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with Dr D. Gray and C. Spaggiari, Monash University
on the age of blueschist rocks from Victoria.
C.M. FANNING continued collaborations with the
Geological Surveys of South Australia, Victoria, New
South Wales, and Queensland. He also collaborates
with a number of mineral and petroleum exploration
companies.
C.M. FANNING is collaborating with Dr K.R. Ludwig
and Dr R. Mundil of the Berkeley Geochronology
Center, San Francisco, USA, Dr J.A Aleinikoff and
W.V. Premo of the US Geological Survey, Denver
USA, Dr K. Shiraishi and Dr Y. Motoyoshi of the Na-
tional Institute for Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, Dr J.
Goodge, Southern Methodist University, USA, Dr J.J.
Peucat of Geosciences, Rennes, France, Prof R.P.
Menot, Univerité Jean Monet, St Etienne, France, Prof
P. K. Link of Idaho State University, Dr T.S. Laudon of
University of Wisconsin, Dr J. Jacobs of University of
Bremen, Germany, Prof F. Hervé of University of
Chile, Santiago, Chile, Prof D. Gebauer and Dr A. Li-
ati, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Dr R.J. Pankhurst and
Dr I. Millar of the British Antarctic Survey, UK, Dr
C.W. Rapela, Universidad de la Plata, Argentina and
Dr A. Morton, British Geological Survey.
Dr J. FITZGERALD collaborated with Prof T.M. Har-
rison, University of California, Los Angeles on
characterisation of exsolution in a cryptoperthite that is
being studied for Ar-release systematics.
Dr M. GAGAN continued collaboration with A. Muel-
ler and Dr B. Opdyke, Department of Geology, the
Australian National University to reconstruct the palae-
oceanography of the eastern Indian Ocean using stable
isotope ratios in corals and foraminifera. Collaborations
with other Australian universities include coral recon-
structions of the mid-Holocene climate of the
equatorial central Pacific (Assoc Prof C. Woodroffe,
Department of Geosciences, University of Wollon-
gong) and measurement of stable isotope ratios in
speleothems from China (Dr J-x. Zhao and Prof K.
Collerson, Department of Earth Sciences, University of
Queensland).
Dr M. GAGAN is collaborating with Dr G. Woerhide,
Centre for Biodiversity, Queensland Museum, to study
the stable-isotope systematics of Great Barrier Reef
sponges.
Dr M. GAGAN continued cooperative research with
Dr W. Hantoro, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, to ex-
tract late Quaternary climatic histories from raised coral
terraces in Indonesia. Collaborative work continues
with Prof K. Sieh, California Institute of Technology
and Prof L. Edwards, University of Minnesota, which
aims to integrate palaeoclimatic and palaeoseismologi-
cal records derived from Indonesian corals. Work
continued with Drs T. Correge, G. Cabioch, and J. Re-
cy, ORSTOM and Drs W. Beck and G. Burr,
University of Arizona to reconstruct tropical palaeocli-
mates of the southwestern Pacific during the Younger
Dryas event. Collaborative research on coral-based pal-
aeoclimatology continued with Dr L. Ayliffe,
University of Utah, USA. He is also working with Prof
G. Miller, University of Colorado, to reconstruct Aus-
tralian palaeoclimates using isotopic signatures in emu
and Genyornis eggshell. New collaborative work to in-
vestigate the geochemistry of foraminifera in deep-sea
cores is under way with Prof H. Spero, University of
California at Davis, and Prof D. Lea, University of Cal-
ifornia at Santa Barbara.
Prof D.H. GREEN continued his collaboration with
the School of Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania
(Drs A.J. Crawford, T.J. Falloon and L. Danyush-
evsky). He also continues as a member of the Tectonics
Special Research Centre Advisory Council at the Uni-
versity of Western Australia.
Prof D.H. GREEN continued his collaboration with
Dr K. Niida, University of Hokkaido and Prof H. Dav-
ies, University of Papua New Guinea on the study of
ultramafic rocks.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS began a new collaborative
project with Dr J. Bye of the University of Melbourne
on the dynamics of air-sea interaction.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS continued a collaboration with
ASI on the construction and marketing of the Geo-
physical Flows Rotating Table. Three units were
shipped to customers at the University of California at
San Diego, USA, the University of Rhode Island, USA,
and the University of Alberta, Canada.
Prof R.W. GRIFFITHS and Dr R.C. KERR began the
first trial laboratory experiments as part of a collabora-
tion with Prof K.V. Cashman, Oregon State University,
USA, on the dynamics and emplacement of long basal-
tic lava flows, partially funded by an NSF research grant
to Prof Cashman. Prof Griffiths is also collaborating
with Dr J.A. Whitehead of the Woods Hole Oceano-
graphic Institution, USA, on theoretical problems in
morphological instabilities driven by cooling and rheol-
ogy change.
Prof R. GRÜN collaborates with Prof A. Gleadow, De-
partment of Geology, University of Melbourne, to
study the thermal stability of paramagnetic centres from
cores of the Otway basin, Dr P. White, Department of
Anthropology, University of Sydney to date the site of
Cuddie Springs, Dr C. Murray-Wallace, Department
of Geosciences, University of Wollongong to date ma-
rine sequences in the Spencer Gulf, and Dr K. Moriarty
and Dr R. Wells, Flinders University, to date faunal re-
mains from Naracoorte Cave.
Prof R. GRÜN has developed a virtually non-destruc-
tive ESR dating protocol which allows the measurement
of enamel fragments without the necessity of destructive
grinding. He has collected hominid samples from the
anthropological sites Cave of Hearths, Hutjiespunt and
Swartkrans, South Africa (Prof V.A. Tobias, Dr L.

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