ASEG news - Issue 10, 31st Jan 2019

Dear Members,

In today's news you'll find information on:

ASEG Awards
AEGC 2019: Abstract Submission Now Open
EARTH Magazine
16th SAGA Biennial Conference and Exhibition
News from the states
Upcoming events (National and International)
The latest in Exploration Geophysics
What's new in Preview?
Member News
Member Spotlight: Janelle Simpson
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Thanks to our corporate members

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ASEG Awards

Remember: Please nominate a friend, a colleague, a mentor, or a geophysical guru for one of the ASEG awards. The webpage https://www.aseg.org.au/about-aseg/honours-awards has all the details to help you nominate.

Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019: Abstract Submission Now Open

The second Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC) will be held at the Crown Resort in Perth 2-5 September 2019. The AEGC is co-hosted by the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia. The AEGC is the largest exploration geoscience conference in the southern hemisphere and is expected to attract well over 1,000 delegates from around the world. Themes cover the full spectrum of Australian geosciences from the mineral, petroleum and water resource industries, government and academia. Given its location in Perth, there will be additional, dedicated, streams for Western Australian sedimentary basins, discovery techniques, mineral mapping and remote sensing applications.

The Organising Committee for the 2nd Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference invites you to submit an abstract for presentation at the Conference. The extended abstract is a short (maximum 5-page) paper summarizing your oral or poster presentation. Each abstract will be subjected to a peer-review process before being accepted for presentation at the conference. All accepted abstracts will be published in the digital conference proceedings and made available via the ASEG publication site and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists digital library. The conference incorporates the West Australian Basins Symposium (WABS) for which full papers will also be accepted. Authors wishing to follow this route should e-mail the WABS editors directly (WABS@pesa.com.au)

Papers are invited from a broad spectrum of themes such as new information from old data, cross disciplinary co-ordination, industrial minerals and case studies. Disciplines encompassed by the conference include (but are not limited to) Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geometallurgy, Geostatistics, Petrophysics, Palaentology, Archaeology, Geotechnical Engineering, and Mining Geology.

All abstracts should be submitted using the official template available from the AEGC website (aegc.com.au) and the final submission date is Friday 22 March 2019. The results of the review process will be available by 3 May 2019, but the review process is continuous and abstracts submitted before the final submission deadline may be notified before this date.

EARTH Magazine

The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is now making its monthly magazine, EARTH, available digitally for free to anyone belonging to our 52 member societies and to all geoscience/earth science students worldwide as well as licensed and/or professional geoscientists. There is no obligation, no credit card required. Go to https://digital.earthmagazine.org to sign up and receive EARTH Magazine FREE digitally each month.

John P. Rasanen-EARTH Magazine, American Geosciences Institute

16th SAGA Biennial Conference and Exhibition

Registrations are now open for SAGA 2019 to be held 6-9 October, 2019 in Durban

Early bird closes 30th April 2019.

Register online

Please note the discounted rate for SAGA members. Visit sagaonline.co.za for more details. If you are planning to attend SAGA and would consider helping out at an ASEG booth, please notify secretary@aseg.org.au. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Branch upcoming events

For a more complete calendar of events see Preview

This year we have a new publisher for Exploration Geophysics; with the journal being published by Taylor and Francis. I would like to thank CSIRO Publishing for all their fine work over the previous years and welcome Taylor and Francis to this new role. The first volume is not yet out for 2019, but if you would like a tantalising glimpse for the year ahead, then please check out the article by Ren, Macnae and Hennessy on conductivity modelling algorithms.

Dr Mark Lackie

Exploration Geophysics Editor

The latest (December) issue of Preview, and most historical issues of the magazine, can now be found online at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/texp20/current?nav=tocList. In addition to the usual news and commentary, the December issue featured an article by Don Emerson and Phil Schmidt on the physical properties of pyrolusitic supergene manganese oxides, and a summary of student projects completed in geophysics in Australia in 2018.

The next (February) issue of Preview will be available online in mid- February. This issue will feature an article by Roger Henderson on the second lecturer in exploration geophysics in Australia - later to become Surveyor General of India.

Proposed contributions to future issues can be submitted by email to the editor at previeweditor@aseg.org.au.

Lisa Worrall

Preview Editor

Member News

Dave Pratt, Ted Tyne and Roger Henderson enjoyed catching up with Ian Lilly (second from the left) who was in Sydney on his annual visit from Vietnam. Ian was a member of ASEG from 1969 to 2003 when he relocated to Malaysia and was no longer resident in Australia. Ian’s latest occupation was with Mitra Energy Ltd in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as IT Advisor. Ian now resides in Tra Vinh, Vietnam (Mekong Delta) with his partner, Pham Thi Minh ("Phuong”). When Ian is away on his many 10s of kms, bike rides each morning, he keeps his family and friends informed using Garmin and Strava software.

Roger Henderson

In this issue we get to know Janelle Simpson. To nominate yourself or to recommend someone for the Member Spotlight, please contact communications@aseg.org.au.

1. What is your current role?

I am currently employed as a Senior Geophysicist by the Geological Survey of Queensland. I am part of team that oversees the acquisition of new precompetitive geophysical data to assist the exploration industry in Queensland. In addition to designing and overseeing these programs, we try to spend as much time as possible modelling and interpreting the data we collect.

2. For how long have you been a geophysicist?

I have worked as a geophysicist since 2010, when I started at the GSQ.

3. What do you like most about being a geophysicist?

I love the challenge of putting together different datasets to understand new things about the Earth.

4. If you weren't a geophysicist what would you be?

In a world where I didn't do science at uni I would probably have chosen either a landscape architect or a primary school teacher.

5. What's one thing that we wouldn’t know about you?

I thoroughly enjoy knitting, though I don't get to do it as much as I would like.

6. What made you decide to be a geophysicist?

I stumbled on geology completely by accident. I went to university determined to study biology and took geology to fill in my spare units. By the end of first year I had decided that biology wasn't for me and decided to pursue geology with vigour, before finally settling on geophysics towards the end of my undergraduate and during my Honours degree.

7. What's one thing you wish someone had told you when you were at university?

Building interpersonal relationships with people both inside and outside your organisation is a vital part of building a successful career.

8. What do you do in your spare time?

I love cooking and reading. On any given Saturday I can be found making some elaborate dinner creation with the enthusiastic assistance of my older brother.