Celebrating and cultivating innovative Australian geoscience
The AuScope Research Conference 2021 is a two-day celebration of the latest Australian geoscience research that aims to address some of the biggest questions of our time on Earth. This online event will bring our diverse community together, and encourage new ideas and collaborations to seed. Jump to the event schedule.
Overview
The AuScope Research Conference 2021, loosely dubbed #AuScope2021 for the social media savvy folks amongst us, will be run across two short days (10 AM – 3 PM AEST) on Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 October. #AuScope2021 will have an equal focus on scientists presenting their work, and on scientists working creatively to spark new collaborations. We are keen to make sure everyone can mingle, make new connections, and walk away feeling energised and holding a plan to execute fruitful ideas.
Themes
This event will allow attendees to ponder the questions on the Australian geoscience community’s mind at the moment. For example: How might we, as a geographically dispersed but globally connected geoscientific community collaborate better across disciplines to address Australia’s decadal geoscience challenges related to minerals, food and water, energy and geohazards? And, how might we reimagine ourselves and our science to enhance Australia’s resilience in the face of the fast changing and life giving Earth systems?
Minerals, food and water, energy, geohazards and resilience are on the table at #AuScope2021.
Keynote Speakers
We are excited to have A/Prof Heather Handley and Dr Steve Hill to help open #AuScope2021, together with AuScope CEO, Dr Tim Rawling to kick off #AuScope2021 on Tuesday 12 October 2021. Images: Supplied
A/Prof Heather Handley
Heather Handley is a volcanologist and geochemist and has worked on some of the most active volcanoes on the planet. She uses the chemistry of volcanic rocks and their minerals to better understand how volcanoes work and what triggers volcanic eruptions in order to reduce volcanic risk.
Heather holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Geology from The University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Volcano Geochemistry from Durham University in the UK. She was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2012 to advance our understanding of the timescales of Earth-system processes. Heather is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, Honorary Associate Professor at Macquarie University and Governing Councillor of the Geological Society of Australia. Heather was Co-Editor-in-Chief of Earth and Planetary Science Letters from 2019 to 2021.
Heather is driven to communicate the critical role of geoscience in our sustainable future. She is Co-Founder and Director of the Earth Futures Festival and part of an international team currently creating an atlas to highlight the many contributions of geoscientists to global sustainability challenges. Heather is a Science and Technology Australia 2021-2022 Superstar of STEM and a passionate science communicator. She has led and participated in over 70 geoscience outreach events and workshops.
She frequently writes for The Conversation and has given more than 60 television, radio and print interviews on volcanoes. Heather has featured in documentaries for National Geographic and Discovery Science and is currently writing a popular science book on Australia’s volcanoes for CSIRO Publishing.
Heather strongly advocates for Women in STEM, diversity and inclusion and is Co-Founder and President of the Women in Earth and Environmental Science Australasia (WOMEESA) Network. Heather received an AIPS NSW Young Tall Poppy Award in 2014 and the Geological Society of Australia’s Beryl Nashar Medal in 2021. Heather is also mum to two very curious young girls.
Dr Steve Hill
Dr Steven Hill is the Chief Scientist at Geoscience Australia. Dr Hill joined Geoscience Australia in October 2018. In this role, he is responsible for strategic science leadership, influence, and external engagement.
Prior to this, he was the Chief Government Geologist and Director of the Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) from 2013 to 2018. In this role he oversaw and coordinated the Geological Survey’s research and the acquisition and delivery of pre-competitive geoscience data, and he provided advice to Government for geoscience-based decisions. This also included the construction and establishment of the South Australia Drill Core Reference Library.
Dr Hill completed a BSc (Hons) at the University of Melbourne and a PhD at the Australian National University in the fields of regolith geoscience including long-term landscape evolution, landscape geochemistry and the biogeochemistry of Australian flora and fauna.
He spent nearly 20 years as a lecturer at the University of Adelaide and University of Canberra. Dr Hill remains an active supporter of geoscience education and training, including supervising over 15 graduated PhD students and almost 50 Honours students.
Schedule
Please click on the image below to discover the full #AuScope2021 event schedule:
Background
AuScope is Australia’s provider of research infrastructure to the Earth and Geospatial Science community. Our tools, data, services and analytics enable scientists to understand Earth’s evolution through time and explore how Earth resources may support growing human demands. We are funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Discover our 10-Year Strategy 2020 – 2030 and 5-Year Investment Plan.
This event will include live, pre-recorded and interactive components, using Zoom, YouTube and Wonder. Links to sessions will be made available on the full event schedule page accessible via this page:
REGISTRATION
At this point, event registration is optional. If If you would like to receive notifications from us in the lead up, please register here. Otherwise, please create a space in your calendar, and return here during the event to access Zoom, Wonder and Sli.do URL links.