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

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

DP

Discovery Project

EBSD

Electron Backscatter Diffraction

ECR

Early Career Researcher

(D)EPS

(Department of) Earth and Planetary Sciences

EMP

Electron Microprobe

FIM

Facility for Integrated Microanalysis

FSE

Faculty of Science and Engineering (MQ)

FTIR

Fourier Transfer Infrared Spectroscopy

GA

Geoscience Australia (formerly AGSO)

GAC-MAC

Geological Association of Canada - Mineralogical 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

KIT

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

LAM-ICPMS

Laser Ablation Microprobe - ICPMS

LIEF

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities

ING PAN

Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences

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

Memoranda of Understanding

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

NCRIS

National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme

PGE

Platinum Group Element

RIBG

SAC

Science Advisory Committee

SEM

Scanning Electron Microscope

SIRF

Scholarship for International Research Fees

TIGeR

The Institute for Geoscience Research

UM

University of Melbourne

UNSW

University of New South Wale

UWA

University of Western Australia