Mantle Heterogeneity: an exploration of the melting behaviours of compositional heterogeneities in the Earth's Mantle

这项研究代表了一项重要的国家利益，通过申请澳大利亚博士后奖学金，为一位非常有才华的年轻地球科学家提供了进一步培训和发展的宝贵机会。在许多潜在的和实际的研究领导者离开国家到海外任职的时代，这一点尤为重要。此外，澳大利亚在地球高压实验研究方面的长期国际领导地位将由于拟议研究的成果而得到加强，这将解决有关地球地质时期地球化学演化的基本问题和目前激烈争论的问题。

This research represents an important national benefit in the provision of a valuable opportunity for further training and development of a very talented young earth scientist through request for an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship. This is of particular importance in an era when many potential and actual research leaders are leaving the country for overseas positions. In addition, Australia's long-term international leadership in high pressure experimental investigations of the earth will be enhanced as a result of the outcomes of the proposed research, which will resolve fundamental and currently hotly debated issues concerned with our planet's geochemical evolution through geological time.