Dr Robert Holm ~ Adjunct Research Associate

Principal Structural Geologist, Gold Fields

Founder of the Papua New Guinea Geoscience Network (www.pnggeoscience.com)

JCU Adjunct Researcher

Experience

• 2022 to present - Principal Structural Geologist, Gold Fields
• 2019 to 2022 - Principal Consultant, CSA Global
• 2017 to 2019 - Senior Geoscientist, Frogtech Geoscience
• 2016 - Lecturer in Petrology and Mineralogy, James Cook University
• 2013 to 2015 - Lecturer - Master Tutor, James Cook University
• 2014 - PhD, James Cook University
• 2009 - PGDip Engineering Geology, University of Canterbury
• 2008 - BSc (Hons), University of Canterbury

Research Disciplines

• Geology (3705)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding knowledge (2801)
• Primary mining and extraction of minerals (2504)
• Mineral exploration (2503)

Awards

• 2016 - ECR Rising Stars Leadership Program
• 2014 - Dean's Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence (JCU)
• 2014 - Sessional Staff Teaching Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (JCU)
• 2009 - S P A Harrison Memorial Prize in Engineering Geology (UC)
• 2008 - Sir Julius von Haast Prize in Geology (UC)

Other

• 2016 - 5th AUGEN Conference Travel Grant
• 2016 - 34th IGC Travel Grant for Early-Career Australian and New Zealand Geoscientists

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU.

Journal Articles

• Holm R, Heilbronn K, Saroa D and Maim G (2023) Provenance of Papuan Peninsula (Papua New Guinea): Zircon inheritance from Miocene-Pliocene volcanics and volcaniclastics. Geosciences, 13.
• Mosusu N, Maim G, Petterson M, Holm R, Lakamanga A and Espi J (2023) Can Extractive Industries Make Countries Happy? What Are Potential Implications for the Geoscientist? Overview and Case Study Examples from Papua New Guinea and Worldwide. Geosciences, 13 (12).
• Mosusu N, Bokuik A, Petterson M and Holm R (2021) Stream sediment datasets and geophysical anomalies: a recipe for porphyry copper systems identification - the Eastern Papuan Peninsula experience. Geosciences, 11 (7).
• Holm R, Tapster S, Jelsma H, Rosenbaum G and Mark D (2019) Tectonic evolution and copper-gold metallogenesis of the Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands region. Ore Geology Reviews, 104. pp. 208-226
• Holm R and Poke B (2018) Petrology and crustal inheritance of the Cloudy Bay Volcanics as derived from a fluvial conglomerate, Papuan Peninsula (Papua New Guinea): an example of geological inquiry in the absence of in situ outcrop. Cogent Geoscience, 4 (1).
• Holm R, Rosenbaum G and Richards S (2016) Post 8 Ma reconstruction of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands: microplate tectonics in a convergent plate boundary setting. Earth-Science Reviews, 156. pp. 66-81
• Holm R, Spandler C and Richards S (2015) Continental collision, orogenesis and arc magmatism of the Miocene Maramuni arc, Papua New Guinea. Gondwana Research, 28 (3). pp. 1117-1136
• Buys J, Spandler C, Holm R and Richards S (2014) Remnants of ancient Australia in Vanuatu: Implications for crustal evolution in island arcs and tectonic development of the southwest Pacific. Geology, 42 (11). pp. 939-942
• Holm R and Bell D (2013) Sedimentology and structure of the Malvern Hills Coal Mine, Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 56 (1). pp. 39-52
• Holm R, Spandler C and Richards S (2013) Melanesian arc far-field response to collision of the Ontong Java Plateau: geochronology and petrogenesis of the Simuku Igneous Complex, New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Tectonophysics, 603. pp. 189-212
• Holm R and Richards S (2013) A re-evaluation of arc-continent collision and along-arc variation in the Bismarck Sea region, Papua New Guinea. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 60 (5). pp. 605-619

Conference Papers

• Holm R, Richards S, Rosenbaum G and Spandler C (2015) Disparate tectonic settings for mineralisation in an active arc, Eastern Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of PACRIM 2015. In: PACRIM 2015 Congress, 18-21 March 2015, Hong Kong, China

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 17+ research outputs authored by Dr Robert Holm from 2011 onwards.

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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

• Mesozoic detrital zircon provenance of Central Africa: implications for Jurassic-Cretaceous tectonics, paleogeography and landscape evolution (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

These are the most recent metadata records associated with this researcher. To see a detailed description of all dataset records, visit Research Data Australia.

• Holm, R. (2016) Supplementary rotation file and feature collections to Holm et al., 2016. James Cook University
• Holm, R. (2015) Hafnium isotope data for the Simuku Igneous Complex, New Britain, Papua New Guinea. James Cook University

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