b'IndustryNewsThe Australian National Seismic ImagingANSIR has also received equipmentANSIR Access Committee from a short Resource (ANSIR) was originally created asinvestment from the University sector,proposal. Researchers have to meet the a Major National Research Facility in 1997ARC and State and Federal Geologicalproject operating costs and a modest by Barry Drummond from GeoscienceSurveys over the years. mobilisation fee. Training is provided Australia and Brian Kennett from TheThe primary role of ANSIR is to act asin the use of the portable equipment. Australian National University to encouragea national facilitator of equipment,The research can be outside Australia and assist world-class research andsoftware, training and data for alland New Zealand, and international education in the field of seismic imaging.areas of Earth Sounding. It operatespartnerships are encouraged. Barry, who sadly passed away this year, wason a scientific community model,Additionally, research programmes with the inaugural Director (Editors note: Barrywith members from ten institutionsindustry are also possible.Drummonds obituary is published in thisconstituting a Steering Committee. issue of Preview). In 2008, The UniversityCurrently, our membership comprisesOver the last few years, ANSIR and of Adelaide joined with support forANU, CSIRO, Geoscience Australia,AuScope have also focussed on making electromagnetic research, and ANSIR wasMacquarie University, University oflegacy data available, with requirements rebranded to being the National ResearchAdelaide, University of Auckland,that all new data collected through Facility for Earth Sounding. University of Melbourne, University ofANSIR are made publically available. Tasmania, University of Western AustraliaAccess to passive seismic date is now Since 2007 ANSIR has operated inand Victoria University of Wellington, butavailable through https://auspass.edu.au/conjunction with the Earth Imagingadditional members are welcome! and for magnetotelluric data through component of the AuScope facilityhttps://nci-training.readthedocs.io/en/established under the GovernmentEquipment from ANSIR Facilities islatest/_MT/MT_data_examples.html. The NCRIS scheme. From 2011 AuScopeavailable to all researchers from anymap of seismic stations across Australia funding from the AGOS EIF programmeinstitution in Australia and New Zealandshows the scope of these databases has provided additional equipment.on the basis of merit, as judged by the(Figure 1).Figure 1.Passive seismic stations across Australia.19 PREVIEW DECEMBER 2019'