Appendix 8: Research Funding
GRANTS AND OTHER 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 |
$185,000 |
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 |
Fiorentini |
ARC CoE (UWA contribution) |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$415,000 |
Moresi, Betts, Whittaker, Miller |
ARC Discovery Project (DP150102887) |
The global consequences of subduction zone congestion |
$180,000 |
Handley, Turner, Reagan, Barclay |
ARC Discovery Project (DP150100328) |
Timescales of mixing and volatile transfer leading to volcanic eruptions |
$115,582 |
Jacob, Eggins, Wirth |
ARC Discovery Project (DP160102081) |
Mechanisms of proxy uptake in biominerals |
$110,643 |
Putnis, Raimondo, Daczko |
ARC Discovery Project (DP160103449) |
Just add water: a recipe for the deformation of continental interiors |
$108,000 |
Clark, Afonso, Jones |
ARC Discovery Project (DP160103502) |
To develop a geophysically relevant proton conduction model for the Earth’s upper mantle |
$101,292 |
Hand, Clark, Hasterok, Rushmer, Reddy, Hacker |
ARC Discovery Project (DP160104637) |
Rehydration of the lower crust, fluid sources and geophysical expression |
$137,600 |
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 |
$94,735 |
Wang |
ARC Future Fellowship (FT140100826) |
Roles of deep-Earth fluid cycling in the generation of intra-continental magmatism |
$333,361 |
Alard |
ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100115) |
Earth’s origin and evolution: A sulphurous approach |
$204,118 |
Selway |
ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100541) |
Measuring mantle hydrogen to map ore fluids and model plate tectonics |
$178,671 |
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) (MQ contribution) |
Ore deposits and tectonic evolution of the Lachlan Orogen, SE Australia |
$164,000 |
Giuliani |
ARC DECRA (DE150100510) |
A new approach to revealing melting processes in the hidden deep Earth |
$130,292 |
Hough, McCuaig, Reddy, Clark, Fiorentini, Gray, Miller |
SIEF/MERIWA M436 |
Distal footprints of giant ore systems |
$260,698 |
Hough, Reddy, McCuaig |
SIEF RP |
The distal footprints of giant ore systems: UNCOVER Australia |
$169,401 |
Barnes, Fiorentini |
MERIWA M459 |
Magmatic sulfide 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 |
O’Reilly |
NCRIS AuScope |
AuScope Project Plan 3.53 – Earth composition and evolution |
$245,970 |
O’Reilly |
NCRIS AuScope (MQ contribution) |
AuScope Project Plan 3.53 – Earth composition and evolution |
$50,000 |
O’Reilly |
RAAP |
Interest - AuScope – Earth composition and evolution |
$6,890 |
Kirkland |
Department of Mines and Petroleum |
Crustal evolution project Geological Survey of Western Australia |
$44,173 |
Lampinen, Occhipinti |
ASEG Research Foundation |
Research Grant |
$3,000 |
Huang |
Australian and New Zealand International Ocean Discovery Program |
Consortium Mg-isotope composition of altered oceanic crust |
$20,000 |
Afonso |
MQ |
Safety Net Scheme |
$16,782 |
Afonso |
MQ |
DVCR Discretionary Fund |
$99,879 |
Griffin, O’Reilly, Pearson, Belousova |
MQ Enterprise Partnership Pilot Research Grant (Minerals Targeting International Pty Ltd) |
Lithospheric architecture mapping in phanerozoic orogens |
$60,000 |
Clark |
MQ Enterprise Partnership Scheme |
Pilot Research Grants – Sydney Water |
$100,000 |
Clark |
MQ Enterprise Partnership Scheme |
Pilot Research Grants – MQ contribution |
$50,000 |
LaFlamme |
UWA |
Research impact award |
$10,000 |
Jacob |
Australian Synchrotron – Access Program |
H2O and CO2 distribution along grain boundaries |
$1,112 |
Daczko |
University of Tasmania - AAD Subcontract Agreement |
Reconstructing East Antarctica in Gondwana: Ground-truthing a new tectonic model |
$12,000 |
Kirkland |
Ministry of Mineral Resources (Greenland) |
Geochronology for the Greenland Ministry of Mineral Resources |
$76,138 |
Yuan, Zhao |
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
China-Western Australia Seismic Survey Canning Passive Seismic Survey |
$300,000 |
Yang, Lu |
National Natural Science Foundation of China |
Genesis of comb quartz layers: Case studies from porphyry Cu deposits at Qulong, Tibet and Now Chun, Iran |
$50,000 |
Sun, Lu |
National Natural Science Foundation of China |
Magmatic oxidation state, water content, and volatile nature: New insights into genesis of porphyry copper mineralization at Zhunuo in the Gangdese belt, southern Tibet |
$40,000 |
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 |
Afonso, Ebbing |
European Space Agency |
3D Earth |
€85,000 |
Afonso, Ebbing |
European Space Agency (MQ contribution) |
3D Earth |
$17,200 |
Afonso |
Research Innovation Staff Exchange |
Multiscale inversion of porous rock physics using high-performance simulators: Bridging the gap between mathematics and geophysics |
€765,000 |
Fiorentini |
Barrick Gold Corporation |
Gold pathways: evolution of the lithospheric to crustal architecture of the El Indio Belt, Chile-Argentina |
$100,000 |
McCuaig, Fiorentini |
Barrick Gold Corporation |
The role of whole-lithosphere architecture on the genesis of giant gold systems in the El-Indio region, Chile-Argentina |
$215,000 |
Fiorentini, Loucks |
BHP Billiton |
Improving zircon morphology and chemistry as a tool of assessing and ranking the relative prospectivity for Cu porphyry deposits in “greenfield” terrains |
$202,000 |
LaFlamme, Fiorentini |
Buxton Resources |
Nickel sulfide prospectivity of the King Leopold Orogen, Kimberley |
$10,000 |
Barnes, Fiorentini |
IGO Independence Group |
Geology and ore genesis of the Nova-Bollinger Ni deposit, WA |
$160,000 |
LaFlamme, Thebaud, Fiorentini, Sugiono |
Northern Star Resources |
Fluid evolution monitored by stable isotopes at the Kanowna Belle deposit |
$76,718 |
O’Reilly |
GLITTER software |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$44,410 |
Clark |
ANSTO |
Scholarship |
$91,354 |
CCFS Postgraduates |
MQ, CU and UWA |
Scholarships Scholarships |
$2,775,961 |
Meek |
MQPGRF Round 1 |
Melt metasomatism within the lower crust |
$5,000 |
Forster |
MQPGRF Round 2 |
Experimental melting of rocks of ultramafic and sedimentary origin in accretionary orogens |
$3,866 |
Liptai |
MQPGRF Round 2 |
Nature of the mantle beneath the Carpathian-Pannonian basin, Hungary - A mantle xenolith study |
$4,697 |
GRANTS AND OTHER INDICATIVE INCOME FOR 2018
Investigators |
2017 Funding Source |
Project Title |
Amount |
GSWA |
ARC CoE (GSWA) |
Core to Crust Fluid Systems |
$185,000 |
Handley, Turner, Reagan, Barclay |
ARC Discovery Project (DP150100328) |
Timescales of mixing and volatile transfer leading to volcanic eruptions |
$115,582 |
Moresi, Betts, Whittaker, Miller |
ARC Discovery Project (DP150102887) |
The global consequences of subduction zone congestion |
$150,000 |
Jacob/Eggins |
ARC Discovery Project (DP160102081) |
Mechanisms of proxy uptake in biominerals |
$110,643 |
Putnis, Raimondo, Daczko |
ARC Discovery Project (DP160103449) |
Just add water: A recipe for the deformation of continental interiors |
$55,000 |
Clark, Afonso, Jones |
ARC Discovery Project (DP160103502) |
To develop a geophysically relevant proton conduction model for the Earth’s upper mantle |
$72,675 |
Hand, Clark, Hasterok, Rushmer, Reddy, Hacker |
ARC Discovery Project (DP160104637) |
Rehydration of the lower crust, fluid sources and geophysical expression |
$101,826 |
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 |
Van Kranendonk, Fiorentini, Campbell, Deamer |
ARC Discovery Project (DP180103204) |
A terrestrial hot spring setting for the origin of life? |
$193,000 |
Li |
ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL150100133) |
How the Earth works - Toward building a new tectonic paradigm |
$609,068 |
Li |
ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (CU contrib) |
How the Earth works - Toward building a new tectonic paradigm |
$493,899 |
Wang |
ARC Future Fellowship} (FT140100826) |
Roles of deep-Earth fluid cycling in the generation of intra-continental magmatism |
$333,361 |
Alard |
ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100115) |
Earth’s origin and evolution: A sulphurous approach |
$192,240 |
Selway |
ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100541) |
Measuring mantle hydrogen to map ore fluids and model plate tectonics |
$161,338 |
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 |
Meffre, Whittaker, Norman, Cracknell, Belousova, Collins, Arundell, Cooke, Maas, Huston, Musgrave, Greenfield |
ARC Linkage Project (LP160100483) |
The distal footprints of giant ore systems: UNCOVER Australia |
$20,829 (to MQ) |
George, Paterson, Van Kranendonk, Brocks, Sherwood, Jacob, Fuerbach, Brock, Lohr, Sestak |
ARC LIEF (LE180100060) |
Femtosecond laser micropyrolysis gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer |
$297,463 |
Sampson, Barnes, Fiorentini, Fitzsimons, Johnson, Kemp, Kilburn, Martyniuk, Putnis, Reddy, Smithies, Uvarova |
ARC LIEF (LE180100070) |
Cutting-edge electron probe microanalysis driving Western Australia’s resource geosciences |
$966,283 |
O’Reilly |
NCRIS AuScope |
AuScope Project Plan 3.53 – Earth composition and evolution |
$245,970 |
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 |
$200,000 |
Yang, Lu |
National Natural Science Foundation of China |
Genesis of comb quartz layers: Case studies from porphyry Cu deposits at Qulong, Tibet and Now Chun, Iran |
$50,000 |
Sun, Lu |
National Natural Science Foundation of China |
Magmatic oxidation sate, water content, and volatile nature: New insights into genesis of porphyry copper mineralization at Zhunuo in the Gangdese belt, southern Tibet |
$40,000 |
Yuan, Zhao |
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
China-Western Australia Seismic Survey |
$99,690 |
LaFlamme, Thebaud, Fiorentini, Sugiono |
Northern Star Resources |
Fluid evolution monitored by stable isotopes at the Kanowna Belle Deposit |
$254,483 |
Fiorentini |
Barrick Gold Corporation |
Gold pathways: evolution of the lithospheric to crustal architecture of the El Indio Belt, Chile-Argentina |
$100,000 |
Barnes, Fiorentini |
IGO Independence Group |
Geology and ore genesis of the Nova-Bollinger Ni deposit, WA |
$160,000 |
Fiorentini, Loucks |
BHP Billiton |
Improving zircon morphology and chemistry as a tool of assessing and ranking the relative prospectivity for Cu porphyry deposits in “greenfield” terrains |
$202,000 |