LINKS WITH IGCP PROJECTS:

· IGCP project No 464 “Continental Shelves during the Last Glacial Cycle: Knowledge and Applications” (2001-2005, on extended term). Leaders: Francesco L.Chiocci (Italy) and Allan R.Chivas (Australia). Close contacts with the new IGCP project “Risks, Resources, and Record of the Past on the Continental Shelf” are planned too.

· IGCP project No 481 “Dating Caspian Sea Level Change”. Leaders: Solomon B.Kroonenberg (Netherland) and S.Leroy (United Kingdom).

· IGCP project No 495 “Quaternary Land-Ocean interaction”. Leaders: A.Long (United Kingdom), N. Kasimov (Russia), S. Islam (Bangladesh). The joint Session “Land-Sea Interactions: Coastal Environmental Changes” in the framework of the International Symposium on River Systems” (ISRS-10) August 2007, Moscow, is preparing.

· IGCP project 518 (terminated in 2006).

OTHER NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS AND INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH IGCP-514:

In Australia:

· CRC LEME, Primary Industries and Resources SA (PIRSA), Adelaide

· University of Camberra

· Eucla Margin Project; southern Australia (CRC LELE, PIRSA);

· Palaeochannel Project (Palaeochannel mapping and mineralization in South Australia, CRC LELE, PIRSA);

· CHIM-Electrogeochemical technology in exploration for mineral deposits through regolith cover

· Australia-China Special Fund [an international collaborative project between CRC LEME PIRSA and Guilin University of Technology, China]

· Curnamona Mineral Exploration Project (developing exploration strategies to explore through deep cover in the Curnamona Province, Adrian Fabris, John Keeling, CRC LEME PIRSA);

· Palaeochannel mineralization of New South Wales, Australia (Cobar Uplands in eastern Australia);

· Salinity project (natural resource management, one-on-one multidisciplinary research with industry)

· Primary Industries and Resources South Australia

· Geoscience Australia

In Canada:

· Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary (GSCC), Project # Y13 “Northern Resources Development (NRD)” and Project # Y51 “Northern Energy Development (NED)”.

· University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta

· Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, YT

· GSLORD, Yellowknife, NWT

· British Columbia Geological Survey, Resource Development BC Energy and Mines, Victoria,

· University of Northern British Columbia, BC

In China:

· Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, Beijing

· Inner Mongolia University

· College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University

· Guilin University of Technology

In Kazakhstan:

· Joint-Stock Company “Volkovgeologia”, Almaty

· Satpaev’ Geological Institute, Almaty

In India:

· CESS, Trivandrum

· NIO, Goa

· CMRI, Dhanbad

· JNU, New Delhi

· VOC College, Tutucorin

· CUSAT, Kochi

· Anna University, Chennai

· S.V.Univeresity, Tirupati

In Armenia:

Geological Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku

In Poland:

· Polish Geological Institute, Warszawa

In Russia:

· Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Russian Academy of Science (IGEM RAS): Fundamental programs: (1) Evolution of placer formation at the Russia territory: analysis of mineragenic potential of placer regions and provinces”, and (2)“New and nontraditional types of placer deposits in developmant of the raw material base of Russia”;

· Institute of Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Crystallchemistry of Ministry of Natural Resources of Russian Federation (IMGRE)

· All-Russian Institute of Mineral Resources of Ministry of Natural Resources of Russian Federation (VIMS)

· Institute of Gold and Diamonds of Academy of Science of Republic Sakha-Yakutia

· Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Chair of Geomophology, Moscow

· Perm’ State University, Geological Faculty Perm’

· Program of Fundamental Investigations “Geology of Large and Superlarge Deposits”,

· and others.

In Republic of Uzbekistan:

· “ Kyzyltepageologia” (Red Hill Geological Enterprise), Tashkent

In Ukraine:

· Ministry of Natural Resources, Crimean Branch of Geological-Exporation Institute, Simferopol