This year, we welcome AuScope’s newest member, Daniel Vlahek. He will take on the company’s new Project Officer role and assist HQ in developing its operational and communication capability.
Read MoreVia new research infrastructure delivery partner ANZIC, AuScope is proud to support eight Indigenous geoscience professionals and undergraduate students in joining the JOIDES Resolution (JR) Academy, a two-week ‘science at sea’ experience on board the JR vessel from Naples to Amsterdam in April 2024. Participants can generate cross-cultural thinking towards a new paradigm in geoscience practice and impact globally. Jump aboard from online!
Read MoreThis year, our resident geologist, designer and research communicator Jo Condon takes on a new strategic engagement role at AuScope, working collaboratively across academia, government, industry and community to enhance organisation-wide research translation. Get to know Jo and her new NCRIS enabled portfolio.
Read MoreThis year for National Reconciliation Week (NRW), Reconciliation Australia invite all Australians to ‘be brave and tackle the unfinished business of reconciliation so we can make change for the benefit of all Australians’. We invite the national geoscience community to join us in responding to this important request now and into the future.
Read MoreIn September 2021, AuScope, CSIRO, and Geoscience Australia supported an Indigenous-led workshop titled Ancient Rocks, Ancient Culture And You to explore how the Australian geoscience community can be more inclusive of Indigenous Australians in geoscientific programs.
Read MoreHow can the Australian geoscience research community be more inclusive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in designing, undertaking, and reflecting on Australian geoscientific programs for mutual and environmental benefit? Join us for an Indigenous-led workshop in September to explore this question together!
Read MoreToday is World Hoodie Day, a time to celebrate young First Nations creativity and to consider ways we can all ‘make space’ in unexpected, necessary and valuable ways to help alleviate educational inequality in Australia. AuScope is proud to support the inspiring ideators of today’s initiative from AIME.
Let’s make space!
Today marks the beginning of National Reconciliation Week. In its twentieth year, First Nations people call out tokenistic responses to reconciliation and ask all Australians to take action. We heed the call, and ask all geoscientists to, too.
Read MoreRecently, a collaborative research team at the University of Melbourne and Curtin University set out to confirm and constrain the age of volcanic rocks in southwest Victoria by a new and independent age-dating technique that is enabled by AuScope. In the course of their research, the team uncovered archaeological evidence and the rich oral traditions of local Gunditjmara people, which played a key role in enriching the outcome.
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