Current Graduate Students

PhD:

  • Sarah Collins - Multiple sulfur isotope records in Archaean seafloor mineral systems of Western Australia (Principle Advisor, 100% role)
  • Grant Dawson - Flue gas and CO2 geosequestration in Surat and Bowen Basin coals (Principle Advisor, 50% role)
  • Alex Middleton - The geochemistry and timing of fluid flow events as fingerprints in determining geothermal heat anomalies and their sources, Queensland (Co-principle Advisor, 50% role)
  • Perach Nuriel - Radiometric dating and geochemical tracing of paleo-seismic events in the Eastern Mediterranean (Associate Advisor, 20% role)
  • Michaela Partridge – Biogeochemical evidence for the evolution of the Precambrian atmosphere and oceans (Principle Advisor, 75% role)
  • Hoang Phong Pham – Application of multi-isotope techniques to elucidate source, transport and release of contaminants by acid mine drainage (Associate Advisor, 25% role)
  • Emma St Pierre – Characterisation for climatic/environmental conditions for human/hominid migration, occupation and evolution in Indonesia (Associate Advisor, 20% role)
  • Rita Susilawati - Suitability of Indonesian coal seams as methane bioreactors for CO2 geosequestration (Associate Advisor, 30% role)
  • Wei Zhou - Comparative study of East Asian monsoon climate evolution using combined speleothem and leoss records in central China (Associate Advisor, 25% role)

MPhil

  • Stephanie Hamilton - Geological controls on gas flow pathways in coal (Associate Advisor, 30% role)
  • Susan Farquhar - Geosequestration of CO2 in sandstone formations: a geochemical investigation (Co-principle Advisor, 50% role)

Honours

  • Nicholas Murphy – Petrology and geochemistry of copper mineralization, Dugald River, NW Queensland (Principle Advisor, 100% role)

Recent Graduate Students

PhD

  • Lawrence Duck – Organic matter and organic-mineral associations in Archaean hydrothermal systems in Western Australia (Associate Advisor: Awarded December 2009)
  • Xiarong Wei – Numerical simulation of gas diffusion and flow in coalbeds for enhanced methane recovery (Associate Advisor: Awarded June 2008)
  • Darryn Hedger – Application of fuzzy sets and probabilistic neural networks to qualitative and quantitative mineral resource assessment: a case study of the Yarrol Province, SE Queensland (Co-principle Advisor: Awarded February 2008)
  • Larry Robinson – The spatial and temporal distribution of the metal mineralization in Eastern Australia and the relationship of the observed patterns to giant ore deposits (Principle Advisor: Awarded August 2007)
  • Elisa Young – Mass-dependent and mass-independent sulfur isotope fractionation in Precambrian sediments as a key to early atmospheric and oceanic evolution (Principle Advisor: Awarded July 2006)

MPhil

  • Emma Kinnon - Geological controls on gas flow pathways in coal (Associate Advisor, Awarded November 2010)
  • Julie Amanda Jones – Geology of the Camboon Volcanics in the Cracow area, Queensland: implications for the Permo-Carboniferous tectonic evolution of the New England Fold Belt (Principle Advisor: Awarded June 2006)
  • Richard Forrest - The geological setting of molybdenum and precious metal mineralization in the Mungore Cauldron, Gayndah, Queensland (Principle Advisor: Awarded October 2006)
  • Kylie Braund – Geology, geochemistry and paragenesis of the Klondyke project low sulphidation epithermal quartz vein structures, Cracow, SE Queensland (Principle Advisor: Awarded December 2006)

Honours

  • Loren Nichols (2010) – Hydrothermal alteration in the western Cracow Goldfield, Central Queensland (Principle Advisor, Awarded Hons I, November 2010)
  • Casandra Ritchie (2009-2010) – Lamprophyric intrusions in the Rangal Coal Measures, Bowen Basin: Classification, geochemistry and tectonic significance (Associate Advisor: Awarded Hons I, June 2010)
  • Sarah Collins (2008-2009) – High stand or low stand: a palaeoenvironmental interpretation of the Wallabella Coal Member, Tinowon Formation, Bowen Basin (Co-principle Advisor: Awarded Hons I, June 2009)
  • Jane Harvey (2006) – Porphyry copper-gold mineralization at Booubyjan, central Queensland (Principle Advisor: Awarded Hons I, November 2006)
  • Georgina Rees (2006) –Timing and controls of intrusions in German Creek Coal Measures, Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia (Associate Advisor: Awarded Hons I, November 2006)
  • Evan Belcher (2005-2006) – Paragenetic comparison of the Native Bee and 3500 copper systems at Mount Isa, Queensland (Principle Advisor: Awarded Hons I, June 2006)
  • Brooke Davis (2005-2006) – Geological controls on phosphorus distributions in coal (Associate Advisor: Awarded Hons I, June 2006)
  • Amy Hughes (2005-2006) – Geology and geochemistry of the Black Rock Prospect, Eastern Succession, NW Queensland (Principle Advisor: Awarded Hons I, June 2006)
  • Michaela Partridge ( 2005-2006) - Evolution of the Precambrian atmosphere and hydrosphere: new sulfur, carbon and oxygen isotope data from the Hamersley Group, Western Australia (Principle Advisor: Awarded Hons I, June 2006)

 

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