CO-ORDINATOR FOR WEB-BASED MSc
1998-1999 FULL-TIME:
Co-ordinator for a proposed Cross-Faculty MSc at
Monash University.
This MSc was to be based on campus with complete material available
on the web for student interaction. My position involved choice and
combination of subjects and subject material. Co-ordinating between
academics. Supervising two web personnel and presentation of material
on the web. A full knowledge of appropriate web media presentation was
necessary for this position.
One Year Full-time contract.
BHP Exploration:
November - February 1991/1992 FULL-TIME
- personal assistant to Noel White;
- data search and compilation on geochronology (U/Pb)
for all of Australia;
- Mineral Sands Project: complete analysis of mineral
sand catchment areas in central and northern Queensland for later
fieldwork sampling.
February - October 1992 PART-TIME (1 day a week)
- setting up database for input of long term project
in Mineral Sands Division.
July 1992 Field Geologist at Mt. Isa (FULL-TIME 2
weeks)
- collection of samples for long term project in
Mineral Sands Division.
GRAPHIC DESIGN/ADVERTSING
1975 to 1986 FULL-TIME:
Production of finished artwork: including initial
and continued client contact, overall design, photography/darkroom work,
typesetting, production costs. Work included design and production of
a complete variety of material from as small as business card to books,
brochures, packaging, logos…
McKenzie Typesetting Ltd.
1986 to 1992 PART-TIME: Night-shift Manager: artwork
production.
McKenzie Typesetting Ltd.
1996 Editing and production of fieldguide:
Editing and producing a published field guide of
the geology of the Aegean.
PHOTOGRAPHER:
1984 to 1999 PART-TIME:
Photographer and darkroom technician for Trader Magazines
(ACP Publishers).
EDITING AND PRODUCTION OF FIELD GUIDE:
1996 FULL-TIME:
Editing and producing a published field guide to
the geology of the Aegean.
CO-LEADING FIELD EXCURSION:
Penrose Conference Crete, Greece (1996):
Organization and Co-leading of Post-conference Field
Trip.
Involved the organization of the itinerary, geological traverses, and
complete infrastructure necessary for 22 participants.
Involved one week Field Excursion through the geology of the Cyclades,
Greece.
DEMONSTRATING UNDERGRADUATE PRACTICALS:
1st Year Earth Science (1996).
1st Year Earth Science (1997).
2nd Year Structural Geology Course (1997).
3rd Year Metamorphic Petrology (1997).
2nd Year Igneous Petrology and Crystallography (1998)
DEMONSTRATING UNDERGRADUATE FIELD COURSES:
2nd Year Structural Mapping Course at Liptrap.
3rd Year Structural Mapping Course at Lake Glenmaggie.
DEMONSTRATING POST-GRADUATE/INDUSTRY COURSES:
Mesoscopic Structural Analysis (Bermagui) Dec. 1996
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research work initially involved two years in
the Aegean, where as an MSc student I was the first person to recognize
(several generations) of regional scale detachments (this is now published).
This work awakened my interest in linking large-scale structures to
what one sees in the outcrop, and the relation to fabrics and microstructures.
Detailed studies of mafic boudins in km-scale shear zones near the Ios
detachment then led me to realise that several episodes of high-pressure
metamorphic mineral growth had taken place, whereas previously these
had been defined as one event (this work is also now published). Work
in progress has shown that these individual events can be dated, and
again, the results could be extrapolated to the regional scale. This
experience led to a lasting interest in the link between structures
at all scales of observation, and in being able to establish absolute
time as a way of understanding their evolution.
My PhD research began when I converted from MSc studies, and undertook
research in a new region, in a new structural/metamorphic/tectonic environment.
I began work in the Otago Schist, New Zealand. My experience in the
Aegean meant that I was well able to recognize regional scale extensional
structures, and I was surprised to see similarities between the two
terranes. This presented some difficulty, for established model had
it that crustal shortening was associated with the evolution of recumbent
folds and shear zones. Deformation was suggested to be progressive.
I was able to show that recumbent folds and shear zones formed in separate
episodes (using overprinting relationships) and at least some of the
shear zones appeared to be associated with low-angle normal (?) faults,
and were extensional in character. Switches from crustal shortening
to crustal extension were involved, more or less as I had observed in
the Aegean.
This led me to commence a program of 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, in which
I attempted to date particular elements of the microstructure that I
could relate to particular outcrop-scale structures. These in turn I
could relate to the large-scale. This work was successful (a paper is
in review with Geology). I was able to show that the ductile shear zones
had formed during Gondwana breakup, and they were much younger than
had been previously thought to be the case. These observations force
a considerable revision of the geology of this classic area.
Along the way my interest in the details of the 40Ar/39Ar technique
began, and I have played a key role in helping develop a new method
to interpret complex apparent age spectra (the method of asymptotes
and limits - now submitted).
IMPACT ON FIELD
Invited participant in two specialist Penrose conferences,
one on exhumation of high-pressure terranes, Chania, Crete, Greece,
in 1996, and the other on the tectonic evolution of the South West Pacific,
Arthurs Pass, New Zealand, 1999. In both cases I was one of a small
number of students invited to this specialist meeting. In the case of
the Penrose held in Greece, I was invited to co-lead a field trip after
the Penrose conference, attended by 25 of the some of the most eminent
geologists in this area of research. I have been invited to submit papers
to a number of specialist volumes.
In my final year of my PhD research, I had three papers published (two
first author), one resubmitted taking account of reviewers comments,
another two paper just submitted, and another almost ready for submission.
In the 5 years of my MSc/PhD research I have delivered eight papers
at international research conferences.
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