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Professor Neville Exon
Program Scientist
Australian IODP Office
Research School of Earth Sciences
The Australian National University
Canberra 0200
AUSTRALIA
T: +61 2 612 55131
F: +61 2 6125 0756
E: Neville.Exon@anu.edu.au |
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Research Interests
General career
I have had a varied, rewarding and very interesting career in geoscience
as a sedimentologist and marine geologist, including over forty years
in Geoscience Australia (GA) and its predecessors (AGSO and BMR), where
I started as an onshore field geologist in 1963, moved into marine
research in frontier areas in the 1970s, and completed my Government
career in 2005 as a Senior Principal Research Scientist in charge of
exploration and research in marine geology and geophysics. Since 1969,
I have participated in 46 marine expeditions, many as Chief Scientist,
on both Australian and foreign vessels. Two of those expeditions were
part of the Ocean Drilling Program. Those in the Australian marine
jurisdiction were designed to geologically map poorly known areas in
order to address tectonic problems, to assist petroleum assessment
and to aid marine planners. From 2005 to 2007, I continued my research
in marine geoscience as a Visiting Fellow at ANU, and took a leading
role in Australia’s successful bid to join the Integrated Ocean Drilling
Program. I have produced eleven scientific books or monographs, about
140 refereed scientific papers, and 45 major BMR-AGSO-GA Records (reports).
Present role
My present role is as part-time Program Scientist in charge of the
Australian IODP Office (AIO), which is responsible for the day-to-day
running of Australia-NZ IODP Consortium (ANZIC) affairs, and responsible
both to the ANU Delegate and to the ANZIC Governing Council. My role
involves science planning, science administration and science encouragement
on behalf of the Australian, and to a lesser extent New Zealand, marine
geoscience communities that are involved in IODP. The Research School
of Earth Sciences at ANU hosts AIO.
IODP is the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, a major international
research program to drill the world’s ocean bed in order to solve global
scientific problems. Australia and New Zealand are participants in
this program, with Australia’s funding coming from the Australian Research
Council, 14 universities and three government agencies. For more information
see http://www.iodp.org.au and
http://www.iodp.org
I am also continuing some marine geoscience research on the Australian
continental margins, see Current Research.
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