ANZIC management

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Administrative arrangements

• ARC is responsible for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the main IODP partners: the American National Science Foundation, and the Japanese MEXT. Australia joined IODP from 1 January 2008, and the MOU was initialed in June 2008, and signed in May 2009.
• ARC is also responsible for a MOU with New Zealand, which officially brought them into ANZIC in June 2008.
• Representatives have been placed in international IODP Panels and Committees.
• Shipboard places are offered to Australian scientists through the Australian IODP Office when expeditions are approved, and applicants are subject to scientific assessment. At this moment Australia is fully entitled to 5 shipboard positions per year. New Zealand is entitled to an additional position per year.

 

ANZIC Governing Council

The Governing Council is a steering committee for the Australia-NZ IODP Consortium (ANZIC), and looks after broad policy. It provides scientific and financial oversight of Australian activities including those of the Australian IODP Office (AIO) and the Science Committee, in conjunction with the ANU Delegate (Director, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University), because ANU handles the consortium funds and hosts the AIO. Its members in early 2009 are:

• Chairperson: Dr Geoff Garrett
• Richard Arculus (RSES, ANU, Canberra; lead proponent of successful ARC LIEF bid)
• Patrick DeDeckker (RSES, ANU; ANU representative)
• Richard Coleman (Australian Research Council, Canberra)
• Giuseppe Cortese (Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Wellington, NZ)
• Chris Yeats (CSIRO Exploration & Mining Division, Perth)
• Neville Exon (Program Scientist, Australian IODP Office, ANU)
• Paul Dirks (James Cook University representative)
• Andrew Roberts (ANU representative)
• Annette George (*UWA representative)
• Moyra Wilson (*Curtin representative)
• Richard Levy (NZ alternative representative)

* Alternatives: to share position until end of 2012

ANZIC Science Committee

The Australian-NZ Science Committee encourages and assists the development of science proposals, organizes topical workshops, assesses cruise applicants and applicants for IODP panel membership, and helps get quality speakers to visit Australian and New Zealand research centres. Its members in early 2009 are:

• Chairman: Stephen Gallagher (University of Melbourne: EC)
• Neville Exon (Australian IODP Office, ANU: SEC)
• Lindsay Collins (Curtin University of Technology, Perth: EC)
• Chris Fergusson (University of Wollongong: SEC)
• Anna Kaksonen (CSIRO Land and Water, Perth: DB)
• Michael Gagan (Australian National University, Canberra: EC)
• Mary Gee (University of Western Australia, Perth: SEC)
• Stuart Henrys (GNS Science, Wellington, New Zealand: SEC)
• Gary Huftile (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane: SEC)
• Helen McGregor (ANSTO, University of Wollongong: EC)
• John Moreau (University of Melbourne: DB)
• Louis Moresi (Monash University: SEC)
• Jody Webster (University of Sydney: EC)
• Gary Wilson (University of Otago, NZ: EC)

* Expertise within the three broad IODP Key Research Areas

• EC: Environmental changes, processes and effects
• SEC: Solid earth cycles and geodynamics.
• DB: Deep biosphere and ocean floor

 

Website updated by: Sarah Howgego. Please direct all enquiries to: iodp.administrator@anu.edu.au