The Governing Council (GC) is a steering committee for the Australia-NZ IODP Consortium, and looks after broad policy. Its 2021 membership is listed below. Professor Dorrit Jacob, the Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences at ANU is responsible for the ANZIC office.
The GC holds four Governing Council Meetings per annum.
Dr Chris Pigram AM FTSE – Chair/Independent Scientist
Prof. Leanne Armand – ANZIC Director/ ANU/Ex-Officio
Prof. Dorrit Jacob – ANU RSES Director/Host ANZIC
Prof. Eelco Rohling – CI Lead ARC LIEF/ANU
Dr Stuart Henrys – GNS Science
Dr Luke Nothdurft – Science Committee Chair/QUT
Dr David Robinson – Geoscience Australia
Dr Joanna Parr – CSIRO/Ex-officio
Assoc. Prof. Joanne Whittaker – University of Tasmania/Australian Rep
Prof. Kliti Grice – Curtin University/Australian Rep
Assoc. Prof. Robert McKay – Victoria University in Wellington/NZ Delegate
Dr Tim Rawling – CEO AuScope/Independent Member
Observers
- Dr Craig Sloss – Queensland University of Technology
- Dr Lorna Strachan – University of Auckland
- Assoc. Prof. Helen Bostock – University of Queensland
- Assoc. Prof. Stephen Gallagher – Queensland of Melbourne
- Prof. John Foden – University of Adelaide
- Dr Joshu Mountjoy – NIWA
- Assoc. Prof. Helen McGregor – University of Wollongong
- Dr Christina Reisselman – University of Otago
- Dr Mick O’Leary – University of Western Australia
- Prof. Simon George – Macquarie University
- Assoc. Prof. Oliver Nebel – Monash University
- Prof. Chris Turney – University of NSW
- Prof. Jody Webster – University of Sydney