We certainly jumped at the opportunity for a bilateral gathering and salivated at the prospect of blooding new Members to our great Society! Of course, our euphoria barely lasted an hour before we discovered the topic for the proposed joint technical meeting was intimately related to … wait for it … particle physics! Thanks for dragging us in, Joe. We totally see now why the AusIMM didn’t return your calls – only kidding! Don’s subject “Muon geotomography”was certainly a topic from very, very far left field with the make-up of attendees that day included one astrophysicist! Yes, an astrophysicist! The application of this relatively new, recently certified geophysical technique for density mapping and imaging, especially within the mining industry, is simply astonishing. Who would have thought that measuring an elementary sub-atomic particle from the omnipresent background cosmic radiation could help us one day detect ore bodies, hmmm?!?!? Mind. Blown. To round out our autumn technical series, we welcomed Mark Gujic of Solve GeoSolutions. Members attending the meeting had been told that they would have a unique opportunity to participate in an Old Muscat wine tasting experience (more on this a little later). Mark’s address, entitled“Geophysics and neutral networks: learning from computer vision”drew quite a ruckus from the audience during his presentation, with some Members questioning the legitimacy of the information and relationships that were extracted from his neural network and machine learning solutions. Recognising or even defining relationships in image data can be extremely complex, but Solve GeoSolutions have enough bravado and smarts to help unscramble data-related problems, and to support visualisation of new unseen trends with an entirely different outlook.We were certainly impressed with its potential to swiftly crack an everyday problem we all seem to have – too much data and not enough time to make sense of it.Well done, Mark!We look forward to seeing more collaborations that could benefit our industry. Now, back to our promise of a free Old Muscat wine tasting event. It certainly drew a record number of Members to our Technical Meeting. Unfortunately, representatives from the chosen winery made a last-minute cancellation due to unforeseen circumstances, much to the disappointment of our Members in attendance that night. We apologise for the inconvenience but hope to conduct the wine tasting event in tandem with our next guest speaker, the ASEG President-elect himself, Ted Tyne on May 21 at the Kelvin Club. We’ll report to the wider ASEG community on that event in the next issue of Preview. An invitation to attendVictorian Branch meetings is extended to interstate and international visitors who happen to be in Melbourne at the time. Meetings are generally held on the thirdThursday of each month from 5:30 pm in the Kelvin Club, 18–30 Melbourne Place, Melbourne. Meeting notices, addresses and relevant contact details can be found on the Victorian Branch page of the ASEG website. Seda Rouxel vicpresident@aseg.org.au Thong Huynh vicsecretary@aseg.org.au Western Australia The month of April was a busy one for the WA Branch with four technical events held for Members. The April 10 Tech Night featured an interesting presentation by Professor Wayne Pennington from Michigan Technological University on “Our evolving view of time lapse seismic monitoring: 20 years of the same old Teal South data”. Wayne highlighted the various datasets and 4D seismic over the Teal field in the Gulf of Mexico, and outlined the migration of gas and fluid within the area overtime. The Branch also hosted a very well attended lunch event in April for ASEG, AusIMM, and AIG Members with a presentation on“Muon geoTomography for Exploration”by Don Furseth of CRM GeoTomography Technologies. A second Tech Night was held on April 15 and featured a presentation by SEG Distinguished Lecturer, Felix Herrmann on“Sometimes it pays to be cheap – compressive time lapse seismic data acquisition”at the CSIRO / ARRC building. The first young professionals event in 2019 was held on April 16 at Mayfair Wayne Pennington presenting to the WA Branch Tech Night held at the Celtic Club, West Perth. Don Furseth presenting to the joint ASEG, AusIMM, and AIG event at the Celtic Club, West Perth. ASEG news Branch news 11 PREVIEW JUNE 2019