b'AEGC 2021Keynote speakersAEGC 2021: Keynote speakersAndrea Rutley, Head of Geoscience, Anglo AmericansDr Marita Bradshaw, Leading Petroleum Geologist, Metallurgical Coal Business Unit National Geoscience ChampionAndrea Rutley is Head of GeoscienceMarita Bradshaw is a petroleum geologist for Anglo Americans Metallurgical Coalwith over 30 years of experience Business Unit based in Brisbane. She isin government and industry. With responsible for leading the integrationGeoscience Australia she had a series of and interpretation of geoscience datatechnical, managerial, and executive roles across exploration, geological modelling,with a focus on revealing and promoting operational geology and specialistthe petroleum prospectivity of Australia. technical disciplines of structuralThis included leading a programme of new geology and geophysics with the focusdata acquisition in offshore frontier basins, on improving the future performance of Met Coals operations.responsibility for the geotechnical content of the annual offshore Whilst the majority of Andreas career has been in geosciencepetroleum acreage releases and establishing the continent-wide and geophysics, she took on the role of Head of Safety andframework of Australian petroleum systems.Sustainable Development (S&SD), for three years from 2017 - 20Within industry Marita has worked in exploration for several where she was responsible for coordinating the delivery of Metmulti-national and Australian companies, including ESSO Coals S&SD strategy. Australia and WMC. She has been recognised by the Australian Andrea has a BSc (Hons) degree with a major in geologyGeoscience Council as a National Geoscience Champion and is a and Post Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education and hasmember of the National Rock Garden Steering Committee.also been President of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists.Dr Richard Lilly, Program Leader and Co-Founder, National Exploration Undercover SchoolDr June Hill, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Mineral Resources Richard Lilly is the Program Leader for the National Exploration Undercover School In her early career, June pursued(NExUS), which he co-founded in 2016 at field-based geological researchthe University of Adelaide. Additionally, throughout Australia, Papua Newthrough his role as a Minerals Industry Guinea and New Zealand. Her PhDEmbedded Research Fellow, he lectures documented the extraordinary historyeconomic geology at undergraduate of the rapid exhumation of deep crustallevel and coordinates a range of applied metamorphic core complexes in aeconomic geology research projects for remote part of Papua New Guinea. companies including Mount Isa Mines, OZ Minerals, SIMEC and With the onset of the digital revolutionHillgrove Resources.in the geosciences, June changed her focus to bridging theRichard completed his PhD on the northern Oman ophiolite gap between geology and mathematics, utilising the power ofat Cardiff University (UK) in collaboration with the British modern computing. Her research has resulted in the developmentGeological Survey and worked with Rio Tinto and Chevron of algorithms and software that allow non-mathematicalbefore joining Mount Isa Mines (formally Xstrata Copper) geologists to apply advanced mathematical and machine learningexploration in 2007 based in Mount Isa, Queensland. In his approaches to large and complex data sets. The aim of her workrole as senior exploration geologist he instigated and co-is to facilitate fast, consistent logging of drill holes using datasupervised a wide range of applied research projects with the generated by laboratories and portable analytical machines. aim of improving exploration targeting, before returning to an June currently leads a CSIRO research team in the MinEx CRC,industry funded academic role in 2015. Richard is involved with which is developing new algorithms for assisting objectivenational initiatives relating to both mineral exploration and logging of structural information in drill core. In her talks andgeoscience/STEM education.training courses, June is able to successfully communicateRichard is passionate about rocks, advancing our understanding complex mathematical and machine learning concepts in termsof ore systems, geochemical exploration through cover and of geological solutions for a geological audience. teaching/mentoring the next generation of geoscientists.55 PREVIEW AUGUST 2021'