Coordinators: Professor Ray Cas (MSc programs) and Dr Ian Nicholls (PhD programs)
Candidates in geosciences may enrol for studies toward a masters on the
basis of a research project alone, a combination of research project and
coursework (typically >70% research) or, in limited areas of interest, by
coursework alone. A wide range of coursework units in two or five-day formats
suitable for masters candidates is offered by the member departments/schools of
the joint La Trobe University/University of Melbourne/Monash University
cooperative Victorian Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences (VIEPS). The
PhD program is based on a thesis research project alone, but participation in
seminar series is expected. PhD candidates may also take, not for credit,
recommended short courses offered by VIEPS. Both masters and PhD candidates may
take part in courses offered by other groups, such as the G3 centres for ore
deposits studies (University of Western Australia and the University of
Tasmania, and James Cook University), under arrangements of the Minerals
Council of Australia-funded National Geosciences Teaching Network.
Masters and PhD projects are often, but not exclusively, associated with the
recognised areas of research strength within the School of Geosciences:
The last two research strengths are
emphasised within the Australian Crustal Research Centre (ACRC), recognised as
a Science faculty research centre and partly supported by Monash University
central funds and the minerals exploration industry.
A wide range of geophysical, geochemical, and computing facilities is available
to postgraduate candidates. These are either housed within Monash Geosciences
(geophysics equipment; stable isotope, and ICP-MS based trace element analysis
facilities and sample preparation laboratories) or are accessible within other
VIEPS-member departments/schools (electron microprobe and analytical scanning
electron microscope facilities; noble gas laboratory; multi-collector ICP-MS
laboratory; and thermal ionisation mass spectrometry laboratory).
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