Have the wilderness adventures of Bear Grylls, Survivor or Alone on TV captured your imagination? If so, it’s time to change channels and join Dr Kate Selway on a trip to Greenland to undertake critical climate change monitoring.
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With the release of the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap (Roadmap) and the recent election, the future looks more robust and secure for AuScope and the NCRIS organisations. The Roadmap outlines a clear set of recommendations and identifies step-change opportunities for AuScope…
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The Mobile Petrophysics Laboratory has found its groove and is rolling across the country. The first stop for this NCRIS enabled facility is the Geological Survey of South Australia where it will help scientists take a deep dive into the physical and chemical properties of rock core.
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This year, AuScope attended Science Meets Parliament 2022, an annual event designed by Science & Technology Australia (STA) to ‘forge deeper connections between federal Parliamentarians and those working in science and technology’. Here’s what our representatives had to say.
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AuScope is excited to learn about the new ministerial appointments that Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled earlier this week. Geoscientists, meet the MPs who plan to lift investment in industry and the research sector to “…closer to 3% of GDP achieved in other countries”.
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This 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.
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We would like to welcome Professor Cam McCuaig to AuScope’s Board of Directors. Cam brings a wealth of experience in research, minerals exploration and leadership to our team.
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Professor Fred Jourdan is fascinated by asteroids, passionate about sharing his research far and wide, and managing the NCRIS enabled Western Australia Argon Isotope Facility at Curtin University! Discover Fred’s path from the laboratory to Youtube.
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Yesterday, the Morrison Government launched the 2021 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap, which details how future research needs will be incrementally supported over the next five years for the sciences and humanities. Here is our snapshot through a geoscience lens and the next steps we plan to take.
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So it is 2022, and there is a lot going on! Opportunity is in the air. This year, a federal election brings many opportunities for significant government commitments to geoscience. There have been Commonwealth announcements relating to research commercialisation, critical minerals and Antarctica…
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A joint vision of a global research infrastructure for geoscience sits at the heart of an exciting new MoU between AuScope and Europe’s EPOS ERIC. Over the next three years, our parties will share knowledge, foster strategies to enhance user experience, and develop open data practices, all to enhance research impact globally.
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AuScope’s Land-2-Sea Geoscience pilot project (L2SG) will shortly enable scientists to investigate ice melting rates of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This new data collection project will critically underpin regionally sensitive climate mitigation and adaptation planning.
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Today for International Day of Women and Girls in Science we celebrate a globally esteemed geoscientist in our midst, Associate Professor Heather Handley. Investigating volcanoes, fighting for gender equity in geoscience, designing a film festival and writing a book are all in a day’s work for Heather.
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Meet Dr Rebecca Farrington, a passionate science leader and researcher who joins AuScope as Director of Research Data Systems from today. Rebecca is passionate about research data, and the people behind it.
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In 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.
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As another disruptive year draws to a close, I am very proud of all that our AuScope community has achieved in both research, and communicating the value of geoscience. I want to take the opportunity to congratulate and thank you all for your collective efforts and to describe for you a few of the highlights from the last quarter.
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AuScope is embarking on eight collaborative and NCRIS enabled pilot projects that will help researchers to address climate change, natural resources and education challenges. Each project represents an exciting step in building Australia’s Downward Looking Telescope and addressing national geoscience challenges.
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More than fifteen months of work for the AuScope Geochemistry Network (AGN) and partners Lithodat have recently culminated in the release of the AusGeochem platform. Let’s meet the faces behind the platform!
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The AGN Project Team and collaborators Lithodat are excited to announce that the first iteration of the AusGeochem platform is now live! AusGeochem is a cloud-hosted open geochemistry data platform that is simultaneously a geosample registry, a geochemistry data repository, and an active research tool.
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We are excited to announce the AuScope Research Conference 2021, 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.
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