b'Editors desk Editors deskby the Geological Survey of Westernpush to commercialise the results from Australia and Geoscience Australiauniversity research. He also notes, (Geophysics in the surveys). An astonishingsomewhat ruefully, that the Geoscience 90% of Western Australia is nowAustralia building is up for saleagain. covered with contiguous airborneMarina Pervukhina (Education matters) electromagnetic surveys at 20 km lineinterviews Michele Spencer from the spacing or better, and 100% coverage isGeological Survey of Western Australia. expected by the end of 2022. Mike Hatch (Environmental geophysics) delivers the second episode of Niels The Geological Survey of South AustraliaChristensens adventures. Mick Micenko may have struggled to put people in(Seismic window) shares some of his Lisa Worrall the field over the last couple of years,fan mail that calls, in part, for an AEGC This issue of Preview features an articlebut they have not let the grass growworkshop on the use of seismic data by by Tim Dean on the contribution ofunder their feet65 historic gravitymineral explorers - it is pretty clear that, geophysics, or more specifically asurveys have been added to their onlinein the view of this reader at least, such a geophysicist, to the development ofdatabase (see also Geophysics in theworkshop could be sub-titled Tips and modern musican eye-opening andsurveys). The continuous flow of datatraps for the unwary! Tim Keeping (Data thoroughly entertaining read! from government agencies presentstrends) has a crack at spatially classifying its own problemsnice problems topetrophysical data, and Ian James Also, in a mini-feature, Ruth Murdiehave, mind youand Terry Harvey(Webwaves) alerts us to the appearance and her colleagues describe the rapidseeks to address one of these problemsof the Exploration geophysics digital deployment of seismic equipment toby looking for common ground inlibrary on the ASEG website.monitor aftershocks during Westerndata visualisation strategies (Mineral Australias COVID lock-out. It was all Westgeophysics). Enjoy!Australian hands to the pump! In other news and commentary, DavidLisa Worrall The pandemic did not slow theDenham (Canberra observed) takesPreview Editor acquisition and delivery of AEM dataa look at the Federal Governmentsprevieweditor@aseg.org.auAPRIL 2022 PREVIEW 2'