The program for the 2017 GESSS-SA is now available for viewing and features a great line-up of talks from a variety of geoscience disciplines. To download the program, click here. 

GSA Earth Science Student Symposium – South Australia

8:30 – Registration opens

9:00 – Acknowledgement of Country and opening address

9:10 – Keynote: Alice Clement: The Late Devonian Gogo Formation Lägerstatte and its spectacularly-preserved 3D fossil fish fauna

SESSION 1: PALAEONTOLOGY (CHAIR: KAILAH THORN)

9:30 – Ray Chatterji: A quantitative analysis of skull growth and evolution in sea turtles (Testudinata: Chelonoidea)

9:45 – Jacob van Zoelen: Digitally reconstructing the skull of the extinct marsupial Nototherium inerme (Diprotodontidae) and inferring diet using multidisciplinary analyses

10:00 – Sam Arman: Dietary diversity in Pleistocene Kangaroos of South-eastern Australia

10:15 – Amy Tschirn: Palaeobiology of Madakoala devisi (Phascolarctidae) using novel specimens from Lake Pinpa, South  Australia                                                                         

10:30 – Diana Fusco: Digging deep – the late Quaternary fossil fauna of Cathedral Cave, central eastern Australia

10:45 – Poster Presentations 1–6

10:50 – Morning Tea

SESSION 2: METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY (CHAIR: BRANDON ALESSIO)

11:15 – Megan Williams: Thorium distribution in the crust: outcrop and grain scale approaches

11:30 – Kieran Meaney: The tectonic development of the Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Barossa Complex, Gawler Craton, South Australia                                             

11:45 – Renee Tamblyn: Metamorphic conditions of blueschist from mud volcanoes in the Mariana Trench

12:00 – Xiao-Fang He: On the utility of mafic granulites to address the controversy over metamorphic p–t–t evolution of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka

12:15 – Kiara Bockmann: Thermochemical hotspots in the crust

12:30 – Poster Presentations 7–12

12:35 – Lunch

SESSION 3: GEOCHRONOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY (CHAIR: SHEREE ARMISTEAD)

13:30 – Jack Gillespie: Beyond zircon: one billion years of tectonic history resolved by apatite double dating of the western Siberian margin

13:45 – Gilby Jepson: Deciphering central Asian mountain building; a thermochronology approach

14:00 – Nicholas Fernie: Apatite fission track thermal history of the Bole-Nangodi shear zone (northern Ghana, west African Craton): insights into equatorial Atlantic rifting

14:15 – Bradley Cave: U-Pb Geochronology and Trace Element Analysis of Apatite and Calcite from the Ernest Henry Deposit, NW Queensland

14:30 – James Hewett: Distribution of gold and the relationship to pyrite trace element geochemistry at the Ernest Henry Deposit, Queensland

14:45 – Poster Presentations 13–18 

14:50 – Afternoon Tea

SESSION 4: PALAEOCLIMATE (CHAIR: SIAN HOWARD)

15:15 – Haidee Cadd: A multi-proxy assessment of millennial scale climate variability and environmental change in sub-tropical Australia

15:30 – Georgina Falster: Environmental implications of oxygen isotopes in Australian land snail shells

15:45 – Christopher Kemp: A new ~230,000 year Australian record: Fern Gully Wetland, north Stradbroke Island

SESSION 5: HYDROGEOLOGY (CHAIR: ROMANA DEW)

16:00 – Chris Li: Improving next-generation hydrogeological models with nuclear magnetic resonance and electromagnetics

16:15 – Kelsey Tarabini: Assessing the use of temperature time series to quantify ground water recharge

16:30 – Nathan Teder: Wind driven upwelling off the Gippsland coast

16:45 – Tom Anderson: Hydrogeological sensitivity to drought conditions in a perennial creek system, Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia

17:00 – Poster Presentations 19–22

17:05 – Closing remarks

17:10 – Drinks and poster session

17:45 – Awards presentation

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Name

Title

Presentation Number

Brandon Alessio ON YODERITE: USING CALCULATED PHASE EQUILIBRIA TO INVESTIGATE ITS RARITY IN THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD OF WHITESCHISTS

1
Rachel Atkins THE GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE BOUCAUT VOLCANICS

2
Jacob Blokland PIECES OF THE PENGUIN PUZZLE: INSIGHTS FROM A NOVEL BASAL PALEOCENE PENGUIN, CHATHAM ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND

3
Larissa Collins COLD SUBDUCTION ON THE AVALONIAN MARGIN

4
Natalie Debenham THE INFLUENCE OF REVERSE-REACTIVATED NORMAL FAULTS ON NATURAL FRACTURE GEOMETRIES AND CHRONOLOGIES IN SANDSTONES: A CASE STUDY AT CASTLE COVE, OTWAY BASIN

5
Heather Duff DEVELOPING NEW TOOLS FOR PALEOECOLOGICAL FOREST RECONSTRUCTIONS

6
James Hall TWO BILLION YEARS OF THERMAL EVOLUTION IN THE NORTHERN GAWLER CRATON, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

7
Daniel Howlett 120 MYR OF EPISODIC MID-CRUSTAL METAMORPHISM AND FLUID-ROCK INTERACTION DURING THE ALICE SPRINGS OROGENY; THE STRANGWAYS RANGE, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

8
Christopher Kemp PRECIPITATION IN AUSTRALIA DURING MIS3: AN ANALYSIS OF PUBLISHED PALAEOCLIMATE DATASETS

9
Ellen Mather FLIGHTLESS RAILS (AVES: RALLIDAE) FROM THE EARLY MIOCENE ST BATHANS FAUNA, OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND

10
Claire Murphy RECONSTRUCTION OF LATE PLEISTOCENE TO HOLOCENE PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AT BASIN LAKE, FRASER ISLAND

11
Alicia Pollett USING NEW GEOPHYSICAL DATA TO CONSTRAIN THE LITHOSPHERIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GAWLER CRATON AND MUSGRAVE PROVINCE

12
Lily Reid CHARACTERISTICS OF A JUVENILE POPULATION OF DICKINSONIA COSTATA FROM THE FLINDERS RANGES

13
Lachlan Richards BRITTLE VS DUCTILE DEOFRMATION IN SALT DETACHMENTS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE SALT RANGE, PAKISTAN

14
Yuexiao Shao CALCIUM AND STRONTIUM ISOTOPE CYCLING IN COASTAL LAGOON-ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTS, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR WATER MIXING, CARBONATE FLUXES AND FISH MIGRATION

15
Alastair Stark RAMIFICATIONS FOR STRUCTURAL PERMEABILITY WITHIN THE PERTH BASIN: ANALYSIS OF CALCITE TWIN DATA & IN-SITU STRESSES.

16
Kailah Thorn DATING AUSTRALIAN SKINK DIVERSIFICATION: FOSSIL SPHENOMORPHUS AND EGERNIA GROUP SKINKS FROM RIVERSLEIGH WORLD HERITAGE AREA (QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA)

17
Jessie-Briar Treloar BASELINES FROM SUBFOSSILS: WHAT SMALL MAMMALS ROAMED THE FLINDERS RANGES BEFORE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT OF AUSTRALIA?

18
Naomi Tucker A TRIPARTITE APPROACH TO UNEARTHING THE DURATION OF HIGH TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS VERSUS PEAK METAMORPHISM: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE BUNGER HILLS, EAST ANTARCTICA

19
Jan Varga THE ROLE OF FLUID–ROCK INTERACTION AND MELT PRODUCTION IN INTRAPLATE MOUNTAIN BUILDING: THE HARTS RANGE, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

20
Georgina Virgo THE ELATINA FORMATION, PICHI RICHI: IMPLICATIONS FOR SNOWBALL EARTH

21
Bo Yang SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN DETRITAL ZIRCON AGE PROVENANCE OF THE HYDROCARBON-BEARING UPPER ROPER GROUP, BEETALOO SUB-BASIN, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA

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