b'Branch newsASEG newsASEG branch newsWestern Australia Hunt and Michel Nzikou) attendedAnd, since COVID-19 seems to be and presented at the St Marys Anglicanholding off well in WA, the sponsored Hi, once again, from Perth. Yup, weveGirls School and Hale School Careersand scheduled AIG-ASEG-PESA YP been fairly active since July and will keepExpo 2021, impressing the heck outNetworking Evening went off without a carrying forward. Ill just try to list theof the students and parents. Michel,hitch on 22 September. Yup, at the Shoe things were up to, and hopefully wontBTW, is now our local representativeBar again.forget too many things that are goingon the new ASEG Communications on. Way back on 22 July, Paul Mutton, aCommittee. WA ASEG is also sponsoring what consulting geophysicist from Touchstonehopefully this year can be a face-to-face Geophysics, gave us a riveting Tech NightWe managed to just squeak ourGSA Earth Science Student Symposium-talk on his experiences in and aboutAugust Tech Night into AugustWA (GESSS-WA) 2021, which will be held Kamchatka (Russia) Nickel Projects. 32 August Jennifer Market,at Curtin University, tentatively on 25 Somehow he had some Russian coreGeophysics Manager from EpirocsNovember.samples, which were on display duringKinetic Logging Services gave us a his live presentation at the Shoe Bar in thevery interesting talk on the newerInevitably, this years AEGC was virtual, Perth CBD. Extremely well-attended and atech used to speed up and consolidateand so our four student award winners tonne of questions and comments . mineral assays: (almost real-time)were not able to attend in person via our downhole assays via elementalASEG funding, but Im sure their talks A few days afterwards, on 26 July, twospectroscopy. Also, at the Shoe Barwere well-received, and that universities of our WA committee members (Darrenand also very well-received. and companies have taken notice of these local, sharp individuals.Okay, and lastly, weve got a hard-working volunteer team from our WA committee and members working on putting together a late-November day-long (in-person) seminar for our Members (and potentially other organisations) tentatively titled MAG21 modern applications of geophysics: Case studies from minerals and mining. Sounds pretty flash to me.Once again Ill say - stay safe and healthy, everyone!Todd Mojesky wapresident@aseg.org.auAustralian Capital TerritoryThe last few weeks have been busy for ACT geophysicists. On 2 September, Jack Muir from Caltech Seismolab gave an online talk on Preconditioned Paul Muttons Tech Night talk. compressive sensing for wavefield reconstruction: Applications to tomography, Helmholtz-Hodge decomposition and Distributed Acoustic Sensing. His lecture focused on methods which require spatial derivatives as part of the imaging process, but such derivatives are not easily obtained from conventional processing methods.In other news, geophysicists at Geoscience Australia (GA) were busy preparing for the virtual AEGC 2021 conference, with one of the highlights being a GA organised workshop on the Frontiers of AEM inversion and interpretation with attendees from all over the Pauls Russian core samples. world.Thekeynote talk was given by OCTOBER 2021 PREVIEW 8'