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Professor Peter Cawood Current Organisation Administering Organisation Discipline Area The University of St Andrews, Scotland and The University of Western Australia Monash University Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences Fellowship project summary: The pulse of the earth (FL160100168) This project aims to establish the origin and evolution of the continental crust and its role in the long term development of the Earth system. The continental crust hosts the resources on which we depend and its evolution controls the environment in which we live. The crust’s record (including resources) is episodic in space and time, but the origin of this periodicity is unresolved. Building on recent advances on crustal development, the fellowship would work to resolve the origin of the episodic age pattern, which affects the distribution of mineral systems and their prospectivity. Australian Research Council funding: $2,851,557 About Professor Cawood Professor Peter Cawood’s research involves field-based studies of mountain belts, including their mineral deposits, and the insight they provide into Earth processes. His work ranges in scale from global reconstructions to microscopic examination of mineral grains. He has worked in mountain belts ranging in age from Archean to Recent, and from many disparate geographic areas around the globe including Eastern and Western Australia, New Zealand, South America, China, Canada and the UK, as well as modern analogues, mainly in the Pacific. Professor Cawood is currently studying the generation and preservation of continental crust and, in particular, he is concerned with potential bias in the geologic record and the implications this has for understanding the origin of the crust and its mineral deposits. Find out more about Professor Cawood and his research by visiting The University of St Andrews and The University of Western Australia. For further information about this funding scheme please visit the Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme page on the ARC website.