b'Education matters of the business we get information fromEB: In order to make the Net Zero futurethe removal of CO 2 . We will need to our well heads, our gathering network,happen, we are going to need to pulldevelop the engineering techniques and our gas processing facilities to makeevery lever available to us. Its not justto remove CO 2out of processes and great decisions on when and how togoing to be hydrogen and its not justthen capture it in some way, transport operate and maintain our assets. going to be electrification. We will needand store it. It is in that storage space to look for every opportunity to getwhere geoscience knowledge will So we deploy digital capability acrossus there. We need to be more efficientabsolutely be incredibly important. The the organisation to build applications,with our operations and make sure wepossible opportunity is enormous for to work out how we can get to the rootdont have fugitive emissions. Well needgeoscientists.cause and answer questions for us, andengineers, well need scientists, well put digital solutions in place to help usneed curious folk to go and understandThe second is to reimagine fuel sources to monitor and understand whats going onreduce or fully remove their CO 2footprint. in our fields and in our operations. I would argue that geoscientistsHow do we electrify? In that space, you are MP: Do you prefer to have data scientistsare really well positionedgoing to need engineers, youre going to in this team, people with a double degreeto contribute in this space.need data scientists, youre going to need or geophysicists and engineers that wereto collaborate and do things in completely Particularly at this momentdifferent ways than youve done in the trained in data science? in time, because we work inpast. And youll need geophysicists to find EB: We are super diverse in the folkuncertainty, we know how tothe critical minerals that will underpin that we bring into this team. We havethe technology that will unlock these navigate that. We know how torenewable fuels.mathematicians, data scientists, we have physicists, and engineers - this team inintegrate different models and Origin has been led by an environmentaldifferent datasets and create aI would argue that geoscientists are scientist. In the digital space, there iscohesive story from really sparsereally well-positioned to contribute to such diversity in the way that they bringthis space. Particularly at this moment people in. A lot of whats important,data. Thats what we do, right?in time, because we work in uncertainty, again, is the behaviours that folk bringThats a key skill set that will bewe know how to navigate that. We into that space. Its in the agile processneeded to unlock our future. know how to integrate different models that they use to bring together diverseand different datasets and create a skillsets, from a variety of disciplines andif theres a problem in the first place. Andcohesive story from really sparse data. functions, to solve problems. In a waywell need the folk that are operatingThats what we do, right? Thats a key that is where diversity really comes to lifeexisting assets to solve problemsskillset that we will be needed to unlock in that business. perhaps in ways that they haventour future.imagined in the past.MP: The last question is what kind of specialists are required to pursue the NetSo we have two key areas where Zero economy in Australia? well need to develop. First is for Geophysics education in AustraliaAEGC wrap up and updated survey resultsinstruments that are mapping seismicityin Australia but also globally, with many and lithospheric structure arounduniversities consolidating and cutting north-east SA. Its a great example ofdegrees like geology and geophysics geophysics collaboration in Australia,that are expensive to run and attract with contributions from ANU, AuScopeonly moderate student numbers. He and the Geological Survey of Southchallenged the whole geoscience Australia. Its also very exciting to see thecommunity to help encourage young seismic traces from Septembers Woodspeople to consider a geoscience degree Point earthquake in the records! All thethrough visiting schools, being willing more reason to think about geophysicsto take on work experience students, education and how to ensure we have aor even just being enthusiastic about new generation of geophysicists comingwhat you love about geophysics when through to keep building the geophysicaltalking to relatives and friends. Richard picture of our continent. finished by describing some aspects of Kate Selwaythe NEXUS program that have proved ASEG Education Committee ChairThis month saw the Australianextremely popular with students and Education@aseg.org.au Exploration Geoscience Conferenceeffective at preparing them for industry and an excellent keynote address onjobsa great inspiration that successful geophysics education by Richard Lilly,education initiatives are possible!I write this from the Oodnadattafrom the University of Adelaide and Track in far north South Australia,NEXUS. Richard outlined the challengesThe education keynote session was on a service run for passive seismicto geoscience education not only hereone of the most highly attended of 37 PREVIEW OCTOBER 2021'