ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid SystemsCommunications 2020
CCFS web resources provide information on background, research and downloadable files of the Annual Report and Research Highlights.
Links to the GEMOC website (http://www.gemoc.mq.edu.au/) provide past GEMOC Annual Reports, updated details on its methods, new analytical advances and software updates (GLITTER), activities of research teams within GEMOC, synthesised summaries of selected research outcomes and items for secondary school resources.
Links to the CET (Centre for Exploration Targeting) website (http://www.cet.edu.au/) provide access to wider information about CET activities beyond its involvement in CCFS and especially the wide base of end-user interaction.
Links to The Institute for Geoscience Research (TiGer) website (http://tiger.curtin.edu.au/) provide information about their facilities, participants and research activities.
Strong industry interaction in CCFS in 2020 ranged from presentations to specific industry groups in their offices to numerous formal and informal workshops at CET and GEMOC, and invited and plenary presentations at peak industry symposia, workshops and conferences nationally and internationally.
CCFS publications for 2020 are given in Appendix 3
The 153 CCFS publications that were published in 2020 are predominantly in high-impact international journals (Thomson ISI); the remainder are in outlets targeted to specific stakeholders (e.g. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, Economic Geology).
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PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS IN 2020
CCFS Investigators, associated staff, early-career researchers and postgraduates had a high profile at 24 peak geophysical, metallogenic, geodynamic and geochemical conferences as convenors, invited speakers, or presenters, with 138 presentations including:
• AUGEN Field Meeting, SCAR2020 - Science Council of Antarctic Research, Launceston, Hobart, 29-31 January and 31 July-11 August 2020
• Workshop: Emergence of Life, Munich, Bremen, and Italy, 15-21 February 2020
• Australia Earth Sciences Convention Conference Abstracts, Tasmania, Australia, 21 February 2020
• Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Convention, Toronto, Canada, 1-4 March 2020
• International Geological Conference Abstracts, Delhi, India, March 2-8 2020
• EGU General Assembly, Online, 4-8 May 2020
• Goldschmidt Virtual 2020, 21-26 June 2020
• 6th International Archean Symposium, Perth, Australia, 14-16 July 2020
• 2020 Eresearch Australasia Online Conference, 19-23 October 2020
• Short Course on Magmatic Sulfide Mineral Systems, UWA-CSIRO, 17 November 2020
• AGU Fall Meeting, Online Everywhere, 1-17 December 2020
CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPS ROLES
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| WORKSHOP: EMERGENCE OF LIFE MUNICH, BREMEN, AND ITALY, 15-21 FEBRUARY 2020 |
Invited speaker: Martin Van Kranandonk
AUGEN FIELD MEETING, SCAR2020 - SCIENCE COUNCIL OF ANTARCTIC RESEARCH, LAUNCESTON, HOBART, 29-31 JANUARY & 31 JULY-11 AUGUST 2020
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| Session Co-Convenor: Nathan Daczko Session: 03E “Antarctica and its neighbours in supercontinent cycles"
IGCP 648 VIRTUAL SEMINAR SERIES ONLINE MAY-AUG, SEPT-DEC 2020
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| Co-Organiser and Host: Zheng-Xing Li Weekly seminars by various contributors of diverse backgrounds. More information and recordings at http://geodynamics.curtin.edu.au/igcp-648-virtual-seminar-series/
SHORT COURSE ON MAGMATIC SULFIDE MINERAL SYSTEMS, UWA-CSIRO 17 NOVEMBER 2020
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| Organiser: Marco Fiorentini
AGU FALL MEETING, ONLINE EVERYWHERE, 1-17 DECEMBER 2020
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Co-Convenor, Co-Chair: Marco Fiorentini Convenor: Michael Forster Session: T029 “Tethyan Dynamics I” Session: T025 “Tethyan Dynamics II Posters”
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A full list of abstracts for Conferences and Workshops attended is given in Appendix 4 and on the CCFS website.
ESTEEM
AWARDS
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Participant |
Activity |
| Sue O‘Reilly |  NSW Premier’s prize for “Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry or Physics”
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| Nathan Daczko, Michael Rampe, Peter Reeves | 2020 VC’s Learning and Teaching Awards, Highly Commended Finalist (Macquarie University) |
| Nathan Daczko, Michael Rampe, Peter Reeves | 2020 Faculty of Science and Engineering Awards, Teaching Excellence, Highly Commended (Macquarie University) |
| Kim Jessop, Nathan Daczko, Sandra Piazolo | 2020 Stillwell Award (The Geological Society of Australia, for best paper in Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 2019) |
For Postgraduate awards see the Postgraduate section.
2020 NEW APPOINTMENTS AND POSITIONS
| Zheng-Xiang Li | Principal Project Leader - IGCP 648: Supercontinent Cycles and Global Geodynamics Member of the Overseas Advisory Committee, China State Council |
| Yongjun Lu | Secretary of the 6th International Archean Symposium (6IAS), Perth 2020 Treasurer, Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy & Petrology (SGGMP), Geological Society of Australia Mentor, Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) |
| Craig O’Neill | Member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Earth Sciences |
| Sue O’Reilly |
Member Executive Committee, UNCOVER national initiative (Auspices of the Australian Academy of Science) Chair, Academy of Science National Committee for Earth Sciences, and Decadal Plan preparation Member of Council, Australian Academy of Science Elected Member of Executive Committee, Australian Academy of Sciences from 2018 Co-Chair inaugural Australian Academy of Science Task Force for “Equity and Diversity” Australian Member, IUGG Nominations Committee Project Leader - IGCP 622: “Orogenic architecture and crustal growth from accretion to collision” Chair, Equity and Diversity Reference Group, Australian Academy of Science |
| Martin Van Kranendonk | Mars2020 Sample Return team member |
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EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS |
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| Acta Geologica Sinica | O'Reilly, Wilde |
| American Journal of Science | Wilde (Assoc. Ed.) |
| Cogent Geosciences | O'Neill |
| Earth and Planetary Physics (EPP) | Yang |
| Exploration Geophysics | Selway, Yang |
| Geodynamics & Tectonophysics | Pisarevsky |
| Geodynamics | Yuan (Assoc. Ed.) |
| Geological Society of America Bulletin | Li (Assoc. Ed.) |
| Geophysical Journal International | Afonso |
| Geosphere | Yuan |
| Journal of Earth Sciences | Li |
| Lithos | Foley, Griffin |
| Mineralium Deposita | Fiorentini (Assoc. Ed.) |
| Nature Science Reports | Dazcko, Jacob, Li |
| Precambrian Research | Pisarevsky |
| Russian Geology and Geophysics | Pisarevsky |
| Science China - Solid Earth | Yuan |
| Scientific Reports | Li |
| Solid Earth Sciences | Griffin |
| Tectonophysics | Li (Co-editor in chief) |
OUTREACH
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Forum |
Participant/s |
Date |
| Virtual petrography https://imagematrix.science.mq.edu.au/ | Nathan Daczko | 2020 |
| CSIRO STEM Professional in School program | Luc Doucet, Zheng Xiang Li | 2020 |
| AusEarthEd resources - Rock Detectives - Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Sandstone Promary School. Sydney Science Week - 10 videos channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrnZ3_G0x2sCy3PJcbaedoA /videos | Nathan Daczko | March 2020 |
| AusEarthEd-PACE project: rounding | Nathan Daczko | April-May 2020 |
| TESEP-PACE project: petrographic descriptions of samples in the TESEP rock kit | Nathan Daczko | April-May 2020 |
| Virtual field trips Primary schools https://sites.google.com/view/mapping-bingie/ https://sites.google.com/mq.edu.au/outcropanalysis/ https://sites.google.com/view/sydney-chinatown/home | Nathan Daczko | March-Aug 2020 |
| Early signs of life preserved in Paleoarchean hot spring deposits from the Pilbara and the search for life elsewhere | Tara Djokic | 5 June 2020 |
| Ancient carbon rocketing us into a renewable future - Virtual Seminar Macquarie University | Marco Fiorentini | 18 Sep 2020 |
| Year 4 Geology Awareness Program, Year 4 students: Cottesloe Primary School (WA) | Marco Fiorentini | 15 Sept 2020 |
| TerraneChron®: Past, Present, Future - Invited seminar, ANU | Elena Belousova | 22 October 2020 |
| TerraneChron®: Past, Present, Future - Invited seminar, University of Adelaide | Elena Belousova | 23 October 2020 |
| AGN Webinar 4: MQU TerraneChron Taking the pulse of Earth‘s Lithosphere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as111oj-NA0 | Sue O‘Reilly, Olivier Alard, Elena Belousova, Yoanne Greau, Guillaume Florin, Lauren Gorojovsky | 28 Oct 2020 |
| IGCP 648 Virtual Seminar Series - Weekly seminars by various contributors of diverse backgrounds. More information and recordings at http://geodynamics.curtin.edu.au/igcp-648-virtual-seminar-series/ | Zheng Xiang Li, Co-organiser and Host | May-Aug, Sept-Dec 2020 |
| Work on the Early Earth and Mars carried out as part of Flagship Program 4 (see p. 27) was featured on ABC Catalyst TV show “Mars: The Hunt for Life” and in an article on ABC National News: https://iview.abc.net.au/video/SC2002H003S00 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-08/mars-nasa-perseverance-life-australandscapes-catalyst/13188052 | Maro Fiorentini, Stefano Caruso | 2020 |
Filming in the Pilbara: Marco Fiorentini, Greg Quicke (ABC presenter) and Stefano Caruso (below) explore the Dresser Formation on the hunt for stromatolites (right).
| Activity | Participant/s | Date, Forum | Web address | ||
| Carmeltazite recognised as a new and rare mineral | Bill Griffin | 7/1/19, Mining weekly | Link | ||
| Crust-mantle interaction: reactive melt ascent through the lower arc crust | Nathan Daczko | YouTube | Link | ||
| Geologists probe ancient African volcanoes in WA | Marco Fiorentini | Impact, UWA | Link | ||
| Detrimental effects of coupled dissolution-precipitation on geochronology | Nathan Daczko | YouTube | Link | ||
| Phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus which could uncover potential signs of life | Bruce Schaefer | 2SER The Daily | Radio | ||
| Remixed mantle suggests early start of plate tectonics | Zheng Xiang Li, Hamed Gamal El Dien | 12/06/2020, Phys.Org, ScienceDaily, EurekaAlert | Phys.Org | ScienceDaily | EurekaAlert |
| New research opens debate up about plate tectonics date | Zheng Xiang Li, Hamed Gamal El Dien | 17/06/2020, The Canning Examiner | Link | ||
| Uncovering Earth | Zheng Xiang Li, Luc Doucet | 30/06/2020, Phys.org | Link | ||
| New Curtin research uncovers the two ‘faces‘ of the Earth | Zheng Xiang Li, Luc Doucet | 30/06/2020, The National Tribune | Link | ||
| New Curtin research uncovers the two ‘faces‘ of the Earth | Zheng Xiang Li, Luc Doucet | 30/06/2020, Eu-rekAlert | Link | ||
| Uncovering the two faces of Earth | Hugo Olierook | 6/2020, Nature News&Views, Phys. Org., EurekaAlert! | Nature News&Views | Phys. Org. | EurekaAlert! |
| ABC National radio The Science Show “The importance of Pilbara stromatolites and their preservation” | M Van Kranendonk | 18/07/2020, ABC National radio | Link | ||
| ABC news online, Comment on National Heritage listing of ancient geological sites | M Van Kranendonk | 18/07/2020, ABC News | ABC News | ||
| In northern China, scientists have found what may be the 2 billion-year-old birthmarks of Earth’s first supercontinent | Huaiyu Yuani | 06/08/2020, The conversation | Link | ||
| Ancient carbon rocketing us into a renewable future | Marco Fiorentini | 28/08/0020, Impact, UWA | Link | ||
| Radio interview, ABC Radio National Big Ideas; Einstein lecture “Life among the stars” | M Van Kranendonk | 9/2020, ABC National radio | Link | ||
| Radio interview, ABC Radio National Science Show “The North Pole” | Martin Van Kranendonk | 10/2020, ABC National radio | Link | ||
| Please explain: Why is NASA returning to the Moon? | Craig O‘Neill | 16/10/2020, MQ Lighthouse | Link | ||
| NASA finds water on the Moon, raising hopes for exploration and habitation | Craig O‘Neill | 27/10/2020, ABC News | Link | ||
| Magma ‘conveyor belt’ fuelled world’s longest erupting supervolcanoes | Hugo Olierook | 11/2020, Science Alert, Phys. Org., EurekaAlert! | Science Alert | Phys Org | EurekaAlert! |
Australian Synchrotron XFM microchemical maps of zoned (left to right) Omphacite Granulite from Fiordland, New Zealand (Nathan Daczko).
VISITORS
CCFS fosters links nationally and internationally through visits of collaborators to undertake defined short-term projects, or short-term visits to give lectures and seminar sessions. Formal collaborative arrangements are facilitated by partnerships in grants with reciprocal funding from international collaborators. The global COVID-19 pandemic left little opportunity fo for face to face interaction in 2020. Despite these difficulties, collaboration continued remotely via video conferencing and webinars.
Australian and international visitors are listed in Appendix 5. They have participated in collaborative research, technology exchange, seminars, discussions and joint publications and collaboration in postgraduate programs. For More information see the section on International Links.
