b'Branch newsASEG newsDespite summer being officially over,(Legends and interviewers) broke intoour next talk/meeting in early May - I am pleased to announce that thesmall groups and found quiet, secludedsometime after the school holidays - stay annual ASEG-PESA-SPE inter-society(shady) parts of the property totuned for details!(insertseason here) social event willconduct the interviews. The interviewsAnandaroop Ray be held on Wednesday 30 March thiswere recorded using smartphonesactpresident@aseg.org.auyear at The Common Man, South Wharf.and custom-made tripods (thanks Please look out for email notificationsagain to Kim). The legends recounted regarding this not-to-be-missedstories from their careers and recordedNew South Walesevent.Ciao. insights for the archives. Some amazing Thong Huynhanecdotes were revealed, from timesIf 2021 saw the ASEG NSW Branch ending vicpresident@aseg.org.au when the industry was very different.the year strongly, 2022 has started on Our local branch archivist Ian Jamesan extremely wet note! At the time of was kept busy with huge data fileswriting, there has been unprecedented Western Australia coming in from phones at regularflooding across the Sydney Basinwith intervals. bridges disappearing, major roads What do you call a bunch of retiredbecoming rivers, and tunnels becoming geophysicists sitting around on aAs the afternoon cooled off, we sharedwater slides. Lets hope the Sydney sun summer afternoon recounting storiesa meal together and continued thereturns soon!from their glory days? reminiscing. Despite the weather, and looming threat of COVID, the event wasThe ASEG NSW Branch had its first That was the conundrum facing the WAvery well attended and rated as hugelyevent of 2022 in February, which ASEG team who were tasked with thesuccessful by those who participated. was the AGM and Technical talk. job of recording the histories of olderThanks to our generous hosts GregThe ever-charismatic Mike Smith geophysicists for the History Committee.and Barbara Steemson, also to thehosted the AGM portion of the Led by Kim Frankcombe, the grouporganisers Anne Tomlinson, Billevening, which saw all members of decided to take a different approachPeters, Ian James, Tom Hoskin andthe NSW Committee being voted in to other states. We would record theKim Frankcombe. Appreciation also tounanimously, with a slight reshuffle histories in video format rather thanour interviewersthey are the legendsand a new face. The ASEG NSW written formats, and - just to make itof tomorrow, who will one day be2022 Committee is comprised of: more fun for everyone involved - werecounting their own stories to a newSteph Kovach as President, Bhavik would combine the recording of severalgeneration. Lodhia as Secretary, Ben Patterson histories into the one big event. Theas Treasurer, Josh Valencic as Social name coined for this event was: ASEGThere is still a lot more work to do onMedia Officer, Stuart Clark as Legends BBQ editing and archiving material from theTechnical Officer, and Jim Austin Current young (and not-so-young)event. However for a bite-size traileras a general committee member. of the history videos please see theRoger Henderson and Mike Smith geophysicists were engaged asASEG website at the following address:will be on hand as always to offer volunteers to interview the Legendshttps://www.aseg.org.au/history/history- their wisdom.using a questionnaire cheat-sheetmembersas a starting point, and letting theIn the technical section of the meeting, conversations run from there. TheThis will be the first of many LegendsJim Austin (CSIRO) presented a talk interviews were arranged in groups ofevents. As well as being a great multi- entitled Geophysical vectors for iron four, with the small groups set up ingenerational social occasion, it isoxide copper-gold (IOCG) exploration: order to amiably challenge claims thatplaying a role in preserving the richCloncurry METAL project. Jim seem implausible and fish that growhistory of ASEG. The next batch ofexplained how many Cloncurry-type too big - the older we get, the betterlegends will be tapped on the shoulderIOCG deposits typically do not have wewere. and we will once again be looking forgravity anomalies, while other deposits younger geophysicists to play the roledo not have magnetic anomalies, and The inaugural Legends BBQ was held inof interviewers. We hope you can takesome have neither. To combat this Perth on January 29. Greg Steemson, athe time to enjoy watching some oflack of anomalies, novel geophysics-legend himself, offered to host the eventthe interviews from our well-knownbased approaches were outlined that at his property in the Perth hills alonggeophysicists over the coming months. can be used for IOCG exploration. with his wife Barbara. It was a scorchingThese geophysical based approaches hot afternoon with the sea breezeDarren Huntinvolved combining geophysics nowhere in sight, but the participantswapresident@aseg.org.au and petrophysics, and integrating arrived full of enthusiasm. The eventanisotropy of magnetic susceptibility kicked off, catching up with old friendsAustralian Capital Territory (AMS) data with quantitative over an ice-cold drink. For some of themineralogy to translate metasomatic participants it had been many years, evenThe ACT Branch will hold its Annualprocesses into geophysical parameters. decades, since they had seen some ofGeneral Meeting in early April, and MarkThis enabled mapping of structural their geophysical peers, and the chanceDransfield has been invited to give acontrols and prediction of ore body to catch up was taken up with muchtechnical presentation on the state of thegeometries.appreciation. art in gravity gradiometry. An invitation to attend NSW Branch After renewing acquaintances, we gotWe also have Audrey Addison frommeetings is extended to interstate and down to the task at hand. ParticipantsGoogle Research (US) lined up forinternational visitors who happen to 9 PREVIEW APRIL 2022'