Investigators

2018 Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

Wilde

ARC CoE (CU contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$20,000

O’Reilly

ARC CoE (MQ contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$110,000

Fiorentini

ARC CoE (UWA contribution)

Core to Crust Fluid Systems

$120,000

Moresi, Betts, Whittaker, Miller

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102887)

The global consequences of subduction zone congestion

$150,000

Jacob, Eggins, Wirth

ARC Discovery Project (DP160102081)

Mechanisms of proxy uptake in biominerals

$117,315

Putnis, Raimondo, Daczko

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103449)

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

$28,500

Clark, Afonso, Jones

ARC Discovery Project (DP160103502)

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

$77,508

Hand, Clark, Hasterok, Rushmer, Reddy, Hacker

ARC Discovery Project (DP160104637)

Rehydration of the lower crust, fluid sources and geophysical expression

$101,862

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

Foley

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL180100134)

Understanding the roles of carbon, water and nitrogen in the development of plate tectonics as drivers of mantle evolution

$297,250

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL150100133)

How the Earth works - Toward building a new tectonic paradigm

$609,068

Selway

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100541)

Measuring mantle hydrogen to map ore fluids and model plate tectonics

$169,039

Selway

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100541) (MQ contribution)

Measuring mantle hydrogen to map ore fluids and model plate tectonics

$3,000

Alard

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100115)

Earth’s origin and evolution: A sulphurous approach

$260,216

Wang

ARC Future Fellowship (FT140100826)

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

$91,113

Giuliani

ARC DECRA (DE150100510)

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

$25,000

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

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

Sampson, Barnes, Fiorentini, Fitzsimons, Johnson, Kemp, Kilburn, Martyniuk, Putnis, Reddy, Smithies, Uvarova

ARC LIEF (LE180100070) UWA, Curtin, GSWA, CSIRO contributions

Cutting-edge electron probe microanalysis driving Western Australia’s resource geosciences

$812,500

George, Paterson, Van Kranendonk, Brocks, Sherwood, Jacob, Fuerbach, Brock, Löhr, Sestak

ARC LIEF (LE180100160)

Femtosecond-laser, micropyrolysis gas-chromatographmass spectrometer

$297,463

George, Paterson, Van Kranendonk, Brocks, Sherwood, Jacob, Fuerbach, Brock, Löhr, Sestak

ARC LIEF (LE180100160) UNSW, ANU, New England contributions

Femtosecond-laser, micropyrolysis gas-chromatographmass spectrometer

$95,000

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

$20,829 (to MQ)

Ailleres, Jessell, de Kemp, Caumon, Florian Wellmann, Armit, Droniou, Lindsay, Cui, Betts, Cruden, Kemp, Gessner, Spampinato, Harrison, Kessler

ARC Linkage Project (LP170100985)

Mitigating 3D geological risk in resources managements

$120,000

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

SIEF/MERIWA M436

Distal Footprints of Giant Ore Systems: Capricon WA Case Study

$193,382

Hough, Reddy, McCuaig, Tyler

SIEF RP

The distal footprints of giant ore systems: UNCOVER Australia

$85,405

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

Zhao, Yuan

Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

China-Western Australia Seismic Survey

$238,645

Thebaud, Aitken, Jessell, Occhipinti, Dentith, Hagemann, Kemp, Fiorentini, Smithies, Lu, Gessner

MRIWA M530, Industry

Yilgarn 2020

$663,500

LaFlamme, Thebaud, Fiorentini

Northern Star Resources

Multiple sulfur isotope systematics of the Kanowna Belle Gold deposit

$73,774

Fiorentini

Department of Industry Innovation and Science - AusIndustry: Innovation Connections

CA-IDTIMS high precision geochronology

$45,000

Fiorentini

Panoramic Resources

CA-IDTIMS high precision geochronology

$35,000

Fiorentini

IGO Independence Group

Geochemical appraisal of mafic and ultramafic rocks from a series of IGO prospects along the Albany-Fraser Belt of Western Australia

$120,350

Barnes, Fiorentini

IGO Independence Group

Predictive genetic study of the Nova-Bollinger deposit and host-rocks

$15,000

Loucks, Fiorentini

BHP Billiton

Improving zircon morphology and chemistry as a tool of assessing and ranking the relative prospectivity for Cu porphyry deposits in “greenfield” terrains

$262,982

Griffin, O’Reilly, Pearson, Belousova

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

Lithospheric architecture mapping in phanerozoic orogens

$30,000

Fiorentini

Barrick Gold Corporation

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

$44,386

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 – Earth composition and evolution

$156,620

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

Afonso

European space agency

3D Earth

$63,767

Afonso

CSIRO Scholarship

CSIRO Scholarship

$30,000

Daczko and ImageMatrix team

Macquarie University Strategic Priority Grants Scheme, 2018; plus external sponsorship

ImageMatrix - Developing a platform for clustered 2D image management, display and manipulation

$22,420

Belousova

Faculty Science and Engineering

Research Award - Excellence

$1,000

Afonso

Faculty Science and Engineering

Research Award - Excellence

$1,000

Afonso

MQ DVCR

Co-funded fellowship scheme

$28,315

Foley

DVCR and Faculty

Discretionary Grant

$33,000

O'Neill

MQSN

MQ Research Seeding Grant

$5,642

Clark

ANSTO

Scholarship

$27,353

Stefano Caruso

MRIWA scholarship

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

$15,000

CCFS Postgraduates

MQ, CU and UWA

Scholarships Scholarships

$xxxxxx

Eunjoo Choi

MRIWA scholarship

Alkaline magmatism as a probe into the lithospheric mantle/p>

$11,515

Barbosa Da Silva

MQPGRF Round 1

The microchemical and microstructural evolution of fluid and melt transfer in deep crustal shear zones

$2,755

Nimalisiri

MQPGRF Round 2

Gravity and magnetic response of the Marulan Supersuite, focusing around the Yerranderie Area

$5,074

Patabendigedara

MQPGRF Round 2

Quantifying the effects of surface and bulk proton transport in mantle materials

$5,000

Munnikhuis

MQPGRF Round 2

Microchemical and microstructural evolution of fluid and melt transfer in deep crustal shear zones

$4,801

Pintér

MQPGRF Round 2

The composition of melts in the incipient melting regime

$4,943

  Investigators

2019 Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

Moresi, Betts, Whittaker, Miller

ARC Discovery Project (DP150102887)

The global consequences of subduction zone congestion

$60,000

Jacob, Eggins, Worth

ARC Discovery Project (DP160102081)

Mechanisms of proxy uptake in biominerals

$30,000

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

$70,000

Van Kranendonk, Fiorentini, Campbell, Deamer

ARC Discovery Project (DP180103204)

A terrestrial hot spring setting for the origin of life?

$253,098

Yang, Afonso, Rawling, Ritzwoller, Niu

ARC Discovery Project (DP190102940)

Unveiling the fine structure of the Australian continent using ocean waves

$130,000

Cruden, Fiorentini, Barnes, Bunger, Jackson

ARC Discovery Project (DP190102422)

Magma dynamics and ore deposits

$100,000

Foley

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL180100134)

Understanding the roles of carbon, water and nitrogen in the development of plate tectonics as drivers of mantle evolution

$668,816

Foley

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL180100134) MQ contribution

Understanding the roles of carbon, water and nitrogen in the development of plate tectonics as drivers of mantle evolution

$190,000

Li

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL150100133)

How the Earth works - Toward building a new tectonic paradigm

$564,331

Selway

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100541)

Measuring mantle hydrogen to map ore fluids and model plate tectonics

$76,044

Alard

ARC Future Fellowship (FT150100115)

Earth’s origin and evolution: A sulphurous approach

$100,120

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

Danisik, Evans, McInnes, Kirkland; Li, Fiorentini, Wingate

ARC LIEF (LE190100079)

The Western Australia ThermoChronology Hub

$365,380

Grice, Rickard, Benedix, Jiang, Reddy, Kilburn, Clode, Peyrot, Wacey, Lavery, Masque, Trengove, Xia, Deditius, Maker

ARC LIEF (LE190100053)

A novel ToF-SIMS facility for organic and inorganic analyses in WA

$1,267,674

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

$45,000

Regenauer-Lieb, Afonso, Clark, Thiel, Czarnota, Poulet, Jones, Walsh

ARC Linkage Project (LP170100233)

A newly developed science approach to the Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP)

$660,000

Ailleres, Jessell, de Kemp, Caumon, Florian Wellmann, Armit, Droniou, Lindsay, Cui, Betts, Cruden, Kemp, Gessner, Spampinato, Harrison, Kessler

ARC Linkage Project (LP170100985)

Mitigating 3D geological risk in resources managements

$240,000

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

Thebaud, Aitken, Jessell, Occhipinti, Dentith, Hagemann, Kemp, Fiorentini, Smithies, Lu, Gessner

MRIWA M530, Industry

Yilgarn 2020

$663,500

Giuliani

Swiss National Foundation Ambizione Fellowship

A new understanding of kimberlite magmas from deep Earth to diamond mines

CHF 952,334

Conrad, Selway, Steinberger, Tarasov, Kellogg, Nisancioglu

Norwegian Research Council, FRINATEK

Magnetotelluric analysis for Greenland and postglacial isostatic evolution (MAGPIE)

$300,000

LaFlamme, Thebaud, Fiorentini, Sugiono

Northern Star Resources

Multiple sulfur isotope systematics of the Kanowna Belle Gold deposit

$69,518

Barnes, Fiorentini

IGO Independence Group

Predictive genetic study of the Nova-Bollinger deposit and host-rocks

$15,000

Loucks, Fiorentini

BHP Billiton

Improving zircon morphology and chemistry as a tool of assessing and ranking the relative prospectivity for Cu porphyry deposits in “greenfield” terrains

$228,444

Huaiyu Yuan

Canning CWAS

China-Western Australia Seismic Survey (CWAS 2nd stage)

$53,330

O'Reilly

NCRIS AuScope

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 - Earth composition and evolution

$200,000

O'Reilly

NCRIS AuScope (MQ contribution)

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 - Earth composition and evolution

$50,000

Selway, Goodwin

Macquarie Research Infrastructure Scheme

Geophysical infrastructure for polar measurements

$75,300