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)

Engineering planetary habitability: Earth’s critical first billion years

$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

$619,275

Foley

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL180100134)

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

$251,388

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

Miller, Kennett, Yuan, Allen, Greay, Gessner, Murdie

ARC Linkage Project (LP180101118)

Enhanced 3-D seismic structure for Southwest Australia

$145,000

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

ARC Linkage Project

Enabling 3D stochastic geological modelling

$237,000

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)

$220,000

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 management

$240,000

Afonso

European Space Agency

3D Earth

$130,000

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)

$283,700

Sun, Lu

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Magmatic oxidation state, water content, and volatile nature: New insights into genesis of porphyry copper mineralisation at Zhunuo in the Gangdese belt, southern Tibet

$40,000

Afonso

Geoscience Australia

Developing thermochemical models of Australia’s lithosphere

€83,000

Afonso

DeBeers

Multiobservable Thermochemical Tomography of Central and South Africa

$75,000

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

MRIWA M530, Industry

Yilgarn 2020

$663,500

LaFlamme, Thebaud, Fiorentini, Sugiono

Northern Star Resources

Multiple sulfur isotope systematics of the Kanowna Belle Gold deposit

$73,774

Barnes, Fiorentini

IGO Independence Group

Genesis of the Nova Nickel Deposit

$160,000

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

$176,000

Fiorentini, Barnes

Anglo American, CSIRO

Resistate indicator minerals for magmatic nickel sulfide ores

$203,000

Fiorentini, Denyszyn

Panoramic Resources and Innovation Connections

Establishing the precise width of the Ni-Cu ore- forming window along the Halls Creek Orogen of Western Australia through CA-IDTIMS high- precision geochronology

$52,000

Fiorentini

IGO

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

$60,000

George, Fiorentini, Parra Avila

Auldana

Tectonic evolution and amalgamation of continental, arc and arc-related terranes of Northern Thailand

$24,000

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

$200,382

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

Campbell, Van Kranendonk,Guido

Marsden Grant

Some liked it hot: Searching for early life in terrestrial hot springs

$333,000

Daczko, Munnikhuis

ANSTO – Australian Synchrotron Beamline Program

Using geochemical and microstructural XFM mapping to identify proximal, medial and distal vectors around magma transfer zones

$983,352

Loehr, Whittaker, Daczko, Hall

ANZIC IODP Legacy Analytical Funding (AILAF)

Constraining the palaeodepth evolution of the South Tasman Rise and determining its role in development of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC)

$19,292

Daczko, Gardner, Piazolo

ANZIC IODP Legacy Analytical Funding (AILAF)

Melt-present deformation within the dynamic oceanic crust: recognition and rheological consequences

$9,126

Pages, Barnes, Laukamp, Van Kranendonk, Michalski, Schulte

CSIRO

From the Red Sea to the Red Planet

$120,000

Wilde, Nemchin, Whitehouse, Harley, Kusiak, Dunkley

Australian Antarctic Science Grant

Determining the extent and nature of the oldest crust in Antarctica

$30,991

O'Reilly

Commercial - ACCESS MQ

GLITTER

$44,954