AuScope Research Conference 2025

The AuScope Research Conference 2025 was held in November on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, bringing together researchers, infrastructure specialists, industry, government, educators, and students to celebrate the tools, technology, and talent driving geoscience research innovation in Australia.

Across two days, the conference explored how NCRIS enabled research infrastructure is supporting new pathways for discovery, collaboration, and responsible Earth science research, from minerals and energy to groundwater, natural hazards, and changing Earth system.

Conference Overview

Held five years on from our last research conference and at the midpoint of the AuScope Strategy 2020 to 2030, AuScope2025 created space to pause, reflect, and look ahead.

The conference was an opportunity to share major developments across AuScope programs, highlight new and emerging research infrastructure, explore tools available to users and end users, and strengthen connections across the Australian geoscience community.

Together, the sessions capture both what AuScope delivers and why it matters for research excellence, national priorities, and real world outcomes.

AuScope2025 Program

Watch the conference sessions

Day 1 Strategy, capability and impact

Day 1 focused on AuScope’s strategic direction, major infrastructure developments, and how NCRIS enabled capability is supporting Australia’s minerals, energy, groundwater, and natural hazards challenges.

Welcome and Keynotes

Session 3 - Outreach and Drones

Session 2 - Critical Minerals Panel Discussion

Session 4 - Geochronology and Ground Water

Day 2 Research, translation and the future

Day 2 highlighted research case studies, collaboration stories, and conversations about research translation and future directions for Australian Earth science.

Session 1 - Keynotes, VLBI and Australian Ground Motion

Session 3 - Passive Seismic and Heat Flow

Session 2 - Geodynamics and M@TE

Future Science Talks Comedy

Future Science Talks brought big ideas, bold personalities, and plenty of laughs to the AuScope Research Conference 2025.

The program trains researchers to share their work in an engaging, fun, and memorable way. Through performance-based comedy training, scientists learn how to connect with their audience, sharpen their message, and tell more engaging stories about their research without compromising its complexity.

Hosted by Dave Crisante, the session featured six graduates from the Science Comedy Program who took the stage to prove that geoscience can be innovative, surprising, and genuinely entertaining. Their short talks blended humour, insight, and lived research experience, offering a fresh take on how science can be communicated beyond the lab.