541)

Measuring mantle hydrogen to map ore fluids and model plate tectonics

$241,154

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’Neill, Cruden, Evans

ARC LIEF
(LE160100103)

Australian virtual experimental laboratory: a multimode geoscience facility

$547,000

Foley, Mavrogenes, Putnis, Brugger, Clark, Simon, O’Neill, Cruden, Evans

ARC LIEF
(MQ contribution)

Australian virtual experimental laboratory: a multimode geoscience facility

$157,333

Foley, Mavrogenes, Putnis, Brugger, Clark, Simon, O’Neill, Cruden, Evans

ARC LIEF
(partner universities contribution)

Australian virtual experimental laboratory: a multimode geoscience facility

$207,500

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

ARC LIEF
(LE160100155)

NanoMin: quantitative mineral mapping of nanoscale processes

$1,058,000

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 understanding mineral 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

$96,650

Meffre, Whittaker, Norman, Cracknell, Belousova, Collins, Arundell, Cooke, Maas, Huston, Musgrave, Greenfield

ARC Linkage Project (LP160100483)

Ore deposits and tectonic evolution of the Lachlan Orogen, SE Australia

$79,000
($37,208 to MQ)

Giuliani

ARC DECRA (DE150100510)

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

$128,367

Giuliani

Marie Curie Grant

A new approach to revealing the composition of kimberlite melts and their deep mantle source

$244,581 (€177,589) 

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

SIEF/MRIWA M436

Distal footprints of giant ore systems

$314,421

Hough, Reddy, McCuaig

SIEF RP

The distal footprints of giant ore systems: UNCOVER Australia

$346,146

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

MRIWA M470

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

$66,700

Ord, Gorczyk, Hobbs, Micklethwaite

MRIWA M424

Multiscale dynamics of hydrothermal mineral systems

$145,900

Barnes, Fiorentini

MRIWA M459

Magmatic sulphide mineral potential in the East Kimberley

$31,000

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 -  Earth composition and evolution

$222,410

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope
(MQ contribution)

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 - 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

Pearson

MQRIBG

Probe for EPMA software

$61,405

Kirkland

Ministry of Mineral Resources (Greenland) 

Geochronology for the Greenland Ministry of Mineral Resources

$94,850

Kirkland

Department of Mines and Petroleum

Crustal evolution project Geological Survey of Western Australia

$44,173

Martin

UWA staff grant

Fay-Gale Fellowship

$7,800

Piazolo, Schaefer, Turner

Bragg Institute/ANSTO

Hydration of the early solar system

$75,000

Daczko, Piazolo

Australian Synchrotron - Access Program

Tracing melt transfer zones in the lower crust:
A microchemical perspective

$2,933

Jacob

Australian Synchrotron - Access Program

H2O and CO2 distribution along grain boundaries

$534

Xu

Australian Synchrotron - Access Program

Oxidation state of iron in phlogopite from lamprophyre, implication for gold porphyry mineralisation

$972

McCuaig, Fiorentini

Barrick Gold

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

$215,034

Thébaud, Occhipinti, LaFlamme, Petrella

Newmont

Mineral Footprint and 4D Architecture of the Callie Gold Deposit

$82,500

Jessell, McCuaig, Miller, Thébaud

AMIRA

Western Africa Exploration Initiative (WAXI)

$394,825

Yang, Lu

National Science Foundation, China

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

$78,095 ($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

$21,414

Yao, Wang, Zhou

China Geological Survey 

The Ediacaran-Silurian palaeogeography of western Yangtze Block and its tectonic linkage with the Gondwana assembly

$30,000

Lampinen, Occhipinti

Australian Society for Exploration Geophysicists

Defining mineral systems footprints in the Edmund Basin of the Capricorn Orogen

$6,000

Zhao, Yuan

Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

China-Western Australia Seismic Survey (CWAS)

$100,000

Afonso, Ebbing

Germany-Australia Joint Research Cooperation Scheme

From space to the deep Earth

$12,000

Afonso, Ebbing

Germany-Australia Joint Research Cooperation Scheme (MQ contribution)

From space to the deep Earth

$17,200

Pisarevsky

University of Oslo

Maintaining and upgrading the Global Palaeomagnetic Database

$10,000

Giuliani, Castillo-Oliver

Europlanet 2020 Research Award

Carbon isotope evolution of the deep Earth from coupled C-O Isotope SIMS measurement of carbonates in kimberlites

$14,074
(€10,000)

Daczko

Uni of Tasmania ADD subcontract agreement

Reconstructing East Antarctica in Gondwana:
ground-truthing a new tectonic model

$4,400

Daczko

ANZIC Ocean Discovery Program

Reconstructing East Antarctica in Gondwana:
ground-truthing a new tectonic model

$19,180

Clark

MQ Enterprise Partnership Scheme

Pilot Research Grant - Sydney Water

$100,000

Clark

MQ Enterprise Partnership Scheme 

Pilot Research Grant - MQ contribution

$50,000

Caruso

MRIWA Scholarship

Geological controls on the fractionation of multiple sulfur isotopes in Archean mineral systems

$30,000

Choi

MRIWA Scholarship

Alkaline magmatism as a probe into the lithospheric mantle evolution beneath the Yilgarn Craton, WA

$30,000

Stirling

MRIWA Scholarship

Geochronology of Lower Crustal Cumulate Complexes in the Kohistan Terrane, North-East Pakistan

$29,000

O’Neill

CO2 CRC Student Scholarship

CO2 CRC 

$30,000

Clark

ANSTO 

Scholarship

$13,676

Colas

ANSTO Scholarship

Why is the San Andreas Fault so Weak?

$24,653

CCFS Postgraduates

MQ, CU Scholarships

Scholarships

$1,708,884

Oliveira

MQPGRF

Multicomponent and multiphase reactive flows in the Earth’s mantle

$5,500

O’Reilly

Access MQ

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$15,754

O’Reilly

GLITTER software

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$47,499

O’Reilly

Interest

SLF interest

$4,882

Grants and Other INDICATIVE income for 2017

  Investigators

2017 Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

O’Reilly

ARC Centre of Excellence (CE1101017)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$2,015,831

Wilde

ARC CoE
(CU 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 FSE contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$110,000

McCuaig

ARC CoE
(UWA contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$415,000

Handley, Turner, Reagan, Barclay

ARC Discovery Project (DP150100328)

Timescales of mixing and volatile transfer leading to volcanic eruptions

$110,000

Fitzsimons, Holness, Clark

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102773)

Migmatites, charnockites and crustal fluid flux during orogenesis

$65,000

Moresi, Betts, Whittaker, Miller

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102887)

The global consequences of subduction zone congestion

$180,000

Jacob, Eggins, Wirth

ARC Discovery Project (DP160102081)

Mechanisms of proxy uptake in biominerals

$105,300

Clark, Afonso, Jones

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103502)

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

$96,400

Putnis, Raimondo, Daczko

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103449)

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

$105,300

Hand, Clark, Hasterok, Rushmer, Reddy, Hacker

ARC Discovery Project (DP160104637)

Rehydration of the lower crust, fluid sources and geophysical expression

$137,600

Rushmer, Reddy, Hacker, Armand, George, Belt, Heraud, Bowler, Beardall

ARC Discovery Project (DP170100557)

Understand seasonal Antarctic sea-ice extent using molecular, geochemical, elemental and genomic characteristics of specific marine phytoplankton (diatoms)

$180,500

Nutman, Bennett, Van Kranendonk

ARC Discovery Project (DP170100715)

Establishing the critical physical-chemical factors in the early surface environment and tectonic regime that supported early life and continuing habitability

$100,000

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL150100133)

How the Earth works - toward building a new tectonic paradigm

$630,510

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship
(CU contribution)

How the Earth works - toward building a new tectonic paradigm

$493,899

Yang

ARC Future Fellowship (FT130101220)

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

$87,515

Wacey

ARC Future Fellowship (FT140100321)

New insights into the origin and evolution of life on Earth

$201,969

Wang

ARC Future Fellowship (FT140100826)

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

$129,753

Wang

ARC Future Fellowship (CU contribution)

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

$126,813

Alard

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100115)

Earth’s origin and evolution: a sulphurous approach

$197,740

Selway

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100541)

Measuring mantle hydrogen to map ore fluids and model plate tectonics

$173,088

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

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

ARC Linkage Project (LP140100267)

Reducing 3D geological uncertainty via improved data interpretation methods

$43,300

Meffre, Whittaker, Norman, Cracknell, Belousova, Collins, Arundell, Cooke, Maas, Huston, Musgrave, Greenfield

ARC Linkage Project (LP160100483)

Ore deposits and tectonic evolution of the Lachlan Orogen, SE Australia

$164,000 ($36,000
to MQ)

Giuliani

ARC DECRA (DE150100510)

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

$124,000

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

SIEF/MRIWA M436

Distal footprints of giant ore systems

$352,155

Hough, Reddy, McCuaig

SIEF RP

The distal footprints of giant ore systems: UNCOVER Australia

$254,806

Barnes, Fiorentini

MRIWA M459

Magmatic sulphide mineral potential in the East Kimberley

$35,000

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

MRIWA M470

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

$150,000

Jacob

MQSIS

Ramen Laser Extension Kit

$114,348

Fiorentini

GSWA

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

$15,000

Kirkland

Ministry of Mineral Resources (Greenland) 

Geochronology for the Greenland Ministry of Mineral Resources

$76,138

Kirkland

Department of Mines and Petroleum

Crustal evolution project Geological Survey of Western Australia

$44,173

Zhao, Yuan

Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

China-Western Australia Seismic Survey

$100,000

McCuaig, Fiorentini

Barrick Gold

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

$215,000

Thébaud, Hagemann

Anglogold Ashanti

Structural history and controls on gold mineralisation in Madras prospect, Plumridge Terrain

$16,965

Thébaud, Masurel, Jessell, Meriaud

Perseus Mining

4D reconstruction of the Yaouré gold mineral camp (Cote d’Ivoire)

$26,535

Yang, Lu

National Science Foundation, China

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

$50,000

Griffin, O’Reilly, Pearson, Belousova

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

Lithospheric architecture mapping in Phanerozoic orogens

$60,000

Lampinen, Occhipinti

Australian Society for Exploration Geophysicists Research Grant

Defining mineral systems footprints in the Edmund Basin of the Capricorn Orogen

$3,000

Pisarevsky

University of Oslo

Maintaining and upgrading the Global Palaeomagnetic Database

$10,000

Yao, Wang, Zhou

China Geological Survey 

The Ediacaran-Silurian palaeogeography of western Yangtze Block and its tectonic linkage with the Gondwana assembly

$10,000

Huang

ANZIC

Mg-isotope composition of altered oceanic crust

$20,000

Caruso

MRIWA Scholarship

Geological controls on the fractionation of multiple sulfur isotopes in Archean mineral systems

$30,000

Choi

MRIWA Scholarship

Alkaline magmatism as a probe into the lithospheric mantle evolution beneath the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

$30,000

Meek

MQPGRF

Melt metasomatism within the Lower Crust

$2,523