Research

BHP grant: Visiting scholar, Vilas Distinguished Professor Clark Johnson

BHP grant: funding (airfares, accommodation) for visiting scholar, Vilas Distinguished Professor Clark Johnson, from the Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Dr Johnson is a world expert on the Fe isotopes of ancient rocks, providing information on how the basic resource for making steel, banded iron-formations, were formed. Prof Johnson, together with BQI’s M. Van Kranendonk, presented talks at the BHP head office in Perth, Western Australia, in collaboration with the Geological Society of Australia (WA division).