Dr Silvia Frisia

Work Phone	(02) 4921 5402
Fax	(02) 4921 5877
Email	Silvia.Frisia@newcastle.edu.au
Office	GG15, Geology

Funding

Summary

Number of grants	27
Total funding	$1,935,631

For project grants received while at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics.

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2013 (3 grants)

Centre for Sediment Tracing and Surface Modelling$230,000

Project Team
Associate Professor Gregory Hancock, Doctor Anthony Kiem, Doctor Danielle Verdon-Kidd, Doctor Silvia Frisia, Professor Garry Willgoose
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Equipment Grant
Total Amount	Role
$230,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2013	2013
GNo:G1200138

Individuazione, caratterizzazione e datazione di concrezioni antiche in Trentino (COAN3)$61,658

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali
Scheme
Research Project
Total Amount	Role
$61,658	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2013	2013
GNo:G1300786

PhD Scholarship for Romina Belli$2,982

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia, Doctor Andrea Borsato, Dr Russell Drysdale
Funding Body
University of Melbourne
Scheme
Shared
Total Amount	Role
$2,982	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2013	2013
GNo:G1201258

2012 (4 grants)

INTCLIM2$18,000

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali
Scheme
Research Project
Total Amount	Role
$18,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2012	2013
GNo:G1200381

Sample preparation and microscopy of Plio-Pleistocene speleothems from Conturines$8,706

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
University of Innsbruck
Scheme
Research Grant
Total Amount	Role
$8,706	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2012	2013
GNo:G1201263

Earth System Education and Diversity: improving Earth Science literacy within underrepresented minorities$8,000

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Career Enhancement Fellowship for Academic Women
Total Amount	Role
$8,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2012	2012
GNo:G1100998

Petrography of Conturines Stalagmites$6,000

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
University of Innsbruck
Scheme
Research Grant
Total Amount	Role
$6,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2012	2013
GNo:G1101191

2011 (6 grants)

When the ice melts: a new perspective on the causes of Quaternary glacial terminations$620,000

Project Team
Doctor Russell Drysdale, Dr John Hellstrom, Dr Jonathan Woodhead, Dr Roland Maas, Doctor Silvia Frisia, Dr Giovanni Zanchetta, Professor Anthony Fallick, Dr Mathieu Daeron, Professor Gerrit Lohmann, Professor Maureen Raymo, Dr Maria Sanchez Goni, Dr Christoph Spotl, Dr Eric Wolff
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
Discovery Projects
Total Amount	Role
$620,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2011	2014
GNo:G1000208

A state-of-the-art mass spectrometer to analyse carbonate isotopic records of Australia's climate, soil and groundwater history$20,000

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia, Doctor Russell Drysdale, Professor Andy Baker
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Equipment Grant
Total Amount	Role
$20,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2011	2011
GNo:G1000481

INTCLIM$16,575

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali
Scheme
Research Project
Total Amount	Role
$16,575	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2011	2012
GNo:G1100362

Emerging Research Leaders Program 2011$15,000

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Emerging Research Leaders Program
Total Amount	Role
$15,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2011	2011
GNo:G1101049

When the ice melts: a new perspective on the causes of Quaternary glacial terminations$10,000

Project Team
Dr Russell Drysdale, Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
Discovery Projects
Total Amount	Role
$10,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2011	2013
GNo:G1100225

Late Neogene Speleothems from the Nullarbor: a micro XRF investigation of the role of sea level change influence on pre-Glacial mode climates for the Australian continent$7,600

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia, Dr Bence Paul
Funding Body
Australian Synchrotron
Scheme
Travel Grant
Total Amount	Role
$7,600	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2011	2011
GNo:G1000960

2010 (5 grants)

Radiocarbon activities in soil particle-size fractions at different depths: insight on C dynamics in two NSW forest soils$31,554

Project Team
Ms Eleanor Hobley, Doctor Silvia Frisia, Professor Garry Willgoose
Funding Body
AINSE (Australian Institute of Nuclear Science & Engineering)
Scheme
Postgraduate Research Award (PGRA)
Total Amount	Role
$31,554	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2010	2013
GNo:G1000484

Ancient weather stations of Australia charting a continents descent into aridity and its ecological consequences$30,860

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia, Dr Jonathan Woodhead
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
Discovery Projects
Total Amount	Role
$30,860	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2010	2012
GNo:G0190121

New perspectives on the long-term forcing of Earth's climate from a precisely dated 0.4 to 1.2 Ma speleothem record$20,000

Project Team
Doctor Russell Drysdale, Dr John Hellstrom, Dr Jonathan Woodhead, Dr Roland Maas, Doctor Silvia Frisia, Dr Giovanni Zanchetta, Professor Anthony Fallick, Professor Gerrit Lohmann, Professor Maureen Raymo, Dr Maria Sanchez Goni, Dr Christoph Spotl, Dr Hubert Vonhof, Dr Mathieu Daeron, Dr Eric Wolff
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Near Miss Grant
Total Amount	Role
$20,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2010	2010
GNo:G0900211

Karst CO2 fluxes, hydrology & capture of environmental changes: Long term monitoring at Wombeyan Caves NSW$13,000

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water
Scheme
Project Grant
Total Amount	Role
$13,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2010	2011
GNo:G1000092

DAPHNE$3,900

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
Scheme
Travel Grant
Total Amount	Role
$3,900	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2010	2010
GNo:G0190255

2009 (4 grants)

Electron Microscopes for Nanometer-scale Imaging/Microanalysis in the Materials, Biological, Physical, Engineering and Chemical Sciences$650,000

Project Team
Professor Erich Kisi, Associate Professor Scott Donne, Doctor Vicki Keast, Associate Professor Alan Brichta, Professor Robert Melchers, Conjoint Professor Christina Offler, Professor John O'Connor, Professor Reza Moheimani, Emeritus Professor John Patrick, Associate Professor Dirk Van Helden, Professor Bruce King, Professor Geoffrey Evans, Professor Hugh Dunstan, Doctor Geoffrey MacFarlane, Associate Professor Yong-Ling Ruan, Doctor Severine Roselli, Doctor Minjie Lin, Professor Christopher Grof, Doctor Silvia Frisia, Doctor Rebecca Lim, Doctor Heber Sugo, Doctor Jennifer Forrester, Doctor Olivier Buzzi, Doctor Andrew Fleming, Associate Professor Erica Wanless, Doctor Clovia Holdsworth, Doctor Russell Drysdale, Professor Stephen Fityus, Associate Professor David McCurdy, Doctor De Zhu
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
Total Amount	Role
$650,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2009	2009
GNo:G0189120

Electron Microscopes for Nanometer-scale Imaging/Microanalysis in the Materials, Biological, Physical, Engineering and Chemical Sciences$70,000

Project Team
Professor Erich Kisi, Associate Professor Scott Donne, Doctor Vicki Keast, Associate Professor Alan Brichta, Professor Robert Melchers, Conjoint Professor Christina Offler, Professor John O'Connor, Professor Reza Moheimani, Emeritus Professor John Patrick, Associate Professor Dirk Van Helden, Professor Bruce King, Professor Geoffrey Evans, Professor Hugh Dunstan, Doctor Geoffrey MacFarlane, Associate Professor Yong-Ling Ruan, Doctor Severine Roselli, Doctor Minjie Lin, Professor Christopher Grof, Doctor Silvia Frisia, Doctor Rebecca Lim, Doctor Heber Sugo, Doctor Jennifer Forrester, Doctor Olivier Buzzi, Doctor Andrew Fleming, Associate Professor Erica Wanless, Doctor Clovia Holdsworth, Doctor Russell Drysdale, Professor Stephen Fityus, Associate Professor David McCurdy, Doctor De Zhu
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF) Partner funding
Total Amount	Role
$70,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2009	2009
GNo:G0190441

New frontiers in palaeoclimatology: the first precisely dated record of Earth's climate history between 0.4 - 1.2 million years ago$20,000

Project Team
Doctor Russell Drysdale, Dr John Hellstrom, Dr Jonathan Woodhead, Dr Roland Maas, Doctor Silvia Frisia, Dr Giovanni Zanchetta, Professor Anthony Fallick, Professor Gerrit Lohmann, Professor Maureen Raymo, Dr Maria Sanchez Goni, Dr Hubert Vonhof, Dr Eric Wolff
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Near Miss Grant
Total Amount	Role
$20,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2009	2009
GNo:G0189822

S in tropical speleothems as a proxy for volcanic explosivity and a toll for refined geochronology: a microXRF and micro XANES investigations$8,000

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia, Mr Michael Griffiths
Funding Body
Australian Synchrotron
Scheme
Travel Grant
Total Amount	Role
$8,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2009	2009
GNo:G0190249

2008 (3 grants)

14C analyses of organic and inorganic fractions in cave calcareous tufa: implication for 13C significance in speleothems$43,945

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia, Dr David Fink
Funding Body
AINSE (Australian Institute of Nuclear Science & Engineering)
Scheme
Postgraduate Research Award (PGRA)
Total Amount	Role
$43,945	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2008	2012
GNo:G0188980

Factors controlling micromorphology and geochemistry of environmentally important carbonates with focus on relationships between organic matter and mineral surface$7,500

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
New Staff Grant
Total Amount	Role
$7,500	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2008	2008
GNo:G0188578

AOFSPR Summer School, Cheiron School 2008 travel Sept 29-Oct8, 2008$2,000

Project Team
Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
Australian Synchrotron
Scheme
Travel Grant
Total Amount	Role
$2,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2008	2008
GNo:G0189500

2007 (2 grants)

Exploring new frontiers in palaeoclimatology: reconstructing Northern Hemisphere palaeotemperatures over the last million years from Italian cave deposits$5,519

Project Team
Doctor Russell Drysdale, Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Pilot Grant
Total Amount	Role
$5,519	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2007	2007
GNo:G0187864

Exploring new frontiers in palaeoclimatology: reconstructing Northern Hemisphere palaeotemperatures over the last million years from Italian cave deposits$4,832

Project Team
Doctor Russell Drysdale, Doctor Silvia Frisia
Funding Body
University of Newcastle - Faculty of Science & IT
Scheme
Pilot Grant
Total Amount	Role
$4,832	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2007	2007
GNo:G0188359

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