41 projects

Inter-calibration of Ar-Ar dating standards and the Ar-Ar technique
This project aims to enhance the inter-calibration and evaluation of Ar-Ar dating standards as well as the inter-calibration of the Ar-Ar and U-Pb dat...
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Project Level : PhD

Volatiles in the Earth’s mantle lithosphere – timescales, storage mechanisms and fluid sources
This project will investigate the source of fluids, storage mechanisms for mantle volatiles and the timing of mantle metasomatism beneath southern Afr...
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Project Level : PhD

Modelling tropical convection.
This project will use sophisticated cloud models to simulate the deep tropical convection that was observed during the recent Tropical Warm Pool Inter...
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Project Level : PhD

Predicting Terrain-Induced Turbulence
This project will examine the generation of atmospheric turbulence by mountain ranges in the Australian region, and explore the predictability of this...
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Project Level : PhD

Integrated U/Th-He and Fission track thermochronology and the morphotectonic evolution of landscapes adjacent to the east African Rift System
Integrated U/Th-He and Fission track thermochronology and the morphotectonic evolution of landscapes adjacent to the east African Rift System...
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Project Level : PhD

Integrated U/Th-He and Fission track thermochronology and the morphotectonic evolution of the Gulf of California Extensional Province in Baja California and Sonora, Mexico
Integrated U/Th-He and Fission track thermochronology and the morphotectonic evolution of the Gulf of California Extensional Province in Baja Californ...
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Project Level : PhD

The long-term evolution of land surfaces in Precambrian shield areas using integrated quantitative dating and thermochronology techniques
The long-term evolution of land surfaces in Precambrian shield areas using integrated quantitative dating and thermochronology techniques...
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Project Level : PhD

Vertical thermochronologic profiles in orogenic belts from U/Th-He analyses of apatites and the interpretation of tectonic and surface process rates
Vertical thermochronologic profiles in orogenic belts from U/Th-He analyses of apatites and the interpretation of tectonic and surface process rates...
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Project Level : PhD

Detection and attribution of climate change in Australia
This project will compare observed climate variations in Australia with model simulations of the response to different climate forcing factors, such a...
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Project Level : PhD

Improving projections of future climate change for Australia
This project will develop improved probabilistic projections of regional climate change in Australia through analysis of climate model simulations and...
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Project Level : PhD

Geochemistry and geochronology of fluid inclusion systems related to gold mineralisation in Australia
This is a pmd*CRC project on a variety of gold deposits...
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Project Level : Honours

Structural and 3D modelling the evolution of the Fosterville gold deposit, near Bendigo, Victoria
This is a project co-sponsored by Perserverance Mining and the pmd*CRC to establish criteria to link structural studies of crustal rock associations t...
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Project Level : PhD

Structural modelling of the Golden Gift gold lodes, Stawell, western Victoria
This is a pmd*CRC project at the Stawell Gold Mine, it will investigate the structural and stratigraphic controls on gold deposition from fluids withi...
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Project Level : PhD

Tectonic evolution of the southern Prince Charles Mountains, east Antarctica
The east Antarctic Shield has formed a central cratonic block within the two most recent cycles of supercontinent growth and dispersion. The thrust of...
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Project Level : PhD

Dynamics and evolution of tropical cyclones
This topic involves using data analysis and simulation techniques to analyse and predict the behaviour of tropical cyclones. Various time scales may b...
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Project Level : PhD

Simulation and analysis of climate change and variability
This broad topic includes simulations and analysis of decadal variability; simulation and analysis of the impacts of climate change on sectors of soci...
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Project Level : PhD

Development of fully automated methods of analysis for fission track dating and thermochronology in natural minerals
Development of automated image analysis for fission track dating and thermochronology in natural minerals. This project will require skills in fissio...
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Project Level : PhD

Fission track and U/Th-He Thermochronology and U-Pb dating in coupled erosional-depositional systems along rifted continental margins
Fission track and U/Th-He Thermochronology and sediment mass balance in coupled drainage-basins and sedimentary basins along rifted continental margin...
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Project Level : PhD

Further development and application of the Lu-Hf phosphate chronometer
Recent studies have demonstrated that the Lu-Hf decay scheme offers considerable potential for direct dating of a variety of phosphate minerals or bot...
Supervisors : , Maas, R
Project Level : PhD

Investigations of aspects of the fundamental systematcis of the Fission track and (U-Th)/He methods of thermochronology
Various studies have shown that these two systems of low temperature thermochronology do not always behave in a manner predicted by our current unders...
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Project Level : PhD

The effect of accumulated radiation damage on the helium retentivity of Sphene and zircon
As per the title....
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Project Level : Masters

Thermochronology and neotectonics of the Mornington Peninsula/King Island high
The Mornington Peninsula is one of a series of Neogene uplifts across southern Victoria. Low temperature thermochronology can provide new insights in...
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Project Level : Masters

Thermochronology and Provenance of the Upper-Palaeozoic Mansfield Basin using fission track and U/Th-He dating of detrital apatites and zircons
as per the title....
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Project Level : Masters

Thermochronology, Tectonics & Landscape Evolution
This studies the long-term evolution of land surfaces in Precambrian shield areas using integrated quantitative dating and thermochronology techniques...
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Project Level : PhD

U/Th-He and Fission track thermochronology and the tectonic and denudation history of the rifted margins of southern Brazil and northern Argentina
As per title...
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Project Level : PhD

U/Th-He dating of Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia
This project will involve dating of Cainozoic volcanic rocks of eastern Australia by the U/Th-He method applied to zircon megacrysts and other mineral...
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Project Level : PhD

40Ar/39Ar dating of sulphide minerals associated with major gold deposits
This project, co-sponsored by various mining companies, will evaluate the timing of pyrite growth in relation to gold mineralization, metamorphism and...
Supervisors : , Miller, J (UWA)
Project Level : PhD

Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the origin of kimberlites and related rocks in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Australia, India and Tanzania
This project seeks to determine the origins of alkaline volcanism in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Australia, Tanzania and India, using a variety of geochrono...
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Project Level : PhD

Investigation of the Fission Track and U/Th-He systematics of monazite and xenotime as possible new low-temperature thermochronometers
Evaluation of the potential of the Fission Track and U/Th-He systematics of the phosphate minerals monazite and xenotime as possible new low-temperatu...
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Project Level : PhD

Petrogenetic studies of S-type Lachlan Fold Belt granites: I. The Strathbogie Batholith and Violet Town Volcanics
In addition to key geochemical, geophysical and tectonic characteristics, the common association/preservation of felsic volcanics with granite magmati...
Supervisors : , Neil Phillips (Range River Gold)
Project Level : PhD

The big crunch: geochemical insights into arc continent collision
The end-point in the \'lives\' of subduction systems come when they collide with continents and subduction ceases. This process is thought to be fundame...
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Project Level : PhD

The development of palaeoclimate proxies: new insights from old caves
The last twenty million years of Earth history have witnessed enormous climatic and environmental changes, impacting crucially on the evolution of the...
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Project Level : PhD

The origin of ore-fluids associated with orogenic gold deposits – constraints from halogen and noble gas analyses of fluid inclusion samples
This project will investigate the source(s), timing and controls of fluids associated with major orogenic gold deposits in Australia and elsewhere, us...
Supervisors : , Miller, J (UWA)
Project Level : PhD

Carbon isotope evidence of Eocene to Oligocene greenhouse to icehouse transition in the Gippsland Basin, southeast Australia
50 to 30 million years ago the climate of the Earth evolved from greenhouse to icehouse conditions. This project will investigate evidence of this ch...
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Project Level : PhD

Carbon isotope evidence of Oligocene to Miocene greenhouse climatic optimum in the Gippsland Basin, southeast Australia
30 to 15 million years ago the climate of the Earth went into a series of climatic optimum when vast coal deposits formed. This project will investig...
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Project Level : PhD

Microfossil evidence of the Eocene to Oligocene greenhouse to icehouse transition in the Gippsland Basin, southeast Australia
50 to 30 million years ago the climate of the Earth evolved from greenhouse to icehouse conditions. This project will investigate evidence of this ch...
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Project Level : PhD

Origin and Evolution of a Pleistocene Megalake - Lake Bungunnia of the Murray Basin, SE Australia
During Late Pliocene to Pleistocene time, the ancestral Murray River (Australia\'s largest river system) was dammed by regional uplift on the SW side o...
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Project Level : PhD

The evolution of the marine environments in the Murray Basin in the last 6 million years
This PhD study of the foraminifera of the near-surface marine sediments of the Murray Basin, will chart relative sea level change, climate change and ...
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Project Level : PhD

The late Cenozoic foraminiferal environments and stratigraphy of the Northwest Shelf and evolution of the east Indian Ocean
This project will chart the evolution of the east Indian Ocean over the last 10 million years. The research will date the tropical to subtropical car...
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Project Level : PhD

Bacterial sulfate reduction in acidic metals-contaminated systems

This project will use molecular microbiological and aqueous/isotope hydrogeochemical approaches to investigating the activity, distribution, geoche...
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Project Level : PhD,

The biogeochemistry and ecogenomics of microbial mercury methylation

Sulfate- and iron-reducing bacteria have been implicated in the methylation of mercury. Environmentally, bacterial mercury methylation is the root...
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Project Level : PhD,