A warm welcome to all new PhD candidates and staff who have started work with us over the past few months
Our new PhD students are:
Toosin Agbaje (organic chemistry of mollusc shells)
Montgarri Castillo (composition of diamond indicator minerals)…
Congratulations (belatedly) to PhD student Carl Peters upon receiving the Spackman award. The Spackman award is an international study grant from TSOP The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) supporting graduate thesis research in organic petrology. Carl made it on the …
Earth and Planetary Sciences welcomes Professor Martin Kennedy, who commenced as Head of Department on 1 February, 2015…
Congratulations to Daria Czaplinska for publishing her first bit of work from her project in Journal of Structural Geology this January.
The influence of phase and grain size distribution on the dynamics of strain localization in polymineralic rocks, (Czaplińska, Piazolo, …
Congratulations to PhD student Nicole McGowan for publishing her work in the prestigious journal Geology. Here is the abstract of her article:
Podiform chromitites enclosed in depleted harzburgites of the Luobusa massif (Tibet) contain diamonds and a highly reduced …
Congratulations to Elena Belousova on her latest publication in the prestigious journal Geology !
Here is the press release summarising her article:
Zircon, the mineral most widely used to date rocks by the U-Pb method, is common in crustal rocks, …
Congratulations to PhD student Sophia Bratenkov who will represent Macquarie University in the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 355. The expedition will take place between 31 of March and 31 of May in the Arabian Sea and aim to understand …
Paul Harvey’s current study of lead and other metal contamination in NSW household drinking water has been in the news over the last few months, with this latest report by abc: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-15/lead-threat/6018294…
Dr Heather Handley will give a talk on her career and research in volcanology and geochemistry for the 2015 Macquarie University ConocoPhillips Science Experience on Friday 16th January at 9.30 am (E7B T4).
The MQ Science Experience is coordinated by …
Michael Roach (University of Tasmania) presents his Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) project, Friday 16 January 2015: “Immersive Geological Visualisation – A digital Geology of Australia?”. Time and place tbd, contact Nathan Daczko.…
Congratulations to Robyn who published her first paper in Gondwana Research (impact factor 8.122) based on her MSc research: Gardner, R., Daczko, N.R., Halpin, J.A. and Whittaker, J.M., 2015. Discovery of a microcontinent (Gulden Draak Knoll) offshore Western Australia: implications …
The VPM software exceeded 300 downloads in the second half of 2014. In addition to being used in EPS, it has been adopted at The University of New England as a novel approach to teaching petrology to external students. Following …