December 2018, Volume 19 Part 2 Page 1

The Great Australian Byte

The Newsletter of the Australian Geoscience Information Association (Inc.)

December 2018, Volume 19 Part 2 ISSN 2207-6638

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CONTENTS AGIA News Highlights ............................................................................................ 2 AGIA AGM 2018 .................................................................................................... 3 AGIA Membership Benefits ..................................................................................... 9 Report on AGIA Activities at the Australian Geoscience Council Convention (AGCC2018)

......................................................................................................................... 10 PPDM Perth Data Management Workshop & Field Trip 2018 ...................................... 13 Upcoming Events ................................................................................................ 15 Australian Geoscience Council News ...................................................................... 16 Websites & Mailing Lists of Interest ....................................................................... 17 Articles & Publications of Interest .......................................................................... 17 National Committee 2018-2019 ............................................................................ 18

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AGIA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

➢ AGIA’s 2018-2019 National Committee

➢ A report back on the successful AGCC AGIA Workshop in Adelaide

➢ AGIA continues its sponsorship the PPDM Data Management Workshop

➢ AGIA’s future – expect a short survey to come your way soon!

AGIA GROUP DISCUSSIONS ON

Reminder: Members of AGIA’s LinkedIn group are encouraged to share items of interest

on the Discussions tab and are welcome to post positions vacant on the Jobs tab. You

can join the AGIA LinkedIn group here.

FROM THE NEWSLETTER EDITOR

If you have knowledge to share or information about upcoming events please forward

them to me at webmaster@agia.org.au for publication on the AGIA website.

Vanessa Johnson

Newsletter Editor

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AGIA AGM 2018

On 4 October 2018 a small group of AGIA members gathered at the State Library of

Western Australia and joined online to hear the reports of the National Committee and

elect a new committee for 2018-2019. The new National Committee bears a striking

resemblance to the outgoing National Committee, and is as follows:

President: Vanessa Johnson

Vice President: No nominations received

Secretary: Kerry Smith

Treasurer: Elizabeth Amann

Media: Vanessa Johnson

Membership Secretary: Kerry Smith

Committee members: Camille Peters, Sandra Hayward, Rae Davie

Attendees at the 2018 AGIA AGM

Left to right: Ray Smith, Kerry Smith, Vanessa Johnson, Grant Jacquier (online!), Lyn Trouchet, Jutta Pagel,

Angela Riganti, Rae Davie, Sandra Hayward, Liz Amann – photo by Camille Peters

The Special General meeting held before the AGM approved the changes to the

constitution as deemed necessary by the National Committee to comply with the WA

Associations Incorporations Act 2015. The revised constitution has since been submitted

to government and approved. It is now available on the AGIA website.

The reports moved and accepted by the meeting are below.

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AGIA PRESIDENT’S REPORT The struggle to fill all positions after the last AGM resulted in there being no Secretary

and this position was not filled as the year progressed. The AGIA National Committee of

myself as President, Liz Amann – Treasurer, Vanessa Johnson – Vice President, Web,

Newsletter, and committee members Camille Peters and Sandy Hayward, with Rae

Davie also nominating but unable to attend any meetings - has met on a regular basis,

meetings being held 7 November and 4 December 2017; 12 February, 12 March, 30

April, 28 May, 20 July, 13 August, 21 August with another meeting planned for 25

September 2018. Most of the discussion at these meetings was about the planned AGIA

workshop to be held at the end of the AGCC 2018 conference: Friday 19 October 2018

at the South Australian Drill Core facility; TITLE: “Unrealised billions: deposits hidden in

legacy data” and we have received a pleasing

number of expressions of interest to deliver papers at it. It has been useful to have

AGIA past President Angela Riganti in her role as a significant player on the organising

committee of AGCC 2018 chairing the Advocacy, Media, and Protocol Subcommittee,

attend at the start of these meetings since the discussions regarding arrangements for

the workshop were at times complex and confusing. But I think things are sorted now

and many thanks must also go to the SA Branch who are doing much of the background

work regarding the venue etc. As a current member of AGC, AGIA is a sponsor of AGCC

2018 and has a booth. My thanks to National Committee member Liz Amann who

represents AGIA at the regular AGC teleconference meetings.

The National Committee has been considering the future of AGIA under the following

special resolution passed at the 2017 AGM:

Special Resolution

“That the National Committee is tasked to investigate the following options:

• Fold the organisation;

• Restructure - specifically investigate the option of amending the constitution to

reduce the number of members on the National Committee, with a view to

revitalise the WA Branch and free the National Committee to address more

strategic issues and focus on national initiatives;

• Merge with another organisation;

• Investigate becoming a specialist group within a larger organisation (e.g.

Geological Society of Australia).

The incoming National Committee formed at the 2017 AGM will address the above, and

report back to the membership within a 6-12 month timeframe.”

A report on progress will be delivered at the 2018 AGM and one matter I’ve followed up

was emailing the AGIA membership to encourage those, particularly the larger WA

membership in WA, to think about forming a Branch, with no reply received. Other

Branch initiatives need to be considered but apart from WA and South Australia, current

membership in other states is small/zero. It is hoped that the AGCC 2018 AGIA

workshop will assist in spreading the AGIA word.

The National Committee also realised that the formalisation of the AGIA Constitution in

line with the requirements of the Model Rules of the Western Australian Associations

Incorporations Act 2015 could not be left any longer and some members met specially to

review it as the deadline for submission is 30 June 2019 and these things can take time.

The matter is part of the Special General Meeting to be held just before this 2018 AGM.

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AGIA again provided some sponsorship to a recent PPDM event for which AGIA members

receive a discount to attend. My thanks to Vanessa Johnson for her continued

networking with this group on behalf of AGIA, for arranging for the National Committee

to meet at Shell since the beginning of 2018 and keeping the AGIA website and Linkedin

sites on track.

With my thanks to all of AGIA’s elected representatives for the effort they put in towards

maintaining the relevance of AGIA, though it remains to be seen where all of this will

lead.

Dr Kerry Smith, Life member AGIA, AGIA President

AGIA TREASURER’S REPORT Balance as at 30/06/2018

Commonwealth Bank Society Cheque Account

Balance of AGIA Society Account at 30/06/2018 $10, 747.67

Commonwealth Bank Term Deposit Account

Balance of AGIA Term Deposit at 30/06/2018 $27, 750.30

Term deposit maturity date si 25/09/2018 (Note 30 days required to withdraw before

maturity)

Summary of Financial Activity for Financial Year 01/07/2017 - 30/06/2018

Society Cheque Account

Opening Balance at 01/07/2017 $6, 089.78

Less Payments -$2, 879.56

Plus Receipts $7, 537.25

Closing Balance at 30/06/2018 $10, 747.67

Term Deposit

Opening Balance at 01/07/2017 $32, 118.85

Interest Y/E 30/06/2018 $631.45

Further Investments Deposited -

Debit - transfer funds to AGIA Cheque Account for funding AGCC conference -

$5, 000.00

Closing Balance at 30/06/2018 $27, 750.30

Elizabeth Amann

AGIA Treasurer

AGIA NEWSLETTER EDITOR’S REPORT It has been a quiet year for Media as AGIA National Committee has focused on national

matters, supporting the AGCC, and investigating the future of AGIA.

Newsletter There was just one issue of The Great Australian Byte published in January 2018;

Volume 19(1). It included:

▪ AGIA AGM – Reports, New National Committee and Special Resolution

▪ AGIA South Australia Seminar report - Government geoscience information

resources and systems in South Australia and the Northern Territory

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▪ AGIA Occasional Paper 10 available online – Dr Kerry Smith’s report on the use of

GeMPeT

▪ NOPIMS update (our favourite source of free Australian petroleum exploration

data)

▪ 2018 AGCC Update

▪ recap of recent events such as the AGIA Cut Mine Tour and the PPDM Perth Data

Management Workshop

There are plans to publish a special edition newsletter in September 2018 to publicize

the AGIA Workshop at the AGCC. The newsletter has been made available via the AGIA

website and has been submitted to the National Library of Australia to comply with Legal

Deposit requirements. Many thanks to the AGIA members who have contributed articles

and images for use in the newsletter, and to Kerry Smith for circulating the Byte to the

membership.

Occasional Papers Occasional Paper 10 “ACCESS TO GEOSCIENCE INFORMATION – A SURVEY ON GeMPeT”

was published in November 2017. Thank you again to Chris Nelson (Geoscience

Australia) for supplying an ISBN. There are plans to publish another Occasional Paper

using materials from the AGCC AGIA Workshop - Unrealised billions: deposits hidden in

legacy data

LinkedIn The LinkedIn membership has grown from 76 to 83 members. Guy Holmes and Grant

Jacquier have been – as always – provocative in their contributions: their contributions

have been at times free-ranging and blue-sky inspiring, covering cloud storage, machine

learning, digital tagging, data connectivity and exploitation. Thank you for the thoughtful

links to some very interesting content. Of course AGIA continues to provide links to

professional development opportunities, geoscience information sources, new

applications and of AGIA activities through LinkedIn in the hope we may encourage

some new financial members!

Website The website has been fairly quiet as the National Committee has not been hosting the

usual number of social events. The Events page and Committee page have been kept

up-to-date, and posts regarding AGIA and allied Associations’ activities shared. Page

view statistics for the year, below.

Vanessa Johnson

Newsletter Editor

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AGIA MEMBERSHIP REPORT 2017-18 MEMBERSHIP YEAR

The membership renewals for 2018-19 are slowly coming through but having reported that, there have been some new members joining us for the forthcoming membership year. Discounts to seminars like those held by the petroleum group PPDM which AGIA supports with some sponsorship, encourages members to stay with us. As mentioned in earlier reports, corporate membership while greatly appreciated, can deter individuals from joining as, while the AGIA Constitution only allows one representative from that corporation, some hang off the coat tails of this membership. Nevertheless we continue to be ever grateful to those organisations and companies that continue to support the individual membership of selected staff.

MEMBERSHIP YEAR

CORPORATE PERSONAL STUDENT/ UNEMPLOYED/ RETIRED

OVERSEAS (incl in earlier counts)

LIFE TOTAL

2017-18 7 25 10 0 5 47 2016-17 6 31 4 0 4 45

2015-16 6 50 13 [3] 4 73

2014-15 7 33 4 1 (joined late)

4 49

2013-14 9 26 4 0 4 43

2012-13 9 22 3 0 5 39

2011-12 9 32 2 0 4 48 2010-11 8 26 3 0 4 41

2009-10 9 32 2 0 4 47

2008-09 11 32 2 0 4 49 2007-08 11 28 2 0 4 45

2006-07 12 39 2 0 4 57

2005-06 16 43 2 0 3 64

Renewal reminders for 2018-19 have been sent with renewals thus far as shown below.

The final date to renew memberships is 31 October 2018.

Life members 5

Corporate 5

Concession 7

Personal 15

TOTAL 32 (including 5 new members)

Dr Kerry Smith

Membership Secretary

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AGIA SA Branch Report 2018 2018 has been a much quieter year for the South Australian Branch.

The Annual General Meeting was held in December 2017. The Committee was pleased

that members John Keeling, Andrew McCulloch and Grant Jacquier, now back in

Adelaide, could attend and welcomed Andrew’s interstate colleagues, Bonnie Ryan and

Nick Parker, as guests to join the meeting and to celebrate the festive season. Apologies

were received from Kevin Bond, Gwen Walkden and Alex Ross.

Following the President’s welcome and report, Committee positions were declared

vacant, and elections held for the incoming Committee. As in 2016, the positions of

President, Secretary and Treasurer were filled by the same incumbents, each elected

unopposed. The Branch was pleased that Christie Gerrard accepted the nomination of

Committee Member, and she too was elected unopposed.

Office Bearers:

President Des Tellis

Treasurer Pam Aagaard

Secretary Julie Roberts

Committee members Christie Gerrard and Gwen Walkden

Much of the activity for 2018 has centred on the upcoming AGIA Workshop to be held in

Adelaide in conjunction with the inaugural Australian Geoscience Council Convention

(AGCC) in October this year. Pam Aagaard secured the impressive South Australian Drill

Core Reference Library as the venue and has liaised with the National Committee to

organize a tour of the facility as part of the workshop programme. The Committee

reached out to South Australian colleagues in the industry to be put forward to the

National Committee as potential speakers. AGIA SA members, Christie Gerrard and Julie

Roberts have both been accepted as presenters.

My thanks go to the Committee for their work throughout the year, all very much

appreciated.

Des Tellis

President, AGIA SA Branch

THE FUTURE OF AGIA The AGM discussed the future of AGIA at length. The National Committee confirmed that

the issues identified at the 2017 Special General Meeting remained the same –

difficulties finding new committee members, a static membership, and challenges in

keeping up with changes in geoscience information developments. Attendees at the

meeting were passionate about the need for a group to promote geoscience information

issues, and most recognised that the time has come for AGIA’s members to think about

new ways this might be achieved.

The meeting moved that AGIA investigates the makeup of its membership and alerts the

membership to the option of becoming a specialist group within another organisation,

also taking into account feedback from the AGCC workshop. AGIA’s members will be

surveyed to determine their concurrent memberships to identify appropriate

organisations.

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AGIA MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

AGIA provides members with opportunities to network with geoscience information

colleagues and stay up-to-date with developments across industry and government.

AGIA seeks to tailor workshops and seminars to the members’ professional development

needs, as well as providing members with an opportunity to share their knowledge in a

supportive environment.

The membership year is from 1 July to 30 June and subscription renewals are due by 31

October. See the AGIA website for new membership and renewal instructions.

One of the great membership benefits of AGIA is the many sponsorship opportunities

provided to members. AGIA considers requests for sponsorship of events and activities

that meet its objective of promoting the exchange of information in the earth sciences

and related areas.

Current AGIA members with two years standing may apply for financial assistance to

attend a conference/event/activity of relevance to AGIA. A formal submission may be

made at any time during the year to the President of the National Committee of AGIA.

Proposals should allow at least 3 months for processing, and be sent to

president@agia.com.au. The submission must contain information on:

▪ the relevance of the conference to the applicant – this should be framed within

the general objectives of AGIA

▪ the applicant’s employer/institution of study

▪ the amount of financial assistance the applicant expects to receive from the

employer (and other sources if applicable)

▪ the amount of financial assistance sought from AGIA, and a detailed budget of

expected conference expenses.

All successful applicants will be expected to submit a written report to the AGIA National

Committee for inclusion in the Association’s Newsletter, within 3 months from the

conclusion of the conference/event.

Whilst AGIA’s future is being considered, it is especially important that your membership

is up-to-date to ensure your voice is heard and your vote is counted. This is an

important time in AGIA’s history and I strongly encourage all AGIA members to

contribute to the discussions about AGIA’s future to ensure we achieve the best outcome

for the membership.

Vanessa Johnson

AGIA President

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REPORT ON AGIA ACTIVITIES AT THE AUSTRALIAN GEOSCIENCE COUNCIL CONVENTION (AGCC2018)

The AGCC2018 was held in South Australia at the

Adelaide Convention Centre over four days, 14-

18 October 2018. AGIA, as a member of the

AGC, contributed to the Convention by assisting

in planning the scientific program, being a

sponsor and actively participating as an exhibitor

and workshop host.

AGCC2018 was an inaugural event that brought

together industry, academic and government

professionals across a range of geoscientific

disciplines to discuss the issues and ideas facing

geoscientists today and into the future. AGCC

showcased the breadth of different geosciences

and provided a platform for industry and

especially Geoscience Australia to promote the

work they do and the value that is brought to

the science community and society in general.

The AGCC 2018 Scientific Program was based

around five themes designed to cover many

facets of the Geosciences:

• Theme 1: Understanding the Earth

• Theme 2: Life on Earth – origins and diversity

• Theme 3: Resources – discovery, development, use and sustainability

• Theme 4: Applied Geosciences in the 21st Century – innovation, technology and

the future

• Theme 5: Beyond the rocks – Geoscience in our society: current application and

future trends.

There were more than 1000 registrants from the Australian and international Geoscience

communities, attending 22 plenary and 47 keynote addresses, over 500 oral

presentations and over 220 posters, as well as many other Geoscience, business, and

networking events including a very interesting one-day plenary-style Big Issues and

Ideas Day.

Key sponsors of the Convention included the South Australia Government through the

Department of Energy and Mining (Host), Santos Ltd (Major), and Geoscience Australia

(Patron). AGIA was also a supporting sponsor along with other AGC Member Societies.

Workshops and field trips were held both before and after the Convention. Notable

events/ workshops included:

• Big Ideas and Issues Day where the audience were able to actively participate and

contribute to the direction of the panel discussion via an online interactive question

and answer style tool sli-do

• a Geoscience Education Workshop targeted to Science teachers to be held on the

first day of AGCC 2018, sponsored by Santos Ltd

Attendees at the AGIA dinner, L to R:

Charles Moore, Pam Aagaard, Christie

Gerrard, Angela Riganti, Cathy Brown,

Kellie Ashley, Paul LeMessurier, Des Tellis,

Julie Roberts, Liz Amann, Grant Jacquier,

Jane Bowland

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• three-minute Rapid Fire Presentations, an initiative designed to enable a large

number of Early Career Geoscientists, across all fields, to participate in a test of

their abilities to rapidly and effectively communicate their science to a diverse

audience sponsored by CSIRO

• Australian Academy of Science announced the release of Australia's decadal plan for

Geoscience.

• Onsite Crèche – a first!

The AGIA activities at AGCC2018 included:

• A booth at the GeoExpo Exhibition Hall to

display and showcase AGIA products and

services

• Hosting a dinner for AGIA Members,

workshop speakers, and attendees

• Convening the post-convention workshop

“Unrealised Billions: Deposits Hidden in

Legacy Data” on Friday 19 October at the

South Australian Drill Core Reference

Library Facility, Clovelly Park SA. This was a collaborative event hosted and

organised by AGIA National Executive and AGIA South Australian Branch.

The AGIA Workshop in action

The AGIA booth

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The workshop theme was based around the fact that many AGIA members have a long

and current history of working with legacy data in the Geosciences and while there is a

mesmerising attraction to computerised data today, there are unrealised “billion” bits of

information hidden in legacy data. As stated in a white paper by American Industry of

Professional Geoscientists (2010), “These type(s) of data repositories save the private

sector millions of dollars in exploratory costs each year. Review of properly catalogued

and archived rock core allows consultants, academia, and other public agency resource

specialists and scientists to better understand the subsurface conditions at a site by

using previously obtained resource information and reducing the need to obtain costly

and perhaps redundant samples”

The workshop was excellent – a wonderful state-of-the-art venue, lovely food, and the

range of talks were interesting and broad with excellent and entertaining speakers and

presentations. At the conclusion of the presentations was a tour of the Drill Core Facility.

The workshop was very well attended, attracting 33 registrants including distinguished

guests from overseas, who were particularly keen to learn how Australian Geological

Surveys make pre-competitive data available, to encourage investment.

Elizabeth Amann

AGIA National Committee

Pictures courtesy Liz Amann & Pam Aagaard

AGIA President’s note: A very big thank you to the AGIA members who contributed long

hours to make AGIA’s contribution to the AGCC possible: Angela Riganti for her tireless

work on the AGCC Media, Advocay and Protocol Subcommittee; Kerry Smith for her

liaison with workshop presenters; Pam Aagaard for her excellent organisation of the

workshop venue and AGIA dinner; and Liz Amann for representing the National

Committee at the AGCC. Thank you all.

South Australia Drill Core Reference Library

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PPDM PERTH DATA MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP & FIELD TRIP 2018

AGIA’s sponsorship of the PPDM Perth Data Management in 2018 aligns with AGIA’s core

objectives:

• to initiate, aid, promote and improve the exchange of information in the earth

sciences and related areas;

• to encourage mutual co-operation among users and processors of earth sciences

and resources information; and

• to maintain links between members and geoscience information organisations in

Australia and overseas.

The “Touching the Rocks” field trip to explore some of Perth’s geological structures was

a sell-out, and the workshop held at the Perth Town Hall was also well attended,

attracting attendees from around Australia and from overseas.

The theme for 2018 was Standards: Experiences and lessons from this region. The

workshop kicked-off with an interactive discussion about the impact of standards on

opportunities and risk in a data-centric industry. The presentations that followed then

honed in on the importance of standards across many spheres of the petroleum

industry:

• Ted Fletcher (Woodside) talked about working with National Energy Resources

Australia (NERA) to participate in the International Standards Organisation’s

Technical Committee for oil & gas, petrochemicals and energy, and how this

involvement could strengthen Australia’s standing as a regional oil & gas hub

• David Yates (DAMA) talked about the role of data governance to improve legal

compliance. This was an incredibly detailed presentation that covered many aspects

of data governance potentially not considered by the non-legal fraternity (who

really owns the data?)

• Rendra Utama (SKK Migas) discussed development of a framework to manage

upstream oil and gas data on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Indonesia

• Steve Parvin (AVIVA) talked about standards developed to facilitate handover of

capital facilities information, bringing together operators, equipment suppliers and

software vendors

Above: Jess Kozman (left) leads the

field trip as attendees explore the

Tamala limestone near Peppermint

Grove.

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• Doris Ross (Woodside) talked about the growth of data lakes, and the need for

standards to maintain accessibility and usability of data held in such large

collections

• Chris Shmid (Unearthed Solutions) discussed crowd-sourcing competitions – can

data standards be applied to these competitions, and can they speed-up the

development of data tools for industry?

One of the most entertaining discussions of the workshop was generated by the Seismic

Data Management panel, a lively discussion between government, cloud service

providers, seismic data vendors and data management experts.

Presentations from the workshop are available to PPDM members from the PPDM

website under Events/Past Events.

Right: Seismic Data Management Panel

Discussion – left to right Jess Kozman,

Andrew Owen, Kerry Blinston, Andy

Cairns, Guy Holmes (wearing a

subliminal message about server

farms). There was a lively discussion

about the possibilities of the cloud; the

technical blockers that exist when

using the cloud for access to and

manipulation of big data; the

challenges of enforcing standards; and

the holy grail of the unique survey

identifier. There is still much work to

be done…

Left: AGIA representative

Vanessa Johnson talks about

AGIA.

Pictures – Camille Peters

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UPCOMING EVENTS

ALIA Information Online 2019 Conference, 11-15 February 2019 Location: Hilton Hotel, Sydney, NSW

The conference program has a multi-sector focus and provides a

unique opportunity for organisations to promote and showcase their

products and services to a targeted and influential delegate group.

Information Online gives access to key library and information

service professionals from Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, and

beyond

ALIA Information Online 2019 Conference

AGES 2019, 19-20 March 2019 Location: Alice Springs Convention Centre, Alice Springs, NT

AGES is a technical exploration conference with a range of talks from the NTGS, its

research partners and the exploration industry. It presents a unique opportunity to

access the latest fresh exploration ideas and geoscientific data from the Northern

Territory (NT) and to network with colleagues who share an interest in the discovery and

development of the Territory’s minerals and oil and gas resources.

https://dpir.nt.gov.au/mining-and-energy/ages

Uncover Curnamona, 23-25 July 2019

Location: Broken Hill, NSW

Details: Uncover Curnamona 2019 will include presentations, workshops, core viewing

and field trips. More details and registration information will be circulated soon. Uncover

Curnamona 2019 is a collaboration between the Geological Surveys of New South Wales

and South Australia, and the Geological Society of Australia. It offers the opportunity to

share information and ideas from current mineral exploration, and from cutting-edge

research by geological surveys and collaborative partners including the MinEx CRC and

the UNCOVER initiative.

Contact: geoscience.events@geoscience.nsw.gov.au

Dorothy Hill Women in Earth Sciences Symposium, 14 November 2019 Location: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Qld

Details: This Symposium will join together leading women in the Earth Sciences in both

academia and industry with early career researchers and students looking to study Earth

Sciences.

https://sees.uq.edu.au/event/session/8502

Perth Data Management Workshop & Field Trip 2019, 14-15 August 2019 Location: Perth Town Hall, WA

The 2019 Perth Data Management Workshop is an event featuring plenary

presentations, interactive discussions, and networking opportunities. This annual event

is attended by a variety of organizations and attendees from Analysts to CEOs.

Attendees can also sign up to attend a Field Trip in conjunction with this Workshop. https://ppdm.org/PPDM/PPDM/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=DWMPER2019&WebsiteKey=927055e8-ec5d-4b51-96ef-5dbe0a133439

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AUSTRALIAN GEOSCIENCE COUNCIL NEWS

Decadal Plan for Geoscience The Australian Academy of Science released the Decadal Plan for Geoscience during the

AGC Convention. AGC made a significant contribution to the Plan through Bill Shaw. The

report is available here

Australian Geoscience Tertiary Education Profile 2017 The report summarises data collected in a 15-year longitudinal study of Geoscience

departments across Australia, including teaching loads, higher degree completions, staff

numbers and other data. The report is available here

34th IGC Travel Grant Scheme Applications are now being accepted for the AGC/AAS 34th International Geological

Congress Travel Grant Scheme for Early-Career Australian and New Zealand

Geoscientists. This scheme provides funds to support travel by Australian and New

Zealand geoscientists in the early stages of their careers. It is an initiative of the AGC

and Australian Academy of Science

The application deadline has been extended to 14 December 2018. Details on how to

apply and previous grants awarded can be found here.

2015 AGC/AAS Travel Grant recipient Paul

Ashwell (at right) during field work in Chile

(Photo: Paul Ashwell)

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WEBSITES & MAILING LISTS OF INTEREST

• Australian National Data Service (ANDS) http://ands.org.au/newsletter

• AUGEN www.geoscience-education.edu.au

• GeoEdLink subscribe, archives

• Professional Petroleum Data Management (PPDM) Association – Foundations

newsletter

• NTGS Update subscribe

• GSWA eNewsletter subscribe

• Geoscience Australia Newsletters http://www.ga.gov.au/news-events/newsletters -

Geoscience Australia News, Australia Minerals, Minerals Alert

• AUSGIN www.geoscience.gov.au Australian Geoscience Information Network

brings together geological and geophysical information for mineral exploration in

Australia including:

o The Geoscience Portal for geoscience maps and data and the National

Virtual Core Library

o The national Geophysical Archive Data Delivery System (GADDS) to

download geophysical data

ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST

• Fieldnotes: A Geological Survey of Western Australia newsletter. Fieldnotes is a

quarterly publication (now digital only), which provides the State's exploration

industry and other geoscientists with information on our latest work and ongoing

programs. The publication offers updates on other products and services. Back

issues available via the DMIRS website, or subscribe to the GSWA eNewsletter for

the latest releases.

• The Geological Survey of WA: 130 years of geological excellence through the lens of its directors

This special booklet commemorates the 130th anniversary of the establishment

of the Geological Survey of Western Australia. Available from the DMIRS

eBookshop

December 2018, Volume 19 Part 2 Page 18

NATIONAL COMMITTEE 2018-2019

PRESIDENT Vanessa Johnson president@agia.org.au

VICE-PRESIDENT Vacant

SECRETARY Kerry Smith secretary@agia.org.au

TREASURER Liz Amann treasurer@agia.org.au

MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY

Kerry Smith membership@agia.org.au

NEWSLETTER & MEDIA

Vanessa Johnson webmaster@agia.org.au

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Camille Peters

Sandra Hayward

Rae Davie

AGC REPRESENTATIVES

Vanessa Johnson

Liz Amann