Wednesday, 29 April 2009
The Faculty is delighted to announce the following successes in industry and research grants in the last few months. Please take the time to browse through these to see the range of funding opportunities that could be open to researchers in the faculty and to pinpoint possible mentors for your own endeavours.
If we missed announcing your success please let us know, contact: Debbie Thackray
ARC LINKAGE INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT FACILITIES
Professor David Sampson, Winthrop Professor Mark Barley, Dr Stephen Barnes, Dr Travis Baroni, Professor Peter Cawood, Dr James Cleverley, Professor Hui Chua, Professor Robert Gilkes, Associate Professor Brendan Griffin, Professor Steffen Hagemann, Dr Steven Hinckley, Dr Robert Hough, Dr Matt Kilburn, Professor Yinong Liu, Associate Professor David Macey, Dr Thompson McCuaig, Professor Neal McNaughton, Dr Janet Muhling, Professor Birger Rasmussen, Winthrop Professor Colin Raston, Dr Alexandra Suvorova, Professor Arie van Riessen, Professor Simon Wilde,
Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, Microscopy, Characterisation Ctr, Earth and Geographical Sciences, Murdoch University, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University of Technology, CSIRO, CSIRO Exploration & Mining, Alcoa World Alumina:
'The Nanoscale Characterisation Centre of WA Electron Microprobe Facility' - $800,000
Professor David Sampson, Dr Janine Croser, Dr Mariapia Degli‑Esposti, Professor Sarah Dunlop, Professor D Hampson, Winthrop Professor Alan Harvey, Assistant Professor Kathryn Heel, Dr Cassandra James, Associate Professor Charlene Kahler, Professor Svend Klinken, Winthrop Professor Peter Leedman, Professor Barry Marshall, Professor Andrew Millar, Dr Ashleigh Murch, Dr Jacqueline Phillips, Associate Professor Paul Rigby, Associate Professor Una Ryan, Winthrop Professor Geoffrey Stewart, Dr Philip Stumbles, Professor Richard Thompson, Associate Professor Anya Waite, Professor James Whelan, Professor Graham Wilcox, Professor George Yeoh, Dr Melanie Ziman, Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, Microscopy, Characterisation Ctr, Environmental Systems Engineering, ARC Centre for Plant Energy Biology, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, Centre for Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Anatomy and Human Biology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Murdoch University, Edith Cowan University, PathWest: 'A Core Western Australian Cell Sorting Facility ‑ Ultra‑Small Objects and Rare Cell Populations' - $814,000
ADVANCED GEOMECHANICS
Dr Christophe Gaudin,
Centre for Offshore Foundations Systems:
'CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd Meteorological Mast'- $139,700
Dr Christophe Gaudin, Dr David White,
Centre for Offshore Foundations Systems:
'Centrifuge Modelling for Jansz Infield Flowlines Gorgon Project' - $67,500
ARUP GROUP (INCLUDES ARUP ENERGY AND OVE ARUP)
Professor Barry Lehane,
Civil and Resource Engineering, Centre for Offshore Foundations Systems:
'Contract Research ‑ Various Projects'- $23,000
BHP BILLITON IRON ORE PTY LTD
Professor Dongke Zhang,
Mechanical Engineering:
'Spontaneous Combustion & Ard Waste Classification' - $975,700
BENTHIC GEOTECH PTY LTD
Professor Barry Lehane,
Civil and Resource Engineering, Centre for Offshore Foundations Systems:
'Blacktip‑2 Advanced Tests' - $62,382
DIISR ISL COMPETITIVE GRANTS
Dr Susan Gourvenec,
Centre for Offshore Foundations Systems:
'2nd International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics'- $48,800
EXXON MOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
Professor Arcady Dyskin,
Civil and Resource Engineering:
'Multiscale Fracture Research'- $54,347
MEDICAL & HEALTH RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FUND
Professor Karol Miller,
Mechanical Engineering:
'MHRIF Round 12 ‑ Miller' -$11,817
Professor David Sampson,
Electrical, Electronic, Comp Engineering:
'MHRIF Round 12 ‑ Sampson' - $18,894
NHMRC EQUIPMENT GRANTS
Professor David Sampson, Dr Jacqueline Bentel, Professor Susan Berners‑Price, Professor Sarah Dunlop,
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Electrical, Electronic, Comp Engineering, Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, Microscopy, Characterisation Ctr, Animal Biology:
'Enhanced Live Cell and Small Animal Microscopic Imaging'- $86,000
PT CALMARINE INDONESIA
Professor Martin Fahey,
Civil and Resource Engineering, Centre for Offshore Foundations Systems:
'Tangguh Geotechnical Laboratory Testing' - $96,050
SHELL DEVELOPMENT AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
Dr Eric May, Dr B Clennell, Mr Brendan Graham, Dr K Liu, Mr Robert Donald Trengove,
Mechanical Engineering:
'Supercritical CO2‑CH4 Displacement in Tight Gas Reservoirs' - $275,000
WA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD (DAFWA)
Dr Karen Holmes, Dr Neil Coles,
Environmental Systems Engineering, Earth and Geographical Sciences:
'Assessment of Sediment Erosion & Soil Sampling Methods Applied in WA' - $50,000
WA ENERGY RESEARCH ALLIANCE (WA:ERA) EX CHEVRON
Professor Dongke Zhang,
Mechanical Engineering:
'Ethanol Synthesis by Methanol Homologation' - $405,000
WOODSIDE ENERGY LTD (R2D3)
Associate Professor Krish Thiagarajan,
Mechanical Engineering:
'Preparation of Guidelines Addressing Subsea Lifts as They Apply Across Geomatic Operations' - $37,490
Congratulations from the Faculty on these successes.
Congratulations also to those that applied, but were unsuccessful. Do continue to refine your applications, seek peer review and resubmit to these and other schemes.
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