Appendix 5: Research Funding

 

GRANTS AND OTHER INDICATIVE INCOME FOR 2021  

 

  Investigators

Funding Source

Project Title

Amount

Kamber, Yaxley, Daczko, Hayman, Piazolo/

ARC Discovery Project (DP220100709)

Experimental and empirical insight into melting of the early Earth's mantle

$417,427

Rey, Chatzaras, O'Reilly, Alard, Yuan, Selway, Demouchy, Haynes

ARC Discovery Project (DP220100136)

Identifying mineral systems by mapping deep Australia

$492,445

O'Neill, Hansen, O'Reilly, Griffin, Begg/

ARC Discovery Project (DP210102196)

The link between cratonic roots, redox state, and mantle geodynamics

$386,072

Li, Biggin

ARC Discovery Project (DP210102495)

Unlocking Earth’s inner secrets in deep time using palaeointensities

$525,000

Daczko, Foley, Handley, Raimondo

ARC Discovery Project (DP200100482)

Plumbing the gap: a mantle solution to the enigma of bimodal arc volcanism

$234,364

Kemp, Wilde, Van Kranendonk, Elliot

ARC Discovery Project (DP200103298)

Testing continental growth models with calcium and strontium isotopes

$412,246

Yang, Afonso, Rawling, Ritzwoller, Niu

ARC Discovery Project (DP190102940)

Unveiling the fine structure of the Australian continent using ocean waves

$389,709

Cruden, Fiorentini, Barnes, Bunger, Jackson

ARC Discovery Project (DP190102422)

Magma dynamics and ore deposits

$315,809

Van Kranendonk, Fiorentini, Campbell, Deamer

ARC Discovery Project (DP180103204)

A terrestrial hot spring setting for the origin of life?

$620,621

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

$3,157,394

Phillips, Jourdan, Matchan, Gleadow, Li, Bland, Norman, Honda, Cawood, Weinberg, Vasconcelos, Herries, Fiorentini, Wingate

ARC LIEF (LE210100044)

Ultra-precise dating in Earth, planetary and archaeological science

$905,654

Evans, Bland, Rankenburg, Li, Jourdan, Rowins, Fiorentini, Wingate, Barnes, Uvarova

ARC LIEF (LE200100035)

WA CRC-MC-ICPMS for Earth, Planetary and Environmental science

$610,000

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

ARC LIEF (LE190100079)

The Western Australia ThermoChronology Hub

$365,380

Jessell, Gorczyk, Cruden, Rey, Lindsay, Betts, Salles, Aitken, Kee, Lang, Denyszyn, Gessner, Schmid, Occhipinti, Cameron, McCuaig, McCracken, Subramanya

ARC LIEF (LE190100146)

Evolution of Proterozoic multistage rift basins – key to mineral systems

$1,102,662

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

ARC Linkage Project (LP180101118)

Enhanced 3-D seismic structure for Southwest Australia

$468,364

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

$752,912

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)

$699,066

Fiorentini, Bennett, Gorczyk/p>

BHP Billiton Craton margin exploration targeting: 4D perspective

$329,000

Conrad, Selway, Steinberger, Tarasov, Kellogg, Nisancioglu

Norwegian Research Council, FRINATEK

Magnetotelluric Analysis for Greenland and Postglacial Isostatic Evolution (MAGPIE)

$283,700

Afonso

Geoscience Australia

Developing thermochemical models of Australia’s lithosphere

€83,000

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

George, Fiorentini, Parra Avila

Auldana

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

€24,000

Pisarevsky

Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Megagrant

Institute of the Earth’s Crust, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk

~$1,200,000

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 - Earth composition and evolution

$321,181

O’Reilly

NCRIS AuScope (MQ contribution)

AuScope Project Plan 3.53 - Earth composition and evolution

$60,000

Campbell, Van Kranendonk,Guido

Marsden Grant

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

$333,000

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

$59,000

Lanati

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Study

Completion grant

~€10,000

Lanati

Geological Society of Australia

Post-Graduate Research award

$5,000

Lanati

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst

DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service) Cotutelle Scholarship

€80,000