EARTHQUAKE SCHOLARSHIP TO CHINESE GRADUATE

Bangkok--May 13--Curtin University of Technology A graduate student from the Peoples Republic of China has won a prestigiouspostgraduate scholarship from a leading Australian university, to undertakePhD research into earthquakes. Ms Xiaoli Deng, an Associate Professor at the Wuhan Technical University ofSurveying and Mapping, is one of only nine students awarded the distinguished Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholarship this year at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. Xiaoli will work with Curtin School of Spatial Sciences Associate ProfessorWill Featherstone, and her PhD studies will focus on intra-plate crustal movement models and the dynamic interpretation of earthquake activity in south-western Western Australia. Associate Professor Featherstone and Dr Mike Dentith, of the University ofWestern Australia, started the project last year after winning an ARC Grant to Determine Controls on the Distribution of Earthquakes in WA's South West. Associate Professor Featherstone has also recently been appointed co-investigator on a European Space Agency (ESA) endorsed project to perform land surface monitoring with satellite radar altimetry. The project will recover both orthometric heights and soil surface moisture from ESA missions on a global scale. Acting Head of the School of Spatial Sciences, Graeme Wright said XiaoliDeng's winning of the scholarship was a great achievement, given there were more than 134 applicants. "Xiaoli is an outstanding student who has received several awards throughouther studies, together with around 20 publications in her areas of interest,"Mr Wright said. "This is the sixth Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholarship offered to the School of Spatial Sciences in six years. This recognition of the School reflects on its international standing and ability to attract high quality international research students into its programs." Ms Xiaoli Deng was born in the People's Republic of China and graduated fromthe Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping with a Bachelor Degree of Engineering in 1981 and a Masters Degree of Engineering in 1991. After completing her Bachelors Degree, Xiaoli was employed for several yearsat the Seismology Bureau at Yunnan Province, Kunming as an engineer majoring in crustal deformation, data processing and earthquake activity. From 1991 to the present, and after completing her Masters Degree, she hasbeen employed as an Associate Professor at the Wuhan Technical University ofSurveying and Mapping. Xiaoli's main interests are in the application of satellite altimetry, thedetermination of tectonic stress and strain field by inverting geodeticdata, and the model of the Earth's gravity field. Curtin's School of Spatial Sciences - part of the Division of Engineeringand Science - is a leading educational institution in Australia for teaching and research in surveying, cartography, geographic information science and related areas. The spatial sciences involve the measurement and management of data aboutthe earth's physical and man-made features. It is a science and engineering-based discipline including the specialist fields of surveying, cartography and geographic information science. The School is noted for the high quality of its graduates and the contribution they make to scientific and professional life. Many School graduates occupy senior and executive positions throughout Australia, both in public and private enterprise, including the Australian Army, where several graduate officers have served as military survey and mapping liaison officers in foreign countries. Currently Curtin provides more than 430 undergraduate, postgraduate anddoctoral courses to some 25,000 students, studying at campuses across the world. This includes more than 6,000 international students from some 75 countries, many of whom study on overseas campuses. Curtin is regarded as one of Australia's most successful universities andseen as a leader in international and cross-cultural education. The recent 1999 Asiaweek survey identified Curtin as the best science and technology university in Australia, for the second consecutive year. The University has a strong research profile in a wide range of disciplinesand is a principal member in six Commonwealth Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs), the strongest involvement of any university within the Australian Technology Network universities (ATN). Please contact Ms Sally Rowe, Media Coordinator, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, Tel. 9266-2793, Mobile 0417 945 889 Email: [email protected] or Mr. Graeme Wright, Acting HeadSchool of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Western AustraliaTel.(+ 61 8) 9266 7565 Fax.(+61 8) 9266 2703 Email: [email protected] for further information.--End--

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