Prof Zhaoshan Chang - Research Portfolio

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About

Experience

2018 to present - Adjunct Professor, James Cook University (Australia)
2018 to present - Professor / Charles Fogarty Endowed Chair in Economic Geology, Colorado School of Mines (USA)
2015 to 2018 - Associate Professor, James Cook University (Australia)
2012 to 2018 - Director, EGRU (Economic Geology Research Centre), James Cook University (Australia)
2011 to 2014 - Senior Lecturer, James Cook University (Australia)
2008 to 2011 - Senior Research Fellow, CODES, University of Tasmania (Australia)
2004 to 2008 - Research Fellow, CODES, University of Tasmania (Australia)
2004 - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington State University (USA)
2000 to 2003 - PhD, Washington State University (USA)
1997 to 2000 - Assistant Professor, Peking University (China)
1992 to 1997 - PhD, Peking University (China)
1988 to 1992 - BSc, Peking University (China)

Research Disciplines

Socio-Economic Objectives

Honours

Awards

2020 - SEG International Exchange Lecturer
2017 - Award for Excellence in Research, James Cook University, Australia
2012 - AMIRA Award 2012 for Geoscience Research Excellence, for research into geochemical vectors as used in exploration for porphyry-related mineralisation
2003 - Bronze Medal, Remick Poster Awards competition, Annual meeting of Geological Association of Canada (GAC) (top 3 out of approximately 175 posters)
2003 - The Joseph W. Mills Endowment Award, Geology Department, Washington State University
2002 - The Joseph W. Mills Endowment Award, Geology Department, Washington State University
2002 - 2nd prize in student poster contest. Annual meeting of NWMA (Northwest Mining Association, USA)
2001 - The Roger V. LeClerc Fellowship “Outstanding Graduate Student in Geology”, Geology Department, Washington State University
1999 - The Gangsong Award for teaching excellence, Peking University, China

Fellowships

2011 - Present: Guest Research Professor, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
2004 - Present: Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) Fellow
2009 to 2012 - Guest Professor, China University of Geosciences, Beijing

Memberships

2010 - Present: SGA member
2000 - Present: Geological Society of America (GSAm) member
1998 - Present: SEG member
2015 to 2019 - Geological Society of Australia member
2013 to 2019 - AIG member
2013 to 2018 - AusIMM member

Other

2015 - Present: Associate Editor, Mineralium Deposita
2014 - Present: Chair, IAGOD (International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits) Working Group on Skarn Deposits
2018 to 2023 - Associate Editor, Economic Geology
2013 to 2023 - Editorial Board member, Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition)
2005 to 2021 - 62 keynote or invited presentations
2019 - SEG Nominating Committee member
2014 to 2019 - Editor, SEG Special Publication Volume - Mineral Deposits in China
2018 - Session Chair, Mineral Resources of China, PDAC (Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada) conference, Toronto, Canada; 4-7 March 2018
2018 - Session convener: Special Session S1 New discoveries and new research on skarn deposits, 15th IAGOD Quadrennial Symposium, Salta, Argentina; 28-31 August 2018
2013 to 2018 - QEC (Queensland Exploration Council) Research Working Group member
2012 to 2018 - AusIMM North Queensland Branch Committee member
2017 - Conference Chair, FUTORES II (Future Understanding of Ores, Resources, Environment and Sustainability) conference, 4-7 June 2017, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
2017 - Session Chair, Skarn Deposits – Metal Content and Zonation, SEG 2017 Conference, Beijing, China, 17-20 September 2017
2016 to 2017 - Organising Committee Member, SEG 2017 conference in Beijing, China, 17-20 September 2017
2015 to 2017 - SEG International Exchange Lecturer Sub-Committee member
2012 to 2017 - SEG Publications Board member
2016 - Session convener, AESC (Australian Earth Science Convention), Adelaide, Australia, 26-30 June 2016
2015 - Organising Committee member, AusIMM PacRim 2015 Congress, 18-21 March 2015, Hong Kong, China
2015 - Convener: Skarns and Carbonate Replacement Deposits session, AusIMM PacRim 2015 Congress, Hong Kong, 18-21 March 2015
2015 - Session Chair: Plenary-Keynote session, SEG 2015 conference in Hobart, Tasmania, 27-30 September 2015
2015 - Organising Committee member, SEG 2015 Conference, 27-30 September 2015, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
2013 - Conference Chair, FUTORES (Future Understanding of Ores, Resources, Environment and Sustainability) conference, 2-5 June 2013, Townsville, Queensland, Australia (247 delegates from 15 countries)
2013 - Co-convener, Skarn deposits – 138 years after Törnebohm session, SGA 2013 conference, 12–15 August 2013, Uppsala, Sweden
2013 - SEG Nominating Committee member
2007 to 2013 - Taught or co-taught in 22 short courses / workshops; ~1840 participants
2012 - SEG Committee on Committees member
2011 - Conference Chair, North Queensland Resources Development, 19-20 July 2011, Townsville, Australia
2011 - Guest editor: An Economic Geology special issue on the geology and mineral deposits of the Philippines
2008 - Convener: Skarns and Replacement Deposits session, PacRim Congress, 24-27 Nov 2008, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Publications

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Journal Articles

Calder M, Chang Z, Arribas A, Gaibor A, Dunkley P, Pastoral J, Kouzmanov K, Spandler C and Hedenquist J (2022) High-Grade Copper and Gold Deposited During Postpotassic Chlorite-White Mica-Albite Stage in the Far Southeast Porphyry Deposit, Philippines. Economic Geology, 117 (7). pp. 1573-1596
Kouhestani H, Mokhtari M, Chang Z, Qin K and Aghajani Marsa S (2022) Fluid inclusion, zircon U-Pb geochronology, and O-S isotopic constraints on the origin and evolution of ore-forming fluids of the tashvir and varmazyar epithermal base metal deposits, NW Iran. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10.
Kouhestani H, Mokhtari M and Chang Z (2022) Fluid inclusion and stable isotope constraints on the genesis of epithermal base-metal veins in the Armaqan Khaneh mining district, Tarom-Hashtjin metallogenic belt, NW Iran. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 69 (6). pp. 844-860
Behnsen H, Spandler C, Corral I, Chang Z and Dirks P (2021) Copper-gold fertility of arc volcanic rocks: a case study from the Early Permian Lizzie Creek Volcanic Group, NE Queensland, Australia. Economic Geology, 116 (5). pp. 1141-1159
Poblete J, Dirks P, Chang Z, Huizenga J, Griessmann M and Hall C (2021) The Watershed tungsten deposit, Northeast Queensland, Australia: Permian metamorphic tungsten mineralization overprinting Carboniferous magmatic tungsten. Economic Geology, 116 (2). pp. 427-451
Shu Q, Chang Z and Mavrogenes J (2021) Fluid compositions reveal fluid nature, metal deposition mechanisms, and mineralization potential: an example at the Haobugao Zn-Pb skarn, China. Geology, 49 (4). pp. 473-477
Wang Y, Zhu X, Tang C, Mao J and Chang Z (2021) Discriminate between magmatic- and magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits using Fe isotopes. Ore Geology Reviews, 130.
Cheng Y, Todd C, Henderson R, Danisik M, Sahlstrom F, Chang Z and Correl I (2020) Jurassic uplift and erosion of the northeast Queensland continental margin: evidence from (U–Th)/He thermochronology combined with U–Pb detrital zircon age spectra. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 67 (4). pp. 591-604
Mrozek S, Chang Z, Spandler C, Windle S, Raraz C and Paz A (2020) Classifying skarns and quantifying metasomatism at the Antamina deposit, Peru: insights from whole-rock geochemistry. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 115 (1). pp. 177-188
Sahlström F, Chang Z, Arribas A, Dirks P, Johnson C, Huizenga J and Corral I (2020) Reconstruction of an early Permian, sublacustrine magmatic-hydrothermal system: Mount Carlton epithermal Au-Ag-Cu deposit, Northeastern Australia. Economic Geology, 115 (1). pp. 129-152
Shu Q, Chang Z, Lai Y, Hu X, Wu H, Zhang Y, Wang P, Zhai D and Zhang C (2019) Zircon trace elements and magma fertility: insights from porphyry (-skarn) Mo deposits in NE China. Mineralium Deposita, 54 (5). pp. 645-656

Book Chapters

Chang Z, Shu Q and Meinert L (2019) Skarn deposits of China. In: Mineral Deposits of China. Special Publications of the Society of Economic Geologists, 22. Society of Economic Geologists, Littleton, CO, USA, pp. 189-234

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Supervision

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Completed

Geological characteristics and origin of the Watershed W deposit, North Queensland (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
Paragenesis and zonation of alteration minerals, from root to base of lithocap, of the Far Southeast porphyry copper-gold deposit, Philippines (2020, Masters , Secondary Advisor)

Collaboration

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