b'Education matters Education mattersand Geography Cluster on the Board ofthen moved to Canberra with my husband Science and Technology Australia, andwho I met at Geoterrex (he is a much represent Diversity and Inclusion on thebetter geophysicist than I will ever be).Australian Geoscience Council. In 2018, I was the President of the AustralianMP: Marina, is tertiary education Society of Exploration Geophysicskeeping up in the current rapidly (ASEG), which was a huge honour. I amchanging minerals and energy resources passionate about diversity, women inlandscape. My first two guests, Emma STEM and Aboriginal and Torres Straitand Ishtar, were from the energy domain Islander employment. I have a BSc and aand from industry, you are from the Grad Dip Sci in geology and geophysicsmineral resources domain and from a from the University of Sydney, and a MScgovernment organisation. What are you from James Cook University in Mine Sitelooking for when hiring new recruits?Marina PervukhinaRehabilitation (2004). MC: Thats a complicated question and Ill Associate Editor for Educationdo my best to answer it.Marina.Pervukhina@csiro.au How did I become a geoscientist? That is a long story, but here is the shortenedThere are several pathways into GA version. from university. One is the graduate Education is motivation to continueprogramme, which employs around eight learning The resources industry, bothearly career scientists every second year. There are also fixed-term and ongoing In this issue, we are continuing a series ofprivate and public sectors, needspositions advertised when the need arises interviews that we started in PV 214 andtalented people coming out ofand resources allow. To help us drive new PV 215 with the industry leaders Emmauniversity to help us address bigscience, we have established strong links Brand from Origin, and Ishtar Barrancowith universities and we have embedded from Chevron. Our next guest, Marinageoscience challenges Growinguniversity researchers to help us drive Costelloe from Geoscience Australia,talented geoscientists, physicists,new science. In addition, we partially shares her thoughts on what leaders inchemists, spatial scientists andfund Masters and PhDs from time to time. government institutions expect todaycoders is important. We also work closely with Cooperative from tertiary education in the field ofResearch Centres, like the MinEx CRC, that earth sciences. bring together industry, government, Growing up, a neighbour used to work inuniversities and research organisations.a laboratory (ALS) analysing geologicalThe resources industry, both private samples and I used to do work experienceand public sectors, needs talented with him. In Year 12, I worked with a landpeople coming out of university to help surveying company during the holidays.us address big geoscience challenges. The surveyors got annoyed when, at everyReally big global geoscience challenges. new work site, I would inspect the rocksGrowing talented geoscientists, and insist on taking some back to thephysicists, chemists, spatial scientists and office - they suggested I study geology notcoders is important for finding better land surveying. When I went to university,solutions to these complex issues.the subjects that I most enjoyed were maths, physics and geology. I had someHealthy working relationships with excellent lecturers that just kept me reallyuniversities, industry and other Marina Costelloe engaged and, of course, there was thegovernment agencies are vital, as promise of adventure and travel. I wastogether we are able to undertake MP: Marina, may I ask you to introducevery fortunate to get my first job withexcellent research, learn where the gaps yourself to readers, please? a company called Geoterrex, where Iare and pivot to where the research is MC: I am currently the Branch Head of thefocused on airborne radiometrics, airborneneeded. It is a win-win for students and Mineral Systems Branch at Geosciencemagnetics and airborne electromagneticsuniversities, but theres also a win for the Australia (GA). I am leading the mineralsfor about eight years during the nineties.government and the broader Australian component of the $225 million AustralianI met the most amazing people, I workedcommunity, be that industry or the Governments Exploring for the Futureacross Australia and around the world.general public, to have high-quality programme. The late nineties saw me take a sharpgraduates ready to enter the workforce.turn into IT - there was not a lot of work I joined GA in 2007 as a Senior Explorationin Australia for geophysicists at that time,Everyone is looking for talented Geophysicist, and have worked inbut the world needed UNIX administrators.graduates at the cutting edge of areas as diverse as mineral exploration,Anyway, moving to far north Queenslandengineering, geology, geophysics, groundwater, critical infrastructure, datameant I could get back into geosciencegeochemistry, geostatistics, data science and earthquake monitoring,complete a Masters degree in mine siteanalytics, coding and geospatial science international nuclear monitoring andrehabilitation, and start my own small(to name a few specialities). We need this space weather. I represent the Geologybusiness. During this time I had a son, anddiversity in expertise to work in a very 29 PREVIEW FEBRUARY 2022'