b'Editors desk Editors deskimprovement in delivery times for allof theses completed in geophysics in Australian subscribers. Australia in 2023 (Education matters). As Marina Pervukhina says, this It is the ASEGs hopeful expectation thatcompendium is noteworthy in that we most of the cost of production, includingreceived contributions from nineteen print and distribution, will eventuallystudents. That number suggests that be covered by income from advertisers.there is still a signi\x1dcant number of Many of you will be aware that ourpostgraduate students in geophysics in advertising base fell away when weAustralia. Some of these students have moved from CSIRO Publishing to Taylorparticipated in one of the CAGE \x1deld and Francis. We think that this was partlycamps (CAGE 2023 is reported on in this because the T&F advertising team, whichissue). This popularity of these camps is based in the United States of America,also suggests that student interest in did not have a good understandinggeophysics is alive and wellso maybe it of our industry, and was not preparedis not all doom and gloom out there!to put time and e\x1eort into getting to know individual players. We are hopingIn other news and commentary, in this that by resuming control of production,issue of Preview David Denham (Canberra Change is underway in Preview land. including advertising, we will be able toobserved) re\x1bects on the latest data from rebuild our advertising base to the pointthe UNEP that suggests that the chances The ASEG Federal Executive, supportedwhere Preview is a going, and growing,of limiting global warming to 2.0C by by the ASEG Publications Committee,concern. 2050 are close to zero. He also takes a has decided to resume responsibility forAs this issue of Preview will be the lastlook at the latest \x1dgures on exploration production of Preview. The ASEG will beissue produced by T&F, I would likeinvestment in the Resources and entirely responsible for the content andto thank the T&F production team forEnergy Quarterly for 2023. Mike Hatch design of the magazine from Januaryindividually doing their best to produce(Environmental geophysics) has prevailed 2024. The design of the magazine has, forPreview under what were sometimeson Dave Allen to give us a lesson on the the past \x1dve years, been constrained bydi\x1ccult circumstances (COVID, rememberuse of microwaves for communication the rather rigid formatting requirementsthat?!), and sometimes a di\x1ccult andin geophysics. Terry Harvey (Mineral of a production system set up for journalsdemanding Editor. All the very best forgeophysics) reminds us of the dos and by Taylor and Francis (T&F). A changeyour own futures and for us, the Previewdonts of follow-up geophysical surveys. to self-production will eventually allowEditorial team and our loyal readers, it isMick Micenko (Seismic window) is us to move to a more dynamic layoutonwards and upwards! intrigued by LinkedIn commentary on and o\x1eer more interesting possibilitiessplit spread seismic data acquisition. Tim to advertisers. A digital version of theThis Christmas issue of Preview featuresKeeping (Data trends), updates us on magazine will continue to be publishedan article by Ken Witherly. The articlebig data and machine learning, and Ian on the ASEG website and, at this stage,entitled What lies beneath revisited James (Webwaves) muses on what we T&F will continue to allocate DOIs tosupergene enrichment and conductivitycan learn from the Optus outage.individual articles and publish thembuilds on a talk he gave to AEGC in on their website. This is primarily soPerth in 2019, and on talks he gave toEnjoy, and on behalf of the Preview that institutional sales that currentlya number of ASEG branches when heEditorial Team, a safe and happy festive pair Preview and Exploration geophysicswas in Australia at the end of last year.season to you all!can be honoured. Hard copies of theKen enjoins us to think outside the box magazine will now be printed and always important in exploration! ThisLisa Worrall distributed by the ASEG within Australia.issue also features, as we have come toPreview Editor This change should result in a signi\x1dcantexpect at this time of year, summariesprevieweditor@aseg.org.auDECEMBER 2023 PREVIEW 2'