ALNGRA11002

 

Forster

 

ANU

2011 Progress Reports

Calibration of OPAL for use in 40Ar/39Ar age determination of K-rich minerals for geological research

ALNGRA11003

Hendrickson

SYD

Industries of Angkor Project: documenting the history, scale, and environmental impact of iron production during the Khmer Empire (11th to 15th c. CE), Cambodia

ALNGRA11005P

Barr

ADE

A high-resolution reconstruction of Holocene climate and d13C variability from sub-tropical Australia

ALNGRA11006

Graham

NSW

Geochronology and stratigraphy of the Kiriwina Formation, Woodlark Island, Papua New Guinea: rapid tectonic uplift over the last 20,000 years?

ALNGRA11007

Baker

UNE

Using the past to estimate and manage future sea-level rise with global warming

ALNGRA11008

Shulmeister

QLD

Paleoclimate records from high altitude bogs and lakes in northern New England

ALNGRA11010

Summerhayes

OTA

The signature of identity: obsidian exchange in late Lapita Society of the western Pacific as an indicator for regional breakdown and the beginnings of local identity

ALNGRA11011

Allen

AKL

The chronology of human settlement, palaeoclimate variability, and marine fisheries in the Southern Cook Islands

ALNGRA11012

Popelka-Filcoff

FLI

Characterisation of the OPAL Reactor Facility for k_0-neutron activation analysis methodology

ALNGRA11013

Webb

QLD

Refined reservoir correction for radiocarbon dating of the southern Great Barrier Reef based on U-series dated corals

ALNGRA11014

Gillanders

ADE

Using fish ear bones from archaeological sites to identify changes in fish ecology and environmental conditions

ALNGRA11016

Hudson

SYD

Improving the periodisation of the First Millennium CE urban sites of Upper Myanmar (Burma): 2011 program

ALNGRA11018

Ross

NSW

Integrating prehistoric cultural change and palaeoenvironments on the Thracian Plain, Bulgaria

ALNGRA11023

Anson

OTA

Excavations at the Reber-Rakival site, Watom Island, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea

ALNGRA11024

Faulkner

QLD

Characterising shell mound chronologies and site formation, Port Hedland, Western Australia

ALNGRA11026

Faulkner

QLD

Establishing a reliable chronology of Aboriginal occupation on Bribie Island, southeast Queensland

ALNGRA11030

Meyrick

MUR

Synthesis, characterisation and solubility of some uranyl vanadate and uranate minerals

ALNGRA11031

Penny

SYD

Water management at Mahendrapura, Cambodia, 7-14th c. CE

ALNGRA11032

Scheffers

SCU

A direct approach to dating prehistoric stone artefacts with micro-14C AMS of organic residues

ALNGRA11033P

Wurster

JAM

Records from tropical cave guano deposits in Southeast Asia and Australia

ALNGRA11034

Potts

SYD

Characterisation of the Achaemenid and post-Achaemenid ceramics from Tappeh Servan (Iran) using neutron activation analysis

ALNGRA11035

Archer

NSW

Determining the highly controversial age for the bone of an extinct kangaroo carved by Australia’s first human inhabitants

ALNGRA11036

Roberts

FLI

Radiocarbon dating of human bone samples for the chronology of the Caleta Vitor Site, Northern Chile

ALNGRA11037

Boyd

SCU

Crisis or continuity? The end of the Iron Age settlement of the Mun flood plain, NE Thailand

ALNGRA11039

Watling

UWA

Determination of the 210Po/210Pb relationship in interred bones as an indicator of post-inhumation interval

ALNGRA11040

Haberle

ANU

Can carbonate dunes on coral atoll tell us anything about past environments of the Indian Ocean?

ALNGRA11041

Lister

ANU

Experimental determination of diffusion rates between garnet and ilmenite using pulsed laser deposition of thin films

ALNGRA11042

Hacker

QUT

The impact of nanoparticle sunscreens on human skin cells

ALNGRA11043

Bowden

JAM

Radiometal complexation of mixed donor macrocycles containing non-symmetrically arranged nitrogen, oxygen and/or sulfur atoms

ALNGRA11044

Joyce

QLD

Disinfestation of Calypso mango using irradiation

ALNGRA11045

Bailey

SYD

Developing Cu-64 PET analogues for clinically approved Tc-99m SPECT agents

ALNGRA11047

Pattison

SYD

Intercepting Trp- and Tyr-derived protein radicals with nitroxide antioxidants: unravelling structural influences

ALNGRA11048

Allen

NSW

Accurate dose calculation of systemic targeted alpha therapy for solid tumor with Geant4

ALNGRA11050

Barnard

LAT

New chelating ligands for the development of 99mTc-, 68Ga-based molecular imaging agents

ALNGRA11052

Price

UWA

Standardised synthesis of 89Zr labelled monoclonal antibodies for diagnostic imaging of cancer metastases

ALNGRA11053

Thurecht

QLD

Development of PET/MRI multimodal biomedical imaging agents

ALNGRA11055

Foster

CBR

In situ determination of colloidal selenium in plants

ALNGRA11056

Mills

BAL

Environmental condition of Yambuk Lake: investigating long-term water quality trends of an unmodified Victorian estuary

ALNGRA11057

Nugegoda

RMI

Investigating the sources and mechanisms of Cd accumulation to a freshwater prawn species

ALNGRA11058

Greene

ANU

The effects of  de-icing salts on roadside alpine bogs and associated fens in Kosciuszko National Park

ALNGRA11061P

Kosnik

MAC

Can shell durability predict shell preservation potential?

ALNGRA11063P

Box

NSW

Chemistry, mineralogy and optical properties of Australian desert sust aerosol

ALNGRA11064P

Augustinus

AKL

Human impacts on the environment: a case study from northern New Zealand lakes

ALNGRA11065

Brooks

USC

Dating of Lake Cootharaba sediment cores, Noosa, Queensland

ALNGRA11066

Clarke

CSU

Identifying leaf water use efficiency signals in the carbon isotope ratios of fruits

ALNGRA11067P

Goff

NSW

Reconstruction of short-and long-term environmental changes on d’Urville Island, New Zealand

ALNGRA11068

Woodward

QLD

A 210Pb and 14C dated chironomid and stable isotope record of human impact and environmental change from Little Llangothlin Lagoon, north-eastern New South Wales

ALNGRA11071P

Gell

BAL

Program Proposal: Psyche Bend Lagoon: productive wetland to acid wasteland within a century

ALNGRA11073

Wasson

CDU

Investigating the relative contribution of topsoil and subsoil to sediment accumulating in the Kambaniru Weir

ALNGRA11074P

Scheffers

SCU

Littoral sediments as documents for 6000 year history of storms along the Pilbara coast, Western Australia

ALNGRA11075

Penny

SYD

Program Proposal: How do abrupt changes in the Asian monsoon affect ecosystems and environmental processes?

ALNGRA11076P

Pearson

NSW

Opening tree core and sub-fossil wood archives at key Western Australian sites using AMS dating of the Bomb Pulse period and iTRAX

ALNGRA11077P

Pope

DEA

Program Proposal: Using nuclear techniques in estuarine condition assessment: Sedimentation and contaminant history of estuaries in post-European times

ALNGRA11078

Lant

QLD

Isotopic fractionation and assimilation of fossil carbon in wastewater treatment plants

ALNGRA11079

Johnston

SCU

Reductive transformation of jarosite by H2S: determining the role of S-mineralisation products on arsenic mobility

ALNGRA11081

Chase

TAS

Impact of climate change on ocean ventilation by Antarctic intermediate water: using the past to predict the future

ALNGRA11082

Gasparon

QLD

Program Proposal: The fate and transport of anthropogenic zinc in a sedimentary basin wetland

ALNGRA11083

Cartwright

MON

Recharge and groundwater-surface water interaction in Gippsland, SE Australia

ALNGRA11084

Clark

SCU

Iso-electric points of unmodified and modified bauxite refinery residues, determining mineral influences

ALNGRA11087

Kattel

BAL

Implications of anthropogenic impacts on palaeofood web dynamics of a floodplain lake in the Lower Murray Darling River Basin: a pilot study

ALNGRA11088P

Dlugogorski

NCT

Reliable radiocarbon dating of the Attunga magnesite using organic material and constraints on pathways and contributions of different carbon sources

ALNGRA11089

Box

NSW

Size-resolved physical and chemical properties of Sydney aerosols

ALNGRA11090 

Brooks

GRI

Determining Eucalyptus tree ages using bomb-pulse 14C dating to define alluvial gully erosion rates: need for additional 14C data

ALNGRA11091

De Deckker

ANU

Program Proposal: Determining dust events in lacustrine and marine cores from the Australian region using the high-resolution ITRAX XRF core scanning facility

ALNGRA11092

Tibby

ADE

Program Proposal: ITRAX analysis of lake and sediment cores to reconstruct climate variability and human impact

ALNGRA11094

Skrzypek

UWA

Radiocarbon dating of peat cores for paleoclimate stable carbon and oxygen isotope reconstructions 

ALNGRA11095P

Prideaux

FLI

Late Quaternary faunal responses to isolation and environmental change on Kangaroo Island

ALNGRA11096

Lee

UWA

Development of chemical provenance establishment protocols in selected Australia native plants - Macadamia nuts

ALNGRA11097

Ayoko

QUT

Chemical characterisation of PM1 and PM2.5 from selected schools in Brisbane

ALNGRA11101

Taffs

SCU

Determining the timing of heavy metal pollution in the Brisbane Port, Brisbane River, Queensland

ALNGRA11102

 

Strezov

MAC

Elemental analysis of fine atmospheric aerosols in the vicinity of iron making industries

ALNGRA11103

Padovan

CDU

Localisation of metals in tissues of three tropical marine sponges

ALNGRA11104

Webb

LAT

Assessing aquifer recharge into the Duddo Limestone, southwestern Victoria

ALNGRA11105

Woodrow

MEL

Use of microPIXE for cellular localisation of inorganic and methylated arsenic species in the roots of the Australian native tree species Eucalyptus camaldulensis

ALNGRA11107

Szabo

WOL

Program Proposal: a novel faunal deposit that archives palaeoclimatic information - moth aestivation sites in southeastern NSW

ALNGRA11108

Guppy

UNE

Evaluation of portable x-ray fluorescence (PXRF) for non destructive analysis determined by neutron activation analysis(NAA)

ALNGRA11110

Skrzypek

UWA

Program Proposal: ITRAX high resolution scanning for paleoclimate studies based on the Fortescue Marsh sediments, tree cores from Pilbara and corals from the Great Barrier Reef

ALNGRA11111P

Florentine

BAL

Extraction of past climatic data and also to determine the age of Slender Cypress-pine using ITRAX Core Scanner and age dating using C-14 AMS analysis

ALNGRA11112

Hesse

MAC

Program Proposal: A new approach to extracting hydrological history from River Red Gum- high resolution tree ring scanning

ALNGRA11113

Gale

SYD

Bound for Botany Bay: archival and sedimentological records of Australia at the point of European contact

ALNGRA11114P

Lovelock

QLD

Program Proposal: Detecting past cyclones in mangroves and corals of the arid zone, North Western Australia using ITRAX

ALNGRA11115P

McDonald

NCT

Building the chronology for a 5,000 year palaeohydrological record in a young speleothem using radiocarbon 

ALNGRA11116 

Maher

CBR

Pb-210 radiometric dating in sediment of three marine lakes receiving inputs from coal-fire power stations in Australia

ALNGRA11117P

Salih

UWS

Eutrophication of Lord Howe Island reefs: stable isotope analysis of reef species as a 'fingerprint' of potential sewage contamination

ALNGRA11118P

Cohen

MAC

Megalake filling and deflation in central Australia

ALNGRA11119

Petasecca

WOL

Development of a 3D dosimeter for Quality Assurance of eye cancer treatment by plaque brachytherapy

ALNGRA11120

Gummow

JAM

Doped lithium manganese silicate cathodes for lithium ion batteries

ALNGRA11122

Mainwaring

RMI

Irradiation produced carbon nanostructures in polymeric thin films

ALNGRA11123

 

Notley

ANU

Determining crystal structure of surfaces prepared using ALD

ALNGRA11124P

Han

GRI

SIMS analysis on GaN/3C-SiC/Si blue LEDs

ALNGRA11125P

Chrzanowski

SYD

Antimicrobial gallium and strontium implanted materials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

ALNGRA11126

Waterhouse

AKL

High resolution TEM characterisation of novel supported gold nanoparticle catalysts for hydrogen production, and MnS inclusions in 316L stainless steel

ALNGRA11127

Daniels

NSW

Multi-functional structured composite scintillation materials for neutron detection

ALNGRA11128

Tesfamichael

QUT

Ion implantation and characterisation of nanostructured WO3 thin films used in gas sensing applications

ALNGRA11130P

Blakey

QLD

Calibration of surface enhanced raman spectroscopy (SERS) with radiolabelling for quantification of ligands on gold nanoparticles

ALNGRA11132

Konstantinov

WOL

The creation of functional biological materials via Ion Beam surface modification of in-organic and semi-organic thick films

ALNGRA11133

Minakshi

MUR

Anodic behaviour of Zinc in Zn-MnO2 battery using microscopic and surface techniques

ALNGRA11134

Low

CUR

Designing ion-implanted TiO2 with improved photocatalytic activities

ALNGRA11136

Wajrak

ECU

Quantitative surface depth profiling of electrochemically deposited arsenic on gold electrode using ERD analysis

ALNGRA11137

Bhargava

RMI

Study of mercury diffusion in modified sensor electrodes using SIMS

ALNGRA11138P

Andersson

FLI

Investigation of inter-layer ionic diffusion within nanocrystalline CdTe solar cells

ALNGRA11139

Bhargava

RMI

An investigation on the effect of structural damage on the dissolution of natural and synthetic uranium minerals

ALNGRA11142

Rozenfeld

WOL

Investigation of microdosimetry detectors based on innovative semiconductor technologies for medical, space and avionics applications

ALNGRA11143

Chaudhary

CUR

Pals investigation into amylose biopolymer for flexible biodegradable packaging applications

ALNGRA11145P

De Silva

ACU

Application of geopolymers in nuclear waste immobilisation; role of different anions

ALNGRA11146

Ruat

MON

Characterisation of CdTe detection material for medical imaging applications

ALNGRA11147

Stewart

NSW

The Tm hyperfine field in TmFe11Ti - making way for a systematic hyperfine field analysis across the series

ALNGRA11148

Pang

CQU

TEM investigation on the microstructures of heat exchanger steel in turbulent-flowing liquor

ALNGRA11149

Lin

DEA

An investigation of metal ion binding properties of protein fibre powders (PFP) using nuclear techniques

ALNGRA11151

Parker

CAN

Targeting tuberculosis: a SAXS investigation into the synergistic feedback inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DAH7PS by combinations of Trp, Phe, and Tyr, and the competitive binding of stereospecific inhibitors, in the search of unseen conformation

ALNGRA11152P

Heber

GRI

An x-ray reflectometry study of octanohydroxamate interaction with copper

ALNGRA11153

Bryant

RMI

Gyroid to diamond peptide induced phase transition in a bicontinuous cubic phase

ALNGRA11154 

Kennedy

SYD

Is CdTcO3 magnetic?

ALNGRA11155P

Gardiner

TAS

Establishing the mechanism for hydride ligand dynamic exchange in a dinuclear Pd(I) catalyst

ALNGRA11156

Guo

DEA

Block copolymer self-assembly and nanostructured thermosets

ALNGRA11157

Hameed

DEA

Self-assembled complex micelles and vesicles for biomedical applications

ALNGRA11158

D'Alessandro

SYD

Electro- and spectro-electrochemial characterisation of metal-organic frameworks and lanthanide-based solid state materials

ALNGRA11160

Sheppard

CUR

Small angle x-ray scattering study of nanoscale hydrogen storage materials

ALNGRA11161

Boyd

MON

Investigation of spiropyran derivatives as light-responsive phase switching agents in liquid crystalline systems for biomedical applications using SAXS

ALNGRA11163

McGillivray

AKL

Developing electroactive-polymer ion-separation membranes

ALNGRA11164P

Hawkins

CSI

Modifying the strength and functionality of directly spinnable carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by gamma irradiation

ALNGRA11165

Gagan

ANU

A long term low-latitude record of volcanic eruptions recorded in the sulphate record of Indonesian speleothems

ALNGRA11166

Dennis

UWS

Surface properties of hydrophobins

ALNGRA11167

Warr

SYD

Understanding self-assembly structure in solutions of polymerizable surfactants