• 1^st November 2008-31^st March 2009: Talks, meetings and fieldwork in Norway, Africa & South America.

• 20^th August 2008: Manuscript in press to be published in Gondwana Research; "Metamorphic response in orogens of different obliquity, geometry and scale", is available on Science Direct.

• 1^st August 2008: Start of GSWA funded West Yilgarn Craton Metamorphic Project (WYCMP).

• 30^th July 2008: End of pmd*CRC funded Y4 East Yilgarn Craton Metamorphic Project (EYCMP).

• 11^th-24^th July 2008: East Yilgarn Craton field workshop and Australian Earth Science Convention, Perth.

• 4^th-6^st July 2008: Fieldwork at Olary Province in SA, with Sydney University.

• 1^st-3^rd June 2008: Fieldwork at Kanmantoo Province, SA.

• 13^th-19^th April 2008: At Geoscience Australia in Canberra.

• 1^st-2^nd April 2008: Presenting at pmd*CRC meeting Kalgoorlie.

• 12^th February 2008: Submitted APF proposal to ARC. Secular change in the thermo-mechanical response to orogenesis during the assembly of supercontinents; Goscombe, Clarke, Foster, Santosh and Meert.

• 3^rd-15^th December 2007: At Geoscience Australia in Canberra.

• 7^th-18^th November 2007: Invited to talk at the International Association for Gondwana Research symposium at Kyushu University, Japan and receive 2006 Best Paper Award for a paper on the crustal architecture of the Himalayas in Eastern Nepal.

• October 2007: Journal of Structural Geology Photograph of the Month (pseudo-boudinage), is available online at Science Direct.

• 21^st-27^th September 2007: Attended field workshop in the northern Yilgarn Craton. Invited to present findings on East Yilgan Craton Metamorphism at Kalgoorlie07 Conference. The metamorphic contribution and all components of the now mature, integrated Y4 program (structure, fluids, modelling, provenance, geochemistry...) recieved commendations from Dr Tim Griffin (Director GSWA), Greg Hall (Australian Mineral Fields), Prof. Campbell McCuaig (Director CET) and Dr Jon Hronsky (Western Mining Services).

• September 2007: Journal of Structural Geology Photograph of the Month (a reworked boudin), is available online at Science Direct.

• July 2007: Gondwana Research Focus Paper on structure and strain variation in the transpressional Kaoko Belt in West Gondwana, is available online at Science Direct.

• 19^th-28^th June 2007: Field training of new geologist staff at NTGS.

• 2^nd-4^th May 2007: Presenting at pmd*CRC meeting in Perth.

• March 2007: Precambrian Research paper on the outboard Coastal Terrane in the Kaoko Belt, Namibia available online at Science Direct.

• 1^st-14^th Janurary 2007: Metamorphic study of the Eastern Arunta for the NTGS.

• 20^th-23^rd November 2006: Presenting at pmd*CRC meeting in Perth.

• October 2006: Structure and metamorphic database compilation for NTGS.

• August-September 2006: Field work in the East Yilgarn Craton.

• July 2006: Field work in Namibia (Kaoko Belt, Damara Orogen, Gariep Belt) with Prof. David Foster and Prof. David Gray.

• 1^st June 2006: Start of long-term research contract to document the metamorphic evolution of the eastern Yilgarn Craton (EYCMP). EYCMP is a component of the wider Y4 Project, is funded by pmd*CRC with support from GSWA and GA and ends on 30th June 2008. EYCMP is undertaken in collaboration with Richard Blewett (Team Leader) and Karol Czarnota of Geoscience Australia, Roland Maas of Melbourne University, Bruce Groenewald of Geological Survey of Western Australia, with input from the wider Y4 team (Andy Barnicoat, John Walshe, Heather Sheldon, Yanhua Zhang, John Miller, Ned Stolz, Peter Neumayr, Rick Squire, David Champion, Paul Henson...), GSWA staff (Steve Wyche, Martin Van Kranendonk, Charlotte Hall) and technical support (Angus Netting, Michael Verrall, Greg Hitchen, Paul Hamilton, Liz Webber, Bill Pappas).

• 21^st Janurary 2006: ITAC venture established in Malalcahuello Village, Chile.

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