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 MoreMore 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!
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreWe have learned a lot about gravity on Earth since its discovery in the 17th century. Now, thanks to new NCRIS enabled research and a good dose of mathematical wizardry, geoscientists can look forward to modelling gravity data with far greater efficiency.
Read MoreAuScope’s Earth Imaging & Sounding team, along with industry and academia are testing new three-node senses during an NCRIS enabled survey that aims to discover, in greater detail, the hidden depths of the Canning Basin.
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 MoreThe earth shook around Lilydale District School in Tasmania on the 23rd of June 2021 as students jumped into a geoscience workshop with Dr Sima Mousavi from our Auscope Seismometers in Schools (AuSIS) program. The focus: checking in with the NCRIS enabled seismometer down the hall, which is capable of detecting large earthquakes around the world, from New Zealand to Mexico!
Read MoreScience evolves from the capacity to see and think differently. AuScope’s Downward Looking Telescope (DLT) is our vision for a futureproof research infrastructure system that will allow researchers to ‘see’ into Earth and capture, focus and analyse data to help us think deeply about Australia’s future on Planet A. Here we explain the importance of each DLT Component.
Read MoreHeat flow data provide us with unique insights about how the Earth moves; from the churning interior to the rise of mountains and the jostling of tectonic plates. To help understand our future on this dynamic planet AuScope is enabling NCRIS to develop breakthrough heat flow research infrastructure.
Read MoreFrom earthquakes to busy highways, seismic waves are being recorded in more detail than ever before. In this latest collaboration with the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN), researchers from The ANU explain how new tech will enable seismic research in even greater detail, like never before.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreSince 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.
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 MoreIf you go down beneath the surface, under the rugged exterior, and into the inner workings of volcanoes things get interesting. In a recent study, researchers from Australia and France have combined NCRIS enabled esys-eScript modelling software with inversion code in a new approach to capture first rumbles earlier, deeper, and in greater detail than ever before.
Read MoreBefore the pandemic crept in, we hoped to bring you this story of Slovenia based biologists using NCRIS enabled GPlates software to help explain how golden orbweaver spiders migrated around the world over the last 130 million years. But it’s an intricate web we weave, you see, and only now can we wrap this up for you.
Read MoreThe landscape of eastern Australia is dotted with hundreds of extinct volcanoes. They gave rise to an environment to which Aboriginal people have been connected for tens of thousands of years, and the rich soils upon which modern Australia has grown in the last few hundred years. Yet until recently, these volcanoes posed a geological mystery.
Read MoreIn 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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