b'Branch newsASEG newsglobal-scale geophysical data where higher resolution data does not exist. A neat effort, Chibuzo.To close off the first half of 2022, on 15 June members were treated to a special technical meeting night with honoured guest presenter, Dr Pete Betts, also at The Kelvin Club. Pete is a Professor in Structural Geophysics at the School of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment at Monash University where he is also the Associate Dean of Graduate Research. In his spare time, he holds the office of President of the Geological Society of Australia. Pete delivered an invaluable message that night when he presented a talk entitled Is it time to rethink the Geoscience narrative to save our discipline - what can you do as an individual?, shocking the record audience in attendance.The decades-long, slow decline of geosciences as a study discipline The audience at the Kelvin Club for Pete Betts presentation. happens to be a global phenomenon. Fallout from the impact of COVID through sand dunes. Admittedly, I had(why are these academic paper titles soappears to have accelerated the never seen so many third-order calculuslong?), revealed an interesting approachgeosciences academic demise. We equations in a presentation before. Wellto imaging crustal scale features. Helive in a world where fossils fuels are done, Mohammed. applied Euler deconvolution on globalno longer viewed as a necessary evil. EMAG data then analysed those resultsYounger generations are hell bent Our second presenter that night wasvia an unsupervised clustering analysison punishing generations past for Chibuzo whose thesis, A new approach(a machine learning method) beforeconsigning them to a world without to imaging deep crustal structuresvalidating against forward gravitya clear future, a world facing the across passive continental margins:models constrained by seismic data tosustained effects of climate change. revisiting the crustal architecture ofpredict the likely extension of mappedNo matter how our industry tries to southeast Australias passive marginfaults. Great to see the use of alternativerationalise exploration and mining, we inadvertently shoot ourselves in the foot. Take for example, large mining companies that typically promote their businesses by showing images of vast land that has been razed and replaced by heavy mining equipment or workers wearing high-vis gear and PPE covered in red dust standing next to an excavator or a large truck loader before highlighting the volume of treasured ore that has been displaced from the Earth. This creates a hugely negative impression of the mining and extractive industries as one of devastation and destruction of the Earth, and further clouds the fundamental reason why we choose to study our planet. We are clearly not doing ourselves any favours with the unfortunate ways we propagandise the geosciences. As geoscience individuals, we are facing a growing hostile dislike from most groupsindigenous and farming communities (think Juukan Gorge), environmental and social groups, climate action groups, geopolitical Pete Betts presenting to the Victorian Branch at the Kelvin Club. groupsthe list goes on. What we need 9 PREVIEW AUGUST 2022'