{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT250100327"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"FT250100327","attributes":{"code":"FT250100327","administering-organisation":"The Australian National University","announcement-administering-organisation":"The Australian National University","scheme-name":"ARC Future Fellowships","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2025,"years-funded":4,"project-start-date":"2026-01-01","anticipated-end-date":"2029-12-31","grant-summary":"AUSTRALIS – Deep time evolution of mineral systems in the Tasmanides. The AUSTRALIS project will unravel the geodynamic controls on the formation and preservation of mineral systems along eastern Australia over the past ~550 Million years. To do so, the project will develop cutting-edge digital Earth models that integrate wide-ranging observational datasets, across spatial and temporal scales, to connect processes at Earth’s surface to those within its deep interior. Outcomes include improved understanding of plate tectonics and mantle convection, and quantitative and qualitative constraints on the geological conditions required for metallogenesis. This will provide significant benefits, such as understanding where, how, and why certain minerals form within the Tasmanide region, impacting future exploration.","funding-current":1141463.00,"funding-at-announcement":1117348,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Grace","familyName":"Shephard","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-3459-4500 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Grace","familyName":"Shephard","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0002-3459-4500 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"The Australian National University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"ACT"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"The Australian National University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"ACT"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":false,"code":"370508","name":"Resource Geoscience","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"370511","name":"Structural Geology and Tectonics","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":true,"code":"3706","name":"Geophysics","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"370604","name":"Geodynamics","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"250399","name":"Mineral Exploration Not Elsewhere Classified","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"280107","name":"Expanding Knowledge In the Earth Sciences","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["Norway"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"The world desperately needs reliable supplies of critical minerals, such as lithium and rare-earth elements, to fulfil the energy transition and to minimise devastating climate change impacts. Australia is at the forefront of the energy and minerals sector, thanks to its rich geological history endowing our continent with diverse ore deposit types, its proven track-record in production and export, and research and infrastructure capability. However, all easy discoveries of critical and strategic minerals have been made, and to meet net-zero targets we must look to buried deposits, including those along the eastern margin of Australia. What is now needed is an innovative, data-integrated approach that illuminates our dynamic planet in a new way. The long-lived eastern margin of Australia, a region known as the Tasmanides, was built by a series of complex geological events. The interdisciplinary AUSTRALIS project will unravel the deep-time geodynamical controls that operated along the margin. It will build a suite of digital Earth models back to Cambrian times (~550 Million years ago). It will link the surface and deep interior of the planet, via plate tectonic and mantle convection reconstructions. The models will utilise cutting-edge computational software and visualization tools, and results will provide insights into the first-order processes that affect mineral deposit formation and preservation, and will underpin future exploration of new, targeted mineral discoveries."}}}