b'Conferences and eventsNewsAEGC 2023: ReflectionsThe fourth Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2023), which incorporated the 29th ASEG Geophysical Conference and Exhibition was held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in March 2023. The conference was jointly hosted by the AIG, ASEG and PESA. The conference was the first face-to-face AEGC since the outbreak of COVID and was well attended. The Exhibition Hall, in particular, was very busy. The conference had great vibe and provided fantastic networking opportunities for all participants.Here are some statistics from the conference:932 registrations- 546 delegates The 2023 Conference Organising Committee on stage during the closing plenary.- 255 exhibitors We extend our heartfelt congratulationsthem all the best of luck for the Perth - 28 sponsors to the winners of the conference awards,Conference in September 2024.- 42 students and we express our sincerest gratitude to - 15 Organising Committee members all the conference volunteers who madeOn behalf of the 2023 Conference - 26 keynote and other speakers this event possible. Thank you for yourOrganising Committee,- 20 day registrations invaluable contributions!230 oral presentations Megan Nightingale and Dale Sims (Co-chairs)14 keynote presentations We hand the baton to the WA branches 40 posters of the AIG, ASEG, and PESA and wish AEGC 2023: AwardsApplication of high-resolution airborne EM and magnetic data for geotechnical information over tailings facilities, examples from the Quadrilatero Ferrifero area, Brazil.Best student oral paperJohn ShepherdThe AEGC awards were sponsored by First Quantum Minerals. All winners wereControls on shelf-margin architecture and presented with a certificate and a goldsediment partitioning in the Hammerhead coin by Chris Wijns, Group Geophysicist,shelf-margin (Bight Basin, southern First Quantum Minerals. Australia): Quantitative3D seismic Best oral paperenergy stratigraphy (QSS).The Geo Pitch winners were presented with a certificate and a section ofMark McLeandiamond drill core by Kat Gioseffi. Resolving basement crustal architecture and extensional tectonics using 3D Best oral paperminerals inversion modelling of airborne gravity data in the Otway Basin region, Victoria.Alex FarrarBest oral papernear-surface and Cause-and-effect of plate motion andgroundwatercrustal thickening using time-series analysis and data analytics. Darren BurrowsAPRIL 2023 PREVIEW 18'