Dr Huiqing Huang ~ Senior Research Officer

As a Senior Research Officer at James Cook University, I manage Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) facilities at the Advanced Analytical Centre and provide support into other microanalytical techniques (e.g., Electron Microprobe) within the centre. I provide expert support and analytical services to JCU researchers and external collaborators across diverse fields such as ICP-based spectroscopy, microanalysis (laser ablation and electron microscopy), elemental and isotopic analysis and mineralogy/mineral chemistry. 

I have expertise in chemistry and isotopes and nearly 20 years' experience of utilizing a wide range of analytical techniques. Originally trained as a geologist, my PhD research primarily focused on the generation and evolution of felsic melts and their implications for continental crust formation and differentiation using a geochemical/isotopic and petrological approach. My expertise in geochemistry developed further at the University of Newcastle where I had the opportunity to manage a quadruple ICP-MS coupled with a laser ablation system. And previously as a laboratory specialist at JCU, I supervised the operation of the Petrographic facilities within the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and led the method development of U-Pb isotope dating and chemical analysis on various accessory and ore minerals. In the past few years I also explored the application of some microanalytical techniques for chemical tracing/fingerprinting using coral, otolith, teeth, verterbrae, and jelly fish.

Interests

Research

• Mass spectrometry for chemical and isotopic analysis
• Microanalytical method development
• Continental crust evolution and ore genesis

Experience

• 2024 to present - Senior Research Officer, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2017 to 2024 - Laboratory Specialist, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2012 to 2017 - Research Associate, University of Newcastle (Newcastle)

Research Disciplines

• Geochemistry (3703)
• Geology (3705)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding knowledge (2801)
• Mineral exploration (2503)

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Journal Articles

• Wang Y, Zhu W, Huang H, Zhang Z, Hu P, Wu C, Xu J and Leng C (2022) Revisiting the origin of the Carboniferous Oytag pluton in West Kunlun orogenic belt, northwest China. Lithos, 430-431.
• Collins W, Murphy J, Blereau E and Huang H (2021) Water availability controls crustal melting temperatures. Lithos, 402-403.
• Fitzherbert J, McKinnon A, Blevin P, Waltenberg K, Downes P, Wall C, Matchan E and Huang H (2021) The Hera orebody: a complex distal (Au–Zn–Pb–Ag–Cu) skarn in the Cobar Basin of central New South Wales, Australia. Resource Geology, 71 (4). pp. 296-319
• Huang H, Guillong M, Hu Y and Spandler C (2021) Fine tuning laser focus for improved reproducibility of U-Pb isotope analysis by LA-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 36 (4). pp. 836-844
• Yin J, Xiao W, Spencer C, Sun M, Chen W, Huang H, Yuan C, Zhang Y, Huang H, Xia X and Tao Z (2021) The role and signi?cance of juvenile sediments in the formation of A-type granites, West Junggar oceanic arc (NW China): Zircon Hf-O isotopic perspectives. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 133 (7-8). pp. 1560-1574
• Zhu W, Zhong H, Huang H, Bai Z, Wang Y, Yao J and Hu P (2021) The origin of the earliest Jurassic basaltic rocks in southern Jiangxi Province, southeastern China: implications for interaction between the asthenosphere and metasomatised lithosphere. Lithos, 404-405.
• Collins W, Huang H, Bowden P and Kemp A (2020) Repeated S–I–A-type granite trilogy in the lachlan orogen and geochemical contrasts with a-type granites in Nigeria: implications for petrogenesis and tectonic discrimination. Geological Society Special Publication, 491 (1). pp. 53-76

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