Announcing the winners of AuScope’s 2024 Opportunity Fund. This initiative funds research projects to boost earth science infrastructure capacity and access.
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In June 2024, NCRIS-enabled researchers joined a JAMSTEC mission off Japan's coast to explore deep-sea volcanoes to enhance our understanding of Earth's mantle dynamics, biogeochemical cycles, and tsunami mechanics.
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The AuScope Geochemistry Network (AGN) brought together NCRIS enabled AGN scientists from Australia’s top universities with national and global Earth science organisations to showcase diverse projects and explore future digital infrastructure.
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NCRIS enabled research has helped redefine the history of Argyl’s renowned diamonds, shedding light on their deep-time origins with implications for future discoveries.
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The 2023 Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC) held on Noongar Whadjuk boodja (country), will feature new geoscience insights from the Australian lithosphere to Earth's evolution and resources. Join us for NCRIS talks, workshops, presentations, and a shared booth with ANZIC.
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David Upton from Precompetitive Review explores AusGeochem's ability to visualise diverse data. He takes a closer look at the North Australia Craton and North China Craton in the Proterozoic with Dr Samuel Boone.
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Professor Axel Schmitt is stepping into the role of Facility Leader of the new NCRIS enabled AuScope Ion Microprobe, a tool that will support Australia’s critical mineral future.
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More than fifteen months of work for the AuScope Geochemistry Network (AGN) and partners Lithodat have recently culminated in the release of the AusGeochem platform. Let’s meet the faces behind the platform!
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The AGN Project Team and collaborators Lithodat are excited to announce that the first iteration of the AusGeochem platform is now live! AusGeochem is a cloud-hosted open geochemistry data platform that is simultaneously a geosample registry, a geochemistry data repository, and an active research tool.
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In the AGN’s 6th public webinar, Dr Matthew Gard, Dr Derrick Hasterok (both University of Adelaide) and Dr Jacqueline Halpin (University of Tasmania) delivered a webinar on building an internally consistent whole rock geochemical database, and analysis tools that are easily accessible and usable.
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In the AGN’s fifth public webinar we heard from Dr Marnie Forster of ANU, the project leader for The National Argon Map project (NAM), who discussed the motivations behind the initiative and how geoscientists can get involved.
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The AGN project team, together with the development team at Lithodat, continue to make fantastic progress on the construction of AusGeochem, with user experience front of mind. The platform is now in the internal alpha testing phase, where sample information can be uploaded and displayed graphically on the interactive map display.
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Since our last update members of the AuScope Geochemistry Network (AGN) have presented at a number of conferences, developed proposals for the expansion of the network and made great progress on the development of the AusGeochem platform and a new project, LabFinder.
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Scientists from Curtin University have used an NCRIS-enabled analytical technique, normally applied to rocks, in a different way; determining the concentration of metals accumulating in the scales of snakes living in urban wetland environments. The results are concerning, but the non-lethal approach to tissue sampling will be advantageous in the future.
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It’s rare to have a mineral named after oneself, but it’s something that distinguished Professor Sue O’Reilly can now add to her extensive accolades after a rare and exotic mineral from the Mt Carmel Ranges in Israel was recognised in an NCRIS and AuScope enabled Macquarie GeoAnalytical (MQGA) facility in Sydney.
In the AGN’s fourth webinar in the series we heard from the Macquarie University GeoAnalytical (MQGA) team as they discussed their evolution in analytical capabilities over the past 25 years and the development of the TerraneChron methodology.
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Recently, geochronology researchers at the AuScope enabled GeoAnalytical Facility at Macquarie University have developed a new age-dating technique, allowing geologists to obtain data within minutes rather than weeks. Here, Lauren Gorojovsky and Dr Olivier Alard explain their new science, which promises wide application and great benefit to minerals explorers.
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The AGN and collaborators Lithodat are teaming up with the ARDC and geochemistry experts across Australia to bring you AusGeochem, an open, FAIR-based platform for Australian-produced geochemistry data from around the globe. Here are our latest developments.
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In the AGN’s third webinar, we heard from the Melbourne Low-Temperature Thermochronology Research Group and Lithodat about the history of their extensive sample archive and successful integration into AusGeochem.
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