The following is a list of the PhD students involved in the Structural and Metamorphic Group. Included is a very brief blurb for each person's research interests. In most cases more information can be found on personal home pages. Just follow the links!

Adrian Corvino
email: a.corvino@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Adrian commenced his PhD during the PCMEGA expedition during 2002/2003 summer. He is currently focusing on structural/metamorphic observations from the northern half of the Mawson Escarpment in the southern Prince Charles Mountains. This is after spending the previous two summers in Antarctica studying the movement of the Sorsdal glacier. He also has a background in geomatics that allowed him to apply GPS techniques to map strain distribution in ice masses.

Fiona Elmer BSc (Hons, Melb.)
email: filite@hotmail.com

Fiona commenced her PhD in 2001, her main interests lie in the area of theoretical petrology. Her project looks at open and closed metamorphic systems. Currently she is focussing on mineral equilibria at the greenschist-amphibolite facies boundary and the preservation of metabasic mineral assemblages with mixed volatiles. This involves forward modelling using the software package THERMOCALC and includes the calculations of metabasic phase equilibria and the calculations of internal buffering paths in closed systems.

Andy Fowler BSc (Hons, Uni. of Canterbury)
email: a.fowler2@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Andy's research interests are focused on using thermochronology and geographic information systems to constrain the uplift history of eastern Tibet. The area has been studied extensively from a structural perspective and it is hoped that Andy will be able to quantify some of the differential uplift that past workers from Melbourne have inferred. Andy will incorporate apatite and zircon fision track, U-Th-He and Ar-Ar analyses, as well geomorphic interpretations in his work.

David Kelsey BSc (Hons, Adel.)
email: d.kelsey@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Combined with a field-base mapping exercise to constrain the geological evolution of the Rauer Group, east Antarctica, Dave's project to more accurately constrain its metamorphic evolution by means of petrography and phase diagram calculations. Phase diagram calculations use the computer program THERMOCALC. Within this project a fetish has grown for cold environments and looking at an unusual blue mineral called sapphirine, which occurred in spectacular mineral assemblages that also include orthopyroxene, sillimanite, garnet, cordierite, biotite, feldspar, quartz and spinel.

Benjamin Aeneas Patrick BSc (Hons, Melb)
email: b.patrick1@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Benjamin is working in Antarctica on brittle and ductile features within ice. The field component takes place on the Sørsdal Glacier, near Davis Station, East Antarctica. The project involves 3 seasons on the glacier surveying strain grids and structurally mapping the glacier surface. Results from the field seasons are then analysed using computer modelling programs that simulate the deformation regime found in the glacier. In this way, it is possible to compare naturally occurring deformation features such as crevasses, to the overall strain rate and stress field, and to features predicted by computer models.

Glenn Phillips
email: glen3030@yahoo.com.au

Based on field work from the 2002/03 PCMEGA field season in MacRobertson Land, Antarctica, Glenn's project contributes to unravelling the structural and metamorphic history of the south-western nunataks of the southern Prince Charles Mountains. The focus of the project will be to build up a database of structural maps, metamorphic pressure and temperature estimates using the software package THERMOCALC and geochronological data using both SHRIMP and Ar/Ar techniques. This work will be valuable in contributing to the evolution of the Lambert Graben region on a local scale and the east Antarctic shield on a more global scale.

Mark Quigley
email: m.quigley2@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Mark's research interests include the interaction of middle and upper crustal deformation in active orogens, intraplate tectonism and landscape evolution. One of his projects is centred in southern Tibet, where he is studying the exhumed middle crust coring the north Himalayan gneiss domes in the context of the Miocence-Recent strain field, utilizing structural field investigations and Ar-Ar termochronology. His other project involves a neotectonic investigation of the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, using in-situ U-Th carbonate dating of faulted river gravels and fault gauge, computer modelling and geomorphic and structural field work to reconstruct the upligt and landscape evolution of the Flinders Ranges since ~8 Ma. Mark collaborates with the Beijing Academy of Sciences on his Tibetan Plateau research.

Cameron Quinn
email: cameron_quinn@yahoo.com

Anthony Reid BSc (Hons, Adel.)
email: a.reid@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Anthony has an abiding interest in Tibet and was very happy to do a field based project in some very remote areas of eastern Tibet. Anthony's project is focussing on the structural and metamorphic evolution of the Yidun Arc, a Permo-Triassic volcanic arc in the "Three Rivers Region". The major focus of the work is to determine the P-T-t path of metamorphism in the Palaeozoic units of the Yidun Arc, and to relate this to arc construction, granite magmatism, deformation and post-tectonic cooling of the Yidun Arc and eastern Tibet.

Laixi Tong BSc MSc (Beijing)
email: l.tong@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Laixi is currently studying his Phd at the University of Melbourne after he received his MSc from CAS in Beijing and worked for a few years over there. His thesis involves structural and metamorphic evolution of the granulite facies rocks outcropping along central Prydz Bay of east Antarctica and partial coastline of southern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, and aims to understand the P-T path of the deformation and metamorphism and tectonic significance in early Palaeozoic and Proterozoic orogenesis. The research program involves a combination of structural and metamorphic field observations, detailed metamorphic petrology, including phase diagram calculations, and isotopic geochronological dating (Ar-Ar) to constrain P-T-t paths and cooling histories for the orogenies.