Director's Message

Colleagues,

Please join me in congratulating Caroline Eakin and Meghan Miller for their recent success in being awarded ANU Futures Scheme funding. This will bring $750,000 to the School to develop exciting new, nationally significant research capabilities.

Caroline will be deploying ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) capabilities to study the crustal and upper mantle architecture beneath Bass Strait. The seafloor seismometer array will be laid out and retrieved using the national marine facility, the ‘RV Investigator’ which, together with newly acquired OBS instrument provides Australia with its first step into a new era of seafloor observing.

 Meghan will experiment with new large N seismic arrays, a new direction for ANU and Australian seismology that will enable sub-surface features and seismic activity to be resolved and probed at unprecedented resolution (metres vs kilometres). Meghan’s first experiment will focus on the Newer Volcanic Province, where the most recent eruption occurred only 4600 BP, and a second experiment on the young lava field volcanic provinces to the west and northwest of Townsville.

And I am unable to leave out Rhodri Davies (as if this might be possible), who has been offered a generous College of Science supported start-up package to pursue a totally novel (read never before attempted nerdy) “inverse” geodynamic approach to propagate present-day observations and their uncertainties backwards through geological time.

Please don’t forget to donate to Charlie if you can or have been thinking about it. We are getting close to being able to claim that Charlie is gifted by the staff and students of School, which would be a powerful message of our commitment to reconciliation with indigenous Australia.

Best wishes to everyone for the week ahead

Steve

Presenters: Professor Brian Schmidt, ANU Vice-Chancellor; Professor Margaret Jolly, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and GI Convenor; Professor Kim Rubenstein, ANU College of Law; Professor Jodie Bradby, Research School of Physics and Engineering; Dr Caroline Eakin, Research School of Earth Sciences and Emma Davies, PARSA Women's Officer.
Event date: 9.30–11.30am 8 March 2018
Venue: Common Room, University House, ANU

Join the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian P. Schmidt, and a panel of leading ANU women to discuss Changing the Culture of Gender at ANU. The discussion will be followed by morning tea.

International Women’s Day (IWD) is held annually on 8 March to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

Please register your interest for the morning tea and/or panel discussion. 

Earth Imaging Seismology field Trip 2017

Earth Imaging | ANU Seismology Field Trip 2017 - YouTube

Chappell-White - Field based project support

I am pleased to announce the availability of new Chappell-White Endowment grants up to $10,000 to support field based research projects in the broad area of petrology, geochemistry and geology.

 A single grant or multiple smaller grant(s) will be awarded based on a one-page proposal. Proposals need to be submitted to the Directors office in hard copy and electronically (email to director.rses@anu.edu.au) with ‘Chappell-White Endowment grant’ in the Subject line. Applications will close at 5pm on Friday 16th March.

 Preference will be given to grant requests that:

• support new Honours, Master of Earth Science (Adv), MPhil or PhD research projects that are not supported by existing funding;
• provide a clearly written project description that includes the aims and benefits of the research;
• outline the proposed budget expenditure and represent value for money; and
• are submitted by students with the endorsement of their principal supervisor, and include a short supervisor statement justifying need relative to alternate available sources of funding

 I look forward to receiving your proposals

 Steve

http://www.anu.edu.au/giving/support-us/bruce-chappell-endowment

If you take a moment to view your surrounds you will be suprised the beauty of nature that surrounds RSES.

This majestic yellow tailed black cockatoo image was captured by Richard Arculus outside J1.

Charlie - Tempurature is rising

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