The AuScope Research Conference 2021 (AuScope#2021) is an online event running on Tuesday 12 October — Wednesday 13 October, from 10 AM – 3:30 PM AEDT daily.

It will run as talks and collaboration (via Zoom), pre-recorded talks (via YouTube) followed by live Q&A (via Zoom), lunch chats (via the browser based Wander app).

Here you will find the full event schedule. Session links will available to select and follow at 7 AM AEDT on Tuesday 12 October. Need help?

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome & Welcome To Country
10:15 – 10:30 Presentation of Au AuScope video
10:30 – 11:20 Heather Handley & Dr Steve Hill Keynotes
11:20 – 11:35 Dr Tim Rawling presenting AuScope's role
11:35 – 12:00 Panel discussion: Heather, Steve & Tim

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch + Wonder Chats

1:00 - 2:15 3 x Concurrent Sessions (Pre-Recorded) + 20-Min Q&A (Live)

Please note that the Session Zoom will be open for the entire Session duration, but will become INTERACTIVE only at the end of the Session period in the defined 20 minute period.

Session 1A: Geoscience Data

• 3D Multi-Resolution Gravity Inversion with both Point and Gridded Anomaly Data — Dr Andrea Codd (The University of Queensland / AuScope) et al.

• Integrating petrophysical data and geophysical modelling — Dr Cericia Martinez (CSIRO) et al.

• Modernising the AuScope Virtual Research Environment to meet the requirements of the Downward Looking Telescope — Dr Jens Klump (CSIRO – Mineral Resources / AuScope) et al.

• AuScope AVRE Engage – the second year of purposeful collaborations with the science community — Dr Pavel Golodoniuc (CSIRO – Mineral Resources / AuScope) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

Session 1B: The Shallow Earth

• Constraining the response of continental-scale groundwater flow to climate extremes — Dr Ben Mather (The University of Sydney / AuScope) et al.

• Adding the magnifying glass to the Downward Looking Telescope — Dr David Belton (The University of Melbourne / AuScope) et al.

• Lithospheric Heat Flow – Global Data Assessment Project — Dr Graeme Beardsmore (The University of Melbourne / AuScope) et al.

• New isotope techniques to trace the provenance of waters, metals and local carbonate cycling in near-surface environments — Dr Juraj Farkas (The University of Adelaide / AuScope) et al.

• Introducing a Foundational Australian Critical Zone Observatory Network - OzCZO — Dr Sally Thompson (The University of Western Australia / AuScope) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

Session 1C: Plumes, Boundaries & Quakes

• Slab-induced plume branching connects parallel hotspot chains  — Dr Ben Mather (The University of Sydney / AuScope) et al.

• Probing the Australia-Pacific Plate Boundary: Macquarie Ridge in 3-D — Prof Hrvoje Tkalčić (The Australian National University) et al.

• GPlates: The development roadmap — Prof John Cannon (The University of Sydney / AuScope)

• Modulation of Seismic Energy Budget of the Shallow Intraplate Mw 6.0 Petermann Ranges Earthquake, Australia by Bedrock Structure — Tao Mo (The University of Melbourne) et al.

• The role of isostasy in the evolution and architecture of fold and thrust belts — Joe Ibrahim (The University of Sydney) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

2:15 - 2:30 Afternoon Break
2:30 - 3:30 4 x Concurrent Sessions (Pre-Recorded) + 15-Min Q&A (Live)

Please note that the Session Zoom will be open for the entire Session duration, but will become INTERACTIVE only at the end of the Session period in the defined 20 minute period.

Session 2A: Geochemistry Data & Techniques

• AusGeochem Launch: the AuScope Geochemistry Network’s laboratory data platform goes live — Dr Alexander Prent (Curtin University / AuScope) et al.

• Connecting the Australian AuScope Geochemistry Network into the Global OneGeochemistry Initiative — Dr Lesley Wyborn (The Australian National University / National Computational Infrastructure / AuScope) et al.

• The AuScope National Argon Map initiative: benefits of community-wide geoscience collaboration — Dr Marnie Forster (The Australian National University / AuScope) et al.

• AGN-LabFinder, a web application to help you find the right laboratory — Dr Guillaume Florin (AuScope) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

Session 2B: Critical Zones, Heat Flow & Storage

• AuScope NDI Heat Flow Program — Dr Graeme Beardsmore (The University of Melbourne / AuScope) et al.

• What caves can tell us about groundwater recharge – a decade of critical zone data — Dr Helen Rutlidge (The University of New South Wales) et al.

• The importance of the critical zone architecture for soil distribution and properties – an example from the Avon River Critical Zone Observatory, Western Australia — A/Prof Matthias Leopold (The University of Western Australia / AuScope) et al.

• Stochastic inversion using Random Mixing for fugitive methane emissions — Dr Sebastian Hoerning (The University of Queensland / AuScope) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

Session 2C: Earthquakes & Anisotropies

• Seismicity, Minerals, and Craton Margins: The Lake Eyre Basin Seismic Deployment — Dr Caroline Eakin (The Australian National University) et al.

• Analysis of 2019 Broome earthquake sequence — Dr Sima Mousavi (The Australian National University / AuScope) et al. [Sorry, this presentation is no longer available]

• CCREM: New Reference Earth Model from the Global Coda-correlation Wavefield — Dr Xiaolong Ma (The Australian National University) et al.

• Inner-core Shear-wave Anisotropy Revealed by Earthquake Coda-correlation Wavefield with Global Networks — Sheng Wang (The Australian National University) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

Session 2D: Collisions, Rivers & The Mantle

• Dynamics of arc-continent collision: the role of crustal-mantle dynamics on controlling the spatio-temporal evolution of stress — Andres Felipe Rodriguez Corcho (The University of Melbourne) et al.

• The influence of dynamic topography, climate, and tectonics on the Nile River source-to-sink system — Christopher Alfonso (The Australian National University) et al.

• G-ADOPT (Geodynamic ADjoint Optimization PlaTform) — Dr Rhodri Davies (The Australian National University) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

10:00 – 10:15 Talk: Dr Tim Rawling
10:15 – 11:15 4 x Concurrent Sessions (Pre-Recorded) + 15-Min Q&A (Live)

Please note that the Session Zoom will be open for the entire Session duration, but will become INTERACTIVE only at the end of the Session period in the defined 15 minute period.

Session 3A: Imaging Curnamona, Antarctica & The Lithosphere

• The Curnamona Cube: New Data and Insights — Prof Graham Heinson (The University of Adelaide / AuScope) et al.

• Continental shelf marine MT feasibility study in the Spencer gulf, South Australia — Dr Kate Robertson (The Geological Survey of South Australia) et al.

• GRIT: Geophysical Research Infrastructure for Antarctica — Dr Kate Selway (The University of South Australia) et al.

• Mineral systems mapping across scales using magnetotellurics — Dr Stephan Thiel (The Geological Survey of South Australia) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

Session 3B: Extension, Gravity, COVID-19 and GRRRR

• GRRRR - it's the SAM Cloud! — Prof Louis Moresi (The Australian National University / AuScope) et al.

• Adaptive Meshing for Geoscientific Modelling and Inversion — Prof Lutz Gross (The University of Queensland / AuScope) et al.

• Continental Rifting  — A/Prof Patrice Rey (The University of Sydney) et al.

• Think like an explorer: tools for mapping the model frontier — Rohan Byrne (The University of Melbourne) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

*GRRRR: Geoscience Research that is Reproducible, Replicable and Reusable

Session 3C: South Australia, The Upper Mantle, Olivine & ANSIR*

• AuScope Earth Imaging seismic instrument evolution — Dr Michelle Salmon (The Australian National University / AuScope) et al.

• Uncovering South Australia using a passive-seismic method — Shubham Agrawal (The Australian National University) et al.

• Seismic Constraints of Uppermost Mantle Discontinuities in the Australian Region — Thuany Costa de Lima (The Australian National University) et al.

• Grain Size Sensitivity of Seismic-Wave Dispersion and Attenuation in Upper-mantle Olivine: An Update — Tongzhang Qu (The Australian National University) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

*ANSIR: National research facilities and instruments for Earth sounding

Session 3D: Geochemistry Networks, FastTracks and Extraterrestrials

• FastTracks digital fission-track analysis training module — Ling Chung (The University of Melbourne) et al.

• The AuScope Geochemistry Network: Status Report and Future Plans — Prof Brent McInnes (Curtin University / AuScope) et al.

• End of magmatism in the upper crust of asteroid 4 Vesta — Dr Fred Jourdan (Curtin University / AuScope) et al.

• Small-scale redox variations during the melting of metal precursors in H ordinary chondrites — Dr Guillaume Florin (AuScope) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

11:15 – 11:30 Morning Break

11:30 – 12:45 3 x Concurrent Sessions (Pre-Recorded) + 20-Min Q&A (Live) (P/W: 050956).

Please note that the Session Zoom will be open for the entire Session duration, but will become INTERACTIVE only from 12:25 – 12:45 PM AEDT.

Session 4A: Seismometers Across The Country

• High-Precision Broadband Seismic Monitoring in Southeast Australia — Abraham Jones (The University of Melbourne / AuScope) et al.

• Locating UXB impacts with AuScope seismic instruments — Prof Malcolm Sambridge (The Australian National University / AuScope) et al.

• AusPass: The Australian Passive Seismic Server — Dr Robert Pickle (The Australian National University / AuScope) et al. [Sorry, this talk is no longer available]

• Seismometers in Schools: A Tool for Education, Outreach, Research, and Monitoring — Dr Sima Mousavi (The Australian National University / AuScope) et al.

• Distributed Acoustic Sensing: New generation seismic array — Dr Voon Hui Lai (The Australian National University / AuScope) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

Session 4B: Tomography Making Waves

• Building the next-generation seismic model of the Australian crust with AuScope — Dr Yunfeng Chen (CSIRO) et al.

• Spatio-temporal Analysis of the Southern Ocean Storms Using Australian Seismic Arrays — Abhay Pandey (The Australian National University) et al.

• Probing earthquake sources by a new method — Jinyin Hu (The Australian National University) et al.

• Time-lapse monitoring of shear wave velocity changes near the seafloor using Scholte waves from seismic ambient noise — Dr Peng Guo (CSIRO) et al.

• Antarctic Ice Sheet Probed by Passive Seismology — Dr Thanh-Son Phạm (The Australian National University) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

Session 4C: Critical Minerals, Geological Storage & Drones

• Exploring critical metals using AuScope’s National Virtual Core Library — Dr Carsten Laukamp (CSIRO – Mineral Resources / AuScope)

• Developing a trusted supply chain for Australian Battery Minerals and Products — Dr Kai Rankenburg (Curtin University) et al.

• Storing carbon in buried volcanoes — Prof Simon Holford (The University of Adelaide) et al.

• A national initiative for UAV infrastructure and cloud-based data stewardship — Dr Steven Micklethwaite (The University of Queensland / AuScope) et al.

• Live Q&A via Zoom

12:45 – 2:00 Lunch + Wonder Chats

2:00 - 3:00 Collaboration Activity
3:00 - 3:30 Actions, Awards & Closing

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