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Dr C.E. MARTIN continued to collaborate with Dr G.
Brunskill on studies of the geochemistry of platinum-
group elements and Os isotopic systematics in riverine
and estuarine sediments from Papua New Guinea.
Dr C.E. MARTIN and Prof M. McCULLOCH con-
tinued their collaboration with Drs C. Wilson, P.
Wallbrink, and J. Olley (Land and Water) on tracing
the sources and transport of sediment and associated
phosphorus in Australian rivers. Dr Martin is also col-
laborating with Dr R. Oliver (Murray-Darling
Freshwater Research Centre) on an investigation of the
uptake of trace elements by the blue-green “algae” (cy-
anobacteria) Anabena.
Dr C.E. MARTIN continued her collaboration with
Drs B, Peucker-Ehrenbrink and G, Ravizza, Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, in studies of the
Os isotope and platinum-group element geochemistry
of sediments and natural waters. Dr Martin is a member
of the international project TROPICS working group,
which is studying the physical and chemical oceanogra-
phy and sedimentology of the coastal margins of Papua
New Guinea.
Dr C. MÉRIAUX continued a collaboration with Dr
J.R. Lister, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Univer-
sity of Cambridge, on the propagation of dykes in the
Earth’s crust.
Dr H. O’NEILL and W.O. HIBBERSON continued
to collaborate with Dr I.E. Grey of the Division of Min-
erals on a study of novel crystalline phases synthesised at
very high pressures in the system CaO-Al
2
O
3
-SiO
2
. Dr
O’Neill also continued his collaboration with Dr M.I.
Pownceby of the Division of Minerals on the experi-
mental calibration of solid-state redox sensors, and on
Fe
2+
/Mg partitioning between co-existing minerals.
Dr H. O’NEILL is collaborating with Dr S. Redfern,
University of Cambridge, on neutron-diffraction stud-
ies of order-disorder phenomena in spinels and other
minerals. He is working with Prof H. Palme, Univer-
sität zu Köln, on trace element partitioning in
chondritic meteorites, and with Prof S. Chakraborty,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, on a laser ablation ICP-MS
study of trace-element partitioning in metamorphic
rocks.
Dr J.M. PALIN provided sulfur isotope data for M. Kil-
by of the Australian National University Department of
Geology as part of her honours project on the environ-
mental geochemistry of sulfur around the Ranger
uranium mine, Northern Territory.
Dr D. PHILLIPS collaborated with Dr I. Cartwright
and C. Read of Monash University on the Arunta
Block, Dr C. Fergusson from the University of Wollon-
gong and Prof R. Offler of the University of Newcastle
on the Lachlan Belt and with A. Rae from the Universi-
ty of Tasmania on Philippine volcanics.
Dr D. PHILLIPS has participated in collaborative stud-
ies with the Australian Geological Survey Organisation
as well as the Geological Surveys of South Australia, the
Northern Territories and Western Australia. He also
collaborated with a number of Australian exploration
and mining companies.
Dr D. PHILLIPS participated in collaborative research
projects with
 
Dr J. Vry of Victoria University of Wel-
lington, Prof J.S. Marsh of Rhodes University, South
Africa, Dr C. DeLor of BRGM, France, Dr I. Basson of
Mineral Services, South Africa and Dr J. Goodge of the
Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
As leader of the regolith dating project with the CRC
for Landscape Evolution & Mineral Exploration, Dr B.
PILLANS collaborated with Dr P. O’Sullivan and Dr
B. Kohn, University of Melbourne and Prof R. Bour-
man, University of South Australia.
Dr PILLANS is leader of the dating project in CRC
LEME and is primarily responsible for dating regolith
materials by paleomagnetic techniques.
Dr B. PILLANS continued his collaboration with Dr A.
Bateman (Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines) in
paleomagnetic dating of regolith at Mt Percy mine,
Kalgoorlie
Dr B. PILLANS continued his collaboration with Drs
B. Alloway, A. Beu, and T. Naish, Institute of Geolog-
ical & Nuclear Sciences, on Plio-Pleistocene
stratigraphy of Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. He also
collaborated with Dr G.W. Berger, Desert Research In-
stitute, Reno, and Drs P. Tonkin and P. Almond,
Lincoln University, on luminescence dating of New
Zealand loess.
B. ROHRLACH and Drs I.H. CAMPBELL, R.R.
LOUCKS, J.M. PALIN and Prof I. McDOUGALL
have continued their collaboration with WMC Re-
sources Ltd in the study of the Tampakan Cu-au
deposit ore district in southern Nindanao, Philippines.
Dr D. RUBATTO collaborated with Dr I. S. Buick
from La Trobe University, Victoria, on the geochronol-
ogy and geological evolution of the Reynolds Range
(central Australia), as delineated by U-bearing minerals
during prograde metamorphism and anatexis, and re-
cently commenced a joint project with Prof D. Ellis and
Dr L. Zhang (Department of Geology) to constrain the
age of high pressure metamorphism in the Tianshan
belt of NW China.
Dr D. RUBATTO continued her collaboration with
Prof V. Tromsdorff from the Institute for Mineralogy
and Petrology, ETH, Zürich, on the geochronology of
peridotite bodies from the Alps and South Spain. Her
project on the geochronology of the Argentera Massif
(Western Alps) in collaboration with Dr B. Lombardo,
Dr F. Colombo and Prof R. Compagnoni from Torino
University has been completed, whilst the collaboration
with Dr B. Cesare from the University of Padova con-

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