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The RSES has a proud history of conducting innovative research and developing new analytical techniques. This sets the RSES apart from other earth science research institutes, and has given us international recognition as a top research centre. The Earth Chemistry division has played an important role in the building of this reputation for excellence, with achievements such as the development of the revolutionary SHRIMP method of U-Pb. Our world-wide recognition makes graduates from the RSES highly sought after. Our past students can be found in a diverse range of eminent organisations, from the Max-Planck Institute to NASA. Check out the exciting research our recent students have undertaken, and where it has lead to for them!

Recent Theses

Chris Heath, submitted
Title: Fluid flow at the giant Golden Mile deposit, Kalgoorlie Western Australia.
Supervisor:

Ben Jenkins MSc, submitted
Title: Application of Ion Optical Theory to the design of electrostatic quadrupole lenses.
Supervisor: Trevor Ireland
Now: Senior Technical Officer, RSES

Weidong Sun, 2003
Title: The Subduction Factory: A perspective from the rhenium and trace element geochemistry of oceanic basalts and eclogites.
Supervisors: Vickie Bennett and Ian Williams
Now at: Max-PlanckInstitut fur Chemie Mainz, Germany

Linda Glass, 2002
Title: Petrogenesis and Geochronology of the north Australian Kalkarinji low-Ti continental flood basalt province.
Supervisor: Dr H. O'Neill and Dr V. Bennett

B.D. Rohrlach, 2002
Title: Tectonic evolution, petrochemistry, geochronology and palaeohydrology of the Tampakan porphyry and high sulphidation epithermal Cu-Au deposit, Mindanao, Philippines
Supervisor: Dr I. Campbell

J. Ballard, 2001
Title: A comparative study between the geochemistry of ore-bearing and barren calc-alkaline instructions
Supervisor: Dr I Campbell

B.T. Setiabudi, 2001
Title: Geochemistry and geochronology of the igneous suite associated with the Kelian epithermal gold deposit, Indonesia
Supervisor: Dr I. Campbell

Eleanor Dixon, 2000
Title: Noble gas geochemistry of Iceland basalts.
Supervisors: Mashahiko Honda and Ian McDougall
Now at: NASA, The Johnson Space Centre, Houston, USA.

Y. Xu
Title: The stable isotope and trace element geochemistry of the Victory Gold deposit, Western Australia
Supervisor: Dr Ian Campbell

Paul Hoskin, 1999
Title: Aspects of the chemistry of zircon.
Supervisors: Ian Williams and Hugh O’Neil
Now at: Dept of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Freiburg, Germany

Corine Davids, 1999
Title: A thermochronological study of southern Fiordland, New Zealand
Supervisor: Professor Ian Macdougall and Dr George Gibson
Now at: Geoscience Australia

Monica Handler, 1998
Title: Platinum group elements and osmium isotope systematics in continental lithospheric mantle, eastern Australia
Supervisor: Dr Vickie Bennett and Professor Malcolm McCulloch

Sue Keay, 1998
Title: The geological evolution of the Cyclades, Greece: Constraints from SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology
Supervisor: Professor William Compston and Professor Gordon Lister (then Monash University)
Now at: University of Queensland

Q. Wang, 1998
Title: Geochronology of the granite-greenstone terranes in the Murchison and Southern Cross provinces of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Wustralia
Supervisor: Dr Ian H. Campbell

Alfredo Comaco 1997
Title: An isotopic study of deep-crustal orogenic processes: Musgrave Block, Central Australia
Supervisor: Professor Ian Macdougall and Dr. David Ellis (Geology Dept.)
Now at: Queens University

Geoff Fraser 1997
Title: Geochronological constraints on the metamorphic evolution and exhumation of the Lützow-Holm Complex, East Antarctica
Supervisor: Professor Ian Macdougall and Dr. David Ellis (Geology Dept)
Now at: Geoscience Australia

T. Matsumoto 1997
Title: Noble gas geochemistry of mantle derived xenoliths from the Newer Volcanics, southeastern Australia
Supervisor: Professor Ian Macdougall and Dr M. Honda

Keith Sircombe 1997
Title: Detrital mineral SHRIMP geochronology and provenance analysis of sediments in southeastern Australia
Supervisor: Professor William Compston
Now at : Geoscience Australia

Michael Wingate 1997
Title: Testing Precambrian continental reconstructions using baddeleyite U-Pb geochronology and paleomagnetism of mafic igneous rocks
Supervisor: Dr Ian Campbell and Professor William Compston