Science Quake of the Year is back, with over 50 Schools participating in this year's competition. The team at AuSIS aims to raise awareness of Earth Science by getting school kids and staff excited about seismic waves.
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Dr Sima Mousavi presented NCRIS enabled AuSIS outreach efforts at CONASTA 71 2024, to empower educators and enhance Earth Sciences teaching.
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Australian Seismometers in Schools participants jumped it out over National Science Week in the Science Quake of the Year competition. Schools were asked to get creative with their Seismometer and wow us with a Footquake to win prizes while learning how seismology works.
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The Australian Seismometers in Schools Program (AuSIS) has embarked on an eventful outreach season, leaving a lasting impact on students across the country.
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The 2023 Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC) held on Noongar Whadjuk boodja (country), will feature new geoscience insights from the Australian lithosphere to Earth's evolution and resources. Join us for NCRIS talks, workshops, presentations, and a shared booth with ANZIC.
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A crowd of enthusiastic footy fans have made seismic history. On the 14th of August 2022, the Australian Seismometers in Schools (AuSIS) team installed a seismometer underneath GIO Stadium Canberra to measure the impact of a rugby crowd.
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The earth shook around Lilydale District School in Tasmania on the 23rd of June 2021 as students jumped into a geoscience workshop with Dr Sima Mousavi from our Auscope Seismometers in Schools (AuSIS) program. The focus: checking in with the NCRIS enabled seismometer down the hall, which is capable of detecting large earthquakes around the world, from New Zealand to Mexico!
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The year 2021 started quickly for the Australian Earth Science community, with the Australian Earth Science Convention (AESC) taking place in February. This year, proceedings took place completely online and with an innovative format including both pre-recorded and live-streamed presentations, allowing participants to take conversations deeper during Q and A sessions.
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Happy #EarthScienceWeek! To celebrate, we explore the joys, importance, misconceptions, and future of Earth Science in this series of videos with Dr Jess Stromberg from CSIRO and Dr Sima Mousavi from The Australian National University.
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In May 2020, we witnessed dramatic footage of eight chimney stacks at the old Hazelwood coal-fired power station sequentially fall during demolition. AuScope seismometers recorded the shock, as they do many different natural and human-made events in Australia and around the world. Here’s what scientists can learn using this NCRIS enabled seismic data.
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A few weeks ago a sonic boom was captured by an NCRIS enabled seismometer at St Joseph's College in Albany, Western Australia. A few lucky locals even witnessed the light show and explosion. The cause? A meteor exploding as it collided with the Earth’s atmosphere. Dr. Michelle Salmon from the Australian National University explains.
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Investigating life on Earth, dating fossils and measuring earthquakes is all in a day’s work for our ANU outreach team. Recently they illuminated young minds in a full day GEMS workshop, sharing some of the fascinating and diverse career opportunities that are available across these natural sciences.
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Researchers from the ANU are thrilled to announce that AusPass has just become the first FDSN data centre in Oceania. Scientists can now access extensive Australian seismology datasets from anywhere in the world.
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In 2006, the American researcher, Garrett Euler made a chance observation in seismic noise data in Cameroon: noise spiked at key moments during the African Cup of Nations soccer games, which inspired seismologists around the world to view noisy data differently.
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