The Governing Council (GC) is a steering committee for the Australia-NZ IODP Consortium, and looks after broad policy. Its 2020 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 Ian Poiner – Chair/Independent Scientist
Prof. Richard Arculus – Lead CI/ANU
Prof. Leanne Armand – ANZIC Program Scientist/ ANU
Prof. Dorrit Jacob – ANU
Dr Ben Clennell – CSIRO/University of Western Australia
Dr Stuart Henrys – GNS Science
Dr Luke Nothdurft – Science Committee Chair/QUT
Dr Andrew Heap – Geoscience Australia
Prof. Chris Elders – Curtin University
Prof. Simon George – Macquarie University
Assoc. Prof. Jody Webster – University of Sydney
Assoc. Prof. Chris Yeats – Geological Survey of NSW
Assoc. Prof. Robert McKay – Victoria University in Wellington
Prof. Chris Turney – UNSW
Observers
- Dr Craig Sloss – Queensland University of Technology
- Dr Lorna Strachan – University of Auckland
- Dr Richard Jones – Monash University
- Assoc. Prof. Helen Bostock – University of Queensland
- Assoc. Prof. Stephen Gallagher – Queensland of Melbourne
- Prof. John Foden – University of Adelaide
- Dr Joshu Mountjoy – NIWA
- Prof. David Cohen – University of NSW
- Assoc. Prof. Helen McGregor – University of Wollongong
- Dr Christina Reisselman – University of Otago
- Dr Mick O’Leary – University of Western Australia
- Prof. Mike Coffin – University of Tasmania