From 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 MoreToday marks the beginning of National Reconciliation Week. In its twentieth year, First Nations people call out tokenistic responses to reconciliation and ask all Australians to take action. We heed the call, and ask all geoscientists to, too.
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 MoreIn March, five geoscientists from AuScope’s community attended Science Meets Parliament (SmP), an event that connects scientists with politicians to help raise awareness of why science is so important for Australia’s future. Here, our representatives share their reflections.
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 MoreMarch already! How nice is it to be in 2021, too? And what a momentous year it will be for us at AuScope. As the 2021 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap process kicks off, we turn our minds to its focus: translational research, resilience and optimisation of existing infrastructures are likely to feature in the Roadmap.
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 MoreThe year 2021 started quickly for the Australian Earth Science community, with the Australian Earth Science Convention (AESC) taking place in February. This year, proceedings took place completely online and with an innovative format including both pre-recorded and live-streamed presentations, allowing participants to take conversations deeper during Q and A sessions.
Read MoreIt’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.
Before 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 MoreLast week, our wonderful AuScope technical officer, Goran Boren won The University of Adelaide’s Faculty of Sciences Professional staff member of 2020. Our technical staff are often the unsung heroes of all our projects and programs, and without Goran we would have no magnetotelluric (MT) program. Here, Goran’s collaborators over the years shine a light on his extraordinary work over the years.
Read MoreAuScope is excited to welcome Dr Jens Klump to the AuScope Virtual Research Environment (AVRE) program to guide the team through the exciting next phase of user-centric infrastructure development that will enable novel geoscience research.
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.
Read MoreDear AuScopers, I hope you are all well, feel safe, and are adjusting to the many changes in this pandemic. Despite the challenges, we feel especially well connected with our national geoscience community and are pleased to bunker down and tackle some of the quieter projects, and even take time to contemplate the world a little differently.
Read MoreHappy #EarthScienceWeek! To celebrate, we explore the joys, importance, misconceptions, and future of Earth Science in this series of videos with Dr Jess Stromberg from CSIRO and Dr Sima Mousavi from The Australian National University.
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