b'Branch newsASEG newshappens when petroleum geoscientistsWe couldnt host any of our fantastic go in search for minerals? and inevents without the valued support of our November, Peter Fullagar will presentsponsors and we look forward to seeing the second part of his talk from earlier inas many of you as possible at the events the year titled Beyond platesfast TEMthe local branch committee is organising inversion using conductive ellipsoids.for the rest of the year. The SA/NT Branch Additionally, were looking to repeat theis sponsored by Beach Energy, Oz success of previous Trivia nights hostedMinerals, Vintage Energy, Minotaur by Henk in mid-October, and will beExploration, the SA Department for again jointly hosting our Christmas eventEnergy and Mining, Zonge, Santos and on 25 November with QUPEX, PESA andHeathgate.SPE. As always, we invite Queensland Members to send any feedback orBen Kay suggestions to the committee. sa-ntpresident@aseg.org.auDarren Hunt presenting Jennifer with a well-earnedJames Alderman bottle of wine. Tasmaniaqldpresident@aseg.org.auQueensland The Tasmanian Branch held its first hybrid (in person and online) technical In July we welcomed two recentSouth Australia & Northern Territory meeting in the CODES conference graduate geophysicists; Dale HarpleyThe SA/NT Branch were happy to sponsorroom at the University of Tasmania on and Callum Kowalski who presentedall of the six students that applied forThursday 26 August. Richard Lynch on their theses. Dales talk was titledgrants to attend the virtual AEGC 2021of Sisprobe delivered an excellent Attenuation of ice sheet reverberationsconference. We covered the cost ofintroduction to ambient noise in teleseismic P-wave receiver functionsregistration and up to two workshops forinterferometry for exploration, illustrated and Callums talk was titled Compressiveeach applicant (provided the total costwith applications in Canada (for PGM-sensing: Key concepts in recentlywas less than $1000). The six studentsCu layered intrusions), South Africa developed data acquisition. The talkswere Yi He (University of Adelaide,(manganese) and Queensland (beneath were well attended and instigatedHonours), Oliver Hatswell (Flinderssedimentary cover near the Mount Isa a good technical discussion of theUniversity, Masters), Mosayeb KhademiInlier). The effectiveness and efficiency of concepts presented. The talks were live- Zahedi (University of SA, PhD), Samthis passive seismic technique as a low-streamed, the first time the Qld ASEG hasJennings (University of Adelaide, PhD),cost method was amply demonstrated. attempted live-streaming. We hope toMichael Everett (Flinders University,A flurry of post-talk questions indicated live-stream more events in the future. PhD) and Alex Hill (University ofa high level of interest from an audience Our annual Zoepprittz night was heldAdelaide, Honours). It was great to seenumbering well in excess of 60, on 30 July and had a dozen revellerssuch a range of geophysical studiesincluding both online and in-person celebrating and socialising. Highlightsrepresented in the students work, fromattendees. Many of those lucky enough included good beers, decadent burgers,broad scale crustal MT, near surfaceto be in the latter category subsequently fruity cocktails and/or smokey scotches.archaeology, petrophysics and thermaladjourned to dinner at a nearby Thanks to those who attended. modelling. restaurant, where the proverbial good time was had by all, thanks not least to Of course, September also brought theOn 5 October Sam Jennings (Universitya contribution from the 2020 ASEG wine fully virtual AEGC conference. Whilst itof Adelaide) will be presenting a talkoffer consignment.was disappointing not to be able to hoston work he has completed as part of the geophysical and wider explorationhis thesis Nature of the lower crust atRichards presentation and subsequent geoscientific community in Brisbane, itthe Coopers Alehouse. Weve got ourQ&A are available at the ASEGs YouTube was great to see so many at the virtualannual Spring Fling networking nightchannel (https://youtu.be/El0uqYlrGGA).events. We were extremely proud tohosted by the local ASEG, SPE, YPP andMeeting notices, details about venues see Qld members receiving awards;PESA branches on Thursday 21 Octoberand relevant contact details can be found congratulations to Mal Cattach forat the Havelock Hotel, which is sureon the Tasmanian Branch page on the receiving the ASEG Gold Medal, to Henkto be another great night. If youre inASEG website. As always, we encourage Van Paridon for receiving an HonorarySA on 26November, the annual SouthMembers to keep an eye on the seminar/Membership and to Fiona Duncan forAustralian Exploration and Miningwebinar programme at the University receiving the ASEG Service Certificate.Conference (SAEMC) is always awesomeof Tasmania / CODES, which routinely The Qld committee hopes to hold ato find out the latest mineral activitiesincludes presentations of a geophysical face-to-face event to further celebratein the state which is proudly organisedand computational nature as well as on a these achievements in the near future. Inby the local ASEG branch and otherbroad range of earth sciences topics.the interim we invite everyone to markgeoscience professional associations. Mark Duffett the 2023 Brisbane conference in theirMake sure to keep your eyes open fortaspresident@aseg.org.aucalendars. the annual ASEG wine offer, as weve got We have several events planned leadinganother great selection of wine on offerVictoriaup to the end of the year. In Octoberto all members again this year. Details well welcome Randall Taylor of Taylorcan be found elsewhere in this issue ofMy oh my. That was certainly the Exploration Consulting to present WhatPreview. biggest one Ive ever succumbed to. It OCTOBER 2021 PREVIEW 10'