b'Branch newsASEG newsASEG branch newsVictoria other obfuscations. Mark even broughttown of Warrnambool and travelling on up potential ethical issues concerning thethe Spirit of Tasmania for the first time to What an eventful first-half of 2021 theboundaries of using computer vision towork in Tasmania.Victoria Branch has had to endure! If I wasrestore or recreate/replicate/counterfeit/able to do it all again I would climb backfalsify imagery, which raised genuine out of the rabbit hole and choose the setdiscussion among the audience. Only of steak knives - LOL. Onto businessa week later, when a deepfake video of a performance worthy of an Oscar wasactor Tom Cruise playing golf was released needed to convince Members to comeon TikTok, did Marks words begin to along to our second in-person branchreverberate in myhead.meeting for the year, two-days out from Lockdown 4.0. In the end, countless die- Finally, it is my pleasure to reveal the hard Members did brave Melbournes wetwinners of the ASEG Victoria scholarship/and gusty weather on the night of 24 Maysponsorship awards available to help to hear a talk by Dr Fabian Kohlmannstudents and young professional (Lithodat) at The Kelvin Club. FabianMembers attend the upcoming AEGC spoke about the quiet revolution he is2021 in Brisbane in September. Applicants undertaking in that one area we so oftenwere asked to tell us in 100 words or less take for granted - data verification andwhy they must attend the AEGC 2021. integrity. Lithodat has undertaken to QCWe received a flurry of submissions and and standardise all manner of geologicalwhile every hopeful deserved financial datasets for clients, including industryassistance to attend the conference, there titans and universities, enabling quick andwere two outstanding candidates. I am intuitive navigation of datasets within apleased to announce the winners are PhDFatemeh Amirpoorsaeedcloud-based environment. For those thatcandidate Ms Fatemeh AmirpoorsaeedMy research studies the link between have spent thankless hours collating,and young professional Mr Matthewcraton margin geometries in relation to verifying and merging data within ourShrimpton. A short bio of each of ourbasin development and mineral systems professional roles, this talk was more thanrecipients follows. endowment, focussing on the North a bit revelatory. A keen cross section ofAustralian Craton (NAC). I am applying participants recounted anecdotes of datapotential field geophysics, seismic failures past and present, and were noreflection and structural geology to doubt imagining the benefits of the workhelp characterise the geometry of Fabian shared during his talk. the craton margins and its related structures. The goal is to understand With unworkable restrictions still inthe link between the geometry and the place, it was a little tricky navigating ourstructures developed along the margins way around hosting our June meeting.of cratons. Thus far, I have been able Your committee remained steadfast andto ascertain that the NACs inward and refused to reschedule the Tech Nightoutward dipping margins show distinct that was due to be held on 16 June. Westructural networks, potential minerals hoped that case numbers would fall andsystem distributions, and a likely that further easing of restrictions wouldunique link between major sutures be announced. We made the right calland shallow structures. I aim to further and our stubbornness prevailed. A recordtest our understanding using analogue number of mask-wearing Membersmodelling experiments. Furthermore, turned out on the night to welcome Markthe association between the identified Grujic (Solve Geosolutions) deliver amineral systems and craton margins will presentation on Advances in geoscientificMatthew Shrimpton be quantified using statistical analyses.application of computer vision. We allowed Mark to unashamedly promoteGBGMAPS is diverse in their acquisitionSo, as I suspected all along, things were Geosolves latest gadgetDatarockof many geophysical datasets, and Ifar too good to be true. At the time ofa data-driven image analysis tool tohave been very fortunate to start mywriting, widespread border closures, ultimately help improve and aid in theyoung professional career with them. Imlockdowns and growing COVID risk and interpretation of core photos throughlearning from highly skilled geophysicists,uncertainty across most of Australia the use of self-supervised-learning andand Ive also been given the responsibilityhave prompted the AEGC organising digital in-painting methods. Examples ofin processing and reporting oncommittee and participating societies to the methods used on photos of famousgeophysical datasets for clients. However,agree to move the AEGC 2021 conference personality faces and priceless works ofthe most fortunate part of my job is that Ito virtual format. Coincidentally, arts showed how remarkable Artificialget to travel to so many parts of AustraliaMelbourne was due to host the next Intelligence can be in restoring photosto work. The most notable parts of my jobAEGC in 2023, but AEGC 2023 will now affected by image resolution and typicalso far include working in Olympic Dam,take place in Brisbane. The FedEx have artefacts such as blurriness, blemishes andMount Gambier, Adelaide Hills, the beachassured me a very large briefcase stuffed 5 PREVIEW AUGUST 2021'