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Gemoc web resources include past Annual Reports, updated details
on methods for new analytical advances and software updates (GLITTER)
and items for secondary school resources on the lithosphere.
In addition, undergraduate teaching is web-based.
AWARDS
Dr Rondi Davies, now a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National
Museum of Natural History, New York, was awarded the Voisey Medal
by the Australian Geological Society for outstanding contributions
to Australian Geology by an early career researcher for her work
on the diamonds of eastern Australia, completed for her PhD in
GEMOC.
GEMOC Director, Professor Sue O Reilly was elected to the
Australian Academy of Science and the Norwegian Academy of Science
and Letters. As she was in the field in northern China,
she could not attend either induction ceremony in 2002.
Participation in Workshops and Conferences in 2002
GEMOC staff and postgraduates were again convenors or invited
speakers at peak Geodynamic and Geochemical Conferences with
over 20 presentations.
The recognition of GEMOC s expertise in linking the micron
with the global is evidenced by the co-convening of the session
Trace-element fingerprinting: laboratory studies and petrogenetic
processes” (the micron”) by Sue O Reilly for the
2002 Goldschmidt Conference and the session Composition, Processes
and Structure of the Mantle” for the 2003 Goldschmidt Conference.
Abstract titles for Conferences and Workshops attended are
listed in Appendix
4 and full texts are available on the GEMOC website.
The August AMIRA meeting for project P515 (see Industry
project section) was held at Macquarie as activity in this
project is now focused through Macquarie. The XRF Annual
User Group Workshop was held in February 2002. Plans were
commenced for an international Workshop and Symposium Granites
and Associated Metallogenesis” to be held at Macquarie
in July 2003.
Bill Griffin and Sue O Reilly were appointed by the IUGG (International
Union of Geology and Geodesy) to be co-convenors for a Special
Session Geophysical and geochemical imaging and modelling of
continental roots and beyond: implications for the formation
and evolution of continents” at the International Geological
Conference in Florence in 2004.
Bill Griffin was invited to Beijing to provide advice to the
newly-formed Geological Survey of China on the best strategy
for building an international-standard geochemical facility in
October, 2002.
Norman Pearson and Bill Griffin delivered a Keynote talk providing
an overview of current capabilities of in situ geochemical
analysis using laser ablation inductively coupled mass spectrometry
at the 3rd International Conference on High Resolution Sector
Field ICPMS, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 2002.
SERVICE ROLES
In addition to another year on the Physics, Chemistry and
Geosciences ARC Expert Advisory Committee, Professor Sue O Reilly
was also on the DEST Expert Advisory Committee for the Task Force
that set the new Research Priorities for Australia and is a member
of the Academy of Science National Committee for Earth Sciences
that is preparing a strategic plan for the Geosciences in Australia.
VISITORS
GEMOC fosters links nationally and internationally through
visits of collaborators to undertake defined short-term discrete
projects or short-term visits to give lectures and seminar sessions.
Australian and international visitors are listed in Appendix
3.
They have participated in:
collaborative research, technology exchange, seminars,
discussions and joint publications, collaboration in postgraduate
programs
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