AuScope’s Land-2-Sea Geoscience pilot project (L2SG) will shortly enable scientists to investigate ice melting rates of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This new data collection project will critically underpin regionally sensitive climate mitigation and adaptation planning.
Read MoreToday for International Day of Women and Girls in Science we celebrate a globally esteemed geoscientist in our midst, Associate Professor Heather Handley. Investigating volcanoes, fighting for gender equity in geoscience, designing a film festival and writing a book are all in a day’s work for Heather.
Read MoreAuScope is embarking on eight collaborative and NCRIS enabled pilot projects that will help researchers to address climate change, natural resources and education challenges. Each project represents an exciting step in building Australia’s Downward Looking Telescope and addressing national geoscience challenges.
Read MoreFor a long time, scientists have understood Earth’s atmospheric temperatures to be primarily regulated by cycling carbon between continents, oceans, and the atmosphere. However, new NCRIS enabled research using GPlates software shows that, over the span of millions of years, there is a surprise key player in Earth’s global ‘thermostat’.
Read MoreDr Sara Polanco has been tracking rivers since she was a teenager in Colombia. Her work helps us prepare for the future environmental change of rivers and efficiently manage the water resources for the future. We are excited to profile Sara and her passion for rivers, old and new!
Read MoreScientists 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.
Read MoreIn the hunt for new mineral deposits in Western Australia, researchers at Curtin University have turned their attention to the mineral rutile as a possible indicator, revealing a potentially game-changing insight for mineral explorers.
Read MoreAuScope is excited to work alongside other research co-investors in the Australian Scalable Drone Cloud, to standardise how earth and environmental scientists collect and analyse drone-collected data by establishing best-practices and FAIR data principles.
Read MoreInjecting compressed carbon dioxide gas (C02) deep underground in a process called geosequestration could potentially be one approach to reducing it in the atmosphere. An extremely important aspect of geosequestration is monitoring the injected CO2 to ensure that it stays within the porous rock zone as anticipated. eScript can help.
Read MoreEarth’s outer skin — where water, atmosphere, ecosystems, soil and rock interact — regulates Australia’s environment and determines the availability of life-sustaining resources. But how resilient is our Critical Zone to human impact?
Read MoreSedimentary basins around the world are critical to sustaining modern life on Earth. These basins can be thought of as containers that hold water, minerals, energy, and can potentially be used to store carbon dioxide. Unpacking how they form, and where those resources and storage opportunities may lie is a sizeable feat for the best of us...
Read MoreAustralia has benefited from rich mineral endowment for almost two centuries, but now faces an urgent challenge: finding enough critical minerals in more complex environments to supply low carbon economies globally.
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