Welcome to the May 2006 edition of the CSRP Newsletter. If you wish to have anything included in the newsletter, please e-mail Kelly Dwyer at kelly.dwyer@csrp.com.au
Prof Rene van Berkel, Curtin University ’s representative on our Research Leadership Team has left Curtin and CSRP. We wish Rene every success in his future endeavours.
A GAMSET-sponsored community lecture will be held in Gladstone on 16 th June. Dr Nick Welham, from Murdoch University , will be presenting the lecture, entitled “Aluminium through the looking glass - history, production, properties and uses” at the Gladstone State High School Theatre, Queensland starting at 6pm. If you would like to attend please contact Dr Dan Churach (dan.churach@csrp.com.au or 08 6436 8735)
A number of the proformas used in CSRP , in particular the new project initiation and proposal forms, Report Title page and standard acknowledgements. The most up-to-date version of these documents is always located on Centric. If you have any problems accessing centric, please contact Lisa Laurie (lisa.laurie@csrp.com.au or 08 6436 8702)
As part of drafting the CSRP water issues paper, a roundtable gathering industry representatives was held on the 4th and 5th of April to ascertain the industry’s view on current performance in water management. Industries represented at the workshop included OneSteel, Alcoa, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Hatch, URS and Comalco as well as several other consulting companies and government organizations, thus providing a wide variety of views. The workshop was organised in seven intensive sessions, requiring active participation and interaction from all participants. The study team is thankful to the participants who have provided valuable input to the study.
The 2006 Student-Industry-CRC Symposium is being held from 18th-23rd June 2006 at the Central Queensland University (Marina Campus) in Gladstone. Registration forms, brochures and a draft program are now available. A draft program of event is available at our website www.csrp.com.au/_media/events/symposium2006/Symposium2006ProgramDraft.pdf. If you would like to attend or require any further information please contact Dr Dan Churach (dan.churach@csrp.com.au or 08 6436 8735)
We have 2 new Honours students, Daniel Tuazon and Astrid Skender. Daniel, whose thesis is entitled “Life Cycle Assessment of Seawater Neutralised Red Mud from Gladstone for Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage at Mount Morgan Mine”, is based at the University of Queensland and is supervised by Dr Glen Corder. Astrid, whose thesis is entitled “Processing of Bayer Residue Sands for Iron Production by Spirals”, is based at Curtin University and is supervised by Dr Denis Yan and Assoc Prof Norm Stockton. Welcome Daniel and Astrid.
If you are aware of any upcoming conferences that would be of interest to other CSRP members, please e-mail the details to Kelly Dwyer. Links to these conferences (where available) will be published in the newsletter each month.
It would be wonderful to keep our publications lists up to date. If you have anything that has been published as part of CSRP (including conference presentations), could you please send Kelly Dwyer a copy of or the reference for the publication? Listed below are publications received this month and a complete list can be found in the 2006 Publications section.