School of Earth Sciences Seminar Series

Associate Professor Leanne Armand

ANZIC (Australian and New Zealand IODP Consortium) Program Scientist, The Research School of Earth Sciences, the Australian National University, Canberra The International Ocean Discovery Program: new initiatives and opportunities

The School of Earth Sciences is pleased to invite you to a Lecture in the SES Seminar Series given by Associate Professor Leanne Armand entitled “The International Ocean Discovery Program: new initiatives and opportunities”.

The International Ocean Discovery Program is an international marine research collaboration that explores Earth’s history and dynamics using ocean-going research platforms to recover data recorded in seafloor sediments and rocks, and to monitor subseafloor environments. Assoc. Prof. Leanne Armand will be presenting an overview of ANZIC and IODP and information on ANZIC’s upcoming OCEAN PLANT WORKSHOP - Developing the New IODP Strategic Plan 2024-2034, to be held in Canberra 14-16 April. This is a unique opportunity to become aware of ANZIC and IODP and the current and future opportunities available to the Biogeoscience and Microbial communities

A/Prof. Armand is the ANZIC Program Scientist and an ANU RSES researcher, and is currently the representative for ANZIC on the National Marine Science Committee. A/Prof. Armand completed her PhD in 1998 at the Australian National University under the guidance of Prof. Patrick DeDeckker and the late Dr Jean-Jacques Pichon (Univ. Bordeaux I, France). She held post-doctoral positions at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem CRC in Hobart, Tasmania, and was the first Australian to be awarded a European Union Incoming Marie Curie Fellowship (FP6, 2005 - 07), which she undertook at the University of Marseille, France. Prior to her current appointment, A/Prof. Armand was a member of the Dept of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University (2009 - 2017). She was the first Director of the national Collaborative Australian Postgraduate Sea Training Alliance Network (CAPSTAN) designing a Master - level training at sea program with the Marine National Facility on the RV Investigator (2013 - 2017), and was a Deputy Director of the MQ Marine Research Centre (2015 - 2016). In 2007 A/Prof. Armand was awarded the Australian Academy of Science’s Dorothy Hill award for her excellence in palaeoceanographic research and also the Bigelow Laboratory’s Rose-Provasoli award. In 2014, she received an U.S. Antarctic Service Medal for service on the U.S-led Sabrina Coast Mission on the RVIB N.B. Palmer.

VENUE Robert Street Building Lecture Theatre (G.16), Ground Floor Robert Street Building University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009.

TIME 4:00 - 4:45pm Thursday 14 March, 2019 You are invited to join us afterwards for refreshments in the Resource Room, Robert Street Building.