b'Branch newsASEG newsASEG Branch newsTasmania if youd like a similar opportunity to tellyoure not boringyou are stubbornly your geophysical story to an enthusiasticdetermined. The sort of desirable(?) Tasmania Branch Member Anton Radaaudience. trait that makes a geophysicistwell, presented a fascinating overview ofa bloody good geophysicist, I reckon. In the history, present state and possibleASEG Members might be interested inany case, congratulationsyouve done future of unmanned aerial vehiclesthe Tasmania Geoscience Forum, whichextremely well in the current challenging (UAVs) or drones for airborne geophysicalwill be held on Thursday 5 Decemberenvironment in helping to prolong surveying, at the Tasmania Branch2019 at the Tidal Waters Resort, St Helensyour career. Lets all take a moment to meeting held in the CODES Conferencehttps://ausimm.com/news/registrations- remember those geophysicists that Room on Wednesday October 16. Overnow-open-tasmania-branch-geoscience- became a casualty of 2019let the purge 20 Members and students saw howforum-2019/ continue! LOL. If this got a reaction out of early developments with relatively largeyou, then great. Please send any objections aircraft supported by elaborate groundMembers might also be interestedor protests in a Letter to the Editor because control trucks progressed to smallerin an Australian Geomechanicsfrankly, the last whinge about being spoilt and lighter systems, culminating in theSociety workshop on InSAR and itsfor choice as to which industry event to several generations of models that Antonapplication for understanding groundattend is clearly a case of being over-has designed and built himself. movement, which will be held inentitled. This will keep you busy, Lisa.Hobart 1214 February 2020. This workshop will provide end-users andFurther to our last Preview contribution, those commissioning imagery a basicI regret to inform our readers that Dr understanding of the technique andMark McLean of the Geological Survey of its limitations in order to improveVictoria (GSV) stubbornly refused to wear success and avoid disappointment.our sponsored bear suit on the night of The workshop will be delivered by DrOctober 1, where we eventually allowed Berhard Rabus (Simon Fraser University),him to proceed to present results from an expert in InSAR technology, and Drthe Victorian Gas Programme, which Nicholas Roberts (Mineral Resourcesshowcased the latest data from GSVs Anton Rada presenting to the Tasmanian BranchTasmania), an experienced InSAR end- recently acquired full spectrum FALCON (photo taken by Esmaeil Eshaghi). user. See details at AGSs website https:// survey over the Otways. This topic australiangeomechanics.org/courses/ managed to drag Dr Mark Dransfield, Examples of the ground clearance,ags-tasmania-radar-interferometry- one of Australias most controversial resolution and accuracy obtainableworkshop/ for registration. Priority willpioneers of the Australian airborne for aeromagnetic work were shown,be given to those who have respondedgravity gradient scene, out of hiding together with insights into the attendantto the initial call for interest. However,and directly into the fray. Mark (McLean) challenges. One of these being safetyseveral additional spots will likely beshowed the relatively large audience considerations (something about cutting- available. in attendance that night some pretty edge technology sprang to mind at thisinteresting colourful images, which would point), rather than a live demonstrationAn invitation to attend Tasmanianhave made fantastic dining place mats.we were treated to some video showcasesBranch meetings is extended to all of the technology in action in the field.ASEG Members and interested parties.Our next and final technical night for Not that its all beer and skittles theMeetings are usually held in the2019 was held on November 13. Our photos of machines that came toCODES Conference Room, Universityguest speaker was Hammad Tariq, grief were reminders that no R&D orof Tasmania, Hobart. Meeting notices,whose presentation was entitled innovation comes without setbacks alongdetails about venues and relevantVertical Seismic Profile for reservoir the way and learning from them. contact details can be found on thecharacterisation. If you didnt know Tasmanian Branch page on the ASEGanything about VSPs, or wished to learn website. As always, we encouragea little more about it, then hopefully you Members to also keep an eye on thejoined us that night, even if it was just for seminar programme at the Universitya drink or to say hi.of Tasmania / CODES, which routinely includes presentations of a geophysicalFinally, we end the year with a couple of and computational nature as well as on achanges to the make-up of the Branch broad range of earth sciences topics. Committee. Theo Aravanis has been deployed as our Treasurer after Greg Mark DuffettWalkers recent departurewelcome to taspresident@aseg.org.au the Committee Theo! We also welcome Drone on display during Antons presentationMikayla Sambrooks into the fold as (photo taken by Esmaeil Eshaghi). Victoria the Victorian Branchs representative on the Communications and Promotions All ASEG Members, whether TasmanianThe silly season is officially upon us! If youCommittee that was recently formed to or visiting, are invited to get in touch withstarted the year as a geophysicist and if itassist with the ASEGs digital transformation Mark Duffett taspresident@aseg.org.au orlooks like youll end 2019 quietly as one,strategy. If you own a phone, and honestly Matt Cracknell tassecretary@aseg.org.authen you are boring. Im only teasing,who doesnt, then you should be accessing DECEMBER 2019 PREVIEW 8'