Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Awards & Achievements
Research Interests
Publications

Miss Laura Morrissey

Telephone	+61 8 8313 4971
Position	Ph.D Student
Email	laura.morrissey@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 4347
Building	Mawson Laboratories
Floor/Room	B 09
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Geology and Geophysics

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Biography/ Background

I started my Bachelor of Science in 2006 and combined it with a Bachelor of Laws and a Diploma of Language in Spanish. I completed my honours degree in Geology in 2010 and my law degree in 2011. During my undergraduate degree I did work experience with Minotaur Exploration and Santos and also a summer clerkship at Fisher Jeffries. In 2011 I worked as a research assistant for the university while completing the last year of my law degree. I commenced my PhD in geology in 2012.

Qualifications

2012 Commenced PhD in Geology

2011 Graduated Bachelor of Laws (Hons)

2010 Graduated Bachelor of Science (Hons)

2009 Graduated Bachelor of Science (Jurisprudence)

2009 Graduated Diploma of Language (Spanish Advanced)

Awards & Achievements

2010 Australian Institute of Geoscientists Honours Bursary

2010 Department of Further Education, Science and Technology (DFEEST)

2008 Faculty of Science Academic Achievement Award

2006 Faculty of Science Academic Achievement Award

2006 Spanish Embassy Prize for Excellence

Research Interests

My honours project was based in the Warumpi Province in central Australia. I combined monazite and zircon geochronology and Sm-Nd garnet geochronology with calculated metamorphic phase diagrams to further understand the metamorphic character of the region.

My PhD is focusing on the Rayner Complex in east Antarctica and drawing correlations with the eastern Ghats in India to gain insights into the duration and thermal structure of a large hot orogen.

Publications

Morrissey, L., Payne, J.L., Kelsey, D.E. and Hand, M., 2011. Grenvillian-aged reworking in the North Australian Craton, central Australia: Constraints from geochronology and modelled phase equilibria. Precambrian Research, 191, 141-165.

Morrissey, L., Hand, M., Kelsey, D. 2010. The metamorphic evolution of the Eastern Warumpi Province. 2010 Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC) 2010, Earth systems: change, sustainability, vulnerability. 20th Australian Geological Convention, National Convention Centre, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. July 4-8, p. 327.

Entry last updated: Friday, 5 Oct 2012

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