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Director's Message
Dear Colleagues,
The School is considering the purchase of an impressive indigenous artwork to install in the Jaeger 8 foyer. Such artworks are intended to provide a welcoming environment for all indigenous peoples, and demonstrate our appreciation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories and achievements.
I invite you to join me and others in pledging to donate to the School’s purchase of Charlie the crocodile. The School will match all donations. With existing pledges already exceeding $5000 we are more than halfway to having Charlie installed in the School. Please contact me if you would like to donate to Charlie.
On Wednesday Penny King will be receiving the ANU’s Clare Burton Award for her outstanding contribution to progress in equal opportunity and the valuing of diversity in the University. I am sure you will agree this is highly deserved and will join the School in congratulating and, importantly, thanking Penny.
Best wishes for the week ahead
Steve Eggins |
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DorothyHill Symposium
Four members from RSES recently attended the Dorothy Hill Symposium. All found it a wonderful event and great opportunity to meet with many like minded women doing great science and giving empowering messages.
Also we found out that Dorothy Hill is a super cool lady! |
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Australian Space Research Conference
Five members of the Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry Group (RSES) travelled to Sydney to attend the 17th Australian Space Research Conference (ASRC) at University of Sydney and the 2017 Planetary Frontiers workshop held at Macquarie University. The group presented 5 oral presentations at the ASRC. Dr Janaína Ávila was one of the plenary speakers at the ASRC and presented her work on the pre-solar history of Solar System matter. Prof Trevor Ireland presented the main features of Hayabusa 2 and Osiris Rex sample return missions. PhD student Liane Loiselle demonstrated that SHRIMP-SI can successfully resolve the small triple oxygen offsets required to robustly differentiate sample populations from Mars. MPhil student Leonardo Baeza presented new data on chemical and triple oxygen isotopic compositions measured in chondrules from ordinary chondrites. And PhD student Geoff Bonning demonstrated that chemical and oxygen isotope compositions measured in chondrules from carbonaceous chondrites can be used to trace the evolution of early Solar System. The work presented by Geoff Bonning, undertaken during his Honours at RSES, won 3rd best student talk at ASRC. The trip to Sydney proved to be successful as all talks attracted much interest from the planetary and space research community. |
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Advisory Committee of the Australian Synchrotron
Laura Miller, a PhD student in Experimental Petrology with Hugh O'Neill, has been elected as the student representative on the User Advisory Committee (UAC) of the Australian Synchrotron. The UAC is an independent group whose role is to advise the Australian Synchrotron on all aspects of facility operation from a users' perspective. Laura has been involved with experiments at synchrotrons in the UK, USA, France, and Australia and is ideally suited to provide a student's view of the user experience.
Congratulations Laura! |
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A geologist's paradise in the Greek Islands
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When you think of Greece, you might picture a Mediterranean island paradise, with white-washed buildings, delicious seafood and rich local customs.
But there’s a part of Greece that doesn’t feature in the travel guides: its world-class metamorphic eclogite-blueschist terranes.
And that’s exactly why a group of six Masters students from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences embarked on a three-week intensive geological field mapping course to the small Greek island of Sifnos.
Read this on science.anu.edu.au |
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If you're round the traps in Canberra on December 7th, 2017, please join us at the National Library of Australia for the launch of Exploring the Earth Under the Sea. Neville Exon has bought together tall tales and true in this wonderful history of Australia and New Zealand in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.
Please RSVP so we can be sure we have enough drinks and nibbles! |
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Outreach Opportunities:
Over December-January we will have a lot of visitors to RSES. Please consider contacting the person listed below to volunteer to either to host a group in your laboratory or to give a talk.
- Rossmoyne School, WA
Dates: 5 December, 11.30am - 12.30pm
Type of help needed: 1 hour chat and lab tour (a dozen students)
Contact:Michael Anenburg
- STEM Summer School for Indigenous Students
Dates: 11–15 December
Type of help needed: workshops, lab tours, lectures
Contact: Michelle Salmon
- NYSFNational Youth Science Forum
Dates: Tuesday, 9 January 2 - 5 pm, Tuesday, 23 January 2 - 5 pm
Type of help needed: Student Session A: 14 students plus 1-2 student staff
Student Session C: 14 students plus 1-2 student staff
Contact: Charles Le Losq
- NSTSSNational Science Teacher Summer School
Dates: Wednesday, 10 January, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm 20 teachers – request lab visits
Type of help needed: workshops, lectures, resources
Contact: Malcolm Sambridge
- Science Olympiad programEarth and Environmental Science Summer School (EESO) lectures and practical
Dates: Mon-Thurs: Jan 8-11 and 15-18
Type of help needed: 1 hr guest lecturers and/or laboratory visits on any topic in Earth Systems Science [solid earth, geophysics, geochem, fluids, environmental, etc] and Planetary Astronomy will be most welcome. The EESO students are very high ability Yr9-11 High School students who have been invited to attend Summer School, having topped an extremely challenging national selection exam. At Summer School they are put through the equivalent of a first year university course in EES but in some areas of the course the students are easily operating at levels much higher than most good first year students.
Any ANU/RSES staff and post-graduates who are in Canberra during January 2018 who would like to contribute can contact Greg to discuss how they might be able to help with a presentation that relates to their research work and/or how they might be able to show us some of the research laboratories in action.
Contact: Greg McNamara |
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This Week's Seminars:
Data Surgery Event:
Hales room 20th November 11.30-12.30pm
Topic: Multi-Dimensional clustering,Image Analysis
Speaker: Chris Renggli
School Seminar:
Jaeger 1 Seminar Room - Tuesday 21st November 4.00 - 5.00pm
Speaker: Chris Renggli
OCG Seminar:
Jaeger 7, Hales Seminar room - TBC
Topic:
Speaker:
Jaeger 1 Seminar Room - Thursday 23rd November 1-2pm
Topic: Deglacial changes in ocean circulation and their impact on the global carbon cycle.
Speaker: Laurie Menviel ( Macquarie University)
Petrology and Geochemistry Seminar
Ringwood Room, J4 - TBC
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New Publications:
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Award to Degree:
Congratulations
Tanja Pejic approved to Graduate
Jami Umma Zannat submitted thesis for examination
Jennifer Wurtzel is submitting thesis for examination
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Student news:
The Summer Research Program commences on Monday 20th November for 8 weeks. We have the following students in the program:
Summer Research Scholars:
Lucinda Lilley will be working with Callum Shakespeare
Panayiotis Panaretos will be working with Brad Pillans
Summer Research Interns:
Liam Holder will be working with Gianluca Marino
Reuben Parige will be working with Kathryn Hayward and Stephen Cox |
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Carer support for travelling staff members:
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Free Hail & Ride Bus Service
The Campus Traveller is here to help ease parking congestion by linking car parking areas with a free and convenient all-day shuttle bus
Download the Campus Traveller route map here, visit the website, or check the FAQ's |
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Handy Hotlines:
MANAGERS and SUPERVISORS!
Assistance for ANU Managers can be found at the following hotlines:
Assure Manager Support Program – 1800 505 015
Human Resources: 02 – 612 53346
Advisor to Staff: 02 – 612 53616
Web: counselling.anu.edu.au/adviser-staff |
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ANU Family Friendly
The ANU Family Friendly committee is a new group of people across campus that are joining together to improve the ANU camups for all ANU parents.
If you would like to be informed of relevant developments, events and resources for ANU parents, please subscribe to the ANU Family Friendly email group here: http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/anu.family.friendly.group. For further information, or to join the committee, please email Andrea Butler at andrea.butler@anu.edu.au |
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Conferences, Meetings and Workshops:
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2017 WAMSI Research Conference
The Western Australian Marine Science Institution’s Research Conference includes sessions from its Dredging Science Node (22-23 November 2017) and Kimberley Marine Research Program (28-30 November 2017). 22-30 November 2017 - Perth
Franco-Australian Astrobiology and Exoplanet School and Workshop 16 - 20 December, 2017, Australian National University
The ANU (co-sponsors include ORIGINS Team- RSES) in collaboration with the Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) Research University will host the first Franco-Australian Astrobiology and Exoplanet School and Workshop. Exoplanets and astrobiology are rapidly emerging fields that combine astronomy, biology, and earth sciences. Key questions to answer are: Do protoplanetary disks include compositional trends that imprint on the future planets? What should future observations of Solar System bodies focus on? Where should we search for nearby habitable Earth-like planets? How can the science of the remote detection of biosignatures be advanced? What can our knowledge of life on Earth tell us about life elsewhere in the universe?
This workshop will bring leading experts from France, Australia and around the world to identify new avenues for answering these questions. The outcomes of this workshop will inform future collaborative projects between Australia and France.
The first 2 days (Dec 16 & 17) will be a school with lectures intended for PhD, Masters and undergraduate students. The following 3 days will be a workshop with research presentations on astrobiology and exoplanets. The outcomes of this workshop will inform future collaborative projects between Australia and France in these fields.
AMOS-ICSHMO 2018
The Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and the American Meteorological Society, are holding the Joint 25th AMOS National Conference and 12th International Conference for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, AMOS-ICSHMO 2018, at UNSW Sydney 5-9 February 2018 |
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