b'PeopleNewsactivities at GA include leadership ofoverseas\x08 Throughout his career Richardsuggested that it was probably the the OEMD efforts to develop a nationalhas set a benchmark in terms of technicalsource of the anomaly\x08 This was not rock property database, input intoexcellence\x08 His service to the industryrocket science but simple observation the development of the GeoSciMLhas been truly significant and he isand typical of Richards uncomplicated information model and data interchangewidely regarded as a substantial pillar ofapproach to our science\x08 He got the format (with the goal of facilitating theour discipline\x08 It is fitting that Richardsjob and joined CRAE as a geophysicist exchange of geoscience information anddistinguished career encompassing ain 1984, based in Adelaide\x08 I was also processing services), and championingbroad range of technical achievements,based in the Adelaide office so got to the use of high performance computingcombined with his positive influence onknow him well while he was there\x08 It very (HPC) facilities (multicore computers,other members of the profession, wasquickly became apparent that Richard internal distributed and parallelrecognised in 2017 with the award of thewas an exceptional scientist with a computer networks within GA, externalASEG Gold Medal\x08 deep understanding of the physics and GRID, and Cloud facilities, etc\x08) formathematics of his profession and the geophysical processing and modelling\x08 Richards most recent work focussedability to convey it, in simple terms, to his on airborne gravity and its manycolleagues\x08 He mentored many of them He received a Geoscience Australiaapplications, particularly to the Globalin CRAE and I believe this continued Individual Award for Achieving Resultspositioning system - GPS\x08 The recentthroughout his career\x08in Geoscience in 2004, and was therelease of the updated national gravity recipient of the Sir Harold Raggatt Awarddata compilations merging ground,Subsequently, Richard moved to several for Distinguished Geoscience Australiaoffshore and satellite data will changeother locations with CRAE, including Lecturer in 2004\x08 the way we understand AustraliasPerth, Canberra, Thailand/Laos, Alice resource potential\x08 Springs, Melbourne, and Mount Isa\x08 In conjunction with his role at GA,After working in mining exploration, he Richard organised numerous pertinentIn each generation, every professioneventually transferred to Pacific Oil and and timely industry seminars for industryis gifted with only a few exceptionalGas (still within CRAE), with headquarters geoscientists, as well as mentoring manyindividuals like Richard\x08 People likein Box Hill although he was initially younger scientists and graduates in theRichard really are key in defining who webased in Alice Springs\x08 This seemed to application of numerical methods forare and how human innovation leads tonecessitate frequent visits to Box Hill, geoscientific problems\x08 Richard playedprogress for the betterment of society\x08with accommodation at The Tudor, a a major role in the conduct of threeRichard, you leave a rich legacy and you,motel nearby where Leigha worked as a airborne gravity workshops at ASEGour friend, will be greatly missed\x08 receptionist\x08 Eventually, the reason for conferences in Sydney (2004), SydneyMarina Costelloethese visits became clear, and Richard (2010) and Adelaide (2016)\x08 In each caseMarina.Costelloe@ga.gov.au and Leigha married in April 1994\x08 I was Richard undertook the role of technicalpresent and most impressed by Richards editor, resulting in a comprehensiveskill on the dance floor, the result of proceedings volume which wasBob Smith writes: some intense coaching by a lady in our published by Geoscience Australia\x08 TheseBox Hill office who was an accomplished have become significant internationalI first met Richard in late 1983 orballroom dancer\x08records of the state of the art in airborneearly 1984 when I was part of a panel gravity, and they are widely recognisedinterviewing new graduates for a job around the world\x08 He also undertookwith CRA Exploration\x08 The applicants a similar role for a Natural Fields EMwere mainly geology graduates with workshop/forum, held at the ASEGa few who also had some geophysics conference in Brisbane in 2012\x08 as we were hiring both at the time\x08 I think Richard may have been the only He was member of the Society ofgeophysicist on this particular day\x08 As Exploration Geophysicists (SEG),part of the interview, we showed all the Australian Society of Explorationparticipants a geological map of part Geophysicists (ASEG), Environmentalof Northern Victoria, which was mainly and Engineering Geophysical Societyunder cover, with only a few scattered (EEGS), American Geophysical Unionoutcrops, and a magnetic contour map (AGU), and International Association forof the same area, on a transparent base, Mathematical Geology (IAMG)\x08 He waswhich could be easily overlain on the recognised by SEG as an outstandinggeological map\x08 There was a prominent reviewer in 2007 and was nominatedmagnetic anomaly near Lake Boga, and as an SEG Honorary Lecturer in 2011\x08 Hewe used to ask, What do you think this toured extensively in this role, throughoutcould be?Australia and the South Pacific\x08Most of the interviewees opted out Richard was inspiring scientific leader,by saying I didnt take the geophysics widely recognised throughout the globaloption or something similar without geophysical community for his keenreally trying\x08 Richard was the only intellect and insight into geophysicalone who overlaid the magnetic map, methods in both mining and petroleum,observed that there was a granite and for his frequent contributionsoutcrop mapped exactly where theRichard and Leigha on the dance floor at their at conferences both in Australia andmagnetic anomaly occurred, andwedding in 1994.11 PREVIEW APRIL 2021'