Recently, a collaborative research team at the University of Melbourne and Curtin University set out to confirm and constrain the age of volcanic rocks in southwest Victoria by a new and independent age-dating technique that is enabled by AuScope. In the course of their research, the team uncovered archaeological evidence and the rich oral traditions of local Gunditjmara people, which played a key role in enriching the outcome.
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 MoreDespite a challenging start to the year, we have been working busily behind the scenes around the country to co-design with the geochemistry community a digital solution that makes geochemical data FAIR. And excitingly, our team has grown.
Read MoreRecently, scientists at Curtin University analysed samples from the second-largest asteroid in our solar system, Vesta. We had a hand, quite literally, in preparing samples for this analysis at the John De Laeter Centre. But even more exciting than handling extraterrestrial samples are the researchers’ findings about Vesta’s early life.
Read MoreIntroducing the AuScope Geochemistry Network (AGN), a new project within the AuScope Earth Composition and Evolution (ECE) Program which aims to create, coordinate, promote and develop national geochemistry research infrastructure and maximise its use by the Australian research community.
Read MoreRecently, an international team of volcanologists married 21st century research with Bronze Aged field observations from Turkey’s Kula UNESCO Geopark to confirm the world’s oldest, demonstrable human sighting of a volcanic eruption.
Read MoreAuScope thanks the Australian Government for new funding to replace age-dating instrument that critically underpins natural resource discovery and frontier planetary science.
Read MoreResearchers can now create globally unique sample IDs (IGSNs) and link metadata with analytical data for current and future research.
Read MoreAs the Indo-Australian Plate converges with the Tibetan Plateau, recently, so too do researchers from respective locations, outcomes of which are proving to be sizeable. Professor Andy Gleadow, from AuScope’s Earth Composition and Evolution component, explains.
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