b'Branch newsASEG newsASEG branch newsTasmania Umer Habib: PhD student, thesis title - Palaeomagnetic analysis of the The Tasmania Branch is pleased toPalaeozoic of SE Australia.announce the recipients of its 2021 ASEG scholarships, provided to assist ASEG students to attend courses/conferences. While the applicants are involved in a range of different research projects, from Honours to PhD, they all have a geophysics slant and are ASEG student members. Given the uncertainties around interstate and international travel and the risk averseDina Chupolicies of the University of Tasmania, it is unlikely that any of the students willMy research aims to understand be able to attend the events mentionedthe geophysical response of gold in person. For this reason, it is expectedmineralisation within the Pine CreekUmer Habibthat the grants will be used to coverOrogen through the collection of conference registration for onlineprimary petrophysical data and theMy research focuses on the rotation of participation. Please make them feelintegration of this information with pre- the tectonic elements within Lachlan welcome if you see them (virtually orexisting geological and geochemicalOrogen during the middle to late otherwise) at a conference. datasets. The results from this researchPalaeozoic time using palaeomagnetic will be used generate prospectivitytechniques. Results from 32 sites in Zak Weidinger: Honours student, thesistargets throughout the Pine CreekVictoria and New South Wales show the title - Geophysical investigation ofOrogen. masking of original remanence due to groundwater dynamics within a tailingspost bending Devonian overprint which dump at the Royal George legacy mineDina plans to use the ASEG grant tois attributed to the fluid expulsion events site, NE Tasmania. attend the AEGC 2021 conference laterduring the BindianTabberabberan this year. orogenic events.Karla Morales: Masters student, thesisUmer would like to use the ASEG grant title - Geological predictors for pre- aim to attend AEGC 2021 (Brisbane).concentrationAlex Farrar: PhD student, thesis title Spatial and temporal controls on the formation of giant Porphyry Cu Au deposits in the Central Andes.Zak WiedingerMy Honours project aims to use an array of four-dimensional (time-lapse) near-surface geophysical techniquesKarla Moralesto image change in the flow of ground water through the tailings dump at RoyalMy Masters project aims to evaluate George, a legacy tin mine in NE Tasmania.geological controls such as the role ofAlex FarrerThe outcomes of my project will helpmineralogy, texture, hardness, magnetic to understand the role of changes insusceptibility, density, etc., on rockI am marrying lineament analysis of hydrology on the production of Acid andbreakage and natural fractionation at aregional gravity, aeromagnetic and Metalliferous Drainage (AMD) within therange of scales. Multiple mineralisationseismic hypocentre datasets with tailings and its subsequent dispersionstyles in different rock types are beingstructural geology field mapping in into the local environment. studied in order to understand thethe Central Andes, with the aim of Zak intends to use the ASEG grantgeological features which are related toinvestigating how these independent to attend the AEGC in Brisbane inthe propensity of metal to separate intodatasets can be integrated to map September this year. certain size fractions. first-order continental-scale structural architecture. Additionally, I will Dina Chu: Honours student, thesisKarla plans to use the ASEG grant toinvestigate competing models of title - Petrophysics of the Pine Creekattend AEGC 2021 in Brisbane latergeodynamic evolution of the regional mineralisation and stratigraphy. thisyear. stress field since 70 Ma and explore 17 PREVIEW JUNE 2021'