2018 GESSS-Q Program
\ MORNING SCHEDULE /
ARRIVAL
8:30 - 8:55 AM
ARRIVAL, TEA/COFFEE, AND HANGING POSTERS
OPENING PLENARY
8:55 - 9:15 AM
WELCOME BY GESSS-Q CHAIR, FOLLOWED BY SPEECHES FROM OUR MAJOR SPONSOR, ARROW ENERGY, AND AIG
SESSION 1
PETROLOGY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY
9:15 - 10:15 AM
ROSS CHANDLER
JCU - HONOURS
The Magmatic Evolution and Rare Metal Potential of the Southern Peak Range Volcanics, Central Qld
AIDAN KERRISON
QUT - PhD
Spatial-Temporal Evolution of Magmatism During Orogenesis: Implications for the Subduction Regime Along the Eastern Australian Margin During the Permo-Triassic
RUADHAN MAGEE
UQ - PhD
Investigating the Run-Up to Destructive Volcanism at Mount Etna: Insights From Clinopyroxene Trace Element Zoning
ROBERT EMO
QUT - PhD
Evolution of the Acasta Gneiss Complex Through Sr Isotope Analysis of Apatite Inclusions in Zircon
MORNING TEA
10:15 - 10:45 AM
POSTER VIEWING & REFRESHMENTS
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
ROSS CAYLEY
10:45 - 11:15 AM
SESSION 2
MODELLING AND EXPERIMENTAL GEOLOGY
10:15 - 12:15 PM
ALAN RYOU PEARSE
QUT - UNDERGRADUATE
SSNdesign: An R Package For
Pseudo-Bayesian Optimal And
Adaptive Experimental Designs
On Stream Networks
LI WAN
UQ - PhD
Bathymetry Factors Controlling
The Sedimentation On A Passive
Margin Using Stratigraphic
Forward Modelling
SANJIB MONDAL
UQ - PhD
Numerical Modelling Of 3d Rock
Fracture Propagation And
Damage Evolution Using A
Nonlocal Implicit Gradient
Approach
TROY SMITH
UQ - PhD
Numerical Modelling Of
Orocline Formation Mechanisms
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LUNCH
12:15 - 1:00 PM
POSTER VIEWING, WITH FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
SESSION 3
PALAEONTOLOGY, PALYNOLOGY, AND MARINE GEOLOGY
1:00 - 2:00 PM
ANICIA HENNE
UQ - PhD
Bacteria And Rock Interactions:
Bioleaching At The Salobo Mine
ZAK BREARLEY
UQ - HONOURS
Evidence for the Toarcian Mass Extinction Event in the Surat Basin
MICHAL WENDERLICH
JCU - PhD
Shelf-Edge Deltas On The
Central Great Barrier Reef
JENNIFER COOLING
UQ - PhD
Palynology of the Jurassic too Cretaceous Transition, Northern Surat Basin
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
DR. JON CLARKE
2:00 - 2:40PM
SESSION 4
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY
3:00 - 4:00 PM
ISMAIL ALI AL HABSI
UQ - UNDERGRADUATE
Lower Shuiaba Potential in Al Barakah
NIRAJ SINGH THAKURI
TRIBHUVAN UNIVERISTY, MASTERS
Study On Geological Setting And
The Semi-Precious Stones In The
Marsyandi Valley From Khudi
To Tal, Western Nepal
ATIQULLAH AMIRI
UQ - HONOURS
Mineralogical and Geochemical
Characterization of Natural
Zeolites from Parana Basin
Southern Brazil, for Their
Potential Agricultural and
Environmental Applications.
SANJU KHATRI
TRIBHUVAN UNIVERISTY, MASTERS
Geology And Mineral Resources
Of Naubise-Tistung Area,
Central Nepal, Lesser Himalaya.
NETWORKING EVENT & AWARDS PRESENTATION
4:00 - 5:00 PM
HAVE A REFRESHMENT AND SPEND SOME TIME GETTING TO KNOW THE WIDER SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
EVENT FINISH
5:00 PM
2018 Keynote Speakers
Dr. Jon Clarke
Dr Jon Clarke is a geologist from Canberra who is the president of the Mars Society Australia, a member of the Mars Society International Steering Committee, Director of Science at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, fellow of the Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology and past geologist at Geoscience Australia. Dr Clarke graduated as a palaeontologist before completing his PhD focusing on carbonate sedimentology and paleoecology. His career spans a broad range of earth sciences including petroleum geology, coal geology, sedimentology, marine surveys in the Indian and Southern Oceans and metal exploration throughout Australia, the Philippines and Chile.
His recent work has focused on the evolution of the landscapes of Australia, including the sedimentology and structures of Cainozoic basins and the mapping of aquifers and salinity.
A fascinating and distinct interest of Dr. Jon Clarke is Martian research. This research involves studying terrestrial analogues of Martian landscapes and developing exploration strategies for future missions to Mars including areas of Utah in the United States, New Zealand, India and South Australia. This work includes research in geology, geomorphology, astrobiology and exploration techniques.
Ross Cayley
Ross Cayley is a senior structural and field geologist at the Geological Survey of Victoria. Ross’s career has included the investigation of local and regional-scale geological features to continent-scale tectonic models. He is also experienced across key sub-disciplines relevant to the geological interpretation of ancient terranes across a range of scales. These disciplines include sedimentology, paleo-geography, stratigraphy, volcanology, tectonics and igneous and metamorphic petrology. Ross has extensive experience in tectonic and geologic interpretations from field, laboratory, remote-sensed and geophysical datasets.
Ross is currently developing - in conjunction with others - a radical new geodynamic model for the Australian continent for the Cambrian – Devonian. An overview of this work was incorporated as the global type-locality for a new geodynamic model for continent collision developed with Monash University research collaborators. This work has been recently published in NATURE and has major implications for terrane prospectivity analysis across Australia, and globally.
Ross presented the following talk:
'From Victoria to Australia to the World - how deep integration of multiple Earth Science disciplines and dataset types can: help constrain Earth behaviour; enable new understandings of ancient, complex, poorly-exposed terranes; deliver predictive capacity and support UNCOVER and; be good fun in the process'.
2018 Committee
Rosyln Dalton (Chair), Clint Caldicott (Secretary), Alex Wheeler (Treasurer), Owen Welsh (Sponsorship Officer), Adi Sondkar (Advertising), Honor Wilson (Website Administration and Communications).
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Program and Abstracts
Liz Elphick
GSA Governing Council
Nick Dyriw
GSA Local Division
Patrick Hayman
