CONTENTS Editor’s desk 1 ASEG news President’s piece 2 Table of officeholders 4 Executive brief 5 New Members 6 Committees: • • ASEG Research Foundation: Grants awarded 7 • • ASEG Young Professionals Network: Update 7 • • 2019 ASEG Honours and Awards: Final call 8 Branch news 9 ASEG national calendar 12 News Industry: • • Exploration Trends and Developments 2019 13 • • New national airborne geophysical survey in Sierra Leone 16 Conferences and events: • • AEGC 2019: Set to be sell-out! 17 • • SEISMIX 2020: Update 19 Geophysics in the Surveys: • • GA: Update on geophysical survey progress 20 • • MRT: A Clayton’s helicopter-supported gravity survey 22 • • GSSA: An update on South Australia’s gravity calibration ranges 23 • • GSSA: An overview of the Gawler Craton Airborne Survey – new data and products 24 • • GSWA: Seismic survey completed and an airborne gravity survey commences 27 Commentary Canberra observed: • • The election and the budget 2019 29 Education matters: • • Next generations of earth scientists IV 32 • • The Frank Arnott Award - encouraging students 32 • • Training the next generation of petroleum explorationists 35 • • Boris Gurevich SEG Honorary Lecturer for Pacific South in 2019 36 • • Manika Prasad SEG DISC presenter 2019 37 Minerals geophysics: Shallow or deep? 38 Seismic window: Pitfalls revisited 40 Data trends: Open data formats for the post DOS world 41 Webwaves: A new ASEG Webmaster 42 Book review: Mining Geophysics: A Canadian story 43 Feature Mining to mud: a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Victoria’s riverine landscape as a product of historical gold mining 44 Crossword: • • Preview crossword #2: Kicking contacts 57 • • Preview crossword #1 solution: Kicking schists 58 Business directory 58 International calendar of events 59 ADVERTISERS INDEX AEGC2019............................................. IFC,1,17,41 Archimedes Financial Planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 CoRMaGeo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Bartington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IBC EMIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OBC Tensor Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 ASEG CORPORATE PLUS MEMBER Velseis Pty Ltd Tel: +61 7 3376 5544 Email: info@velseis.com ASEG CORPORATE MEMBERS Archimedes Financial Planning Contact: Noll Moriarty Tel: 1300 387 351 Email: Noll.Moriarty@ArchimedesFinancial.com.au Santos Ltd Tel: +61 8 8116 5000 Web: https://www.santos.com Southern Geoscience Consultants Pty Ltd Tel: +61 8 6254 5000 Email: geophysics@sgc.com.au Web: http://sgc.com.au/ SAExploration (Australia) Pty Ltd Contact: Jessica Buttimore Tel: +61 7 3268 5611 Email: australia@saexploration.com Web: http://www.saexploration.com/ Instrumentation GDD Inc. Contact: Pierre Gaucher Tel: +1 418 877 4249 Email: pgaucher@gcc.ca FRONT COVER Members of Team“On the Rocks”viewing one of rear-projection models developed for their 2107 winning entry in the Frank Arnott Award (Apprentice Category). See Education matters in this issue for more information. Preview is available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/texp20/current ISSN: 1443-2471 eISSN: 1836-084X Editor Lisa Worrall Email: previeweditor@aseg.org.au Associate Editors Education: Michael Asten Email: michael.asten@monash.edu Government: David Denham Email: denham1@iinet.net.au Environmental Geophysics: Mike Hatch Email: michael.hatch@adelaide.edu.au Minerals Geophysics: Terry Harvey Email: terry.v.harvey@glencore.com.au Petroleum Geophysics: Michael Micenko Email: micenko@bigpond.com Geophysical Data Management and Analysis: Tim Keeping Email: Tim.Keeping@sa.gov.au Book Reviews: Ron Hackney Email: ron.hackney@ga.gov.au ASEG Head Office & Secretariat Alison Forton The Association Specialists Pty Ltd (TAS) Tel: (02) 9431 8622 Email: secretary@aseg.org.au Website: www.aseg.org.au Publisher T&F Publishing Tel: +61 3 8842 2413 Email: journals@tandf.com.au Website: www.tandfonline.com Production Editor Kate Edmonds Tel: (03) 8842 2413 Email: Kate.Edmonds@tandf.com.au Advertising Chris Freeman Email: Chris.Freeman@tandf.com.au