b'Branch newsASEG newsVictoria explorer Tim Flannery, recipient of the Australian of the Year Award in I know I have said this before, but I2007, who was among a small party will bleeding say it againwhy, ohin 1978 that uncovered many, many why does our spirited Editor enforcemore fossils at the site\x08 Can anyone say such a callous deadline for submissionQantassaurus?of branch news to Preview so early in January every year??? I am not veryAnyhow, I look forward to seeing organised at this time of the year, orwhat 2021 may bring to members even coherent for that matter, havingof our Victorian branch\x08 Maybe an just awakened from two-weeks ofeffective COVID vaccine? Maybe the self-indulgent wickedness during therecommencement of our technical festive slumber\x08 If only writing thesemeeting nights? Maybe\x08 Just,contributions was a paying gig, whichmaybe\x08 thThe WA branch 50anniversary/ AGM/ Christmas by the way, is not a bad idea at all\x08Thong Huynhcelebrations.Hmmmperhaps I could broach thevicpresident@aseg.org.ausubject in a Letter to our Editor\x08With most travel restrictions imposedWestern Australia Meanwhile, we were feverishly during the pandemic now lifted, Iworking on a couple of plans to truly managed to escape to Cape PatersonWell, weve all punched through thatcelebrate ASEGs 50th Anniversary along the picturesque Bunurongannoying year of 2020, and are looking(albeit, 2020)\x08 The first step was to coastline in southeast Victoria\x08 In fact,forward to a much better 2021 - withdesign and purchase anniversary ASEG I visited Eagles Nestno, not the Thirdsome crossed fingers\x08 That being said,hats for our local members, and then Reich-era house at Kehlstein alpinewe did manage to have a pretty darnpresent them to our members at an peak in Germanybut the site ofdecent December 2020 in WA\x08 We hostedAGM/50th Anniversary/Christmas party the very first recorded discovery of aone last (and fascinating) webinar onat a special venue on December 17\x08 dinosaur bone in Australia in 1903 byDecember 16, a talk by Ain Nadrah NoorDue to the flogging efforts of Darren geologist William Ferguson\x08 ApparentlySazali from Iraya Energies that actuallyHunt (our new treasurer), the hat he was out and about tracing coalcovered our entire Bonaparte Basin:suppliers did cough them up - just on seams, which typically weave throughEfficient exploration in the Bonapartethe afternoon of our event! The party the region, but instead stumbledBasin Using Unstructured Data Analyticswas located in a brewpub (Bright Tank upon a dinosaur claw\x08 Wowsers! Thiswith ElasticDocs\x08 Iraya has a matureBrewing Company), and was darn well rugged Jurassic coastline is visuallymachine learning tool to cut through allattended\x08 This was actually WA ASEGs spectacular and is a palaeontologistsof the huge piles of random data floatingfirst face-to-face since the inception paradise\x08 Just ask environmentalist/ around on project areas and pull out theof COVID, and so we were all looking conservationist/palaeontologist andnuggets - pretty cool\x08 forward to some good food, crafted beers, and mixing (safely) with old/new friends\x08 A very brief speech from me, and we verbally voted in the committee\x08 We also gave a big set of thanks to Mathew Cooper, our outgoing treasurer - with a few good bottles of wine for him to take home\x08 The party continued on till lateFor 2021, the WA branch will be shooting for a return of face-to-face Tech Nights (second Wednesday of the month, from vague memories), with the first planned to be a Student Night\x08 This all assumes that we continue to have COVID under control, naturally\x08 In the meantime, the webinars have proven to be a monster success, so we will also continue with them\x08 Weve also got more of our hats that werent yet handed out to our local Members, so for that, or other ideas and suggestions, please feel free to contact our secretary or myself\x08Have a great New YearTodd Mojesky Eagles Nest, Cape Paterson, Victoria. wapresident@aseg.org.auFEBRUARY 2021 PREVIEW 10'