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Director's Message
Colleagues,
A quick reminder for everyone to take up the issue of the proposed removal of the #3 bus service through the ANU campus. This would mean our and other schools, and halls of residence on the southern and western side of campus, will be nearly a km from public transport. It will be a major disadvantage to many ANU students and staff. The on-line public consultation is only open until the end of this week! https://www.yoursay.act.gov.au/rapid-bus-network
Please note that Paul Tregoning will be Acting Director for the next few weeks while I am overseas, and Josephine Magro is helping out with the EA role in the Director's Office between 9am and 2pm each day.
Best wishes,
Steve |
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To all at RSES,
I would like to thank you for your support, friendships and wonderful end note to my career. The past 12 years have been an absolute pleasure working with you and meeting all the students. I have expanded my own knowlege of the world through stories of your research and travels and cultural appreciation. The RSES community is a family I will miss. I wish you all the best.
Kind regards,
Marilee |
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Learning Field Geology in Mount Isa
Eight of our third-year Earth Science undergraduate students have just returned from an intense two-week field geology course based in Mount Isa in north-western Queensland. Over a period of 16 days students undertook four projects to cement their field-based understanding of structural geology, sedimentology, igneous and metamorphic petrology. The projects are designed for students to hone their observational, problem solving and mapping skills in a range of geological settings. Students mapped a multiply deformed meta-sedimentary sequence, explored and documented fabric overprinting relationships in a high-temperature metamorphic zone and mapped a 1.5 billion year old magma chamber where felsic and mafic magmas mixed.
ANU runs this course in partnership with the University of Queensland, giving the students an opportunity to meet other Earth Science students and make valuable connections with people who are likely to be peers their later in industry.
A couple of comments about the course from students include:
‘It was the best trip ever! I was scared of at first but once you survive the first week it just gets better and better until the point you never want to come back home!’ - Carolina
‘I found the Mount Isa Field Geology course equally challenging and rewarding while having the rare benefit to meet new people studying the discipline of Geology from another institution.’ – Jeremy |
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Emily (UQ) and Carolina (ANU) show large books of biotite that they have found in a pegmatite. |
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Negative Emissions Conference |
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Calling for abstract and registration to the Negative Emissions conference sponsored by RSES.
Where: The Shine Dome, Canberra
When: 30-31 October 2018
More information can be found here: and here: |
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Elizabeth & Frederick White Conference 2018
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Cake Friday - 17th August |
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Cake Friday is turning 6!!
Come along for an extra special Morning Tea to celebrate Cake Friday’s birthday on Friday August 17th at 10:30am in the J1 seminar room.
We will need as many cakes as possible!
Students AND staff are welcome to bake something BUT keeping with the Cake Friday tradition, it must include the two ingredients that you pick from the mystery ingredient cup. The cup will be available at Morning Tea every day leading up to the big event.
THERE WILL BE PRIZES UP FOR GRABS.....Hope to see everyone there!
Tharika & Sarah |
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Training
An important service of the Human Resource Division is the provision of a range of relevant and contemporary training and development opportunities for university staff.
To improve current staff training and development opportunities, we have undertaken the two major actions:
- Conducted an informal training needs analysis to identify delivery gaps in staff training needs which has resulted in the introduction of new and additional training workshops that will be offered across the course of the 2018 year.
- Refreshed the ANU Staff Training & Development website to streamline and update information on the range of face-to-face training and online training opportunities – the refreshed site is available at: https://services.anu.edu.au/human-resources/training-development
These service improvements are part of our broader goal to strengthen support for individual professional and career development, and the advancement of the university’s strategic priorities and vision. |
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Congratulations to Pat Carr on submission of his PhD thesis (supervisors are Vickie Bennett and Marc Norman). The title is: Tourmaline geochemistry and cassiterite geochronology of highly evolved tin granites and their hydrothermal systems in eastern Australia
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Graduate Student Fellowship Recipients
Congratulations to RSES students Carlos Carrasco (MPhil) and Yamila Cajal Contreras (PhD), who were awarded Graduate Student Fellowships from the Society of Economic Geology Foundation. |
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Be A Presenter
Be A Presenter
This year there are a few sessions at the AGU Fall Meeting on Diversity and Inclusion, including this one in “Education on Diversity, Inclusion and Equality in the Earth Sciences”
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/49591
Don’t forget, as this is in the Education section, it is not subject to the first author rule.
Oral abstracts for the session are available here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/orals/27273
Poster abstracts are available here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/posters/27273
These links are to the session proposal, not to the final accepted one.
Nearly Closing Time for Abstracts to AGU.
This year there are a few sessions at the AGU Fall Meeting on Diversity and Inclusion, including this one in “ED 030: Diversity, Inclusion and Equality in the Earth Sciences”
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/49591
Don’t forget, as this is in the Education section, it is not subject to the first author rule, and you can have a second abstract in this session!
Abstract Submissions close on 1st August.
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ANU offers a range of counselling services for enrolled students (undergraduate or postgraduate) who might be experiencing a range of difficulties around mental health, stress, motivation, social anxiety and so on.
web-site is http://www.anu.edu.au/students/health-wellbeing/counselling
In addition to the group programs and workshops they also offer confidential counselling services for individuals. If you have concerns about the welfare of any of your students, please consider directing them towards this service, |
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