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Director's Message
Colleagues,
The earthquake and tsunami disaster in Sulawesi late last week provides a reminder of the important work that some of us are doing in assisting in the monitoring of and mitigation against disasters. Phil Cummins and Simon McClusky have already made major contributions to both monitoring efforts and to understanding risk across the region. Indeed, early last week I visited Indonesia for the express purpose of progressing a double Masters degree offered by the Institute Technology Bandung (ITB) and the ANU in the area of geohazards that has been championed by Phil. The current disaster has been particularly poignant for me as I visited Hasanuddin University in Makassar in Sulawesi, followed by the earthquake and tsunami warning centre at BMKG in Jakarta. The tour of the impressive earthquake and tsunami monitoring and warning facilitates at BMKG was truly remarkable in terms of the warmth of welcome on the back of Phil’s earlier efforts. In particular, I was told about their needs for ongoing support to maintain and improve their capability, specifically their inability to maintain operability of their tsunami warning buoy array in recent years. I hope the School is able to continue to build on the depth and breadth of collaboration with colleagues in Indonesia. Please consider donating to the current disaster relief effort if you can,
Best wishes for the week ahead
Steve |
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2018 Structural Geology field camp, Ios, Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Greece
Fascinated by the unique position Ios occupies, marking an ancient plate collision boundary, Masters students Ruoran Nie, Sonia Yeung, and our supervisors Marnie Forster and Gordon Lister studied the geological history of rocks on Ios, in a 3-week field mapping camp on Ios in September 2018.
We aimed to recover evidence that may provide new insights to tectonic events, to allow a step towards the resolution of controversial opposing models. |
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World Mental Health Day - Wednesday 10 October
We don’t talk enough about mental health issues despite the fact that 1 in 5 of us will be affected sometime during our lifetime. Reasons may vary, but stigma still plays a significant role in stopping us from seeking help. This affects our ANU community and each and every one of us can play a role to minimise this stigma.
To raise awareness for World Mental Health Day this year on 10 October, ANU Counselling Centre will host a panel discussion which focuses on mental health, self-care and some challenges which our staff and students face. The panel will include the Head of ANU Counselling Centre Andrew Staniforth, ANUSA President Eleanor Kay, two undergraduate student representatives, one postgraduate representative and myself.
The panel discussion will be held on Wednesday 10 October from 12-1.30pm and a light lunch will be provided. Please register to attend here:
http://www.anu.edu.au/events/world-mental-health-day-%E2%80%93-panel-discussion
ANU Counselling will also be participating in this session and on hand to answer any questions about the support services available.
This event is open to all staff and students. |
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The 20th Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference (AOGC) - Origins of oil, old organics and organisms
RSES in collaboration with Geoscience Australia, will host this year’s Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference (AOGC), to be held at the Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU from 3–7 December 2018.
Details about AOGC 2018, including information about how to register and submit abstracts, are now available on the conference website:
http://www.ga.gov.au/news-events/conferences/australian-organic-geochemistry-conference
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Big Issues and Ideas in Geoscience will highlight the fundamental role that Geoscience has as a major field of science throughout the Asia Pacific Region.
Learn more about the emerging frontiers of Geoscience – register to become a volunteer today. Visit www.agcc.org.au/early-career-scientists-volunteers and see the information on the flyer.
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Publications
Phạm T.-S. and H. Tkalčić (2018) Antarctic Ice Properties Revealed from Teleseismic P-Wave Coda Autocorrelation, J. Geophys. Res., 123
Harris, C. W., Miller, M. S., & Porritt, R. W. (2018) Tomographic imaging of slab segmentation and deformation in the Greater Antilles. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19, 2292–2307
Ernst, R. E., Davies, D. R., Jowitt, S. M. & Campbell, I. (2018) When do mantle plumes destroy diamonds? Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 502, 244-252 |
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Welcome:
RSES welcomes the following new PhD students:
Song Zhao - Supervisor Steve Eggins
Zhijie Huang - Supervisor Ian Campbell
Zachary Sudholz -Supervisor Greg Yaxley |
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Congratulations to the following PhD students on their recent thesis submission:
Veronica Emetc
Hongda Hao
Melanie Sieber |
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Negative Emissions Conference
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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Superstars of STEM - Applications now open
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The search for our next Superstars of STEM is on!
STA’s world-leading Superstars of STEM program provides a diverse group of passionate and articulate women in all areas of STEM – and at all career stages – with the skills and opportunities to become visible public role models and help change the public stereotype of scientists.
FIND OUT MORE HERE |
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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. For more information, visit:
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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