Mohammadali Faraji
My project is to reconstruct the past 2000 years of annual rainfall variability in the South Pacific by using speleothems. Physical and chemical proxy data of surface processes recorded in stalagmites reveal causes of climate change back to millions of years ago.
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Liam Olden
Mid-Phanerozoic stromatolites from the northern Perth Basin, Western Australia, preserve alveolate – cell-like – microstructures throughout the sequence. Our research suggests these are skeletal filamentous cyanobacterial sheaths preserved via in-vivo silicification.
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Wei Xuen Heng
Endurance legacy mine site was found to have acid and metalliferous drainage (AMD) generated after mine closure, which has impacted rehabilitation success and the local environment. The geophysical approach has been carried out and integrated with on-going hydrogeological and geochemical studies to inform suitable rehabilitation plan.
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Millicent Crowe
Cobar township, hub to pastoralists and mining, has little room for growth due to its’ limited water supply but the region has two types of palaeochannel systems that are prospective for water. The location and water quality of these potential sources can be identified through the electromagnetic signal from the Cobar Airborne Electromagnetic Dataset from Geological Survey of NSW.
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Amir Allahvirdi-Zadeh
CubeSats are small, low power, and chap satellites that can be used in space missions related to the earth sciences instead of large, expensive satellites. However, their orbit needs to be precisely determined. My presentation is about the precise orbit determination of these satellites.
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Vili Grigorova
Neutron tomography is a powerful non-destructive technique used to study the internal structure of objects. As opposed to the X-ray tomography, neutron tomography can penetrate objects made of an element with high atomic numbers. High-pressure apparatus such as the Paris-Edinburgh press are used routinely up to10 GPa and 1500 °C. Adapting such apparatus to be used in a neutron tomography beam will allow us to obtain in-situ 2D and 3D images of samples while held at high pressures and temperatures to induce density changes. My work included (1) a selection of neutron friendly materials for the frame structure of the press and the sample assembly, (2) pressure and temperature calibration of the new sample assembly cell, and (3) image quality analysis of the DINGO beamline.
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Michael Eze
Through a phytotoxicity experiment and a microbial metagenome analysis, I isolated a plant-microbe symbiont that effectively and efficiently degraded diesel fuel hydrocarbons. I am confident that this innovation will revolutionize the way oil spills and other organic contaminants are cleaned up.
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Jessica Walsh
There’s no geological artist quite like Earth’s inferno, responsible for dynamic plate tectonics. When continents collide, mountain ranges like the Himalaya rise. This process is not simple and often other features are caught in the collision zone.
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Jo Miles
The interaction of magmatic heat, volatile flux, and surrounding sea and/or meteoric waters can have significant bearing on the nature of the hydrothermal systems in volcanic island arc settings. We integrate field relationships of volcanic stratigraphy and alteration zones, with clay mineralogy by X-ray diffraction (XRD), stable (S-, O- and H-) isotope analysis and high precision geochronology (CA-ID-TIMS zircon U-Pb, and alunite Ar-Ar) to elucidate the timescales and fluid components that lead to the development of a globally important bentonite resource.
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Andreas Bjork
Confidence in the reliability of scale-consistent quantitative databases of rock properties is key to linking geophysical data with interpreted geology.
This talk is one lab technician’s reflections on one hundred-and-one ways to collect data and with the wish that you could get it right the first time, everytime.
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