Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019: Set to be sell-out! 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 (AIG), the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG) and the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA). Over 1,000 delegates from around the world are expected to attend the AEGC, which will ensure it is the largest exploration geoscience conference in the southern hemisphere. 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 dedicated streams for Western Australian sedimentary basins, discovery techniques, mineral mapping and remote sensing applications. Technical program AEGC 2019 is already shaping up to be bigger and better than the inaugural event in Sydney last year. More than 360 papers have been submitted for consideration by the Technical Program Committee. Helen Debenham, the AEGC 2019 Technical Program Committee Chair, said that the Committee was“delighted”with both the quality and quantity of speakers queueing up for this year’s gathering. “At the moment, with more than 360 papers to be considered, the reviewers have some hard decisions to make”.“The number of papers submitted is about double the number submitted for the first AEGC held in Sydney last year.” A total of 24 industry-respected keynote speakers will be scheduled in the technical programme. The list of keynote speakers includes: Clive Foss, Steve Garwin, David Groves, Ken McClay, Sandra Occhipenti, Neil Phillips, Manika Prasad and David Turvey. ASEG Members will be particularly interested in the appearance of Clive Foss and Manika Prasad. Clive Foss is a senior research geoscientist in CSIRO Mineral Resources, based in Sydney. Clive’s specialisation is in potential field geophysics, particularly the inversion and interpretation of gravity and magnetic field data. Clive’s PhD research at Leeds University was on the palaeomagnetism of Archaean rocks in southern Africa, following which he lectured in applied geophysics at the University of Malaya, and then took a position as senior geophysicist with the Indonesian-Australian Geological Mapping Program in Bandung, training Indonesian geophysicists and conducting gravity mapping in Kalimantan. In 1995 Clive moved to Sydney to join Encom Technology, where he led the ModelVision development team and undertook international consultancy projects for petroleum and mineral exploration. In 2009 Clive moved to his current position in CSIRO, where his research focusses on recovery of source magnetisation direction and source depth estimation from magnetic field data. Manika Prasad has been at Colorado School of Mines (CSM) for the past 14 years, and was previously at Stanford University and University of Hawai’i. She received her BSc from Bombay University and MSc and PhD from Kiel University in Germany. Prasad’s main interests lie in understanding microstructural controls on geophysical data. She is the recipient of theVirgil Kaufmman Gold Medal in 2017, Outstanding Educator Award (2015) and the AAPG-SEG Distinguished Lecturer Award (2012). Known as the mud queen among her peers and students, she pioneered integral research in source rich rock and fluid properties using tools and techniques from geoscience and engineering domains. In addition to teaching and research duties at CSM, Prasad serves as Associate Editor for Geophysics and is 2ndVice President of SEG. In addition to the packed technical programme, 30 workshops are planned in various conference rooms at Crown Resort or around Perth. These workshops will be held in the days before and after the actual conference https://2019.aegc. com.au/workshops/ Fieldtrips Registrations are open for three field trips and, with only four months to go before the conference commences, early registration is advised to ensure accommodation for the field trips can be secured. This is particularly so for the two trips to the northern Perth Basin, because they are visiting areas that are popular with tourists during the wildflower season and, as a result, there is a shortage of local accommodation space. Clive Foss Manika Prasad News Conferences and events 17 PREVIEW JUNE 2019