TAG 166 - Geological Society of Australia

R e c i p i e n t G R A N T $ P r o j e c t a n d p u r p o s eMr Mao Luo, School of Earth and Environment, The University of 1800 572 — Field conference on Restoration of Marine Ecosystems, following theWestern Australia, Crawley, WA (graduate student) Permian–Triassic extinction even, Guizhou Province, China, March 2012Mr Jeffrey Smith, Monash University, School of Geosciences, Melbourne 1500 587 — Field Conference with the Saudi Geological Survey and Winter EnhancementProgramme at King Abudulla University of Science and Technology, Jeddah, Jan 2012Dr Thomas H Rich, Museum Victoria, Melbourne 1500 587 — Field Conference with the Saudi Geological Survey and Winter EnhancementProgramme at King Abudulla University of Science and Technology, Jeddah, Jan 2012UNESCO IGCP, Paris 3532 IGCP 40th Anniversary Program, Paris, February 2012Ms Sandra Thong, Education Specialist, 5000 587 — Nama Field Conference, Namibia, and attendance at the 6th InternationalMonash Science Centre, Monash University, MelbourneScience Centre Conference, JohannesburgDr Corrie Williams, Exhibition, Manager, Monash Science Centre, Presentation at Science Festival in Johannesburg, Aug–Sep 2011Monash University, Melbourne (2500 each)Organisation of Nama Field Conference and attendance of the 10 000 587 — Nama Field Conference, Namibia, and attendance at the 6th Internationalfollowing attendees: Graduate students David Elliott, Peter TruslerScience Centre Conference, Johannesburgand academics Prof Mike Hall, Prof Patricia Vickers-Rich Presentation at Science Festival in Johannesburg, Aug–Sep 2011and support at the conference of attendees from Taiwan, Canada,Namibia, Russia and AustraliaP Vickers-Rich also took part in and was on the organising committee512/587 — Siberia Conference on Neoproterozoic Sedimentary Basins:for the IGCP512/587 conference and field conference in SiberiaStratigraphy, Geodynamics and Petroleum Potential. Novosibirsk and East Sayan,Aug 2011 Each recipient $2500 Foothills, 30 Jul–14 Aug 2011David Elliott presented at the Hans Hofmann Memorial Conference 2500 587 — Hans Hofmann Memorial Conference and Ediacaran Field Conference,St John’s, Newfoundland, May 2012Prof Katherine Trinajstic 2500 586 — Presentation of paper ‘Late Devonian carbonate magnetostratigraphy fromthe South Oscar Range, Lennard Shelf, WA’ at IGC conference, Brisbane, 2012Dr Tanya Fomin 2000 559 — Attendance of the 15th International Symposium ‘Deep profiling of theContinents and their Margins’ SEISMIX 2012, Beijing, China, 16–25 Sep 2012Prof Patricia Vickers-Rich 2000 587 — Attendance at IGC, Brisbane in 2012Presentation of 16 lectures for the Iranian Science and Technology Museums inTehran, May 2012 on science communication for youth and construction ofScience CentresDr Alexey Goncharov 2000 559 — Attendance of the SEISMIX 2012 conference in Beijing, visit toSINOPROBE and present at a workshop in Perth for industry and academia at theNational pool of ocean-bottom seismographs (an AGOS initiative funded by theAustralian Government)Prof Zheng-Xiang Li 2000 581 — Presented a keynote talk on ‘The opening of the South China Sea: Drivenby Pacific Subduction, or by India–Eurasia Collision?’ at the IGCP 581 Conferencein Hyderabad, IndiaField excursion in western Nepal Nov 2012Mr Uri Shaanan 500 592 — Presented an oral paper ‘Possible mechanisms for the formation of theNew England Orocline’ at the Gondwana to Asia 2012 conference, Adelaide, 2012Mr Pengfei Li 1500 592 — Presented an oral paper at the Gondwana to Asia 2012 conference inAdelaide ‘Continental construction in Central Asia’The total amount allocated was $18 532 to recipients to assisttheir involvement in six different IGCP projects. In addition,$2000 of GST was paid to the Australian Taxation Office for2012.Bursaries for Australian studentsApplications from graduate and undergraduate students weresupported. Although some support allowed papers to bepresented at two conferences dealing with pre-Tertiarygeosciences education (Iran and Australia), efforts still needto be made to increase the awareness of the geosciencecommunity, particularly younger geoscientists, about theadvantages that the IGCP program offers in establishinginternational research contacts. It should be noted that fundsgranted to academics were shared with their students orsupported students in the countries where meetings occurred.Rangea revealed. Recent discoveries byteam members of IGCP587 ‘Identity,Facies and Time — the Ediacaran(Vendian) Puzzle’ and IGCP493 ‘The Riseand Fall of the Vendian Biota’ haverevealed detailed morphology of thelongest lived Ediacaran group, therangeomorphs. This cover article exploresthe latest discoveries of one genus in thegroup, Rangea, from rocks representingnearshore marine paleoenvironmentscropping out in Southern Namibia.These rocks represent a time near the endof this successful radiation of the firstanimals. Art by Peter Trusler. Imagecourtesy Journal of Paleontology.TAG March 2013| 17