Professor Fred Jourdan is fascinated by asteroids, passionate about sharing his research far and wide, and managing the NCRIS enabled Western Australia Argon Isotope Facility at Curtin University! Discover Fred’s path from the laboratory to Youtube.
Read MoreYesterday, the Morrison Government launched the 2021 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap, which details how future research needs will be incrementally supported over the next five years for the sciences and humanities. Here is our snapshot through a geoscience lens and the next steps we plan to take.
Read MoreSo it is 2022, and there is a lot going on! Opportunity is in the air. This year, a federal election brings many opportunities for significant government commitments to geoscience. There have been Commonwealth announcements relating to research commercialisation, critical minerals and Antarctica…
Read MoreA joint vision of a global research infrastructure for geoscience sits at the heart of an exciting new MoU between AuScope and Europe’s EPOS ERIC. Over the next three years, our parties will share knowledge, foster strategies to enhance user experience, and develop open data practices, all to enhance research impact globally.
Read MoreAuScope’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 MoreMeet Dr Rebecca Farrington, a passionate science leader and researcher who joins AuScope as Director of Research Data Systems from today. Rebecca is passionate about research data, and the people behind it.
Read MoreIn September 2021, AuScope, CSIRO, and Geoscience Australia supported an Indigenous-led workshop titled Ancient Rocks, Ancient Culture And You to explore how the Australian geoscience community can be more inclusive of Indigenous Australians in geoscientific programs.
Read MoreAs another disruptive year draws to a close, I am very proud of all that our AuScope community has achieved in both research, and communicating the value of geoscience. I want to take the opportunity to congratulate and thank you all for your collective efforts and to describe for you a few of the highlights from the last quarter.
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 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 are excited to announce the AuScope Research Conference 2021, a two-day celebration of the latest Australian geoscience research that aims to address some of the biggest questions of our time on Earth. This online event will bring our diverse community together, and encourage new ideas and collaborations to seed.
Read MoreEarthquakes! The epidemiologists have been in the limelight recently, so it was nice to have many in eastern Australia turn their attention to geology briefly last week. And as you can see, AuScope seismologists and AuScope instruments were critical to the national effort to understand and locate this somewhat unique event in recent and recorded history.
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 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 MoreHow can the Australian geoscience research community be more inclusive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in designing, undertaking, and reflecting on Australian geoscientific programs for mutual and environmental benefit? Join us for an Indigenous-led workshop in September to explore this question together!
Read MoreToday is World Hoodie Day, a time to celebrate young First Nations creativity and to consider ways we can all ‘make space’ in unexpected, necessary and valuable ways to help alleviate educational inequality in Australia. AuScope is proud to support the inspiring ideators of today’s initiative from AIME.
Let’s make space!
