b'Environmental geophysicsdecided to start a new journal, theopening of the first day of the conference,course at the appropriate academic Journal of Environmental and Engineeringafter all of the stress of getting everythinglevel, and very soon I started to write Geophysics There was a bit of panic toarranged, I managed miraculously to givemy own lecture notes The course was get it to take off as soon as possible,a very short welcome address I went tocompulsory for students who wished and Allan Witten, the newly appointedsit down among the audience while theto become geophysicists, but was also editor of the journal, invited everyoneChair of the European section made aaimed at hydrogeologists and geologists to contribute to the first issue Now,longer welcome speech, I fell asleep in tenIncreasingly geophysical methods manuscripts are not often somethingseconds, totally exhausted after monthswere applied, contributing information you just have lying ready in a deskof stressful efforts Now, indisputably, wein many contexts: mapping of raw drawer, but for once it was actually thehad become a player on the internationalmaterials, addressing water issues, and for case for me A few months before, overscene! geotechnical purposes Very likely, future some of the last hectic days of my visit(hydro)geologists, whether employed to Australia, I had finished a manuscriptOne more thing came out of myprivately or in public institutions, would draft on approximate inversion ofAustralian visit with James Macnae atbe presented with geophysical results transient data, so that came out inMacquarie University in 1995 (see Scenein their work, and it was important that Volume 0, page 1, of the JEEG 4) In the same way as my visit to Berkeleythey acquired a basic understanding of in 1987 (see Scene 1) opened mythe value and limitations of geophysical In 1995, in Torino, Italy, the first EuropeanNorth-American network, my visit to Jimmethods so that they would be able to near-surface geophysics conferenceMacnae opened the door to Australia,use geophysical results in a constructive took place, and we were there fromboth for me and other researchers atway Most of the physics and mathematics the beginning I was there with twoour department and for my PhD studentdescribing electric and electromagnetic female PhD students, and several of theRasmus Tllbl who spent some monthsmethods is quite complicated and southern-European professors askedin Melbourne with Jim Macnae inrequires a lot of effort to be properly me how I had managed to acquire an2004-05 In 2002 I was invited to comeunderstood, so my ambition was to make entourage like that At that point inand work with Fugro Airborne Servicesa course that would teach the students time, two thirds of the PhD students atin Perth for two months helping themabout EM methods without having to our section were female, but south ofdevelop a fast approximate 2D inversiondelve deeply into the mathematics the Alps they apparently became anmethod for airborne TEM methodsHowever, at the same time, the ambition entourage We laughed a bit about that,We succeeded, and we continuedwas to convey a good understanding of the PhD students and I In the afternoons,working together in 2003, and I wasthe principal issues of applied geophysics, after the conference, we - as would aback again in 2004 to further developexperimental sciences in general, and the lot of other people - went to one of thethe methodology I really liked Perthphysical and geological interpretations of many cafs on one of the main walkingand I got long service leave from Aarhusits resultsstreets in Torino and had cocktails andUniversity, moved to Fremantle for two watched the people promenading inyears and worked for CSIRO PetroleumThe course was offered to third-year the street in their best clothes, just asin Perth At the AEM conference instudents, and after a few years, half of the they in turn were watching us Not aFinland in 2008 Ken Lawrie contactedstudents of that year would enrol in the bad lifestyle! And the two PhD studentsme wishing to discuss collaborationcourse The course was coupled with a went to town and bought Italian clothesplans, and during 2009-2019 I workedfield course in the autumn when the fields and turned up on the last day of thewith Ken Lawrie and his groundwaterwere harvested and accessible and still conference in women-on-their-way- group at Geoscience Australia, Canberra,not too wet (Figure1). All of the students forward garb: a stylish skirt and a jacketthrough collaboration agreementshad already been on a compulsory field to match - which did not go unnoticedbetween Geoscience Australia andcourse for first-year students so there In 1996 I returned to Berkeley, this timeAarhus University, spending 2-5 monthswas some basic knowledge to build on for six months, and worked on makingin Australia every year to provide a more advanced field course. an approximate inversion of TEM dataDuring this time, it was recognised that with 2D models functioning properlySCENE 6: Teaching 1984 - 2011 the education of well-trained university During that time period I visited Douggraduates (up to Masters and PhD level) Oldenburg at the University of British in which teaching activities - and theirin near-surface geophysics was one of the Columbia in Vancouver for a couple ofimportance in the bigger picture - arethree legs that supported the national days Later, two of my PhD students:presented. programme to map all of the important Anders Vest Christiansen and Ingeliseaquifers in Denmark. The other two Mller spent some months there as partIn 1984 I became an assistant professorbeing support from public authorities, of their PhD studies and, shortly after, I started to teach ai.e. managers of county and municipal course in environmental/near-surfacewater supplies, as well as a base of private In 1997, Kurt Srensen and I arrangedgeophysics At first, I used a fairly newlycontractors with the skills and ability to the European near-surface geophysicsdeveloped compendium for post- carry out the work.conference in Aarhus in The Concert Halleducation of geologists in geophysical We received many comments that this wasmethods The compendium was initiatedFollowing the introduction of one of the best and most beautiful placesby The Nature Agency under the Ministrythe transient electromagnetic people had been to for a conferenceof Environment (both Danish governmentmethod in Denmark, its potential in I think that every university professoragencies), and I had been part of grouphydrogeophysical investigations very should try to arrange a conference Itof contributors However, there wasquickly became apparent, and together is a good experience, but also one thatprecious little material already publishedwith local authorities: Aarhus County should not be enjoyed too often On thethat addressed the curriculum of theand the Municipal Water of Aarhus, 31 PREVIEW OCTOBER 2022'